The idea of sharing...

It's a rather cheesy topic to talk about but a recent event prompted me to pen this down. Many of you all would know that I do not like to share my things. I like to have my own snacks, my own drinks, my own PC, gadgets and all. The only thing I seem to share is my collection of avi's. Anyway, to cut the long sotry short, I'd like to ask your opinion on sharing based on a scenario I've recently observed.

I recently visited a family whose parents had young children. The kid was playing his own toys all to himself. After a few minutes, another family came to visit. A kid of similar age joined in. The father of the first kid asked that he shared his toys with the new comer. He was a little upset as the other kid does not know what or how it's supposed to be played and end up throwing the toys just to hear and see how the toys react when its thrown. After a couple of times the new kid threw the toys, the parents stopped him and later went home after their visit.

The incident got me thinking. Why risk share something you have set up nicely to someone who don't know what you've been doing? Supposed it's a Lego and you've aseembled yourself an impressive object only to be thrown or torn into pieces? This also raises a question, why is it that when someone visits your place, you are asked to share your toys / PC / things with others? And why is it that when you visit someone's place, you are asked to allow the host to let you play? If i've let them play with my things, why can't I have straight access to other people's stuff too?

Am I to sacrifice the stuff I care to let others play and vandalize it? Am I to let other people take advantage over me? Supposed a really dominating person were to always take advantage of our kind offering to allow them to play something and we wait patiently for our turn but we never get it, what are we to do? Nothing? Are we to do anything to stop them from being like that? Do nice people always finish last by allowing others to domninate and take advantage of us?

Let me know.

2 Days of Freedom!

Whoa! I just got back from a really really cool weekend. I had the opportunity to go for a festival for 2 days in Port Dickson to witness Tiesto's Elements Of Life Tour in Malaysia! In addition, several other famous DJ's were there such as Ferry Corsten, Cosmic Gate and several other upcoming DJ's. They all played different music and styles with various displays and pyrotechnics which provided a very uplifting and energetic atmosphere.

However, for both nights, Tiesto only came out at about 12AM when we've all already used up most of our energy cheering, shouting and jumping for the earlier DJ's making us less energetic for Tiesto. It is such a shame that Tiesto didn't put up much of a performance on Friday due to some inconsiderate people shining bright lasers into his face and eyes while he's performing. Nevertheless, he still put on quite a show but it wasn't until Saturday night that it was the best! Below are some of the videos taken for the event. I bought a 4GB SDHC Card for my camera to enable me to record 90 minutes of the event. I was able to record about 70minutes before my battery gave way. Enjoy the following:

Cosmic Gate - Nebula + Everything (Freedom 08 EOL Tour)

Tiesto - 10 Seconds to Sunrise (Freedom 08 EOL Tour)

Tiesto - Break My Fall (Freedom 08 EOL Tour)

Tiesto - Elements Of Life (Freedom 08 EOL Tour)

He's a Pirate (Freedom 08 EOL Tour)

Tiesto - Adagio For Strings (Freedom 08 EOL Tour)

You will notice that I did not have any videos taken on the Friday night (9/5) as I thought cameras were not allowed in the concert hall. I only brought it in on Saturday for the recordings. I apologise for the poor video quality especially on the first Tiesto video (10 Seconds to Sunrise). This is due to the fact that i over zoom in and soomehow the camera was not set to focus on Tiesto but rather on the stage. For the other videos it's a little jerky as I was constantly shaken by people walking and pushing about their way to the front as well as me jumping or moving to the beat. Nevertheless, the audio is still pretty awesome!

I look forward to future occurance of such concerts and would gladly welcome other DJ's like Armin Van Buuren or DJ Shah or Aly and Fila to come and show their stuff and play their music. The choice I made to go to the concert is not a mistake and I hope that my videos will encourage and grow the community of trance fans.

ADND + Penang Trip + Stolen Wipers

Ok, I know I have a lot of catching up to do in updating you all on what have been happening to me. This post will be a photo blog where there will be lots of pictures to describe the events that happened over the past few weeks/months. Suffice to say, I have bought myself a new digital camera and I've been experimenting with various shots/angles to get really good quality images and hopefully if I have the interest, move on and get myself a DSLR. Anyway, without further delay, here are the pictures taken with my new Digital Ixus 80 IS.

Accenture Annual Dinner and Dance
Well, on 4th of April, my company had an annual dinner of which everyone has to dress up to the theme of the evening which was "Magic". Weeks prior to that, all of us had to scratch our heads to think of what kind of costume would we wear? I at first thought of going as a wizard but after hearing that the best dress costume actually wins a Wii, I asked my friend to help me dress up to win that. In the costume renting shop, he suggested a Witch Doctor / Shaman kinda of costume. And here is how it turned out.

Shyan and I

I end up not winning the Wii, but this "cupboard" did. OMG!

Sze Lyn and I

Other Accenturians in their magical costumes

Penang Trip
About a week ago, I went to Penang to celebrate my grandmother's birthday. I took an Air Asia jet there and it seems that Air Crash Investigations really scares the crap out of me when it comes to flying. I think I should stop watching it. Haha! Anyway, here are some captured moments.

Air Asia logo captured on the seat of the aircraft

A view from Equitorial Hotel in Penang

I thought this shadow looked interesting

I really like this shot taken in the hotel

There was a wedding fair in the hotel, and I thought this looked nice

My brother, my grandmother and me

My Wipers Got Stolen!
Yesterday, when I was going out for lunch, I noticed something was wrong with my car. To my horrow, the wipers were stolen! All 3 of them! Grrrr!! Took these shots when I was going back and as you figured, it was raining! Imagine driving under these conditions. Gosh!

I have to remind myself to not on the wipers else my windscreen would ...

Back wiper is missing too!

On a Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day has now just passed and you may ask "how did it go?" or perhaps "met anyone?". Well the answer is this. No, I did not spend it with anyone nor went out. I worked till 7 and then when I got home, I was so tired and just decided to stay at home. Initially I wanted to format one of my PC's but I end up playing some Tower Defense instead. How did yours went? Feel free to leave a comment below.

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I was just looking through some of the pictures taken from my phone last year and here are some selected few which didn't make it in my previous posts.

Perth City taken from King's Park

One of the parks in Perth. Sadly, we don't have such a neat park here in Malaysia

Perth City viewed from the park

Cloudy skies somewhere along NKVE

There is no denying that this building actually looks quite cool

Sun setting behind KLCC

Clouds around TPM

Wisps of clouds

My New Ride!

Yay!! It's arrived! Just in time before CNY! It arrived yesterday (Jan 30th). Sufficely to say, so far everything is working except that I haven't test out the CD player. Handling is surprisingly good although the car rolls a little too much on cornerings. It's still good and I would say an above average car.

Ever since the blog started till about a couple of months ago, every post has a proper story in it or something really valuable or thought provoking or something of which someone can write a comment on. However, lately I've not been having the many blog inspirations and hence am just unsure of what to write on this space.

I like to write a lot about my past, but I just keeping getting myself smacked in the face to tell me that I should no longer write about the past but instead look towards the future. Well, I can't write much about my future as I'm no Hiro and can't bend space and time :P

I hope that I'll be able to find interesting topics to pen down and attract more visitors soon. That's it for now, have a good day.

PS: Am still having slight coughs.