(note: As most people might realize, YouTube videos have a 10 minute limit and most shows longer than that get chopped up in 10 minute segments which can be a pain to load. To get around it, most popular shows can be found on Google video as well, and despite YouTube and G.Video being both owned by google, there is not time limit on Google Video.) :D

After so so long, I finally have an oven! :D Well, I’ve always had an oven, but not a proper dedicated oven cum grill. Behold:

So what does one do when one gets a new oven? Grill a 330g slab of bovine goodness, obviously.

Ain’t she a beauty? Admittedly it’s a little too well done for what I’m used to, but this is my first attempt at steak with this oven. So now I know to cut back a minute on each side and a nice medium steak should result.

I know it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything new about food, just that I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had the time. Heres to more to come! :D

well not quite… it’s more like 370… and kilometers.

So here I am, posting from the fourth hotel romm i’ve spent the night in this past month, courtasy of my company and this photography assignment I’m on.

For those curious, i’m on a speed trip to visit all 20 public universities in Malaysia and photograph all their facilities. It’s a speed trip because I have less than 1 month to do it.

So far, aside from the Klang Valley area universities, i’ve visited Unis in the northern states of Perak, Penang, Kedah and Perlis, and currently i’m on the southern leg, which has brought me to Malacca and Johore. (which makes me wonder why doesn’t Negeri Sembilan have a Uni?) I’mm be back on thursday night, and after a rest on friday, i’ll be off on a gruelling 7 hour drive to the east coast where i’ll visit Pahang, Trengganu, and Kelantan. Following that I’ll be on a plane to Sabah and Sarawak.

So yes, after this trip is over there will be no state in Malaysia left that I haven’t visited.

Things that have struck me so far these trips:

1. Malaysians are really nice people. Seriously. Being out in the country and interacting with people from all sorts of different backgrounds just makes you wonder WTF the goverment is up about “racial tensions”.

2. OMG KL IS SO EXPENDSIVE! For example I saw Satay go for 35 sen the other day. It hasn’t been 35sen in KL since… 1996?

3. Piracy is well and alive. It’s just that because they cleaned up KL so well that you think piracy is dead, but let me assure you the latest movies, TV shows and software are still up for sale just like the good old days. Just not in KL.

4. It seems the more famous the hotel, the more expendsive the internet. For example, in the Bayview penang, internet is rm20/day. Here in the Crystle Crown JB, it’s rm10/hr or rm30/day. Where as in this cute and cozy B&B in Malacca, it’s free.

5. Living alone in a hotel room is sad. Hotel rooms are either double beds, or single queens… like how a heart is always made for two.

Anyway, runnign out of time so i’ll stop here. Will write more when I get back to KL.

… I’ll find you.

I’ve never really talked about the header you see above this site, which is the most prominent object on the site design wise and it’s what imparts a great deal of the experience of my blog.

I made it in school, my final year of university, from scraps taken from my final year project. The logo represents me, you see it used on my personal card as well as watermarked on my work. The weather reflects my state of mind.

Often sunny and bright, or sometimes sad, dark and gloomy, but none the less always alone in a vast open field. The vastness because there’s really so much in my life, so much to enjoy, so much to cherish, so much to share… the loneliness because despite all I have it’s something I tend to feel.

There is a button. You can make my day, with your company and kindness take the rain away… (or push my buttons and make it stay) but one thing remains the same… it’s still a vast open field.

I hope to change the header one day. It’s long overdue.

Last night was fun… The movie turned out to be (not unexpectedly) so-so… but the company was epic.

Just feeling depressed at the moment… Maybe it’s just over due, after keeping myself busy for so long, distracting myself from that which haunts me from within…
It’s just everything, the deadlines, expectations, the unfinished business, the obligations… […]

So in a futile attempt to explain why this blog has been so neglected… (I can;t be THAT busy can I?… actually…) One week from now, the run of The Oral Stage production “How I Learned to Drive” begins it’s run.

Growing up in a family with thin, penetrable personal boundaries, Li’l Bit becomes the victim of an incestuous intimacy - Uncle Peck does not only teach his teenage niece to drive, but sexualises her childhood as well.

Narrated through a series of bittersweet flashbacks, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is an honest, coming-of-age account on forgiveness, healing and growth – and how one can find light even from the unhealthiest of relationships.
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE was first produced in 1997 in New York City and has since been awarded, in addition to the Pulitzer: the Obie, the Drama Desk Award, the New York Drama Critics Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award.
Featuring Amelia Chen, Johann Lim and Doreen Loo, with Cameronian Arts Award nominees Davina Goh and Mark Beau de Silva. Creative Director, Kelvin Wong.Supported by Living Arts and Autodetailer.

“…one of the best plays of the decade.” – USA Today

“…a tremendous achievement; genuine and genuinely disturbing.” – Village Voice

*FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

SHOWDATES & TIMES
4th – 7th June 2008 @ 8.30 pm
7th – 8th June 2008 @ 3.00 pm
VENUE
The Actors Studio Bangsar
Level 3,West Wing Bangsar Shopping Centre
285, Jalan Maarof Bukit Bandaraya 59000 Kuala Lumpur
TICKETS
RM33 (Adults); RM22 (Students, senior citizens & the disabled)
TICKET CONTACT
TAS @ BSC Box Office: 03-2094 0400/1400
OUR BLOG!
http://howilearnedtodrive.blogspot.com
ON THE WEB
http://www.theoralstage.com
http://www.theactorsstudio.com.my
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See you there!

*hugs*
…
Sigh… no reply. I guess you’re not there. Times like this I wish you were. I need a hug. We missed each other again… or at least, I know I missed you.
Tomorrow is another day I guess…

The life of an artist is centred around creation, the difference between work and art however is that work is created by the mind, while art is created by the soul.

While it is work that may feed our body, it is art that will keep us whole. Thus forget not in times of haste and commitments that the soul need be nurished too.

A reminder to myself.

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The government has said it will reach out to bloggers, dropping threats of arrest in a major change of policy triggered by a shock election loss that has raised calls for reform.

… In other news, the goverment has said it will declare pork halal, dropping threats of more abattoir closures in a major change of policy triggered by a shock election loss that has raised calls for more wholesome policy making.