They are the real ultramen

...or ultrawomen.

I pay my highest respect to the workers in Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, the fire fighters, the Japanese Self Defense Force and all who risked their health and life for their responsibility in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Incident.

They are..the real Ultramen of Japan.

You defined the meaning of responsibility.

You defined the meaning of courage.

You defined the meaning of selfless.

Bless you and your family

Bless Japan.

Quote: [source: Pocono Record]

Salute the heroes at Fukushima

22 Mar 2011

......Yet essential personnel stayed, as long as they could, valiantly trying every way they could conceive to get power back to the pumps to avert a meltdown and the subsequent massive release of dangerous levels of radiation. When that failed, they began diverting sea water into the cooling ponds. When explosions and rising radiation levels required even the evacuation of the few remaining technicians and firefighters, they tried to drop water from helicopters. But radiation levels prevented even that by mid-week.

The Japanese government ordered anyone within 20 miles — 20 miles — of the Fukushima plant to stay indoors if they were unable to evacuate. Yet hardy souls continued battling the disaster there, risking what might be lethal doses of radiation for themselves. They are incredibly brave. By Monday, they had stabilized three reactors.

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This is a comics strip of "On the news series: Japan Earthquake 2011" . Stay tuned for the next "Flat Sharing Series".

My 1st Comicsblog: Flat Sharing Series & How Comics Inspires

Always wanted to try this, although my drawing is pretty mediocre.(Laugh =D)

I love drawing =) I drew on small pieces of paper when I am bored/sad/disappointed/[fill in the blank with negative feelings]...mostly because when I draw I thought of my childhood: I love drawing on small pieces of paper when I was really really young.

Also, I love comics in particular. If you don't know, my family operates a comics/manga rental shop back in penang =)

I think comics is a very strong medium to express oneself. It can deliver a very layman message in a very compact way yet the audience will not be stressed out by the amount of information. Many times it inspired people to think more about the topic; it is so powerful, it once caused tension and even assaults between two religions, remembering the Prophet Comics Series a few years back.

Lately, a berita harian comics depicting Ultraman ran away from the tsunami, of cause this is referencing to the Japanese Earthquake.

Many regard this as nonsensitive.

I disagree. I think without understand the message the author wanted to deliver and judge is not very fair.

What message do you see from this comic?

What I saw is a disaster that is so massive, even the mighty Japan, represented by Ultraman, cannot handle.

There is nothing about being not sensitive.

But I admit he could have drawn it a different way, that would avoid being slammed they way he was.

And don't get me wrong, I hated Berita Harian to the bone, for 2 reasons:
1. It is controlled

2.And I was forced to write summary report from this paper when I was in my secondary school.

Nevertheless, I have to repeat, the ultraman comic, is really nothing compare to the attempt to relate the earthquake to "Green Technology" and "Climate Change", especially from a person who seems to use 5 bottles of aerosol on her hair everyday.

Hey, I didn't say who.

分享日出

分享日出
Click for a larger view, originally uploaded by alexyapsl

幫何龍照相那天在科大的碼頭看見美麗的一幕。
兩個人分享美麗的時刻，是幸福的。

Moments Captured: Hand phone version

Sometimes you just bump into scenes thats so memorable but then your DSLR(AKA Big Camera) is back at home and someone has leased your compact camera(AKA Small Camera) permanently.

You will just have to make do with an alternative: Your hand phone camera.

They are typically not such a beauty like those I would share on Flickr (as shown above), but the object of the scene and its implicit meaning could have compensated its lack in beauty.

Here it goes:

Scene 1: Dinner in office

Location: IDS Lifung Centre, Shatin HK

Description: 8:30pm in the office, dinner? Mini Pizza hot dog, fried fish skins (YES! Say "OMG they eat fish skin " my westerner friends) and a can of iced lemon tea.

Worked till 10:30pm after this quick dinner.

Scene 2: A crystal-ed SLK

Location: The Element, West Kowloon, HK

Description: wow....

Scene 3: 搵雞唔洗返大陸 又平又靚根記有

("You don't have to travel to Mainland to look for CHICKEN, we have them here nice and cheap!"--$29)

Location: Wo Che 禾輋, Shatin

Description: A good laugh... saw this during a supper gathering with my colleagues in Wo Che. (In case you don't know, chicken is the alternative tongue-in-cheek expression for prostitute in Cantonese/Mandarin)

Scene 4: I thought it was a bus ticket

Location: LCC-T, Sepang, Malaysia

Description: The boarding pass Airasia gave me in my last return trip from KL. Handwritten, almost like another bus ticket I had on my trip from Penang to KL.

Is this how they cut cost? (Note: Airasia is an airline, and I am suppose to board a plane with this ....bus ticket-look alike thing)

Scene 5: LP 3427

Location: Siu Lek Yuen, Shatin, HK

Description: To all my Penang friends=YES THEY HAVE "LP" NUMBER PLATES! (To my non-hokkien speaking friends, thats not a nice word to use in hokkien, period.)

Scene 6: The Earth House

Location: Yongding Perfecture, Fujian Province, China

Description: A visit to my mum's ancestral culture (after being in the city where my dad's ancestral culture originated from-Xiamen), the Hakka people's Earth House 土楼。

This one is well known for its tilted pillars. According to our guide, the carpenter of this structure were pissed by the commissioner of this earth house, decided to show him how good he is, so he made the pillars tilted but still the entire house is as good as other earth houses.

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Hope you enjoy, would you leave me a comment and tell me:

1. Which scene is your favorite/least favorite?

2. Whats your most memorable hand phone moment captured?

用会表演的镜头捕捉我的看法

"不完美的世界，因为你独特的看法 而变得完美"

“小时候，别人都说 不要动 要拍咯，

我喜欢说 不要停 要拍咯”

“你不觉的，镜头 也会表演吗?”

先来两段陈老师的相机广告，我的部落可会死灰复燃？

Crazy Six Flags night!

Just to show you guys what did I ride in Georgia Tech Night at 6 flags:
first is the Georgia Cyclone(rode this twice):




















Ride Experience


The Georgia Scorcher


Its not that tall but its a freaking Stand up coaster with lots of loops!!!

Ride footage:



The Goliath
The craziest...

This fall, is 17 stories tall..(200 Ft)

Look how its seat is design: No harness over your shoulder whatsoever! only something wrap around your leg!

Ride Experience:



2 of my friends took this thrice..crazy

Finally, the Superman Ultimate Flight

You hang upside down like this:

CRAZiNESS

Ride Footage:

Interviewed in HKUST Career Guide

Before the end of last semester, a staff from HKUST Career center called and ask if they can interview me, for my extra curricular activities in the university.

I was quite surprise, agreed to be interviewed though.
At the end they did not schedule a meet up, just a simple email asking for article with specific topics, like what did you do, what did you learn, what did you do that and stuff....they finally published the thing in the latest career guide:



Actually quite a number of people sent in their articles...haha.....
Just wanna share it here.