Little Stories 66 : University Studios

While riding a bus to work in the morning, an Indonesian conductor bus came to me for a ticket. I took time counting the money to give to him and at the same time he waited. He saw my black tote bag next to me with "Universal Studios, Singapore" printed on the bag.  He slowly read,  "U-ni-ver-si-ty Stu-dios", and whistled, *impressed. "You studied there?", he asked. I managed...

Review : The Great Gatsby (2013)

Top 3 movie list this year : 1. Life of Pi 2. Darjeeling Limited 3. The Great Gatsby I am glad that among over 30 movies I watched this year, I came across these 3 powerful movies; Life of Pi, in early this year, Darjeeling Limited in the middle of this year and The Great Gatsby by the end of 2013.  I was speechless when I first finished watching The Great Gatsby and had taken time...

Little Stories 65 : What is in a Name?

On the first day of my new work in Damansara, my supervisor asked me to create a fake Facebook account for us to communicate among our team members. I asked him, "I shouldn't use my real name?" and he said "Just create anything-lah. Make it fast." I didn't know creating a fake account with a fake name and a fake picture profile would take time. I was left staring at the monitor for awhile and...

Little Things 104 : Imbalance

At one point when you can't focus, because of whatever reasons, don't think. Take out your earphone, go to 8tracks , choose a track and listen. While doing so, continue with your works, or go out for a run, or do stretches. And only focus on the sound of the song instead of those jumbled up sounds of your unstable emotions.  Create your own diversion.  Distract your attention. Sometimes...

Books : On Rumi & Poetry

I personally love Rumi's work, I have two of his translated book :  Rumi - the Book of Love translated by Coleman Barks &  Selected Poems of Rumi, the Dover Thrift edition.  * In my personal opinion, I like the classic Dover's version that was translated by Professor R.A.Nicholson - he died in August 1945 and left the manuscript of the book, and later the book was...

Little Stories 64 : Time Well Spent

"Kak, you just finished working?", an Indian girl asked me in the bus.  The watch stated around 10 pm, and the bus was half empty. "Yes, you too?". She nodded. These days, it is not a norm for our people to greet and make a conversation with strangers. It's either staring blankly at nothing, reading, sleeping or holding your smartphones pretending to make a decent connection with the...

Event : Art for Grabs Dec 2013

It took time, sweat, awkward hellos, and little glances for this. For two days of meeting people and selling things that we made out of love and inspiration. It was less crowdy than the previous AFG in Sept. I was silently begging for people to come, at one point, there was almost just us - people who opened booths. Or maybe I was just exaggerating :D A bit calmer.  But thanks...

Movie : Juno (2007)

I watched Juno last night and instead on focusing on the main storyline, I keep on bugging my thoughts on different side issues. 1. It is not fair to ask a man to grow up, as much as it is not fair to ask a woman to wait for him to grow up. The level of maturity is something that is subjective, and it is different for each one of us. Two person that grew up together in the same environment might...

Little Things 103 : For Things Unseen

I woke up quite early this morning, something that rarely happen these days.  I went to the toilet to take wudu' and did my Subuh prayer.  I felt restless lately, and there's a feeling of lost and misguidedness in my heart. Oddly enough, I always know where I should go to, but I did not do anything about it.  Being aware of something but choose to let it be. How often do...

Event : Art for Grabs, Dec 2013

Come meet us at Art for Grabs this coming weekend ( 14th & 15th ) December, my last booth for the year 2013. Here is the official facebook page. The event will be located at Annexe Gallery, Central Market, Kuala Lumpur. There will be around 50 booths mixed with art & crafts, and many other booth with different interesting projects. This time around, Art for Grabs bringing a theme : " Righting...

This Week's Findings 02

1) Mnmlist : live more, need less , being OK with things as they are. I know every people has opinion on how they want to live, but this works for me. 2) Paulo Coelho : Renouncing or working hard - Either we feel that we are renouncing life too much because of God, or else we feel that we are renouncing God too much because of life.  This apparent double law is a fantasy...

Excerpt 01 : IQ84

You’re still young and healthy. Maybe that’s why you don’t understand what I am saying. Let me give you an example. Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your...

Little Things 102 : Royals & Kina

By far, this is the best cover for Royals. Yeay for Kina !  ...

Little Things 101 : Freelancing

Best things about freelancing at home are : boleh masak nasi goreng at lunch and eat while doing works, wear anything I want and guling2 when I feel tired.  The worst thing about freelancing at home is : people thought I am not working so they will give me so many tasks at home. Trying to work while completing tasks is quite hard. No one is taking my job seriously. It's either pulling up...

Little Stories 63 : Run Forest, Run

I signed up for my first 10km run last weekend. Despite my unwillingness to run that far in one go, after my last 7 km run several months back. I said "no more", thinking I'll lose the main purpose of having fun in a big running event if I can't run along with everyone. But I fought back, I wanted to know the feeling of outrunning my own self-claimed limitation.  I just wanted to know...

Little Things 100 : Let's Turn Back Time

If I could turn back time and be an IT student again, I would.. 1. Create a Behance and Dribbble account and use it vigorously as guideline to success. 2. Read double amount of books every month. 3. Do proper case studies on start-up companies and their products. 4. Still not focus on the programming part of everything.  5. Learn digital illustrating on the second year instead of the...

Random : Another rambling report

1. The rashes from Urbanscapes are still visible and itchy. Urbanscapes mentioned in their Facebook about how the rashes came from the caterpillars in the field - although I didn't even sit on the grass or touch anything, as far as I can remember. But let's be patient, this is not the first time I've encountered any allergies, and I already ate some antihistamine and cut my nails so I wouldn't scratch...

Event : Post Urbanscapes 2013

Saturday afternoon, Urbanscapes 2013. I prepared my stuffs the night before, and so on the event's day, I packed my things and had a lunch in Equine Park with my sister before heading to Maeps. I was excited, I remember last year I wanted to open a booth in Urbanscapes imagining all those exciting atmosphere of great music festival mixed with artsy people around me. So when my sister was offered...

Event : Urbanscapes 2013

I know it's a short notice but, see you guys at Urbanscape this weekend ! Hope it won't rain too much for these 2 days this Saturday :F My sister got a spot in the event and suddenly we are both going to Urbanscape tomorrow - for free. I'm going to print the awesome schedule and wait for tomorrow's Tegan & Sara *or maybe not - I just found out the location from my booth to the stage...

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People look for things that are too far, they forget things that are near. And I realized that not only I seek for those uncertainties in the future, I also crave for it. Why today is never enough ? And if today is enough for you, then why do you create your today, for tomorrow...

Doodle : Book on Little Things *for sale*

Hello, I managed to compile 20 pages of illustration consist of little things that I found on my outing days. This includes : dried leaves, pine corn, insects, flowers and other random things. Many of these things are available out there, ready for you to discover. I felt deeply inspired in these couple of months while I was hunting for little things, despite the hot weather, 'muka belang'...

Little Things 99 : Weirdness and You

Let me tell you something, if you think you are weird, stop, there are high possibilities that you are not weird - but just a little different. In fact, everyone is different - no two persons have the exact same everything, kan? When I was growing up *13-23 of human age , I told myself that I was weird because I wanted different things, crave for something that people don't look twice, have...

Little Things 98 : Paulo's Etsy

It is very very fascinating to find out that Paulo Coelho uses Etsy to sell his products in Oiticica & Coelho. A very humble and simple way to open an online shop.  "I want to sell my things online". *zappp*  and we get an online shop ready in Etsy. *...

Doodle : Moonrise Kingdom

* Illustration I made several months ago, now digitized : ...

Random : Last weekend

Last week I met two of my idols : 1) Faizal Tahir Not many people know that I like him, it has never been discussed before because most people know how much Aja loves him - so I didn't want to make it like a great deal. But yes, there are some Malaysian singers that I like, and Faizal Tahir is included in the list. Meeting him last week at Microsoft's Surface launching in Starbucks The Garden...

Book : Reborn, Susan Sontag

I bought Susan Sontag's Early Diaries (1947-1963) - Reborn, compiled by his son, David. This is word of thoughts/quotations/questions/arguments/etc that were selected from her diaries in her early adolescence till mid thirties. I first read about her from brainpickings years ago and thought of her as someone interesting, especially her writings on a lot of things : life, God, love, marriage,...

Little Things 97 : Totebag

Confession number one : I love canvas tote bag. I can simply fold it and put it in my sling/handbag and bring it out to put stuffs when I buy things because I don't like plastic bags and usually when I buy stuffs, I'll say "No plastic, thanks" and stuffed those things in my bag with the receipt - so when I have a tote bag, I can just use it instead.  Confession number two : I have 3 of these...

Event : Art for Grab Dec 2013

Hello, I had a lot of fun joining Art for Grabs in October and decided to join them again for this 14 & 15 Dec Art for Grabs ! Wihu ! Same place, same time, great environment, friendly crowds and hopefully more things to share ❤  Short vid from previous event : Art for Grabs Event from Farikarim on Vimeo. There are lot of new items, that's for sure :) PS : Thanks to all the...

Little Stories 62 : Sell bag & work

A friend : What are you doing now ? Me : Applying for work. A friend : But it must good for you. You can sell bag. I am not sure if that was a compliment or a sarcastic note. But that statement gave a remark to this week's life. * I ended my contract with Liquid Learning and I'm applying for jobs farther than hometown or even my playground. I've given myself some thoughts on life these days...

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There is a thirst of your presence in my silence, and I hold my tongue so you can't hear me utters your name, but in truth you answer to my every call, when my ears no longer listen and my eyes refuse to see.  ...