11/3/11

It happen last week. Wanna make a shout out for Japan from here, following with these links,
SAVE JAPAN, with updated infos and news in diff languages.
Satellite Photos, see the disaster happen before and after.

Beside that, saw it from Rudi's place, would like to share it here. I guess most of us know him; 井上雄彦 Inoue Takehiko (creator of SLAM DUNK), he makes a great influence from twitter with his artworks for his country disaster. Spreading positive energy in current situation. And I love this one.

FIX YOU

heavy rotation lately, also dedicate to people in Japan.

The Alphabet

Some pretty fonts refreshment...

MONOCLE back issue

Smarter b, when you are hanging out in any major bookstores in KL, help me look for this back issue of MONOCLE; issue 39 (DEC'10-JAN'11). I don't buy every issues, but hate that i miss this one. If you can find it, grab it for me please... Many thxx!

Btw, did mentioned before that you can listen to the broadcasts at The Monocle Weekly website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. So all of you iPhoners are worth to go and check it out.

FCBarcelona or Lionel Messi did it again!!

Yes, they did it again! Moved into the quarter final of UEFA Champions League. Honestly both teams are my favourites in Spain and England, playing stylish attacking football. So there is sure a great match whenever they met. FC Barcelona is always my priority, so im really happy with the result!

FC Barcelona 3-1 Arsenal FC

(Arggregate: 4-3)

The 2 respectful masterminds behind.

And of course the man of the match - Lionel Messi! Following some shots of his stunning 1st goal, he controlled the pass from Iniesta, and lifted or flipping the ball over the goalkeeper, before firing a volley into the net. Might be his goal of the season, also a goal that make out this post. Im sure my writing won't impress you much, so please watch the magic moment yourself...

Viva la BARCA~!!!

EASON CHAN Limited USB

Got this newsletter from UMG HK just the next day someone in HK brought me the latest ep - STRANGER UNDER MY SKIN. Kinda surprise or piss off when I saw this! LOL~ Actually this a limited edition cassette designed USB which included the latest music videos from both eps. Come with a box set designed to fit in both eps together to complete the collection. Ok, I must admit that their marketing strategy are brilliant, at least to a fan of Eason Chan like me would really hard to resist and gonna spend again… #$%^&* And it costs HKD200 which is not cheap (or worth?) to pay for a kinda add-up or bonus disc. Arrrgh!!! Hate it, love it and want it! ahahaa...

ps; Smarter Scwa, our orders are arriving real soon… hehehe.. make it earlier this time!

Garance Doré & The Sartorialist

Garance Doré and Scott Schuman are maybe the most soul mate kinda couple I found. Following their blogs is always an inspiring and enjoying stuff so far, and also become a habit too. lol~ Recently found a nice article, read it from here if you wanna know a little bit more of the couple.

ps; love this photo, taken by Graeme Mitchell.

The Netherlands (KNVB) Home Shirt

Of course im always a Spanish fan, but too bad their shirt/jersey design still couldn't impress me. Other than the previous England and recent France design, the Netherlands shirt stay the longest time on top of my favourites national shirt chart! hahah.. So, I supposed to share this earlier, but im like bit lazy to compile all pictures from my archive. Till I found this lately... (click to enlarge)

and the result...

If you go through the link, the selection from the poll are within the recent 20 years (1988-2008). And I have add in one of the best from their history. The classic 1974 shirt worn by the living legend - Johan Cruyff at the 70's where the birth of 'Total Football'. It is like the most representing dutch design before every other shirts you saw today.

Continue with my 2nd pick. The 1988 shirt, what I called a cutting edge design, truly represent the 80's. And it's also the winning jersey of their only champion title from a big tournament. It all happen together with the superb 'Dutch Trio'.

Finally, this is what my favourites or vote goes to, the 2008 shirt! Beside that, their total look are also the best to me. Orange+White+Sky Blue, so 'harmoniously contrast'! lol~ and full of modern dutch character!
 

2 years back, still topping my chart of dutch design, please forget the latest 2010 design, totally in different class. Luckily found and grabbed this 2008 shirt last year, with an off-season price! Heart it!! gegee...

The story of why I love it so much... Go first with the cutting, or modern construction? A v-neck football shirt always caught my eyes first. And the Red White Blue combination on the right collar are the flag of Netherlands. Cleverly placed! Follow up with details, details, details...

The 2 sentences are part of their National Anthem. A patriotic element that a national shirt needs.

The super fine embroidery emblem and the simplify modern crowned lion. Specially love the short form letters; KNVB (Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond) the most, such a pretty typo combination.

Back of the neck, spelling in dutch. Noticed the nicely symmetric joining angle of the flag.

Im happy with all these design and the Dri-FIT material, credits goes to NIKE Football!

And thxx for reading my long... post. LOL~

New Year Countdown

New year celebration is always a big thing in Ang Moh country. And Sydney always try to top themselves every year. Since this is the first time I did not go back to Malaysia, I decided to join the crowds to see the New year fireworks. Thanks to my friends in the photos below, we have gotten one of the best spots in North Sydney.





They have waited there since 2pm in the afternoon. But with friends, beer, food, big umbrella and a spectacular view as below, 10 hours to midnight was easy.



Of course I shouldn't say so much because I arrive at that place at 11.45pm. Smart or not? Hehe. We have the biggest group there, around 35 Malaysians. There were a total of 5 spots in Sydney where the fireworks were on. However to get the best view of all 5, we went to the 'tanjung' opposite the famous Harbor Bridge. One of the best view in my opinion. The firework lasted around 20 minutes I think. All my Tax money wasted on this. But I think it is worth it. Check out the video guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqHzwcDAYqs

Delta

Seeing that Chin Ding is playing badminton right now and I am home alone, I thought I should do my annual blog post. As you know I just bought a place. So finally I told myself I can buy a nice lounge with Chaise with I always love. My budget was initially around $2k until I was introduce to this place, King Furniture (http://www.kingfurniture.com.au/).

I think they only exist in Australia but their design of furniture are very innovative. They aim at Convenience and give their owner a chance to be creative with their furniture. Most of their couches has the option of adding on other functions in the future. Anyway this is what I have gotten.



Looks simple right? But hold on, check out what other design it can transform to.



It has a hook mechanism for you to recreate a typical lounge into different ways to fit your house. Most importantly it can be converted into a queen size bed. Hold on, that is not all it can do.



It has storage space as well~!!! This really helps me a lot coz if you seen my Malaysia's room before you know I have a lot of Sampah in the house. And the new place's living room isn't very big. So it serves my purpose a lot. Oh by the way, the couch is also very comfortable. Check out their Jasper range and Kato deluxe. They are considered more premium as they are feather filled couch which is super super comfy. I actually want the Kao deluxe but it is too big. Here is a video of Kato (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywAR5v_Psmc&feature=player_detailpage)

So the next time whoever that comes over, please meet your bed.