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#barcampsg

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Got a call from @sidneyreuben to arrange for a meetup, So long no catch up with him, totally miss this young boy… *right… oki… 6mths younger
Anyway, so decided to meetup for a meal then go over to barcampsg to support a friend~ @mhisham

I’m very fascinated by him as a person. hmm… shall not elaborate here, but click here to find out why.
I wouldnt even realize it until… Well, go see go see.

Anyway, coming back, Whats Barcamp?
I have no idea. its like… o_O?  …   O_o? … o_O?
hmm… I shall go and experience it, thats how answers are found.

Well, from my short trip there, I gathered this.

is a series of very informal talks

oki, maybe not series, cos there aint exactly like linkage or part 1 or part 2 to it.
Its informal talks by the people that has something to say about that topic.

Like for example:

So you wanna listen to them, (in-another words, help them secure their slots to share) you got to vote for them.

How to vote?

no need ppl to man the booth, everyones involved. Listening, Speaking, Networking, Catching Up, Sharing Views, Stirring Up a Business Idea


Help yourself to be recognize by putting up a nametag~

Incidentally, when I was there, the good people from tech65.org was recording one of their podcast.
It was on Google in China, HTC Evo and US’s personal website for every citizen. (dont exactly rem is it US or UK)

It was good, sitting round on a table just sharing your knowledge, point of view. Giving valuable inputs and receiving new information which I otherwise wouldnt have even been aware of.

Reminds me of my days as a Radio DJ streaming from Winamp player linking up with MIRC channels *got crowd one hor, dont play play.

Anyway, Click on the Logo below to check out their podcast. The one that I’m involved in probably coming out in the 2nd week of Apr. 🙂


I went roaming around to see if I can get photos of interesting people.

Now heres 2 men that are passionate about their passion!

Sir Jolyon Peter Caplin (Youtube: Unijolyn) who rides on a Unicycle! *can you imagine that!!! The stature on a single wheel!! He came by to spread the news of Science Buskers festival.
and the Court Jester @mikefoong !

Of course you’re not oblighted to sit in the whole time, as they say, “when you got to go, you got to go.”

catching up outside the rooms~

*the guy in the suit is the guy that runs hackerspace.sg Salute siA! suit in this kind of weather~

So, back to @mhisham’s talk

Its like

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

but the music version~

Amazing I tell you, the kind of songs that @mhisham digs out… *not that I know the songs. But its fascinating how compositions n tunes has evolved.
In as much as the songs of the future seems like just another version of the past, aint that another version what that gives its acknowledgment?

Yes, me being me, I was singing with the songs that were in my era. 😀

anyway,
so, ya, if you have qns,

shoot~

some of the topics that caught my eyes:

and a really impromptu one


“Come on in, if you are keen and above 21.”
By @triplez82 and @dk of tech65.org

No, no, no. 😀 nothing too funky. Its afterall an open audience talk.
According to a respectable businessman,

Justin Ng xjieke Evolution on porn. Interactive 3d porn.

It was on Evolution on porn and Interactive 3D porn.

I had to go for my next appointment, so I didnt get to stay.

The whole barcamp thing, its interesting.
it throws to you all different sorts and styles of presentation and topics of all range.

Speaks volume if you are keen on listening.

Special thanks goes to SP and @preetamrai the barcamp organizer.

Sign up to speak and amaze the crowd, or just attend~ rather than just info on tv and the media lines, try something different~

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

@STUMPBO – That Difference

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Amanda Blogs:

Besides people who face up to the truth rather than just sweeping it under the carpet,
I appreciate people who blogs about intimate stuff,
Thoughts that are straight from their heart.

Heres one blogger to share today.

@STUMPBO – That difference

I have a very bad habit. That is, when I befriend people, I become over-zealous in their problems, if and when they confide in me.

Do you throw a pity party just so that people would attend it?
Or do you throw a pity party so that you have the courage to move on?
Or perhaps none of my readers throw pity parties. 😀

Do you face up to yourself and address issues that you may have (be it privately or publicly)?

A hug doesnt change a problem, A hug makes things easier to cope with.

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

Wall.E'sFriends

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Do you remember Wall.E ?


the High-tech KaRanGuNi that threw away the diamond ring and kept the box, that fell in love with EVE, ;D
Photo Source: http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/walle/

Had this twitter friend @juzferyou who took the photo below:

and can u imagine it was in a setting like this:

apparently, he is a photographer~ Click to see his tumblr and his homesite

anyway, that photo of his reminds me of Wall.E and it got stuck in my mind.

Happen to be in school today and walked past these!

Like so similar, such coincidence right!
Of course me being me It would be non-stop shooting action!

I lined them up,
I set them in positions with story line,
etc etc

all taken with my Dayrius!
But guess what… Dayrius is dead now…
First the screen fades out to really low light,
then the batt went flat, and after charging for 1 hour, nothing comes on.

Gonna go down to Comms Centre again tomorrow.
Anyway,
So thankful that I tweet out this last one to cheer a friend up.

Its so cute right!!!!!

😀
Probably might gather them and shoot again if I have the time ba. 😀

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

I dont get GaGa…

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Amanda Blogs:

I dont get GaGa…
I’m serious.
She is like so non-routine…
I dont remember seeing a normal photo of her.

But still, 🙂 nothing against her.
its not easy in the entertainment industry 🙂
To each its own.

But hey,
you heard about the recent Lady GaGa ft Beyonce video?

YOU’VE BEEN A VERY BAD GIRL..A VERY VERY BAD BAD GIRL GAGA

😀

Check out @lennel ‘s entry on her video Telephone

10 hidden surprises in Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ MTV

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

AIW

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went to watch my 1st ever 3D show today with a really blonde blonde. 😀

Was walking towards the cinema looking for a familiar face, turn here turn there couldnt find, then suddenly noticed this blonde head rushing forward to watch the trailers screen. 😀 that got to be him! and thats the absolute chance to take a photo of him w/o him noticing. 😀

He’s not dumb really, just happen to have the tweet handle @DUMBellz 😀

Watched Alice in Wonderland.
Think this is a movie that really needs to be watched in 3D.

Really like the believed-in-the-impossible mindset of the show.
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Impossible 1: There is a drink that can make me shrink.
Impossible 2: There is a cake that can make me grow.
Impossible 3: Animals can talk.
Impossible 4: There is a cat that can disappear.
Impossible 5: There is a place called Wonderland.
Impossible 6: I can slay the jabberwocky.
special thanks goes to @vickilew n @juzferyou for helping me trace these 6 impossibles.

and I absolutely adore the makeup on the Mad-Hatter aka Johnny Depp
There’s so much details to it! *I’ll be very surprise if you hadnt seen the poster around 😀

Heres some interesting facts of the show

# DRINK ME — The potion Alice drinks to shrink is called Pishsolver. The cake she eats to grow is called Upelkuchen.

# SWEET AND SOUR — Actress Anne Hathaway, who portrays the White Queen in “ALICE IN WONDERLAND,” decided that her representation of the character wouldn’t be completely vanilla. The White Queen comes from the same gene pool as the evil Red Queen, after all, so Hathaway envisioned a “punk rock vegan pacifist” and was inspired by Blondie, Greta Garbo, Dan Flavin and Norma Desmond. – Esp for u @vickilew

# ON WITH HIS HEAD — Crispin Glover portrays Stayne, the Knave of Hearts, in the film, but only his head appears on screen. The body of the character, who’s seven-and-a-half feet tall, is computer generated. On set, Glover wore a green suit and a pair of stilts to make him taller. His face was fully made up for the role (complete with an eye patch and scar). For the final film, Stayne’s entire costume, body and even his cape are CGI. Only his face is real.

# EYES HAVE IT — The Mad Hatter’s eyes were slightly enlarged making them between 10 and 15 percent bigger than Johnny Depp’s own.

# BIG HEAD — A special 4K hi-def camera called a Dulsa with 4,000 lines of resolution was used to shoot Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen to enable her head to be blown up to twice its size in post-production without losing any image quality.

# THE REAL STUFF — Very few real sets were built for Wonderland. In fact, only three versions of the Round Hall (where Alice ends up after falling down the rabbit hole) and the Red Queen’s dungeon were practical sets. The rest were created digitally.

Facts taken from: http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-news/movies/fun-facts-tim-burtons-alice-wonderland/

I might have spoil the fun for you, but do head down to watch AIW in 3D~

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

#kumarshow

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Went out to watch KUMAR: Stripped Bare & Standing Up

It was good. Really like how he cracked up with his “politically correct” jokes.
I wonder hows it like when he sits down with his creative director to plan out his program.

Probably its just a conversation between his left brain and the right brain.

Tell me, who can think of jokes using national songs, national mottos…

Like
“STAND UP for Singapore…”
“COME Together”
“Together we STAND”

and then give our honorable council member nicknames?
like
“Sian ar” (think son of that rumored-to-have-heart-attack guy)
“Nuts ar”

not enough? oki,
Lets talk about IR ... Ever wonder why the two merlion (one near the fullerton n the other at Sentosa) are positioned that way?

Or maybe SG River and Marina Barrage … how the non-routine water use to be able to flow out to greater oceans and now less easily. 😀

And Just why is it that the blue beam in Sentosa’s Merlion’s eyes are longer than the red or the purple? 😀
According to the show…

Blue Beams = Blue Color = Color of $50 note
Red Beams = Red Color = Color of $10 note
Purple Beams = Purple Color = Color of $2 note

so which one do they want more?
Blue Beam = CHUUUuuUUUuUUUUUuUUUUUUUUu
Red Beam = CHuuuuUUuUUUuuuu
Purple Beam = Chuu.

😀 owned…
totally.

and he shared that him and the merlion are like 2 treasures, diff is, merlion is top lion bottom mermaid, his is top mermaid, bottom lion! 😀 (meaning very high libido, very good guns)

n he sang about hows it like to be, become a girl using Little Mermaid’s – Part of That World.
*not gonna go into that, u have to watch the show! 😀

Of course, he poked the race part too…
the whole Thaipusam thing. Carrying of the kavadi…
put down must put parking coupon, then cannot take normal cab. then must beware of the foreign workers, 😀
how theres no signboard in airport in tamil language
oki oki, it can go on. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE THERE! 😀

How all races have 2 days of holiday, even govt have National Day and May Day but not the Indians. “Vesak Day is not counted!”

😀 oh no! talking abt it cracks me up.

He shared about his family life as well, the coping with, the transition and even now the dependence upon. 🙂

I really admire how he is able to compartmentalize his emotions and just live it out on stage. Its really human psychology at its best.

He closed off with “Always look on the bright side of life”
He shared wise words about his life, and the way he is. 🙂
I cant and I dont know how to re-present it to you. But look at this video from youtube. 🙂 It will bring a spark to you.
Please stay through the opening Indian dance (1min) part. 🙂

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozc4UY25eFI&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

🙂 heres the pic of those who went. 🙂 *tHuMbs UP!
@dukbokiie @hwsoh @ladylola_ @sianzrong @goshprincess @chris_goh @lilvalkrie @ir3n3loh @perignonic @alyplusbass @youareonvisual @seraphina23
(I’m missing Kelvin here, anyone can provide his handle?)

special thanks goes to @smithankyou for organizing, @priscias and @seraphina22 for co-ordinating 🙂

Go watch the show when it comes again!!!

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

|#shooturtweeple @Little India Edition|

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Went with a couple of new friends to Little India for some shooting.
It was awesome!

As usual, it’ll be photo flood when the full set is up, so pls toggle over to the

#shooturtweeple_Little India Edition page 🙂

Heres the link in case it didnt work (highly impossible): http://avnjl.wordpress.com/shooturtweeple_little-india-edition/

Posts from bottom up on that page.

Part 1: Tweepers – Blog on some of the super-duper awesome shots of the people~

Part 2: Residents – Blog on the people that makes Little India Little India

Part 3: Everything Else – Blog on Everything Else that didnt fit into the above two categories

🙂

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda