Infographic Diggings

Smartass - Statistics from Feedmee Design on Vimeo.

change

someone told me one thing today...
just one sentence
this evening...
ok...
ill try to change...
:D
thanks for telling or noticing for me...
felt bad...
ya, but thanks..

每個女孩身邊都有一個不是男朋友的男朋友

so happen to found this in facebook...
true?
every girl have one?
true?
no?
yes?
no?
D:
kinda agree some part of the video...
but some...
was like "really?" or "erm"...
nice video btw *like* :D

hearting Motion Graphics

I LOVE THE CENTRAL CHINA TELEVISION ALOT! :D
been watching for quite a number of times.. love it so much

CCTV Ink from Troublemakers.tv on Vimeo.

Stay in My Memory *loves*

"Stay In My Memory" by Bim from Gobblynne Animation on Vimeo.

Dark Clouds - harsh~

Dark Clouds from Peter Szewczyk on Vimeo.

Artificial Paradise

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE,INC. from Jp Frenay on Vimeo.

Trichrome Blue

Trichrome Blue from Lois van Baarle on Vimeo.

not too much :D

don't be too confident k? :D

btw im not offending incase you are wondering =="'...
soh zhai...

my first motion graphic :D

Motion Typographic from carmenoobkia on Vimeo.

love this kind of motion :D

Cokau from Cokau on Vimeo.

Acorn from Scott VanArsdale on Vimeo.

The Lost of Pudu Jail

find it stupid that the goverment demolished this piece of artwork that the artist actually put alot of effort on it by painting it everyday for months/years... this proves that, goverment have no sense of art and respect people's effort... TT... I mean come on lar, can't you just don't demolished the walls and convert it to a tourism spot, its a history a world known history. They don't even care about it, they don't even know how to preserve historical stuff, they don't even respect other people's years of efforts and then the next thing, they say Malaysia is making a lost financially, not enough tourism in Malaysia. Well duh! Look what you guys just did. Their eyes are just on the money, on the gold, on the price of this land. ya...



ya... Malaysia Boleh la...
2020...

First Night

First Night in TOA... 7pm... no lar 3pm to 6am in MMlab1... lets see how long i can stay awake... did once 4 years ago, when i was in melbourne trip during end of year 2006 with my secondary school senior schoolmates :D... was my bday, =x... all of us, except our leader and the 5 form 2 students went to bed, but as for the 4 of us chatting at one of the Melbourne University Hostel lobby from i think 11pm to 5am... we chat until we felt asleep in the lobby... that was the last time i stay awake for that long during the night to early morning. Btw, it was our last day in Melbourne that day, didn't want to spend our last night sleeping, so we chat. Plus, we couldn't go out of the hostel, not say we couldn't, but the shops and everything were close after 5 or 6pm, so there's nothing to see plus we got lost in the Giant Campus itself. Seriously, it was huge! and kinda complicated for a newbie in Melbourne Uni :D... anyway, all of us had a great chat that night, crap alot, personal chatting alot :D... until now i still can remember what we chat about, not all, some~ :D...

So ya, staying in TOA for the first time, overnight... the next morning, im going home for a day sleep until 1pm then go for 230pm class... btw, i stayed for 3D rendering... sad...
anyway, bye :D

Infographic - Cars and Cigarette

Why We Drive from eddie pop on Vimeo.

Logic~

時間

私にはわからない
どのように言って
しかし...
私は思う
最高です
与える
あなた自身
時間
考える, と
正しい判断を下す?
代わりに...
フォワード移動
知らずに
次にやるべきこと?

already starting

actually i already starting to have a little bit regret for that =="'

Melaka

probably you might be wondering why the hell there's this assignment post suddenly...
ya... actually i post it in my assignment blog at first, but i copy and pasted it here just in case if my lecturer ter-come to this blog and missed out the assignment blog... :D

yeap, went to Melaka last friday, a day trip there to research about Baba Nyonya...
but eventually after the Baba Nyonya lunch, we tend to walk around in jonker street to look for 2nd round of meal, because *low voice* the Nyonya restaurant wasn't really good plus expensive and plus plus dishes are like SMALL!... we were walking around jonker street until 3 something to look for any baba nyonya stuff, but we seem to like hunt for food more than hunting for information. Most of our classmates bought stylish hat for 5 to 8 bucks :D awesome! Then 3 something, the clouds gets emo and started crying until 4.30... we got stuck in a bar, which was found by berry... lots of artworks there, and yee hong claimed that one of the artwork look like me, and it is NAKED! damn you yee hong! NDL! like i said, stuck there until 4.30 and we were desperate for bulat bulat chicken rice! straight after the rain stop, we rushed to any chicken rice shop that is wit bulated rice... Note! do not go to "Gu Cheng" chicken rice shop, thats where we went... it sucked, but atleast we had the balls, but suck! The bus will be arriving at 530pm, so we pergi bus station, tunggu and we started playing the blowing bubble thingy that we use to play when we were kids :D... Then bus arrive and chao...

go facebook and see more pictures :D

G&W

yesh!
im currently
G&W...






:D:
G&W lor...

Assignment: Baba Nyonya facing culture blood extinction

At first I wasn't sure what exactly is Baba Nyonya. Like what most of the people will asked "are Baba Nyonya muslims?" or "do they eat pork?" or "are they malay?". Well, actually Baba Nyonyas or Peranakan are Straits Chinese people that are born and live in the Strait Settlements of Malacca, Penang and also Singapure during the 15th and 16th centuries. They had been practicing or have partically or fully adopted Malay culture into their lifestlye, in an effort to be assimilated into the local communities.

In Malay and Indonesian, the word "Peranakan" means "descendants". Baba refers to the male descendants and Nyonyas refers to the female. The word "Nyonya" (also commonly spelled as nonya) is a Javanese loan honorific word from Dutch Nona(grandma) meaning: foreign married Madam. As for the word "Baba" is a Persian loan-word borrowed by Malaysian as an honorific solely for grandparents; it was used to refer to the Straits-Chinese males. The term originated from Hindustani speakers such as vendors and traders and become part of common vernacular.

What is interesting about Baba Nyonya is their intermarriage. It is between the early Chinese settlers and local Malay has created a unique culture which is not commonly seen. Local Malay? Aren't they muslims? again most of the people asked when come to talking about the intermarriage. Well, they aren't muslims at all. They actually involve pork in their lifestyle. And they still preserve their traditional Chinese ceremony very well until today. This is because, during the 15 and 16 centuries, the local Malays are mostly from Indonesia. Besides that Straits Chinese no longer speak the dialect of their ancestors but a language of their own known as Baba Malay a Malay patois consists of many Hokkien words.

In the dressing side, the women will normally wear traditional Malay costumes like the "Baju Kebaya". It is a form of blouse woven with silk. Foot-binding, a practice carried over from China. Their clothing also include baju panjang(long dress), batik sarung(batik wrap-around skirt) and kerongsang(borooch). Kasut Manek are beaded slippers that are hand-made with tiny faceted glass beads from Bohemia. Its design often have European floral subjects, with colors influenced by Peranakan porcelain and batik sarongs. They were made onto flats or bedroom slippers. But heels were added as it became modern and popular during the 1930s.

So what I want to find out here is, why?how?because of what? Baba Nyonya culture is disappearing?
After going through some diggings for the answer of these questions. These is what I dug out.

Without colonial British support
Financially, Baba Nyonya were better than Chinese born Chinese. Their family wealth and connections enabled them to form a Straits-Chinese elite, whose loyalty was strictly to Britain or the Netherlands. Due to their strict loyalty they did not support Malaysian nor Indonesian Independence, at first.

By the middle of the twentieth century, most Peranakan were English or Dutch-educated, during the Western colonization of Malaya and Indonesia, Peranakans readily embraced English culture and education as a means to advance economically thus administrative and civil service posts were often filled by prominent Straits Chinese. Many in the community chose to convert to Christianity due to its perceived prestige and proximity to the preferred company of British and Dutch. The Peranakan community thereby became very influential in Malacca and Singapure and were known also as the Kings Chinese due to their loyalty to the British Crown. Because of their interaction with different cultures and languages, most Peranakans were (and still are) trilingual, being able to converse in Chinese, Malay, and English. Common vocations were as merchants, traders, and general intermediaries between China, Malaya and the West; the latter were especially valued by the British and Dutch.

But things started to change later on. In the first half of 20th century, some Peranakans started to support Malaysian and Indonesian Independence. It is good to see that the Peranakans finally started to support to their own country. But sadly, without colonial British support for their perceived racial neutrality, government policies in both Indonesia and Malaysia following independence from the British have resulted in the assimilation of Peranakans back into mainstream Chinese culture. In Singapore, Peranakans are classified as Chinese, so they receive formal instruction in Mandarin Chinese as their second language instead of Malay. But for Malaysia, the main language, Bahasa Melayu had been standardize and required for all ethnic groups. This led to the disappearance of the Baba Malay.



Modernization and socialization with other groups
Some factors that led to the decline of Baba culture were the gradual geographical dispersion of the Babas, modernization and socialization with other groups. Dispersion from the traditional bastions of Peranakan culture led to diffusion of its cultural characteristics. It was in Malacca that Baba society had its deepest roots. The culture was then exported to Penang and Singapore from the main roots of Melaka. The Babas gradually became more scattered throughout Malaya and the Southeast Asia region, and with socialization with other groups taking place, they soon lost much of their distinctiveness and exclusiveness.
Khoo Kay Kim believes that the large-scale immigration of Chinese into Malaya in the late 19th century contributed to the disintegration of the Baba culture (Lee Su Kim 1978). Intermarriage took place between Straits Chinese and non-Straits Chinese, leading to a dilution of Nyonya culture.

Customs, rituals and language
Because of the modernization and the introduction of Western ideas, the clannishness of the Babas gradually eroded and family ties became weak. During the zenith of Peranakan culture, it was common to find three generations living as a huge extended family under the same roof. Customs and ritual were less practiced and language is transmitted less from one generations to another, because it is under preassure from languages like English and with the independence, Malay. Now a days, some Peranakan families send their children to Mandarin schools. In the past, Straits Chinese actually tend to look down on Chinese (collectively referred to as Tjina or Tiong hua). From Vaughan's observation between the Strait Chinese and the Sinkhek, which are Chinese that come in the late 19 century, he found out that, Strait Chinese claim themselves as British subject or "orang putih", a white man when they are being asked if they were Chinamen.

The changing role of the Nyonyas
In the past, the Nyonya was brought up solely to be a good daughter, wife and mother. Most of the marriage of Baba Nyonyas in those days were arranged. Nyonyas received little educations, because it was feared that too much education would make them "bebas", too free and wild. A good Nyonya has excellent culinary skills, able to sew and manage household well and as a good wife and mother. And also expected to be virtuous, senonoh (gentle and ladylike in behaviour), respectful of her elders and come from a good family.
During the British colonial, more Nyonyas received education in English-medium schools. Their lifestyle eventually became more liberated from their former constained lifestyle. Because of this, it led to the situation that Nyonyas does not know how to observe their cultural heritage. Most of the modern Nyonyas do not know how to cook traditional Peranakan dishes, couldn't pass on the language to their children, do not observe the demanding rituals and customs and prefer to wear modern cloths instead of the traditional costume, except on special occasions.



World War 2
During the depression of the 1930s and the Japanese Occupation, another blow to Peranakan culture was formed. At their cultural apex, the Babas and Nyonyas were a very wealthy, powerful and elitist group, many wielded tremendous influence in commerce, economics and politics. But alot of the material wealth and prestige of Babas was lost during the World War 2. The culture and lifestyle of the Babas went into serious and irreversible decline after the Japanese invasion during the 1942. The Babas and Nyonyas are sociological phenomenon that occured because of British colonization and cannot be understood outside of the context of the essentially urban and colonial society of Straits Settlements. The political framework of the Straits Settlements enabled this remarkable culture
to emerge, although of course they existed before colonization (Clammer 1980). Likewise, with the disappearance of this same supportive framework after the Second World War, the culture began to wither.



The passing of the colonial regime
The feeling of isolated, unable to represent themselves as fully Chinese for numerous cultural
and linguistic reasons and yet, not able to be assimilated into Malay culture, since religion was a barrier. In the past, Chinese marry to Malays was possible and without any conversion to Islam. But in the present day of Malaysia, it is a hard decision to decide. Besides that, Islam is so linked to Malay ethincity that the Baba Chinese, whether they are Baba or non-Baba, regard it as being not Chinese to embrace Islam. Thus, as Clammer states, the Straits Chinese have been caught on the horns of their own cultural dilemma (1980). Since they feel more aligned to the Chinese ethnically, and in many respects socially and religiously, it is to the Chinese community of Malaysian society that the Babas and Nyonyas have had to look to for some sense of political and social shelter and belonging. In other words, some sort of “resinification” has taken place where the Babas have had to increasingly identify themselves with the larger Malaysian Chinese community.

BERRY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERRY dear :D
had fun sing K session with BERRY and mm0851 :D

dulan lar...

sometimes i really get sick of helping ppl, cus i dun get any help in return everytime when i need it... it always happen.. f*ck!

duno

i duno lar!
!@#%^^*&#$^&*#$@$#%%#^&$%$%%!!!

dream to sleep

F*CK AS3!!!
i want to sleep lar...
im suppose to sleep early tonight..
TT

korek out from friendster :D

was digging friendster pictures...
found some treasure :D



PICTURE OF THE DAY!

it was like 2 or 3 years ago...
look how much we changed :D
actually, not much, just that our hair change the most D:
btw! we need to continue our trip to Penang routine
during CNY!!
seriously, i miss the bungalow we stayed in Penang!

love them anyway :D
ZCJ

friday

friday will be whole day in melaka with classmate
and design method lecturer and tutor, Suweii and Yi Wei :D...
will it be a dun day for mm0851?
hmmm...

after that trip, syaoran loh will be fetching me home :D
it has been a week plus we didn't met :D

実際に

実際に...
私は本当に私が今やっている嫌い
実際に...
私はかなり怒っている
実際に...
私は思う...
あなたが愚かだ
しかし...

syaoran 質問
彼には聞かせて, される...
初めから...
一日, 彼は知っている理由も...
thanks syaoran...

hope you're right...
but i feel stupid sometimes,
i mean is like putting a stupid mask on...
pretending that im half blind...



but ill try...
:)
i should be focusing on my work now...
:)



"It's two a.m., feelin' like I just lost a friend
Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me
It's two a.m., feelin' like I just lost a friend
Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me

And we know it's never simple, never easy"

half blind

私はちょうどふりをします...
syaoran asked me to do that since the begining...
alright, i am... starting from now :D...
thx :D

...

erm... actually i don't know what to type...
:D

兄妹 syndrome~

ya... another random thinking post...
i got no mood to do 3D la...
let me random for awhile la...

realize something very random... ==
our syndromes...
seriously we tend to do this quite often...
some lar...

1. we tend to control our speed in doing assignments for each other... especially either one of us are sick or going out for dating or out station... we tend to beg each other to slow down in doing assignments... lol

2. our greetings in msn "what you doing now?" or "doing wat?" or "buat apa?"... recently because of motion graphic, one of the new greetings is "sampai mana?"...

3. we treat each other like mobile bank...
if either one of us bankrupt, we tend to lend money from each other.. omg~

4. we tend to have almost... almost the same sleep time =="'
if one of us went to bed... 1 hour or 30mins later, the other one goes to bed too...

5. print screens... that is like one of our most comment activity in our msn convo... we seriously tend to ask each other to print screen our work progress on msn... so lol...

6. morning calls... now not so much already, use to be quite often... now i only called him unless i wake up late... before that was like everyday, 6 or 7 am, we called each other to get up through phones... actually, mostly i called...

7. our sms, is all about assignments or work progress.. oh wth! chit chat, not so much...

8. "where to eat?"... everytime in class, is either 1 hour after the class start or 1 hour before the class ends... we tend to asked that...

9. glue~ we tend to glue to each other in class... ONLY in class... the glue as in sit next to each other without much in physical contact...== don't think too much, both of us are taken by someone else... not each other ==

10. give almost the same comment... we tend to give the same comment when lecturer ask us to critic our friends work...


twins? no? lol
its kinda lame sometimes...
but its our style...
our syndrome...
find it funny sometimes too...
nah...
best friends i guess OAO




lol

changes

changed some stuff abit...
changed my assignment blog skin, i mean my dead assignment's blog skin...
the template is downloaded...
i know... is downloaded,
gonna customize the codes if i have time in the future... :D


and im gonna tie up my hair starting tomorrow..
cus my hair now is like not long, not short =="'...
so...
PIG TAILed!

sometimes

sometimes is just an
illusion....



sometimes...

sometimes...

sometimes...

love in motion...

starting to love motion graphics...
but sometimes, i hate doing it...
cus very sien and take up alot of time to create simple motions TT...
so...
I LOVE and HATE AE!
lol
bye

diam diam nite

somehow, i find tonight seems quiet... probably everyone is tired for this week, especially our class, mm0851... we had been struggling alot this week, due to 3D, motion, AS for some of us and also Video shootings... I guess everyone is tired today, thats why its quiet...
And some of us were in depression moment, actually one of them is me, don't ask why la, i didn't tell anyone about it though... nah, don't worry, guess it will be over soon :D...

私は望む...
私は私の親友を助けることができる...

And so, everyone should sleep early tonight, we've been up late for a week now... some of us slept at 4am or slept less than 2 hours... so now is the chance to rest awhile, and start work tomorrow, ok mm0851? :D

k, i gtg now, need to get some sleep or maybe listen to some music and draw something, haha... but i'll rest...
goodnight ppl :3

sweet stuff :D

feels like eating
ICE KACANG
tonight... :D

today's homework~

after 12oclock...
go back home and...
SLEEP!!!

i don't dare to

sometimes i just don't dare to said what is in my mind...
and i sometimes just rather let it be or maybe ignore...
cause, one thing, im an outsider...
i have different view...
and i also worried what i said,
you might think that im offending or defending...
but im there for you...
just hard to open my voice sometimes...
need to think few rounds...
cause...
it is never easy for a person...
to think the opposite side of view...




but ill be there...
我不是在讲爱情

Part of life

Life is full of twist and turns...
Life is full of junctions...
Life is full of surprises...
Life is full of pain...
Life is full of happiness...
Life is full of love...
Life is full of friends...
Life is full of viruses...
Life is full of stress...
Life is full of curiosity...
Life is full of understanding...

Every year, infact every semester or month, i met new friends or i know some of my friends better than before... I tend to know them more from time to time. But when there is a start, there is always have an end... From there where i know alot of friends, and interested to get to know more some of them, i gain alot of experience, learning, information through their eyes... haha, sometimes i just don't get what are they think, probably we have different thinking in certain things... but we ended up still good friends. In short, everyone have their own thinking, their own ways in doing things, their own style... and you can't stop them from what they think sometimes...

some people see things in a very fart distance, some just look it in a close distance kind of way... Everyone look things differently... and we could accept what other people are thinking and doing but sometimes we don't... and sometimes, myself, i find it weird... sometimes find it stupid with certain type of people thinkings... haha...

there are so many living things in this world, and they have different personality, each of them are different... there's nothing that is same. so in short...

Life is full of Colors

video to share :D

Space and Air from rpgamer2003 on Vimeo.

the stars are projectors from rpgamer2003 on Vimeo.

Wait from rpgamer2003 on Vimeo.

problematic from rpgamer2003 on Vimeo.

In the clouds from rpgamer2003 on Vimeo.

enjoy :D

Diu Lei Geh MSN!

someone's msn is really pissing me off!
you know who you are...
is not the offline online status thing...
is the convo connection...
i have to SPAM duno how many times of a sentence,
then it will only appear in my friend's msn...
WTH~
ngor diu lei geh MSN!

twitter

registered twitter few days ago...
was curious about it...
i mean why do alot of people love twitter so much...
hmmm...
even fayax said twitter rocks more than facebook...
O_O
wondering why...

self note Webs

https://www.ecotonoha.com/ecotonoha.html
http://amaztype.tha.jp/
http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/
http://www.vw.com/realracinggti/en/us/

=="'

sometimes.. i just dun really get it...
*ignores*

one of the fun page in my life