tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167611872011-08-15T19:42:43.682+08:00A tale of broken biological clocks & expiring shelf lives.Gettenoreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761187.post-1147629087670636032006-05-15T01:39:00.000+08:002006-05-15T01:51:27.683+08:00

A friend pointed out that wordpress.com offers free blogs. I popped over for a look and before I knew it, I had completely transferred my blog over, comments and all.One of the main drawbacks is that you can only use their selection of templates without being able to edit them (no extras in the sidebar like this one). Apart from that, WP is pretty sweet.I'll be trying it out for a while, which

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LouHenrick

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Call me ignorant when it comes to national politics, but WTF is this?‘Barisan MPs have no choice’By ELIZABETH LOOIKUALA LUMPUR: Conscience is not a factor when Barisan Nasional MPs vote in Parliament because under the BN Whip, which is enforced at all times, they are not allowed to support any motion by the Opposition. “You went into the elections as a candidate for the party and you must

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Sorry guys. Too tired to edit photos now. Here's a preview.

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Sometimes, the most fun you can have with a camera is setting it up on the table and using the remote control. It's like a photo booth but with more people.To those of you who want to pick up copies, click on the image you want and it'll take you to the full size... and I really mean full size; I dumped them into slide.com straight from the camera without edits.We must do this again, of course.

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BOOKSES!Honestly, I'll probably find more to buy before the Times Warehouse Sale is over. RM8 for a mass paperback. This is how much books should cost if they want to encourage reading. At the standard market price, it's as though they want to keep reading a luxury only the rich can afford.The main thing I notice about cheap books (i.e. Popular's usual best buy, or warehouse sales) is that you

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I'm slacking on Tarlia Daily because of a combination of late nights out and Maple Story. I kept taking self-portraits anyway; I just haven't posted them. Maybe later, if my current book doesn't lure me away.I'm not too sure about Maple Story at this time. I love the graphics and the fact that I can get these top-up cards at Popular or authorised cyber cafes in this town, but if all you do there

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This afternoon, I stood in my driveway and blew bubbles down my lorong. The wind carried them away pretty quickly. I soon realised that I didn't need to blow it myself; I held the bubble ring tool over my head and the wind did the rest.I have a bubble gun - one of those contraptions that's like a hair dryer with a bubble tool attachment - but doing it the old-fashioned way is quicker and more

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Getting a bit quiet in here? That's because I have nothing to say cept that I'm swamped with work and have no words left at the end of the day. I'm just reading a lot to "put words back".My daily self-portrait project is actually more active, since I don't need to use words there.I also spring-cleaned a great deal of junk from my flickr account and uploaded some new photos I haven't shown yet.

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Despite wanting to get up early to get some stuff done, I ended up sleeping till noon today. Oh well.This month is CLEO's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors Living In KL 2006 month. For four solid years, I never missed an issue of CLEO since it started in Malaysia (cept for the first one cause I didn't realise it already came). I graduated to other magazines after that, but I still always pick up the

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Oh, look. New project.Tarlia Daily: A Self-Portrait Project

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Songwriters' Round is 9pm tonight @ Mojo (Denise the Wine Shop). I expect the entry fee is RM20 inclusive of the first glass of wine as usual.For an idea of what Songwriters Round is like, check out one of my old posts about it.I've been to every Round so far and the talent is astounding.The musicians playing tonight includes Melina from Tempered Mental, and people from One Buck Shot and Funny

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I forgot that I joined the SMS contest for The Third Generation when the movie came out earlier this year. I just received an email informing me that I won an FTEC MP3 Player 256MB preloaded with the movie soundtrack.But I'm gonna put off rejoicing for the moment. I'm supposed to print out the attached letter and bring it to the FTEC office between April 24 - 29 to collect it.The office is in

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This is a note to self as well as to anyone of you who are interested.The Book Project 3"The Book Project concept is still very young. Eventually we will find our groove. Sadly, writers cannot be paid for their stories. This means all stories remain property of the individual writers. Writers can send their stories, be it the original or edited versions to a magazine or newspaper. All other costs

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Andrea is blogging zine-style. Go see her take on the kayak trip and an exclusive interview with Ducky, among other things.

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When I get my salary, one of the first things I usually blow it on first are books.I went to town this afternoon, with "Bookses!" echoing in my head. Before that, I was going "Money!" because I had to find an ATM before "Bookses!" can be bought.Went to Yahya and raided the secondhand book shelves, picking up The Silmarillion which matched The Hobbit that I found a few days earlier. It's quite

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Somewhere between Krokong and the Wind Cave.(Click for larger image.)Thanks, Francis!

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Instead of a behind-the-scenes shot by me, I give you a photo of me behind-the-scenes, shot by my See Hua colleague Davidson.Marilyn is with the newly-formed Eastern Times, and what's left of the former ST gang are back on their daily rounds. The first issue of the new paper is due to hit the stands tomorrow. I predict that people are gonna stop asking me if we're delighted about the downfall of

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This was in the papers today. I modified the newspaper capture slightly by adding the actual photograph because my camera couldn't pick up the image clearly. Click for full view.Now I know what you're thinking. Who the fuck sets bird traps in the middle of the city? The photo below told me that this is at a very prominent part of the Kuching Waterfront.Some animal people will probably be jumping

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Why yes, Unker. I did. FH2O & his camera indulging in a nice afternoon. 

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Inspired by what FH2O did to my portrait of him with Ducky, I modified one of my own to match. It's about time I updated the profile photo anyway.

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 They invited me to join them up there, but I'd rather be on the ground taking this picture. Turned out there was just enough room on that makeshift platform for three grown men. 

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 RM15 for an hour on the choppy sea in the monsoon without any prior experience in piloting a canoe is just one of the creative ways of killing yourself at one of our beach resorts. 

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 I love watching press people at work. Sometimes, I photograph them.In the above photo, we were at The Crib doing a write-up on the food there. Normally it's just Andrea (far left) and I, but this time we took How Pim (middle) and Vanes (far right) with us. Vanes decided to pitch in with the photography.For our two-page spread, we usually use one photo per dish, or a total of 4 to 5 photos in all

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Ducky didn't come out till near the end of the impromptu bloggers meetup, when the older and mellower crowd is left.1. Kenny, blogger, 2. Desmond, 3. Juliana, teacher, 4. Francis, architect & kayakerFor the curious, Ducky's flickr album is here and his Multiply site is here.And it was great meeting everyone. ;-)

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Andrea and I had PLENTY of time leftover after we ate lunch. We stopped at Hock Lee Centre to browse and found that the Cute Cute Shop moved there from their tiny outlet in the middle of town.As the name suggests, there were cute-cute stuff galore - fancy stationary, stuffed toys, handphone danglies, gifts and novelty items of all kinds. We came upon a stack of small boxes which looked like they

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No prize for guessing the hot topic of the week at kopi tiams and water coolers everywhere, and yes, in newsrooms if you work in one.It's my day off so I'm not up-to-date with the latest gossip (some really interesting theories abound!), but even if I am, I'm not stupid enough to talk about it here. ;P You shouldn't either. Not in my blog anyway.What I must say is that it's awful some 300 of ST

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My write-up on The Vanishing Tattoo should be out in this Saturday's edition.There were a handful of people there, including a freelance tour guide who introduced herself as Lyn. She was talking to one of the museum people about the time of the screening and I had to butt in with my two cents.She thinks that the video would be marvellous for her fellow tour guides, since tattoos are such an

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Dear Kuching Drivers,The first day of Chinese New Year does not make you and me immortal so stop driving like a suicidal fuckwit.Kthxbye.

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Writing for a living is what every writer dreams of but there are usually things the leisure writer doesn't take into account. After spending an intensive couple of days writing like your life depended on it (which is every Monday and Tuesday), you come home, look at your blog(s), close the browser and go do something that doesn't involve any member of the alphanumeric family leaving your

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Too tired to give a shit about much now, but to those of you who are interested, the Tun Abdul Razak Museum will be screening "The Vanishing Tattoo" this Friday at 3pm.It's open to the public and I presume it's free. I forgot to ask that bit, but they sounded really surprised when I called... maybe because they didn't expect anyone to actually turn up at such an odd hour of the week. The guy I

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LibraryNet is great. I can renew my books without even going to the library... which is useful because two weeks is usually not enough for me to finish them. In fact, I haven't even cracked open one of them in the month I have it.So my books were dued yesterday and I forgot to bring them out with me so I can return them. No problem, I thought. I'll just log in and renew then online as I usually

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Got to it sooner than I thought it would.I dropped by IMH after lunch and spoke to Angela. Basically, it’s gonna cost me almost RM165 to sign up the first time, after which there’ll be a RM60 fee per month. Classes are once a week for one hour each. The voice coach doesn’t have a schedule set for next year yet, but we get to pick days at this moment.I suppose I’ll think about it. I can request

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The point being RotK was not the extended version. Am mildly disappointed but at the same time, I couldn’t wait for the whole thing to finish.We watched it during Day 2 of the first annual Star Rainforest Movie Festival at the Sarawak Cultural Village. It started at 7pm and finished around 5:30am the next day. We spreaded a mat on the huge waterproof banner they provided and laid our heads on our

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You may have seen it on popgadget, but imagine our surprise when we wandered into a toy store near our office and found the Tomy Flip-Flap Solar Powered Plant!The one they stock in plentiful is the smaller version shown on the audiocubes website. They come in clear plastic cubes and you have the option of not removing it from the cube. They do have the bigger version in their display cabinet,

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Andrea and I stopped by the Dewan Tun Abdul Razak Museum to pick up some documentation. We were actually already on the way out when we passed the back of the Islamic Museum and the building looked rather interesting. Since the both of us never been inside, we decided to drop in.Who would have thought the Islamic Museum would be so facinating?Okay, anyone with an interest in old things should

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Legend of the Red Curse Originally uploaded by Tarlia. This morning, I finished writing a review on The Legend of the Red Curse, which screened its first show on the 3rd Oct in the gala premiere at Star Cineplex. It wasn't easy to write for two reasons:(1) I've been less kind to better movies than this. However, curse my inside knowledge on things that happened behind-the-scenes, which

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Doreena, who is like a large rock you cannot stop when she gets rolling, singlehandedly collected nearly 50 signatures for the Petition to the Prime Minister. In two days. That was supposed to be my copy of the petition but I surrendered it to her.That's the woman triumphant above, with the completed set of forms.You can read about the petition and sign at the links I've provided above.

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Books are geeky joy Originally uploaded by Tarlia. I've been practicing restraint on buying books, and have gotten pretty good at telling myself, "No, Gette. Put that down."Sometimes it's wonderful to go nuts and come home with a heavy haul.I rarely buy books at the current market price for the obvious reason that they are expensive. This is probably why collecting series have slowed down

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My place in the office is pretty easy to find. You just have to look out for this:Ticket stubs, programme books, posters, postcards and various pretty things I pick up from events on the job. I thought it's be a shame if I stuff them into a drawer somewhere, or worse, bring them home and clutter up my bedroom with it.I'm also in the process of turning a side of my desk into a display of of stuff

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Songwriters' Round, Kuching Originally uploaded by Tarlia. The first ever Songwriters' Round was a reasonably pleasant affair broken too often by a bunch of unappreciative ingrates in the screened-off area behind where we were sitting. I don't think they were even here for that. Towards the end, they were making fun of one of the performers.It certainly wasn't an improvement of my mood

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A cookie Originally uploaded by Tarlia. The Crib @ Travilion sells these homemade cookies at RM5 a container. There are about 15 cookies in there. I sampled about a quarter when we were there for Azreen's birthday party.It's oatmeal & raisin, and has just a hint of sweetness in the batter. The most prominent punch of sugar comes from the raisins.When I left with my purchase, it occured to

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Shadow Originally uploaded by Tarlia. The birth of Malaysia herald the birth of another thing that's uniquely Malaysian.Malaysian Time.Countless events start late because there wasn't enough people there at the appointed time. This resulted in smarter organisers who mark up the actual time by half an hour. If it's not your day, the thing starts late anyway.It's not my day.Tonight, I went

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IMG_2870 Originally uploaded by sala.. 42 years ago to this day, Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore joined the Federation of Malaya and formed a nation called Malaysia. Singapore left two years after but this post is not about them.Happy birthday, Malaysia. You rock in some ways and suck in others, but I'm stuck here so I'm making the best of the situation. Guess what? I'm doing okay.Others

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Traditional MusicVisiting Sarakraf PavilionShowcase & Sculptures

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Self Portrait Originally uploaded by Tarlia. Hello.I've blogged for a while and then I stopped, and the story of why I started again is pretty funny.I was surfing around today when I suddenly wondered if tarlia.blogspot.com was taken.You see, I've been using the name "Tarlia" as my online persona for almost as long as I've been online (10 years?). When Blogger came about, I had my

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