Written by lainie at 11:53 AM on December 2, 2007.

HALLO!
Well, my life's been a bit busy, innit? I apologise to all the people I was supposed to meet, but couldn't.

Explanation for lack of updates:

Moving stuff from old to new house.
Cleaning new house.
Cleaning. Cleaning. Cleaning.
Panicking over hard disk in computer shop (I now have a bad impression of Pineapple Computers chainstores).
Sister's wedding card.
Printers.

Heck, I know I usually blog regardless of how much I'm doing, but what can I say? I finally have a desk / chair in the house, and workmen are still coming over today.

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Jemufo stayed over the other day, and I played Family Guy, which she hates.

Lainie: But it's great! Look at all the awful things it perpetuates!

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I finally saw Nessa, and we headed to Red Comm together to pick up some stuff. As I was walking out, I waved to a friend - "Hi! Er. Bye!", something a lot of you have kenaed from me before .

Ran to her car in the rain, to discover she had...locked us out. Got in.

Nessa: Right, where do we go?
Lainie: William's! It's near the old Lim Kok Wing.
Nessa: Cool!
Lainie: Yeah!
Nessa: How do we get there?
Lainie: ......

We ran back in and got my friend to draw us a map. She asked if we'd be okay (I'd been giggling all the time because I had no idea what she was drawing)

Nessa: Yeah, I believe that two stupid heads are better than one stupid head!
Lainie: (just got called a stupid head) ...........

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Lainie: You owe me three girls.
Nessa: What? Why?
Lainie: I cancelled on three girls to go out with you, and you ffked me each time.
Nessa: Well fuck that, you can have... ME.
Lainie: (wry) ....Oh, I can't wait to hear who the other two girls are gonna be.

[ She has two sisters ]

Nessa: Fuck, I'm three women in one.

I laughed and let it go, because when a person self-declares being a whole lotta woman, you don't argue.

We visited some people in Subang, hung out at Joko's house. Was invited back for a few more parties / dinners and whatnot, but I didn't have the time to spare, which sucked.

We did, however, managed to catch up with Lola for a drink in a cafe near our place.

Lola: I'll have a Heineken
Waiter: We're out of Heineken.
Lola: Okay..
Waiter: All beers out of stock.
Lola: You're KIDDING me!

[ Pause ]

Lola: I'll have a mango juice.

I laughed so hard, yknow, I don't recall ever seeing her drink anything but coffee and alcohol.

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Last night was my first proper outing in a long while. Went for MASKARA readings at Rumah PENA with Bernice. If she didn't drive me there I don't reckon I would have found the place.

Kakiseni: Malam Baca Naskhah Sindiket Sol-Jah dan Kawan-Kawan yang Kita Suka (MASKARA) V

We arrived a bit late because we got lost looking for the place, upon arrival I felt a moment of displacement - a lot of women there, mostly wearing tudungs. I couldn't help wondering if we were amidst a conservative crowd, which I knew might not be the case.

The next woman read excerpts from her novel, some fictionalised accounts of things she dared not do, like tell her silat-crazy friend that it was inappropriate to be riding her motorcycle at 3am, even if it's for practice. Or proselytising Allah to her neighbour "Uncle Sepet", drawing parallels between faith in the unseen, and knowledge of those invisible to the naked eye.

Lainie: ...Bernice, what are you reading?
Bernice: ...My monologue based on a transsexual.
Lainie: .......Oh.

The next readers did something I've not seen before (I'm sorry, I'm so bad with names). They took turns, read some poem / syair (including an English one - Stop the War, Bush). Two girls flanked the reader, both performing the pieces in sign languages from different regions.

During the break, I bought a book published by Sol-Jah - I thought it was cute that there were Geng Jurnal awards on the cover. I'll try to read it, but I suspect I'll have difficulties understanding it, from what I've seen.

Bernice was first up after the break - There were cheers when the audiece was told that she plays Datin Aina in Gol n Gincu. I think her reading went well. The last line of her piece was

Bernice: I think I'd make a beautiful woman, don't you?

The emcee walked up to the mic after and said "The answer is yes"

I thought her reading went quite well. Then we had to leave soon because she had a shoot early in the morning for the other series she's in, Sadiq & Co (just realised this is the show Tony Eusoff, the dude I worked with few weeks back, is acting in). She's gonna play a judge.

We briefly dropped by Cafe Cafe, and her friend Hailey laughed so hard when she heard about that.

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Lainie: Girlfriend! Don't sit on my face!

And then I laughed, which was awful, because I'm so allergic to her.

We have a cat at home now, called Girlfriend. Which leads to us saying stupid stuff like so. Ding keeps chasing Girlfriend out of her bedroom.

We do somewhat wonder what the neighbours might think of all this.

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Now I'm gonna bug Suanie because I wanna go to his cafe!

Written by lainie at 11:34 AM on December 6, 2007 in Rants.

Sharanya made the papers here, for making the papers in India, talking about leaving Malaysia to escape "systematic racial harassment".

Our International Trade and Industry Minister had this to say about it:

"Fleeing Malaysia? Oh my goodness gracious. Can you imagine? "
Yes. Of course I can imagine it. Fuck, does't take a huge stretch of imagination.

Rafidah added that Sharanya had said in the article that “countless (Hindu) temples have been demolished and idols smashed – oftentimes in the middle of prayer sessions and devotees attacked”.

“What a lie. Words like this are terrible. The article really hurts,” she said.

I like how Rafidah calls that a lie, whe there are records showing that temple demolishments have happened, during prayers - yes, devotees attacked - yes, idols smashed - yes.

If you have to lie to show the world that our country is just, equal, and whatnots....Then the country isn't.

I like it even more how The Star then goes on to publish this.

Some "news"papers aren't even fit for wiping a dog's ass with.

Screw it, heading out for lunch instead.

Written by lainie at 05:08 PM on December 8, 2007 in Stupid, but fun..

Sylvia & Mohan's engagement party.

The theme is "Ethnic". I'm wearing a Punjabi suit.

Comments so far have been along the lines of "Oh my gawd! You're a girl!"

Why, hello, whaddyaknow!

Written by lainie at 04:15 PM on December 11, 2007 in Friends.

Not the first time I'm pluggin this band on the blog, but the more I listen, the more convinced I am this is the cutest lesbian band I can think of - The Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking.

Well, cute songs, lesbians or not. And a lot of visuals I like in the video. Anyone has a different band to suggest?

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I caught up on sleep over the weekend, and it feels good - though I don't want to wake up to a messy bedroom any longer.

Went to an engagement party in Selangor Club. There were drinking contests at the wedding, one of the participants asked me (I presume, due to alcohol)

BigB: If one day I become a woman, and come to you....Will you tiap me?

Basically he asked if I'd be willing to jump him, and I said yes (what I actually said was that I'd poke any hole I see). Later, after I had another gin,

Lainie: If one day I become a man, and come to you...Can I jiao you?

He agreed I could do him if the positions were reversed, in three situations:

1) He gets to be the top
2) I get to be top
3) I get to shag him as a man, if he were a woman.

So if I ever get a dong, I already have a candidate to boink - nice to know. I also told his girlfriend that when it happens, we'd take on BigB together. She thinks it's an excellent idea.

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Went for Wayang Kata V. It rocked. I'm happy that the Singaporean poets are coming over to perform more (and there are talks of Word Forward publishing Malaysian poetry because it's not two countries, it's one scene ).

I guess the stereotype when someone says "British" would somehow include blond hair and fair skin, but the women and men the British Council has brought over so far are....Francesca Beard, Malika Booker, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Charlie Dark, Benjamin Zephaniah.

I kinda like that.

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People I know (or, know of) have been gettin arrested lately. Over Bersih. Latefa Koya (human rights lawyer) has helped Katagender out a few times, Gaya is with CIJ, and Mien from Komas so far.
Malaysiakini is down from overrunning its bandwidth limit.

The general reaction has been "GAYA and MIEN? Are you fuckin kiddin me?". Eyeroll, I know. Apparently, a 13 year old was arrested too. I'll direct you to Meesh, who is better informed:

The Meesh Experience: The Storm

It feels like everything is slowly building up a momentum against various injustices. Which is interesting.

Written by lainie at 05:14 PM on December 12, 2007 in Links / Email.

I've been surfing DirtyDirtyDancing.com's flickr site (photography by Alistair Allan)



Check out Dirty Dirty Dancing's Flickr site. Filled with nice photographs of very interesting looking people you'd want at your party (well, at least I do).

Written by lainie at 04:40 PM on December 14, 2007.

I'm watching Into The Woods, a musical which reminds me of Dani. She's from Ateneo Uni (Philippines) and was staying over at our place. Dani told me they're performing Into The Woods in Ateneo -either that, or Sondheim specials, I forget. Sounds like fun.

She also mentioned she writes for their publication, and I found this online, though I'm not sure if it's the same. Kritikakultura. Would have liked to talk with her more, but she was only down in KL for a while and already had a full schedule I had no intentions of trying to interrupt .

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I just opened the bathroom door with my face. It was locked on the other side (I share the bathroom with Ding). Oblivious, I walked face first into the door......and broke the latch.

Brings a more literal meaning to the phrase muka tebal, huh?

Ding has taken to leaning a bucket of water against my door when she's inside, although what she thinks that will do when a latch won't stop me, I don't know.

I push aside the bucket everyday with my foot - literally kicking the bucket every morning, so to speak. Asides from that, I get the occasional jibe from Ding that when I lock her out, she doesn't break the door down.

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I met a dude from Sao Paulo the other day - Dalton. He's with Ecommunita, and was down in KL for Global Knowledge Partnership 3. He's not one of the Microsoft suits, he's one of the 100 young social entrepreneurs invited over.

He was talking about how his group sets up labs and centers around Sao Paolo, and teaches people to reuse / recycle old computers, changing them into money making ventures, learning to make simple robots, even making art pieces out of them.

Dalton's Brazillian, but don't bother trying to get him to drink alcohol, or discuss football . Not his thing. We took him to Jalan Alor for the standard roadside hawker food experience, then moved on to Havana for some wine (he had juice) where he met another computer-happy dude and had a long chat about techy stuff.

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The next morning I was walking around some magazine stores, trying to find Roy's new venture, a comic publication called Komikoo.

During my hunt I bumped into Kevin Brokenscar, back from Australia and already back on the gig circuit (he just performed the night before in No Black Tie, for Mundae).

Anyhow, I found an issue of Komikoo, lessee if I can hotlink it:



I'll be honest, some of it seem like standard, derivative fare - but two or three do stand out to me. That being said, Komikoo's editorial makes clear they are not out to revolutionise the local comic industry, merely to exist as an alternative narrative space for.....Yknow what, there is no way my Malay is good enough for me to translate this.

Komikoo's tagline is "Mencari Archetype Komik Tempatan" (Search of Local Comic Archetypes), and that's pretty much it (the Baba Chuah comic was way trippier than that though).

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Kat called me up to say she had comp tickets for The Illusion, a new Oral Stage production. I'd missed all their shows since Rojak (where I reviewed them, and...er. Well), because all their shows coincided with Kakiseni sending me for other jobs.

It's been about two years since, and I'm pleased to see that they've grown - I was tentative but the show was better than I had expected. "The Illusion"

"The Illusion", a free adaptation by Tony Kushner, based on Pierre Corneille's neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique, follows a contrite father seeking news of his prodigal son from a sorcerer.
Kakiseni: The Illusion.

First of all, I love the selection of the text - it's a very witty and funny play, with much room for exploration. Considering I went on preview night, where the jitters usually are, they did quite well - One good actor, a few who did well and have potential for more. I can imagine seeing more of them in future productions quite easily.

I think if you like language and puns, you could appreciate this play .
Give it a go, it's on till the 22nd of December.

Met some other people who also worked in Rose Rose, and we're all bitching that we've yet to be paid, and it's severely unlikely we'll even see it before Christmas.

.........................

One even said she was going to pretend she's not getting paid ever, because it made it simpler. Well, I can't pretend as such.

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I went for Naked in Alaska, a 2 part talk ("Alaskan Native Contemporary Art", and "Gender, Beauty and Nakedness") by Catherine Koons.

Mabes asked me after the first part how I found it, and I said I quite liked it so far because I got to discover new art - saw some very interesting sculptures.

Ding: Is there any art you don't like?

Probably not. Anyway, I'm going to email Catherine because I want a list of the artists she referred to so I can check out the sculptors.

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SMS update: Breaking news - Berembang won case and damages ordered.

Going for Filmmakers Anonymous 5, Take Back The Tech chapter. I looked through the list of films, and realised I initially suggested more than half the films to be screened tonight.

It was either that or Relentless (Chu Yuan's exhibition), but there's one particular short film I want to watch at FA, whereas I can catch the exhibition another time - I prefer not to go for openings unless I know the artist anyway, it's difficult for me to absorb concepts around a lot of people.

In other news, I am currently downloading the album for Legally Blonde...The Musical.

Written by lainie at 02:11 PM on December 18, 2007 in Daily Life, Links / Email, Events.

I tried to search some photography links on Google, and it refused to process it. In fact...



I almost feel like I'm not doing my bit here. Is this where I cry "For net neutrality!!!!!", and some geek comes and leaves a snarky remark about how this isn't the issue, and I'm diluting the NN cause?



So after a few more stubborn attempts this is the screen I got - You know what I'm really really bad at? Captcha. I can read trippy posters from the acid era with no difficulty, but I cannot. Cannot. Cannot. Captcha.

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I met a girl, Mabes, last week (to put it specifically, Jemufo told me someone looking very gay had shown up in our house, and I was like "Wot, more than both of us?"). I can't remember what we did, though there was a lil alcohol involved at the end of the night (we finished whatever Canadian ice wine I had not).

She had to leave to meet some friends, so we dropped her off at the mamak, and it turns out I knew most of the girls at the table. Pikky, May, and wouldn't you know it, look who's back in town - Hey Mun! We kept telling Mabes she should have just told us who her friends were.

Hey Mun is back, she's still just as wacko and chatty, and it's fun . She complained that the times she met up with KA since she's been back, she wanted to meet me and Lola, but each time, only KA would show up for the dinner.

Lainie: That's because she's trying to get into your pants.
Hey Mun: HMMMM, no wonder.

Hey Mun's got a sharp memory, she still remembers what it was like when Fip and I were dating. Which was a very, very, long time ago. To me, anyway.

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Springcleaned the house again. We now have a sofa set! Met Ben (from Ben's Bitches) for supper - we're collaborating on a comic strip. And, other randomness which will get updated again, but meanwhile, this is my plan for tonight, and I totally recommend this

FIRSTWoRKS: Workshop Readings III - "Air Con" by Shanon Shah

Everybody wants revenge.

The nerds want it. The sissies want it. The jocks want it. Even the teachers want it. But nobody wants it quite like Aishwarya Roberts.

Stilettos, mascara and pre-operative penis notwithstanding, she has unresolved issues with her sexually abusive father, a lover-turned-coward, and bigots in Alor Setar in general.

But Aishwarya has one big problem – she's dead. The thing is, she knows Chep is her murderer. But she can only expose him if she can find a way to make the past visible in the light of the present.

Following on from readings in June 2007, FIRSTWoRKS writer, Shanon Shah, will hold a full reading of his play Air Con for one-night only. This is the first time Shanon's play will be read in its entirety with a complete cast. The reading will be followed by a post-show discussion.

Presented by Instant Café Theatre Company.

Cmon, see how fun that sounds?

Written by lainie at 04:28 PM on December 19, 2007 in Daily Life, Music, Friends, Events, Arty stuff.

VotED! Exercise Your Rights!


(Click the image)

This is something Meesh initially roped me in for (along with SarChan, KinkyBlueFairy, Winnie, Melissa Chan, and a host of other girls / people from the cool party crowd).

VotED is for people around my age, who are first-time voters and don't know what to expect / do. It'll let you know the basics first - what a ballot paper looks like, what to do. The secondary info - how to get info on the candidates, your rights etc. There's been plans for a hip party (with all kindsa sponsors, to make it really fun), and it should be great when it does come around.

You can read more about it at Meesh's blog The Meesh Experience: VotED - Exercise Your Rights

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A friend, Juria, recently teamed up with Aliff and made a short film called Up Yours for Take Back The Tech. It was screened at Filmmakers Anonymous 5.

I missed it because I was late, but it was well liked, judging by the audience feedback. Here it is, all 1:18 minutes of it:



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Went for Air Con - A Firstworks production, last night. Basically a full reading by the cast of Shanon Shah's play. It's about the spirit of a (pre-op?) Mak Nyah, didn't get her name, who is murdered by a schoolboy and wants revenge.

Meanwhile, there's all the antics in the boys' school - bullying, kem kendiri to become manly men, royalty politics, love, religion, insecurities and hockey sticks. Kinda like a production that challenges some stereotypes while working in bildungsroman elements, to show how hormones and lotsa drama can tell a story of students thrown into certain situations develop into familiar personality types of people we know today.

Makes me glad I came from an all-girls school. I had to stifle giggles, you have to watch this just to see who they casted as the religion teacher. The titters slowly spread across the room.

I'd really wanted to tape the reading and post up a preview on Youtube (even heading over to Jerng's place to get the charger for the videocam). Unfortunately, I was informed by the lady at front of house that it wasn't okay to tape. So, sorry dudes.

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Annie came over to my place, saying she wanted to make a collage of photos. I told her a cheapie, but pretty, option was to take Ikea photo frames, and stick them together.

Later on, over dinner, Annie tells Ding she wants to make a collage of photos. Ding starts telling her she can Ikea photo frames, tape them together. Throughout Ding's enthusiastic suggestion, accompanied with hand gestures to signal the act of taping wooden frames together, Annie kept staring back and forth at the both of us (I was giggling).

Lainie: You do realise, that's exactly what I told Annie to do.

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After Air Con, I ended up in the car with Kat and Juliet (couldn't stay for the post-discussion cause I had to get to Farid's place early). We were having a silly conversation about how I would like to get into her pants, random points about my lesbianism, and men that might turn me straight.

Lainie: Heck, I'd go straight for him too.
Juliet: You? Straight? Please, you're such a lesbian. Unless I ever see you kissing some guy at a party.
Kat: No...When you see Lainie is married. With two kids.
Juliet: Even then, I'll still think she's a lesbian. It's that face.
Lainie: What face?

[ Pause ]

Juliet: You know. That face...That face la.

[ Pause ]

Juliet: Your face.
Lainie: ......


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I just realised I've not uploaded Butoh videos from the Pink! performance in Annexe by Lena Ang and Taro Dance Company. It took forever to piece together (the program I use crashes a lot).

Now it's taking forever to upload on Youtube.



There you go. Click the play button and have enjoy the quirkiness!

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I bought two soft nib pens near Jemufo's house. I'm so happy. I've been drawing. Silly, fun stuff. I have an idea for a comic, I told Farid the idea and he seems to think it's pretty cool. Yay.

I was at Farid's place to shop for 2nd hand furniture since he's moving to his new apartment soon.

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I love The Cardigans, from the first time I watched the Lovefool video (to say nothing of being smitten with a pre-Titanic Leo). I think this was the first song that really got through to my head the idea of self destructive obsession. So with a certain degree of predictablity, I have an enormous soft spot for lead singer Nina Persson's solo project, A Camp. "I Can Buy You" is my favourite A Camp song, thought maybe you'd like it too.

A Camp - I Can Buy You [Youtube].

And, who likes rivalry in Broadway between two singers competing against each other with their big voices? I keep watching this video and it makes me grin. Boastful, barbed and bratty -

Ruthie Henshall and John Barrowman - Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) [Youtube]

Two adults acting very childish. It's a good, fun watch.

Written by lainie at 01:55 PM on December 24, 2007 in Daily Life.

Hi! I've been gone a while, huh? Laptop's been sent to be reformatted on account of it acting pissy and finally fizzling out on me.

Without the internet readily available as I am accustomed to, I've found different ways to occupy myself the past two days.

I've watched Dreamgirls, an entire season of Family Guy, London to Brighton, Auto Focus, Little Black Book, The Land of Women, and the first half of Frida.....three times. I liked Dreamgirls the most, and The Land of Women the least (Little Black Book was watched with Justine, and we spent most of the movie dissing the psychotic Brittany Murphy character, and pointing out latent homosexual scenes, which of course made it all the more entertaining).

I've also broken out the inks I bought in London, inked a few pieces, painted some things, had a lil lil lil house party which means anyone not invited shouldn't be pissed at me because I didn't invite anyone, they were friends of the other housemates (some of whom I know, anyway).

Finished two books I've been meaning to, Freakonomics, & You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free. Also reread a lot of art stuff, and started way more books than I should have.

I've discovered that milk and cereal go great with a lil bit of whiskey inside. I've been meaning to try it with Bacardi, VSOP, wine and whatever it is we have left over in the fridge, but I'm liking the whiskey bit so much right now, I've not gotten around to it.

Went for a birthday party last night, Tei's younger brother is a year older. The food was good.

Anyhow, this is just a lil update to say, I'm getting my laptop back today . As soon as the damn contractors get here and solder a latch for our front door, that is. Our front door has been unsecured for days.

I'm currently updating the blog from my housemate Spes' very fancy looking computer.

Oh. And I got lost looking for our house after sending Tate to the airport, and ended up going for a lil tour that landed me in USJ4. It took a while to get back.

Really.

Written by lainie at 05:04 PM on December 24, 2007 in Home.

WHEEE

Okay, for some reason that I am unfamiliar with, our household is named "Slant".

I probably should know why, but I don't.

Anyhow, SLANT has it's own MyMiniCity page:

Slant's webpage (click the link!)

Apparently, the more clicks the link gets, the better it is. Or something sneaky and MML like that.

Written by lainie at 02:10 PM on December 25, 2007 in Friends.

Happy holidays, you

Making plans to get to Tei's house for Christmas:

Lainie: I actually have my housemate's car, if we need one later to get to Smile's house.
Tei: Okay, great. Take the car!
Lainie: But first I'll need directions to your place.
Tei: *immediately* Take the cab.

I type this as my cat climbs on the table and displays what she imagines is the magnificence of her rear end.

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Recently stumbled across a song by Koko Kaina on Youtube (she's listed her location as Malaysia, for those tumpang topographical glamour ones out there).

No Christmas For Me (Oriinal Song) -- click on the link

Ya gotta listen to it She has a few other original songs too, if you're so inclined.

Merry Christmas!

(link ganked off Liy)

Written by lainie at 05:23 PM on December 26, 2007 in Links / Email, Events, Home.

Hello readers,

I was at Filmmaker's Anonymous 5, for their special edition of Take Back The Tech. Now that's outta the way,

I present thee a short video:



Jac SM Kee was the "gender expert" sittin at a Q&A panel wearing a tshirt that said "Fantastic Porn". So obviously someone asked her about porn. This is a short clip from the discussion.

I have the full Q&A discussion posted up, it's 30 minutes long....if you want to see the whole thing, including Pang talking about Marxist porn).

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Shouting at Ding through the room walls

Lainie: Ei! Our house is called SLANT because it's made up of our names ah?
Ding:I told you this before la wanker.
Lainie: I've got a bad memory
Ding: You cant keep blaming everything on that.
Lainie: But it's a consistently bad memory
Ding: Couldn't you have figured it out on your own?
Lainie: That, is caused by my low IQ.
Ding: Cheh. Perasan.
Lainie: ?

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I...........I didn't realise I missed Winter's Solstice recently, till I read on another blog about it - that's the one Chinese celebration family reunion I try to do, cause that's the most important one....

But, yeah. Now I feel ...pretty shitty that I missed it.

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Been watchin this Youtube video, clips from the Photography episode of Channel4's Debutantes show.



Rankin shows you how to take a photo. Pretty video...Co-founder of Dazed and Confused Rankin (the mentor) shows self-taught geekphotographer Naomi (the mentee) the howtos. Ah. Looks like an interesting episode. You can watch the entire episode on Channel4's website: Channel4.com: Debutantes - Episode 4, Photography

I prefer the Youtube version. Concise.

(link ganked off Tom Hayton Photography)

Oh, and Christmas was lovely

Written by lainie at 12:12 AM on December 27, 2007 in Arty stuff.

Annie was over - we watched Love is a Many Splendored Thing. I find Han Suyin, the writer of the book the film was based on, has quite an interesting biography.

I also showed her some character sketches of a comic I have in mind (and in some random notes, here and there). She wants a cameo in it.

Meanwhile, to break in the Adobe Photoshop CS2 I'd just installed on my newly reformatted laptop, I did a colours quickie on a sketch I did some time back:


Giants and missiles, because they're fun together. Cmon, you know if a comic was titled Giants and Missiles, it'd be cool (damn, now there's an idea....).

And, because I mengada, here's another quickie


ZipMonsta!

Actually, this one I'd probably want to take the time off to actually cell, colour and texture properly. Of course, now that I've done this I may never actually get around to it.

I'm waiting for Tate to come home so we can go grab a bite together later - he says he wants some Malay food.

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And now, I'm back, and here are some video links -

This is a song / music video I am quite attracted to, you may recognise the lead singer Victoria Bergsman's vocals from her contribution to the popular indie song by Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks. Bergsman has since left the band, but hey. Watch this video - The Concretes - Warm Night:




And this is a video from Monty Python that makes me laugh:



And this is a video of corrupted Malaysian police harassing people and refusing to show their own IDs, yet demanding to be respected (blog account of event if you click the link):



"kita boleh tangkap you"
Eh, fuck off la. Just cause you wear a uniform doesn't mean you can behave like an imbecile.

I strongly resent assholes.

Written by lainie at 11:52 PM on December 29, 2007 in Daily Life, Holidays / Road Trip.

I drove Tate's car, for the second time. He wanted to be dropped off at a friend's place this time. He'd make occasional references to places, "drive like you're going to (shopping mall)".

Lainie: Okay. You know what, I'm pretty much lost after that traffic light we just took.
Tate: What?
Lainie: Yeah.
Tate: We're barely one kilometer from the house!
Lainie: Er..Well.

Measurements just make everything sound so much worse.

Tate: Fail.
Lainie: I know .

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End year holidays. Was supposed to head to Thailand with Daphne, but that plan didn't happen. Instead, we're planning a lil trip to Payar like we did the last time - where the water was clear, the beach beautiful, and making some new friends for just that day. Maybe we'll do it again.

My housemates are all in Thailand on a holiday, so I basically have the house to myself, and the cat that I have to keep watered and fed.

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I tried calculating some stuff. Yknow, I'm quite handy with an abacus. And with some calculators, I punch in numbers real fast. But yesterday, in a friend's office, I was having so much trouble punching the right buttons, I must have looked kinda retarded.

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I'm having cat allergies from hell. My eyes are red, swollen and teary. and did I mention, itchy?

Catdammit.

Written by lainie at 08:05 PM on December 31, 2007.

It's 2008!

I want to take everything that was good from this year, and mix them in with all the new goodness that I will find from the next.

As for the bad, well. I don't want to jinx myself so I think I'd better stop here .

Happy new year, people. Hope it's a good one for ya.