Busybodi

WAH! So busy yesterday and today. But I don't feel like stabbing anyone yet.

So it's alllll guuuuuud. 

In da huuuuuuud.

Mesti client tulis sendiri


Today I saw the tagline for Kyocera printers on a taxi. It went something like:

"When choose printer... See cost... Not brand."


Ermm.. ok lor.

Bhored.

I'm bored outta my wits waiting for some dingdong email from some dingdong client to come in. Grr. It's Friday night! -__- So I'm surfing Burdastyle, loading Ren and Stimpy, blogging, and checking out Mumford and Sons. Taking a bit of time to see if I like them or not... On a rather similar note, Everything Everything and Wild Beasts are SO DELICIOUS. And Delphic is so fengtau. Hehe.

I've been trying out a bodice sewing pattern from Burdastyle. Cut a size too big. WHOOPS. Will have to re-do it I guess hehe. 

Giant scary stuff

"Can I ask you something ah."
"Mm hmm."

"Erm.. will you be more afraid of a giant cockroach or a giant rat?"
"Hmmm.. Giant cockroach."

"Ok. Giant cockroach or giant snake?"
"Giant cockroach."

"Giant cockroach or giant... dick?"
"Errr... still giant cockroach."

"Hmm... interestingggg. Oo oo!! What about this: Giant cockroach or giant asshole that's pulsating and will suck you into it??"
"Hahahhaha... Giant asshole!"

"Giant asshole or giant piranha??"
"Giant asshole!"

"Why ah? You not scared of giant piranha ah?"
"You said the giant asshole will suck me into it mah, I don't wanna get sucked in by a giant asshole!"

"I see, I see."

Hantu Haid





Evan Yan
eww the toilet got haid blood

woman
eeee

Evan Yan
like one dab of thick black thingy with red trails

woman
eeewwwwwwww
let the hantu haid lick it up

Evan Yan
hahaha
hantu haid

woman
thats the story my teacher told us last time
if u dont wash your pad yg ada haid
the hantu haid will go and lick up the haid

Evan Yan
haha
after that what will happen

woman
the hantu haid will get more and more power
and one day become godzilla haid
so if you dont want to be attacked by godzilla haid
dont feed the hantu haid

Evan Yan
HAHAHAHA

Sew you think you can dance, dance, dance

Finally got around to organizing pictures of some stuff I've been working on. Phew! I've grown to love sewing more and more, and recently the sewing machine has become a permanent tenant on the dressing table. I told her I'd waive her rent if she just keeps sewing. So far I haven't collected rent. Yes I was talking about the machine.

Sooooooo anyway! My first adventure with jersey fabric is this braided green tank top. I haven't worked with jersey fabric before, so I was worried about the hemming of the edges... so I braided strips of the fabric and hand-sewn them onto the edges.

You can find jersey fabric in a variety of colours at Kamdar SS2, and when it's on sale you can get it for like RM6+ per metre. It's pretty exciting to find these stretchy fabric, and I wished they'd carry knitted and ribbed stretch fabric as well! Here's a close-up on the braids that took me forever to sew them on:

Next is a refashion project. I found this skirt at Amcorp Mall's weekend flea market for RM7.50 (it was purchased with another skirt at a RM15 for 2 price). The seller is a really lovely lady that sells a lot of skirts which are somewhat vintage stocks from Japan. I was drawn to this skirt because of the pastel floral prints-- a colour palette of pale pink and greys, something we've been seriously considering as our wedding dinner colour theme. As pretty as the print was, the skirt was too long and dowdy for me to pull off.

So, chop chop chop and here we are! A high-waisted skirt that goes perfect with my pale pink / pale yellow tanks and cardi!

Ooo! And the most exciting part was making these pockets! It's my first time making pockets other than the hidden kind, and they have a pale yellow lining. Yes I have a thing for pastels sometimes.

And lastly, here's something I just completed yesterday, also another refashion project. This "hospital gown" (as the husband calls it) was found in Amcorp Mall's flea market as well, for a bargain of RM5. The seller is a nice lady too (everyone in Amcorp seems nice in my little eyes hehe), and she carries a number of vintage items as well. If you like buying vintage items, you should make a trip to Amcorp Mall during the weekends! This hospital gown could've easily been sold online for around RM25 on the blogshops. So anyway, here's the before photo. Naise.

A lot of snips and a lot of worrying later, here's the reformed hospital gown:

It's no lie that vintage fabrics are actually made better than most of the fabrics we see nowadays. This hospital gown (maybe I should stop calling it that) is a really gorgeous shade of magenta, and wasn't faded at all. But, the fabric was a lil "furry" on the outside, so I used the insides out instead. No biggie, since the prints were still nice on the inside.

And the dress has a V-back! Yay! When I saw Zooey Deschanel's V-back dress in 500 Days of Summer (the scene where she's walking in the bus), I knew I really one of my own. 

So yeahhh. That's about it. I'm really sleepy now, the flu pill is working its magic... zzzzzz

Fabric fetish

This is one of my most favourite things in the room-- my fabric stash! Organized by colour palette! Well, sorta, anyway. Hahaha. Some of it were from Kamdar SS2, the other fabric shop near Kamdar SS2, Ikea, and a lot of my favourites in there are from Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. 

I can't even begin to tell you how EXCITED I was when Jess and I went to Sham Shui Po... basically it's a fabric market where you can get shitloads of awesome prints (especially retro inspired ones) at like less than RM5 per yard... and lace fabric for around RM10 per yard (which was what my registration dress was made out of :D) 

Couldn't find much details on the exact directions so we were a bit lost here and there, but I've documented the directions.. will put them up soon in case any other lost lambs out there need it!

Manpits


I thought my armpits smelt different yesterday.

Turns out I had used his deodorant instead. Heheh.

Every happy home needs one of these

Wonky Wabbit comes to town

I got really excited when Boon and Shirley had their baby girl Emily. A girl!! All my friends have been having baby boys, and I guess when Emily came along, she really felt precious. Hehehe. I didn't manage to make her anything in time to visit her at the hospital, but got to making this wabbit doll over the weekend.

Erm... reason I named him Wonky Wabbit is because.. he IS rather wonky. It was my first time sewing a doll, and I'm so horrible at symmetry!! -__-  His right arm looks like he's perpetually pointing out to something on his right HAHAHA. And erm his ears ended up pointing sideways than up ~_~"

He's made out of pastel pink cotton with pastel yellow for the insides of his floppy ears. The pastel pink cotton was very flimsy, so there's a thicker shocking pink cotton layered underneath to prevent the flimsy cotton from slipping on the sewing machine. His stuffing is from my favourite Daiso, so yes only 5 buckaroos for them and I still have plenty left :-D

His baggy bag is made out of stretchable lace cloth (I bought shitloads from Kamdar when it was on sale for like RM6 per metre or something, plan to use them as part of our curtains for our house later on), couldn't find a decent ribbon in my box (because I don't really buy ribbons in the first place), so made a ribbon out of the same pastel pink cotton. AHH YES I LIKE TELLING LONG GRANDMOTHER STORIESSSSS.

:-p

Boon has two children.

woman

10:58

eh u went to visit baby emily that day ar

eevon chung

10:58

errr

who is baby emily ah?

woman

10:58

err

boon's baby

guess not then

hahahahha

eevon chung

10:58

BOON HAS A BABY?!?!!

woman

10:58

ZOMG!

@_@

yes...

his 2nd one...

eevon chung

10:58

WTH?!?!?!

woman

10:58

....

eevon chung

10:58

SECOND ONE?!?!?!

woman

10:58

where have u been?????

eevon chung

10:58

WHEN DID THE FIRST ONE COME OUT??

woman

10:59

ZOMG!!!!

like ages ago???

eevon chung

10:59

HUH?!?!

during ATKK days he didn't say shirley mengandung alsooo

woman

10:59

@_@__@_@__@_@__@_@@@

eevon chung

10:59

what's the first one?

boy or girl?

woman

10:59

boy!

eevon chung

11:00

@_@

woman

11:00

emilio!!!!

eevon chung

11:00

-_-

woman

11:00

hehehhehehhe

okokokok

JUST ONE

hahahhaahhahahahah!

eevon chung

11:00

YOU SAKAI!!!

IHATECHU

woman

11:00

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHE

GAWSH THAT WAS FUN

ahhahahaahahaaahaha

eevon chung

11:01

NANTI KAU.

nanti je lah.

woman

11:01

hhahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha

Do the polka


Yay new skirt! It's a cerulean blue polka dotted high-waisted one, with baby pink and baby blue trimming below the waistband. Grainy detail below:


I love that tucking that tee in, btw-- it's one of my favourite printed tees. I really, really want to find pastel cardigans.

District 9 was pretty good! I hate the idea of following 'celebrities' on Twitter (seriously, Megan Fox?? blaa), but today I clicked "Follow" on Christopher Johnson's Twitter. Tee hee. I feel so excited, like prawn. Dunno why also.

"I'm following Christopher Johnson on Twitter!"

Tee hee.

1Malaysia song

When SJ and I read about the Lagu 1Malaysia contest by HOTfm to write a song for Malaysia for the current young generation, we decided to just give it a shot and see what happens. So we stayed back after work and tried to come up with a decent song, and we decided to make it a happy sing-a-long song that is just about an ordinary person loving his/her country.

I know most of us are sceptical about the 1Malaysia thing. Yes I am too. Although I may not always agree with the way things are being done around here, deep down inside I do long to really really love our country.

So we tried to stay away from typical patriotic cliches and just talk about an ordinary, simple, and innocent kinda love... instead of some marching band song with lyrics about berikrar, coz well most of us don't spend time marching sambil baca ikrar right? We go on with our daily lives! Hehehe. Sometimes I feel it's not about "I love my country because of yadayadayada" but it's more like "Man, I LOVE my country!" Err yeah if you get what I mean lah...

Anyway we did a demo, and submitted it on Friday night. Turns out our song got shortlisted as a Top 10 finalist, so yay! We had 6 days and a budget to produce the song into a proper er, song for radio broadcast. Our friends sang backup vocals for us, Maya sang the lead, and Beng played the bass (and had Maya DNA on him for a couple of hours), and it was mastered by Nick Lee.

Do take a listen to the track on HOTfm's website, it's called Nyanyikan Lagu Mu by Wong Seng Jinn and Ng Ching-Ching.

http://www.hotfm.com.my/advert/1malaysia/default.asp

By the way, I couldn't have thought of a better person to sing the song. Maya may not be a great technical diva singer like Whitney Houston, but her personality gels perfectly with the meaning of the song, and she is a role model for the young generation-- she's young, works hard, and is not afraid to speak her mind. And yes she can sing. :P

Please vote for us kay? :-)

This is why I want a yellow cardi:




Bret you are so hawt.

Phew

The last week has been exciting but also a blur to me. Adlin, Boon and me met up on Saturday and Sunday to work on TETS (short for The Ending Theme Song, post-rationalized I believe, as the idea was to call the EP "Show me your Tets" har har har har ahr ahrahrar), and the results are insanely hilarious and silly, just the type of music we love. It's crazy and I can't wait for that to get out.

As for ATKK, we've just got 2 more pending things to get done before the CD finally comes out-- record the fun-loving Dose Two, get the tracks mastered by Master Meng (he also did a great mix on First Time), and getting the CD packaging done. Okay that's 3 things hehe. I'm thinking of changing the ATKK cover to another design. Yeah that's what prolonged timing does to you :P

SJ and I also worked on another track, which we can't talk about until next week. We had to rush everything, but I'm very happy with the results and can't wait for it to be out, woohoo!

On other news, I would really like to pick up on the crafting of BM lyrics. I've always enjoyed the language, but I guess I threw a lot of it away after secondary school. I love reading BM lyrics... some of them are so carefully crafted, they're really pretty.

I really need to catch up on sleep. Guess an hour's nap will have to do..

Talk about bad timing.

I guess tabloids will always be tabloids, always wanting to try and sell more copies the next day. Most of you would've known about the front page headlines that ran on Kosmo on 27 July 2009, a day after Yasmin Ahmad passed away. Just google it and you'll be able to find it, but apparently you won't find it on Kosmo's website.

Reading the article outraged me, as I found it terribly disrespectful, tasteless, and tactless. The headlines said something about Yasmin "mati sebagai wanita", went into detail about her upbringing as a boy and winning Bintang RTM, and ended with something along the lines of how most people know her as a talented filmmaker but this was her life that not many people knew about.

WELL CONGRATS TO YOU KOSMO FOR ENLIGHTENING ALL OF US, YOU FUCKING MORONS.

It's been long known in the advertising circle (and news eventually spilled out of that circle) that Yasmin was born as a hermaphrodite, or better known in BM as a "khunsa", which means that she was born with 2 genders. There is a difference between the dilemma and confusion of being born with 2 genders and being born as a man and wanting to become a woman. She wasn't born as a boy. She was RAISED as a boy, and over the course of her life she made her decision on which gender to become. You try being born with 2 genders and tell me it's easy.

Now that that part has been cleared up, then there begs the question: Isn't it more important what kind of person she was, rather than her gender history? Ohhhh so you and I were born with only 1 gender like any other normal humans, does that make us better people? Better than Yasmin?

Everyone talks about Yasmin's contribution to the film industry and her heartwarming commercials about being Malaysians. Yes, there are a lot of great filmmakers out there, but few are as down to earth and humble like her.

I regret that I was so shy to say hi to her personally when she came over to our studio for a VO recording, and only smiled at her. There were no airs about her, she came in, did the recording, and joked about how she deserves as Oscar. And the most amazing thing? That she, being legendary, being popular, being high in position, being Yasmin Ahmad herself, actually remembered our engineer's name after he introduced himself to her. And he only had to say his name once.

And from that day on, I had the highest of respect for her. Why? Because I can't tell you how many countless times we've had agency clients come over to our studios (and these are people who have been coming for years), who can't remember the engineer's name, and they'll keep asking me "What's his name?" while pointing to the engineer, and I'll have to answer sweetly when in my head I'm thinking "Man, this is the 100th time you've asked me". So it's a BIG DEAL, because obviously when someone remembers your name even when you're supposedly "just an engineer", they're actually seeing you as a person and not just some "supplier". (Yeah "supplier"'s a pretty dirty word in the industry, kinda like "servicing")

It just irks me that Kosmo chose such a timing to publish that "exposé", a day after her funeral. I hear that while she was alive, she was quite sensitive about the topic... what was Kosmo thinking? That she'd have a sense of humour and laugh about it if she saw the article? That her parents would feel proud and peaceful now that the truth about their child is not only gone, but is also now a tabloid hit?

sochews summed it up right when he twitted: "My 2 cents on Kosmo's expose: Cowards. Write your exclusives when she has a chance to respond. Now, your piece is irrelevant to her legacy."

Hemmer time

I hemmed my first jeans! Mom's been doing it for me all these years, but since she passed me her other sewing machine to take back to my apartment, I've been messing around with it. Found this tut on how to shorten your jeans without losing the original hem, it verks! Hurrahhh.

http://www.daciaray.com/?p=38

My shoes will make you hungry

FR: "How come it smells like BBQ here..."

CN: "Yea, do you smell that? It smells like smoked salmon..."

Me: "Sniff sniff... hmm.... OHH! It's my shoes! They're new, they have that new smell thing I guess.. sorry sorry... hurm they *do* smell like BBQ... hehehe........."

SJ: "I'm feeling very hungry now."

Back from Perhentian!


Will probably be busy catching up on work emails (darn you technology), so will post up this photo first. No beach holiday at Perhentian is complete without last minute hats from Kuala Besut!

Flying guitar


Been making some crazyass layered necklaces for the little shop lately, and finally put them on sale over the weekend. The boyfriend was working on Saturday, so when he came over for lunch I requested (without begging of course) "Please bring me some series to watch please please pleaseeeee or else I will be bored please pleaseeeeeeeplsplpslplsplsplsplsplss".

He brought me Heroes Season 3, so while making the necklaces I was watching non-stop. On Sunday he picked me up for lunch and I said:

"I had a nightmare!"

"What? Terminator was chasing you also?"

"Nooo... SYLER!!!!"

"Har? But what powers did you have?"

"Erm..." (didn't think of THAT part)

"Hee hee... Power to make necklaces?"

"..."

"So he stole your power to make necklaces, and he made necklaces and sold them online? HEHEHEHEE"

".... -_- "