Just a couple weeks… days.. : john Schmidt

Today is the 15th October 2009..

Now I am just a few weeks away from finishing my HND here in Legenda. Almost every night, me and my friends tiring their butt to finish the final project. Sometimes, we even missed the morning class due to lack of sleep. Actually, I missed a lot of morning class this days.. hehe

There is still many things that we still have to do though… Certain enough, we have to finish it this week… No holds barred…

The reason I suddenly wanted to do a post today is because of something that I just stumbled on Facebook.. Thanks to Shirley, I am in awe to see the  fantastic performances by a brilliant Pianista.. John Schmidt..  

To Taylor Swift and Cold play fans.. I think you might just like it.. Here is John Schmidt – Love Story meets Viva La Vida

 

Lately there isn’t any cartoons or artwork that I am doing… I have a lot more important things that i have to attend to… Plus, the things that I am scared of the most is…. If I started drawing now.. I might can’t stop drawing for a long period of time… Finish this semester first then I’ll see about other things that I love to do..

Not a common Piano Play by Ye Eun

I stumbled upon this fascinating video in Facebook..
A piano play by a 5 years old Ye Eun...
What makes it more interesting is that she was blind...

Let's look at her beautiful performance that somehow has touched my heart..



To be honest with you guys, Ye Eun singing has left something for me to reflect about.



Her situation also made me remembered of a blind man that i knew, in spite of his condition, he was able to recite the Quran and be the Imam for prayer. I don't know if he is a Hafiz or not, but what i know is his memorization is way better than me ~ A guy who can see and read..

Ambigrams: I like it and The Prize..

Ambigram...
I am presented with this artform when my dear friend introduced it to me in the class last year..
Because of him, when i got a pen or a pencil... plus a free time..
I would try to make words so it can be read from upside down..
from the reflection of a mirror...
or simply said.. the words will be readable from other viewpoint, direction or orientation...

What is ambigram?
Just click here...

Image by Duncan Creamer via Flickr

What is so interesting about ambigram?

I'll show you guys some of the works that I have found via through Zemanta. The picture here shows the word 'BELIEVE'... Now, If you take the picture and rotate it upside down... The words 'BELIEVE' can still be readable

Image via Wikipedia

Here is another picture of the word 'WIKI'. If you take the picture and reflect it to the mirror.. It will still be readable..









If you guys read some of Dan Brown works like Angels and Demon or the D

Image by mattjessz via Flickr

avinci Code. You guys must know of the main character Robert Langdon. From what I know, this character was named Langdon as a tribute to the most famous ambigram artist.... John Langdon. His website shows a lot more example of ambigram in a more detailed way. There is also some hints and tips on how to do your own ambigram.. Visit his website http://johnlangdon.net/





What I have done
I am actually not very good in turning words of letters to a beautiful art. So sometimes I envy people who can writes beautifully. For me, to trying to do such beautiful handwriting would means cooking maggee in 1 hour. I need the time, concentration and patience to do that...

Anyway, it is fun to make words so it can be able to read from different point of views. Here, I did an ambigram of my own signature name 'NAQIUBEX'. It can be read even if you rotate it upside down.

Here is the word 'Budak Surau', i am actually thinking in making a t shirt for the Jemaah Surau in Legenda. it would be cool to make words that can readable even when reflected in the mirror.. It works but I still think a lot more things need to be done to make it more cooler.
This is some rough works that I have done in a piece of paper I found...
Some people may can do it without even doing any rough sketches...
Anyway, I think everyone can do this thing as it is very fun.. Oh yeah, not to forget... The prize that i have promised for Miss Alis. Sorry about the long delay, I have almost forgotten about the Musang things.. Sorry sorry sorry
Anyway, i hope you will accept this not so much reward... The words in the ambigram is 'ALIS'. Try rotate it...

So what are you guys waiting for... Take a piece a paper and a pen.. Try make some ambigrams!

The Musang: The answer,winner and the Dung Coffee

Yes.. we have already got the winner.. Congratulations Miss Alis...
Alright... just like the title says... the answer is...

THE MUSANG......

This Musang is the one of the suspected animal to have terrorizes the Venice of Perak neighbourhood and the most probably one affected is my home. As the musang lives in our very own comfy attics. Just as I mentioned before, the Musang have done many inappropriate things. The most unbelivable things that the Musang have done is throwing crap (poop) to people.

Yukk!!

What a bad fella we got here..


Now what you think should we do to this fella
~Keep it
~Give it to the zoo
~Relocate the musang to a faraway place!
~Kill and sell it is not an option..

Musang... Is it a fox or more to a civet?

Yeah... this is one thing that have bothers my mind a little bit... When I was kindergarten, they always says that Fox when translated to Malay language is Musang...
Is Musang a fox when translated in English?..
Or is it a civet?...
To me, Musang is a very special species in the peninsula and should not be translated to fox as what i have found in the English~Malay dictionary. It doesn't looked like a fox at all and it is more similar to a Civet.

Let we have some pictures from Mr google to prove that I am right!

My Nine tails (kyubi) offspring


and the fox..



ooppss... thats a different kinda fox [megan fox]..... wrong picture.. here is the correct one

Image by mikebaird via Flickr

And finally the so called civet ...

Image via Wikipedia

In Indonesia, the Musang is also called 'Luwak'.

'Luwak'... I've stumbled upon this name when I was watching a documentary about the best and expensive coffee in the world...

And did you know.. (most of you guys would already know....)

~One of the most expensive coffee comes from the Musang or Luwak dung!!!
As the Luwak eats the berries while also swallow the seeds (coffee beans), the people will take the dung/crap/shit/feces and take out the beans. This is where the coffee beans will be processed and transformed to be the most expensive coffee beans in the world... hahaha
people calls it the 'Luwak coffee' or some calls it 'the exotic dung coffee'. In wiki, I found it was called tagalog or kafelaku and a lot more...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

~The interesting thing is coffee Luwak is sold between '$300-$700' in most of the country around the world. I heard a story that in the old days, the people will try to search for these Luwak feces because they found it that it would be expensive if they buy a normal coffee. So instead they will just made one from the Luwak dung.. Its funny how such cheap delicacies to some people can turn out to be a whole different thing in other places...

~Hey wait a minute... We've got ourselves a Musang and with the whole lot of money that can be made... hehehe
Nope.... I just kidding... i guess nobody gonna buy a coffee from a shit here..


~Anyway thanx to my sis, she managed to capture this naughty little fella. I wonder what actually she's studies in Ukraine. Medical or Hunting?

~Oh yeah.. the prize for the answering the question first will be announced on my next post.. You just wait and see... For the other's.. i might gave you guys somethin also.. it's not much.. but.... don't put so much hope for it.. hehe

The suspect have been captured!

Hey! Fellow Citizens of Venice!!!
The possible suspect that terrorrizes the Venice area have been captured.
The suspect was alleged to do the following crime..

~Ruining people's crop
~Piss on someones flower pot
~Steal fruits
~Eat the fruits without permission
~Throwing the fruit seeds to peoples
~Crap at the most inappropriate place
~Suspected to also throw crap (animal dung) to some people
~Living in the attic without permission!

Guess who?

I'll give some hints:

~Its an animal and its cute..
~Contributes a lot to the coffee world...

The first one to answer correctly will get a mysterious prize!! The answer/champion will be out by Sunday..