March

It's already month of March. It's the time when students prepare for their school exam. As for teacher, it's time to reward them for their hard work.

Fire again?

Me and my brother were doing some late night swimming at 4th floor today, when we were waiting for the lift(2 lifts in that building, one was IF) , i heard a loud sirens so i went to see where was the emergency happened place. I saw a fire engine came with sirens on and entered through the guard house. we went to see what happened from the 4th floor. The fire engine stopped near the ground floor car park exist. Due to previous fire happened at the place where they gather the garbage, i thought there was a fire again. So we went down to the ground floor. I was still wearing my swimsuit with swimming robe, and my brother too. When the lift opened, i saw about 5 firemen standing there, with instruments such as spanner a.k.a wrench on hand. I though they were waiting the lift to go up-stair, surprisingly, they asked :"Lift tak tersangkut kah?" Then only i realised they were here because someone called for help for trapping inside the lift. Too bad, he/she didn't call to inform them that the lift is already working fine, no one is trapped anymore. I told them i saw one lift with status of IF 5 minutes ago when i was still on 4th floor. When i reached my unit, i looked down from my balcony and saw the fire engine left.

Anyway, this time, i saw quite some people watching from their balcony, some even went the the ground floor and asked what happened. At least they care for this time. But still, i don't think they are alert enough. Well, small improvement though.

Transformation Part 3

"The" Furnishing
This 300th post of my blog is specially dedicated my my beloved designer chairs.

Left: My working chair; Right: my lazy, relaxing, cup-of-coffee lounge chair.

Story 1: The Relaxing lounge chair.
Came across and article about a relaxing chair years ago. At that time it told myself that if i ever saw one, then i must owned it. While hunting for the furniture for my house, i saw it, i finally saw it in real other than in TV, and i was like...gasping.....oh my god, i must own it. I felt in love at first sight when i first knew it from TV, when i saw it in a shop, it was love at first touch.
It's a famous designer chair that it even has its own miniature in the scale of 1/12. I saw it few days back in a shop in Singapore. Now i started to regret that i didn't buy it, because at that i time i thought it was $30 for a single model of chairs. Only now then i realised it was the price for a set of collection. Anyway, when you have the real thing, the miniatures are just to fulfill your crazy desire. My mum did ask me why i must buy this chair, i said i must because it's a dream of mine.

Story 2: The white working chair.
Went to the same shop again before really buying the relaxing lounge chair. I saw another designer chair, which is really suitable for my working desk. It's very comfortable and really is my style. So i ended up paying quite a lot for these designer chairs. I never ever feel regret, not a single second.

Story 3: The real story of these chairs. (photos taken from the internet)
Pioneers of the 1950s and of the optimistic American way of life, Charles and Ray Eames created the greatest modern furniture “classics” between 1941 and 1978.

They designed more than 20 chair models, mostly unique pieces, and developed know-how in the art of sitting. The Plywood Chairs LCW(Lounge chair wood) and DCW(Dining chair wood) (1946), the Aluminum Group (1958) and the Lounge Chair (1956) have become true symbols of design that remain references today. Still produced, they inspire the admiration of new generations to convey the generous social ideal of their designers. The wholehearted dedication of Charles and Ray Eames to creating beautiful and top-quality mass-market products, and the joy imparted through their free forms, gave rise to the myth of a human and sensual modernity. A mythical couple, probably one of the most productive and creative of the 20th century.

Eames Plywood Lounge Chair
White Eames Armchair
In 1950, the Plastic Plastic Side Chair and Armchair by Charles & Ray Eames was first released as plastic chairs industrial production in history.

23Feb2011

It's again time to visit the places where full of my childhood memory. I haven't been in Singapore for how long??? around 3 years i guess.... Waked up early morning and it's time to prepare to "fly". It will be the first out of country trip for year 2011....A good start perhaps!

Invigilation

I have done my first invigilation for 2nd year students. The test was only one hour, total of 26 students who 25 showed up( 90 % born at the years of 1988-90). Never thought that some of them will ask some strange questions. One requested me to arrange the anions on the test paper according to their electronegativity, her reason was because only 3 out of 5 anions from the question were stated in their lectures note. I told the girl that asked, i can't do anything, as i am not told to do anything other than invigilating the test process and collect the answer sheets after the test. Then she asked me how? She said they can't just remember the electronegativity of the anions. Strange, as i remember we did do the the memorization of the electronegativity of some major common anions during our SPM chemistry time. Anyway, this is nothing, because i am not told to do anything other than i have told. Still, she wouldn't give up, she asked whether can i call the lecturer and asked her regarding this matter. I said okay, i will call her. I called but the lecturer didn't pick up. So, that was all i can do at that time.

I remember them showing not a lot of respect. Not that i care so much about superior-ism, but i thought you suppose to pay respect to other such as saying thank you when people hand you the paper and when i said times up and stop writing mean really stop writing but i still see quite a lot of them keep on writing. I have given them enough of 60mintes, so should be enough. Perhaps i am too sensitive.

When i handed the answers sheets to the lecturer, i asked her about the electronegativity thingy, she said it is not related to the question at all. The students asked only because they were confusing the question with the example that on their notes.

Anyway, it was quite an experience.

24 Hours in... Paris Elle touche mon couer

An amazing video about the beautiful city of Paris. It definitely touches your heart. Click HERE.
Couldn't share it here, so please click in.

With AirAsia now flying to Paris, when will i be able to realise my Paris dream again??? Hopefully very soon.

New Toy for 2011

My 2011 new toy camera. It's an underwater camera that uses 35mm film and with 28mm wide angle lens, hopefully it makes great pairs with my ISO 400 expired film to give me some LOMO-ish feel photographs. It really looks like a toy, fancy colour, extremely light weight as it is made of plastic. I started to wonder how amazing and impressive that people invented camera. Still looking for the camera shop that provide film scanning services. Will share my work when i officially start to snap some photos.