Before Takeoff
Hi,
This is your captain speaking from the flight deck. We are currently delayed for take off as there is slight "technical issue" *cough* the co-pilot is late *cough*.
Our destination today is subject to the availability of fuels on board and the airport that welcomes us. Just some info for We are currently no.15 for departure because the airline forgot to pay the airport tax. Please be reminded that you are not allowed to operate electronic devices throughout the flight. Nope, not even airplane mode. Please sit back, relax and enjoy the flight while I navigate the journey with the Google maps on my ipad 2.
During Flight
HELLO ! I KNOW THE SPEAKERS ARE LITERALLY CREAKING AS I MADE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WHERE IT SOUNDS SO LOUD THAT IT CAN EVEN WAKES A DEAD MAN UP.
For your info, we are currently cruising at an altitude of... oh never mind.. We are actually on level 16 of Angry Birds. We're still trying to get through this level with 3 stars achievements. Now that we have reached the cruising altitude, we will turn down the cabin lights for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendances. We will be selling snack box for you at the special price of Rm 12 (which only cost RM1.20), so grab yours now ! If you are sitting at the aisle seat, take a good look at your neighbour, because they will be giving you either the cock or the ass in your face when they are going out to the lavatory. So sit back, relax and enjoy the flight while we at the flight deck trying to break the record for Angry Birds.
After Landing
Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived at the destination which might or might not be your preferred destination. While we are still taxing at the runway, please unbuckle your seatbelt, switch on your phone, stand and grab your overweight hand-carry luggage in the overhead compartment and rush to the nearest exit, although we wont be opening the door just yet. Please do not leave behind your kid behind as we prefer material possession. Any items left behind will be shared equally by the flight crews. We hope you have enjoyed the flight with us as we certainly do. Till next time if the company has not bankrupt yet, we hope to see you !
Following up with my new year resolution to update my blog regularly, so today I want to talk about my job. There are a few types of scenarios which will happen in a day. Let's see my daily schedule.
9am - 10 am : Check office mail, gmail, hotmail, latest headlines from around the world wide web, facebook and twitter.
10am - 12pm : Autocad (draw schematic diagram for lighting, sound system depending on projects.)
12pm - 1pm : Refer to 9-10am.
1pm - 2pm : Lunch time.
2pm- 2.30 pm : At showroom to play around with the lighting and sound system. Play some david cook's song on those speakers, bliss..
This is the showroom
Can you believe this 60+k lighting controller...
have a game inside ? (Btw, the high score was by me, now the high score is 23000 plus)
3pm - 4pm : Microsoft Excel - prepare bq.
4pm - 4.30pm : Give bq to manager to approve.
4.30pm - 5pm : Amend bq.
5pm - 6pm : Refer to 12pm - 1pm.
Okay, that might look like I'm very free. But the fact is, if I need to rush project deadline, then I have to stay back and work on it. Without OT pay !
Okay, here are some tips to Excel at the workplace:
1. Make your table really messy. Stack a lot of paper, books, magazines (work-related of course), catalogs, drawings, and whatever that can fill the table. This will make you look like you are really busy and serious in your work.
Another catch to this is when your boss comes around and ask documents from you, you can quickly locate it and give it to him. On the other hand, when your colleague (the one that you don't like) asks for some document, you can act by searching high and low in the stack and pretend that you couldn't find the document. You will give it to him later when you find it. (yeah right)
2. Whenever you are browsing facebook, keep your left hand at the keyboard, specifically at the Alt+Tab keys. So, whenever the boss "patrol" your area, you are ready to switch to that excel file that you are "working hard" on previously.
3. Set your wallpaper as a screenshot of Microsoft Excel file.
4. Be resourceful and always think how, it's the little thing that sets you apart from others.
Anyway, work should be fun and enjoyable. So, enjoy your salary ! hahaha...
One day, I would like to form my own Audio Visual consultant firm, maybe find a few partners (so I don't have to come out with too much capital). I think the name "L-novation Sdn Bhd" or "L-novation private limited" would make a good name. But more than that, I would like my employee to work with me in a team, where the purpose of work is to feel GOOD about life. So, this would be my to-be company office dress code and leave terms.
OFFICE DRESS CODE AND LEAVE AMENDMENTS
New Policy: Effective from February 2020
Dress Code
It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better.
Sick Days
We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.
Annual Leave Days
Each employee will receive 104 Annual Leave days a year.
They are called Saturday & Sunday...
Toilet Use
Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. There is now a strict three-minute time limit in the stalls. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper will retract, the stall door will open, and a picture will be taken. After your second offense, your picture will be posted on the company bulletin board under the Chronic Offender's category. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sanctioned under the company's mental health policy.
Lunch Break
Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need to eat more, so that they can look healthy. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's all the time needed to drink a Slim-Fast.
Thank you for your loyalty to our L-novation Sdn Bhd. All questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternation, and key frustration form should be directed elsewhere.
Now that the government has decided to revert the teaching of Science and Maths in BM, I am proud to say as a 1Malaysians, I had wrote 1song in 1BM (i know i overused the 1 thingy).
Anyway, have you ever went to some jabatan whatsoever and then had to spend like the whole day (or sometimes a few days) to get something done. This song is all about it, about waiting in frustration to wait for the pegawai to get our things done.
The song is called "Birokrasi", you can listen to it on MySpace or (if myspace is too slow) you can download it from MediaFire. Oh, you're welcomed to give some comments. Have a good day !
d.s. : now that the pegawai got my stuff done, Singapore here I come !
This guy,
collaborate with this guy
Lawrence L (1987-present)
and
This is the result
(you gotta listen to this)
In the midst of the exam season, I managed to deviate my attention and playing around with the virtual light controller. I realised that the last time I was daydreaming when I made a light show for Coldplay - Yellow and I expect they will hire me to become their lighting designer for their next world tour.. who are you kidding lawrence ?
Anyway, this time I put my attention into something local, nearer, and realistic than Coldplay. This time, I made the light show for Jason Lo with his song, "Operator the line is dead". I hope Jason Lo will start making music again, and do some tour or concert, and he can hire me as his concert lighting designer. Hehe.. Oh yeah, here's the video, enjoy!
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On another note, I found an indonesian band which got me hooked now, the band is called Alexa. This is one of their song, called Jangan Kau Lepas. The music video is quite amazing I have to say (compared to those of Malaysian artists,ugrh..), and quite touching near the end where the old man was playing violin to the photo of his wife. That just makes you go "ohh.."
Let's say if someday Chris Martin tells his band members, "hey, we gotta try the nasi lemak at Kuala Lumpur (pronounced with heavy British accent), and we can do a concert there to cover our flight tickets and the nasi lemaks by charging them ticket ranging from RM 150 to RM 600. Heck, I think the money is even enough for us to buy some Bentley. So, what do you guys think ?"
Well, if Coldplay decided to have a concert at Malaysia, and you can't afford the astronomical ticket price, then you are lucky that you are reading The L-oh-rama, because you still can enjoy the concert (NO, I'm not giving away any free tickets) by watching the light show that I created. If all things go well, I might even be the lighting engineer for their ACTUAL concert. Haha. Anyway, here's the light show, Yellow from Coldplay.
"There's no excuse not to watch this video, please you know, if you watch this video I'll buy you an ice cream."
Here come my second light show. Song by Fall Out Boy - Sophomore Slump or comeback of the year. Video length is only 1 min 18 sec. Video is quite laggy. I personally think that this light show is comparable to those light show during Coldplay's concert (if not better) especially on the latter part of the video.
Time spent creating light show : 3 hours 30 minutes
Time spent editing video and sound : 30 minutes
Satisfaction watching MY OWN designed light show : PRICELESS
Ok, here you go my first light show using the Daslight Virtual Controller 2. The hard part about making this is actually NOT about making the lightshow, but it's finding the proper software to capture the video. Anyway, the light show looks great on my computer, but in the video, it looks laggy and slow, I'm gonna keep looking for a better video capture program, but for the mean time, I'll just settle for this one.
Song : Jack's Mannequin - The Mixed Tape
For the last few days, I've been keeping myself busy with this software which is better than The Sims 2 or The Sims or whatever version they have. Like in The Sims, this software have 3D objects. But this software is a real thing, I mean professionals use it everywhere. Behold, the Daslight Virtual Controller 2.
When I went to concert that have loads of lighting rig, I was always amazed and intrigued with it. And I always wonder how they did it. But now, I can even create concert with amazing lighting in my own PC. How cool is that ?
It might looks complicated, but it's not once you get hold of it
After get hold of the software for a few days, I managed to create a little light show, but currently I only have a few screenshots to share. Once I got the video for my light show, I'll upload it here.
This was created with 16 LED Par64, and 9 moving heads. (I sound like a total geek here)
You can download the demo version of the software here. Demo version means you can do everything except connecting the REAL lighting rig to the PC.
You know whenever you take a flight, you ALWAYS have our carry-on luggage. And when you board the plane, the first thing you do is squeezing your luggage on the overhead bin. Well, I think what I'm gonna reveal next might make the world a worse place to live.
Since the oil price is very much a burden to aviation industry and there are a lot of airlines declaring bankruptcy, they really need to squeeze every cent of profits and cutting down every penny of expenditure. Well, fret not, Lawrence is here to save the day.
I guess since pretty much EVERYONE who board the plane whether voluntarily or involuntarily will look at the overhead bin at least TWICE per flight, then why not put some advertisements on the overhead bin ?
Like this..
But if you realised, that a lot of people love the window seat, usually people will stare out of their window and look into wing, and voila, there we have another advert spot.
What a beautiful.. day
And if you realised that there are a lot of aviation enthusiasts out there, they buy expensive camera and lens and go to airport (outside the terminal) under the hot sun to capture aircrafts landing and taking off. That's why Airliners.net exist. Under this circumstances, I say the airlines company can squeeze a few more penny by transforming an aircraft into a flying billboard.
Oh wait, AirAsia already did it..
This, is the latest flying billboard in Malaysia, what's with the nose and the "Your Choice Bank" ? Obviously somebody forgot to ON the spelling checker.. haha..
By the way, I want to wish Selamat Hari Raya to all who celebrate it.. I'm gonna miss the pasar ramadhan..
It was during my secondary school period, where I did not go to tuition classes (I've never taken a single tuition class ever.. haha..) after school like everyone else. So, I have my whole afternoon for myself which I either sleep (most of the time) or read some magazines. Then, I found stacks of "girly" magazines with big wording "CLEO" and a beautiful lady on the cover. Beside the beautiful lady, there were loads of topics that caught my attention. I gotta admit that I'm a sucker at understanding women, relationship, commitment and stuffs like that, therefore I thought reading a women magazines will help me understand them better.
Before I wrote this post, I've conducted my own little survey using facebook chat and msn by asking my female friends "Is it okay for men to read CLEO ?".
This survey showed how popular CLEO is in Malaysia
Interviewing Xian
See, I told you so ! Even girls themselves think that (men) made that extra little effort to try to understand the women by reading CLEO.. haha..
I still remember when I was back in KK, during the first week of each month, I would ask my sister, "Eh, are you going to buy this month's CLEO ?" and then she will go "See lah, why ? You want to read is it ? You pay half lah !". Ok, that conversation is exxaggerated, she's not that mean.
Anyway, as I was saying, ALL of the women that I surveyed said that it was cool and okay to read CLEO magazine. You might be curious, what do men think about men who read CLEO ? Too bad, I did not go around and ask "Dude, recently I read this shit magazine called CLEO, what do you think about it ?" and then he will go "CLEO, what was that ?". So, I spare myself and my friends some hassles by not including them in the survey. Plus, who cares what they think anyway ?
When I was in form 5, I read this article in CLEO about how men are not sensitive to women which I forgot the exact title. In the article, it said that how men do not compliment women enough, and there was a line which goes something like this : "Your eyes are so round that I want to dive and swim in it". Being a naive teenager, I used the line on a girl, and guess what, it works ! That's where I know CLEO is a Godsend to me. Haha..
As I the survey has shown that CLEO is quite popular in Malaysia, thus I believe that I'm not the only one who read CLEO. And it's the 21st century, the line between men and women are diminishing, women can do what men can do, and I believe, men can read what women read too.
I want to thank all those people who have given your valuable opinions on this topic, until next time.. haha..
With Sept 16 approaching, the date for "takeover" by "someone" is near. So, I switch ON the genius switch (btw the genius switch has no OFF switch), wondering what would I do if I were the President (or Prime Minister) of Malaysia. I know a politician can not just good on talking cock, but must have substance as well (which sadly the current PM has none). Incidentally, I found a quiz on "If I were the President".
Being the President is indeed a tough job (yawn)
In this quiz, I've to choose 3 advisors which I chose a famous celebrity for her funding (no money no talk !), Will Treehugger aka Al-Gore, and Dr Teresa Thermometer (what a name).
The budget 2010 for Malaysia. I've got headache doing this, maybe the job of the President is indeed really hectic.
Anyway, here are some of the changes that I will make when I got into Putrajaya :
1. No Smoking in the public places. Smoking is NOT COOL and there are better ways to die than cancer/lung disease/heart disease.
2. Free iPod for everyone, so they can listen to it while using the crappy public transportation. And I will have podcast every week on The L-oh-rama where I can spread my idealism so people can download it and listen on their iPod.
3. Futurama every weekdays 8pm - 9pm on TV3. (that's right, no more bulletin utama)
4. The Simpsons every weekend 8pm - 9pm on TV3.
5. Siti Nurhaliza for The Vice President (Deputy Prime Minister).
6. Replacing the Finance Ministers with briefcase babes from "Deal or No Deal".
7. If AirAsia delayed your flight and the government biz jet is available - it's yours.
8. The option of rolling dice against the IRB (inland revenue board) for Double-or-Nothing on your taxes.
9. I will set up a royal commissioner to find out the truth in the Prison Break.
10. Rename the twelve month of the year Lawren-cember.
I guess that's all for the promises that I can bluff make for the time being, meanwhile keep looking out at the local newspapers, as you might bump into some article like this :
Please do the poll on the right hand side bar on whether you will vote for me or not. Thanks and have a nice day !
As an aviation nut, I bookmarked Airliners.net and check for "cool" photos on the site everyday. This week, I drooled over some interior shots of Emirates Airlines Airbus A380. The pictures of economy class are nice, but honestly who really likes economy class ? Frankly, I was having plane-gasm when I looked at those first class suites' photos.
For those aviation illiterate, A380 is the latest and BIGGEST double decker passengers airliners. Here are the photos :
Whenever I played Flight Simulator (on my pc), I usually leave it on autopilot while cruising and then go to take my bath, sleep or doing my chores. Well, before A380, whenever you are traveling long-distance, you have to sit down on your seat the entire time and the only thing that you can do is either sleeping, eating or watching some crappy in-flight movies. Let's say that you are a CEO of a multinational company and you forget to take your bath before your flight to New York, fret not, now you can take your bath in flight.
Let's compare with
Double bed, checked, free flow of champagne, checked, BUT no sex allowed ! Only God knows what those Singaporeans were thinking.
Moving on, after being impressed by the Emirates Airlines A380, I decided to pay their website a visit.
The frontpage of Emirates website
So, I remember I have holiday during the month of November, so maybe I could travel to New York for two weeks ?
From Dubai (DXB) to New York(JFK) on the First Class
The price quoted was AED 36530.
Of course, they have this thing called currency converter which converts AED to MYR which showed RM 32081.
Then when I wanted to proceed to confirm my flight itinerary...
Dang, blame the Emirates IT team for their loss of RM 32081 worth of business deal.
It's not that I do not like Michael Phelps or something, but it's just seems like something is wrong with the current Olympics. I mean, Michael Phelps got 8 gold medals from swimming alone while for soccer (the most popular sport in the world) the winner only get 1 medal for them to share between 11 guys (plus the reserve) ?
Anyway, do you want to know why Michael Phelps won so many golds ? Because it was all the same thing. It turns out that he can swim real fast when he swims one lap, two laps, four laps - alone, or when 3 other guys go right after him. You want to win multiple medals, fine, join another events. By another events I mean something other than swimming, like gymnastics or judo.
Photos from Mark J Rebilas (check out his site, damn artsy-fartsy olympic photos and great travel stories)
To improve the competitiveness of Olympics, the International Olympics Committee, IOC should introduce the "shame-dal", which is for the worst three athletes in each events. The country with the most "shame-dal" will be kicked out of U.N., stamped "loser" on the passport for the next 4 years wherever they go, lose any war they're currently waging(if any). On the other hand, the winner of the Olympics should get something more realistic, e.g. the citizens can visit another country without visa, the rights to put it's flag on each airplanes in the world, permission to own nuclear weapons etc.
And to determine the best Olympians or the sportsman or whatever they called it, all the athletes will have to live under one roof and complain about one another to the cameras. The athletes with the most complains will be the best Olympian.
Not so long ago, I blogged about the random sombrero guy. Well, a few days ago, due to insomnia, I was going through my photo library and found photo of me in simpsons style. Basically, you just upload your photo to sodomize simpsonize me and it will show what you will look like if you are a character in the simpsons.
For the complete collection, just go to my facebook album (you can view even though you dont have facebook).
I love music, to put it more clearly, I love live music, especially those unplugged and acoustic, where you just chill out and enjoy the vibe from the songs.
Anyway, as I attended Connexion student conference at Pj on friday, which after that there was a mini concert by this dude from US called Beau Bristow at connexion BU. He is a singer, songwriter and a guitarist. He's got an acoustic guitar, and a boxful of passbox and effects filter. At the end of the chain was an electronic unit that can record and playing it over and over again. So, in his 1 man band, he can create the sound of acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drum (by banging his guitar), and backup singer as well. His performance on the night was awesome by the way, though I don't have any video or photos of him performing, I managed to find a video of Beau Bristow on youtube.
In the end of the day, I bought his album for only RM10, where the songs in the album were a bit "clean". But no complaint though, it's very nice and I give it two thumbs up.
This is the L-oh-rama V 1.0 where it was just a very basic templates from blogger. This is how it looked since the 1st day I started blogging.
But after one year, I decided to revamp the whole layout and templates, and now I present to you the L-oh-rama V 2.0 with extra large photos (for future posts) .
The blog template is from Our Blogger Templates, while the header image is from Smashing Magazine.
It was late at nite, I was looking at the astro website, it stated that the current promotion for subscribing to astro is just Rm199. No wonder they called the company astro, because of their "astronomical" price.
Then something came up on my mind, hey, who needs astro anyway, we've got CSI : KL showing everyday at every possible channel, somemore it's free. No need to pay astro bills or whatsoever, just remember to catch the series everyday anytime in the internet, newspaper or tv, the freedom is in your hand.
Airport is like the Area 51 . They can check on you, but you can not check on them. The airport might look normal during daytime, but during nighttime, a lot of paranormal activities are happening here..
Do you really know what REALLY happen behind the warning signs and gates ?
The parallel universe captured in the photo
It seems like nothing wrong with this photo right ?
Well, better look properly
How about this one.. 