Archive for June, 2008

Posted on June 15, 2008 - by Abner

I had my first big fall.today.exciting.

Just a post to remind me of my first big fall. My first fall means falling far down when climbing. Lead climbing. Fell 4 bolts. About 8 meters while 20 meters above solid ground. No I was not scared. I felt nothing. No fear. Nah, this does not mean that I am a daredevil or crazy it’s just might be the fact that I had no time for fear to sink in and tie a knot in my gut. I was going to share a shall foothold while caressing the limestone for a hold when all of the sudden,… zip… F… A… L… L…………. no one was expecting it to happen, they were all chatting below and my belayer was not aware too and gave quite an amount of slack. That was because I just clipped the second last bolt and trying to feel for a nice hold… a side pull and a sloper while changing feet… searching for a good foothold. It was a clean fall… and I remembered kicking the wall once before landing nicely with balls intact. I was actually happy for that fall and no shivers or trembles at all. I smiled waved and showed a good sign to the people below before having my daisy chain hooked on for safety. Everyone laughed. Belayer said sorry. I said don’t sweat it and don’t worry. It was a good fall and I feel liberated. I was no longer the boy who had never fell. Haha… shit. That sound’s wrong to my own ears now.

Location : White Wall, Batu Caves
Route : Kick A Cloud
Belayer : Nas
Witness : Ah Hon, Sherry, Adrian, Thomas and Sunny.

And I celebrated it with having a good time. The first was down the drain. My stupid look says it for me and I admitted that I had no idea. Took a deeper one next. Finish it with another short catch of breath. Keep it in. 1…2…3…4…5… Exhale. Aaa… c’est bonne La

Early dinner… think I am going to have packet of instant noodles. Am tired and hungry.

Bonne nuit. Pop gun my kap.

Posted on June 12, 2008 - by Abner

Strictly For Kids…

This is definitely a very different concept of playground to have around our neighborhood. Which I deem impossible, with all the numbers of vandals present. Everything would be gone.

Anyway that aside, am here to show you the Mobius® Climber, one of the product conceived by Landscape Structures. As the name implies, it has a lot do with climbing, yet again. Hyper kids would enjoy themselves on these. Before anyone says “So dangerous”, I beg to differ. Don’t be overprotective, for this case. I don’t think falling and knocking and getting scrapes and burns will leave a huge physical or psychological scar on them, kids. It’s part of growing up. Younger years spending running around, wading in thigh deep deserted lake, going into rubber estates and oil palm estates, abandoned fields or climbing and jumping off waterfalls and slides have proven to be a fun experience for me. Sad that I can’t climb trees, jump into rivers or any other things with my friends like my dad and his friends did. But I do think I am still doing better than kids who spend hours in front of video games and computers refusing to budge and get some evening sun. Am wishing that I could get my daily dose of evening sun… for when we get off work it would be 630pm.

Ain’t it cool.

12-Panel and a 7-Panel

6-Panel and 3-Panel

Here’s what Landscape Structures have to say for themselves.

A wonderfully wavy way to set your playground apart

There’s nothing else quite like our wonderfully wavy Mobius® climbers. Kids love climbing up, down, over and under as they test their strength and agility, and invent limitness new games. And our artful, anodized aluminum panels bring a unique asthestic to any play area. Easy to install and virtually maintenance free, there’s squiggly configuration options to fit every site and age group.

Mobius handholds are easy to grip at all angles for added safety

The Mobius climber is so much fun, we couldn’t design just one. We offer four models to fit your budget and site: three-panel, six-panel (shown left), seven-panel and an eye-popping twelve-panel that will amaze adults and kids alike. These climbers provide a wide variety for everyone!

This exciting new climber celebrates the art of play. It helps kids:
• Build gross motor skills
• Build upper-body strength
• Increase hand-eye coordination
• Improve balance
• Develop thinking skills
• Give their imagination a workout

Sweet.

Check out their website and you will find many other playground system and ideas.
Visit Landscape Structures

On one of my trips back home, the playground I spent many hours when I was a kid looks like a war field to me. It was the invasion of (illegal) immigrants. Huge groups. Playing the world’s famous game. Marbles. Haha… hell no… football la… what else. No blood was spilt. Just sweat and saliva. I don’t go there anymore.

Posted on June 11, 2008 - by Abner

Krabi Shots #2

This has got to be the single post with the most shots of me in it.
The poser. It’s great to be able to put my photoshop knowledge to good use.

Tonsai Beach.
Eat when you are hungry.
Sleep when you are tired.
Climb when you want to.
No one wears a watch here except one of our friend in our group. Duh.


Dead pufferfish. Did not dare go up close. Afraid that it will pop.
Grigri on me.

Grigri on table.




On our way for breakfast.

Watching JH climb. The one with the Le Petit Prince tattoo.

Top rope on Lion King

This should be Luke doing bouldering on the beach.
Silhouette of Grigri.

Third pitch. Waiting to going over to rappelling station.

View from third pitch.

Rappelling down… think it was about 60-70 meters
SC… familiar pose?

Mingling at Freedom Bar, Tonsai Beach.
Favorite pastime. Lie down and watch.



Taro is nice.

Home made ice cream. It has barley and some other nuts buried underneath.
Local breakfast. Very nice.

Posted on June 10, 2008 - by Abner

Not Young Enough For Caffeine

Tossed, rocked and rolled till 3 in the morning. It was like I was placed on a grill and I was the fish. A fish with more bones than meat. And this particular fish tonight damned wished it was deep fried and get it over with instead of being char grilled. Slow painful death. My cotton bedsheets was getting hotter as the seconds passed. Yeah… it felt like a banana leaf on heat layered with some lousy graded cooking oil.

My breathing seemed to amplify in the silence of my room. The little people in my head was all hyper… working the machines… sending messages here and there… and I could see messages fleeting by my eyes. The vast black blank screen. I am not sure, but I supposed my body denied my mind or rather delayed the bloody process of waking up and flicking the bloody pendaflour lights on. Of course when I did, I did not feel any better… my body was starting to heat up and I gave the blanket a taste of my horizontal shadow kick. If Jet Li was there… he would have personally handed me a flyer for his family-oriented Shaolin Kungfu Martial Arts Center Sdn. Bhd. “Now everyone can KungFu”

Grabbed a book. Read 2 chapters. Bloody late already. Only a few more hours before I would be sitting in front of my computer and blogging about it… with weak attempts on delivering a watered down sleep deprive version – a night wrecked by caffeine.

Damn those beans. Air suam is always the safest. Lesson learned, yet again.

Posted on June 6, 2008 - by Abner

Rootote Bags

Been on my “To Blog List” for a long time now. I got myself one last two months ago. Love to have one more though. A Roo Shopper to be precise… to answer the call for the eradication or at least to minimize the plastic plague. Love the colors and design so I plastered them all in a single post… just enjoy it as you scroll down.
A little information about them before I let the bags talk for themselves.

What’s “TOTE AS CANVAS”

The idea for “TOTE AS CANVAS” originated when we thought that it would be a great idea to use Tote bag canvas for creating art. We want people to enjoy drawing and for adults to appreciate the enjoyment they can get from this just like when children find a white surface and some crayons and quickly start scribbling. Wouldn’t it be great if people walking in the streets carried these bags and turned the cities into what seems like a gallery? After a simple flash of inspiration we found the opportunity and created “Tote AS CANVAS” and organized the design award.

It has loads of compartments here and there. And a secret one out front.

The Campbell series shown here are what they call Roo Shopper.




The Artists Who Love Mickey & Minnie is damn cool. Artists/designers are approached to play on empty canvas Roototes and the result is bliss. Check out the Rootote Mickey gallery

There are more. Go check them out here. Visit Rootote

Posted on June 4, 2008 - by Abner

One Unhappy Citizen

Starting tomorrow everything will be going up.
It’s going to burn holes in lots of pocket.
Bloody hell. Prices for everything will be up up and up.

A 40% hike in petrol which is 78 cents will now bring our oil price up to RM2.70. Yes, it’s still cheapest in Asia but konek other people get to buy car at cheaper price and all. I am an unhappy citizen now. Bloody fools better fill the void with something good.

I do not understand why we shall be shouldering so much for these fuckers. If any smartass from up there tells us to spend less and be a smart consumer or get a motorbike or get a bicycle, there will certainly be a riot. Heads will roll.

I want to go on but work beckons. I am still unhappy. Disgusted. Am anticipating the second hike in August. Last year went well without any hike, gone happy days gone.
Why can’t we stop subsidizing “you shitheads” and use the money on more pressing matters?

These are not my two cents, they don’t even want to use it anymore… closest will be my five fucking cents. Pundek.

News from NST Online

Updates:
Some say increase Rm0.28, which will be RM2.20 tonight but hell it would still goes up and knowing that, it’s really fucked up. Whose birthday tomorrow? Surprise!!!

Posted on June 4, 2008 - by Abner

Moosic and stuff

I am compelled to tell you all that I am having a blast soaking myself in the anarchy of sounds from C-Mon & Kypski, the Static Traveller album. It’s bloody good… and I needed to listen to another different genre anyway. There’s a Japanese album by Piana called Eternal Castle and might download an acoustic Korean album too if I feel like it. A jazz album is in and also Jason Mraz. He got a new single out too, a lovey dovey duet with Colbie Cailat. She was a fan and he roped her in to do “Lucky” together. But I prefer “I’m Yours”… the live version is so much better.
I have upload the second single for you guys to download… Download Jason Mraz – Lucky

Loaded most of the songs into my Samsung. Yes, I had bought the fellow and congrats to both Jun Yan and Lydia for winning their phones. They deserve it.

The 13 3/4 Adrian Mole makes me think of Justin Suarez from Ugly Betty. Especially of him going on and on about his spots. He and the intellectual in him. Not being understood by the world and all. Smarmy imp. Am already into Autumn. One more season to go.

Oh and what is the hell with the Technorati thing. It’s going up and down. Crazy. Can’t be bothered with it anyway.

Posted on June 4, 2008 - by Abner

Sixthseal.com returns

Got this piece of information from XES’s blog… yeah yeah… it’s a backdated post… haven’t been visiting lots of blogs as regularly as I used to.

Sixthseal.com reborn? Nah… it was never dead. It just went missing. Think it had been a year plus. Anyway with a picture of Huai Bin taking a dump… it’s hard not to take notice. And I do agree with XES if he used a female model instead. I won’t mind. But hey… that’s the Huai Bin I got to know from earlier days. Nope, I do not know him personally but the things that he goes on about in his blog, somehow tells a lot. His escapades. The controversial one. He seemed to put on quite some weight now.

His liking for things sweet are still evident it seems.
Linked him up already. Enjoyable read from time to time.

Posted on June 3, 2008 - by Abner

Rachel MSN Art Piece

Was trawling through my archives and I stumbled on some drawings done by my friend. She was the only one who used MSN’s drawing function at the time and I thought her drawings are nice and I had no idea that she drew. Mmm… and if she did, she never showed me any. So I just did screen captures of her drawings and the one I am showing dates back to 12th August 2005. The day she drew the most. I like the chick, the prawn and her kicking my head in.

Wonder if she can tell it by first glance it’s her doing… mmm…

Posted on June 3, 2008 - by Abner

Grapevine Tales 1

Summit Climbing Gym to Move
First, it’s the talk among climbers that the climbing gym in Summit, USJ… will be shifting to a far away land. It’s Bukit Nanas to be precise. The new squat would most probably be somewhere in the midst of the forest reserve and commercial buildings. I have absolutely no idea. Speculations all the way. And rumor has it that it will take place by the end of June. Most of my friends are not too thrilled about it. I think it would be set outdoors. No official statements are made on any of Summit’s notice board.

New Low Cost Airline in Malaysia
Secondly, I had popped over to Yew Aun’s blog today and I found that there was a new low cost airline coming to town. In his post, he mentioned that the airline, coined Terbe Airlines, will be offering cheap long haul flights to Sierra Leone in the African Continent. I did a google search but no result came out. There was a comment on the post : u were told not to leak Terbe Airlines, but yet u decided to blog about it. Not a good way to start. Terbe also flies to East Timor, Togo, Zaire and anywhere there is a conflict Any of you out there got a wind of it?