ooppss.. been a long time since i last posted :p padahal ga ada kerjaan T.T arggghhhhh...

job oh job.. when will you come to me?? hiksuuu T.T (desperate mode: on)

btw, hehehehe... my nephew was born on 2nd June 2012! welcome to the world babyyyy :p another dragon kid, yeaaaahhhhhh.. he's a super cute one. 3 days old, and he can smile already. smiley baby hohohoho.. he gained weight v fast. now he's almost 5 kg!

here's the scrapbook i made for him haha.. not so good i think..

the left most photo was taken when he's only 3 days old. and smiling. hahaha... arrrgggghhhhh wanna pinch his cheekssssssssss.. miss you matthewwwwww... ah yah, btw his name is Matthew Alexander Goenawan.

and yeah, that's about it haha.. hope can see you again soon matthewwww

nambah koleksi scrapbook lagi heheheh :P

scrapbook!

yeah.. it's my new craze during my oh-so-relaxing period while waiting for job interviews :p it's digital scrapbooking, not the hard copy.. it's interesting, but a bit complicated here and there. and.. finally i know how to use photoshop a bit :p at least i can do some digital scrapbooking and minimal photo enhancement :p

here are some of the digital scrapbooks i've done. i looked for the layout ideas by googling hahaha.. i'm not that good with layout yet. hopefully will get better and better.

my 2nd piece. the 1st one was so horrible that i deleted it. hahaha. i love my dad's pose. so cute!! hahaha

3rd piece. ran out of idea about the layout. so, didn't turn out to be good hahah. but.. ok lahhh :p

4th piece. dedicated for my eldest sis and bro-in-law. the idea was taken from one of the video tutorial i saw. my elder sis said it looks like my mom patchwork quilt muahhaha..

5th piece. i think the layout can be considered original hahaha... turns out to be good.

6th piece. haha this one completely copying the layout from googling. with a little bit of variation here and there :p

i downloaded most of the embellishment and papers freely online. none was made by myself muhahahaa.. still learning how to make those in photoshop :p

the underland chronicles

yeap. it's underland, not underworld. it's another string of novels by Suzanne Collins, the author of best sellers trilogy Hunger Games.

there are 5 books in this chronicles. i did speed reading almost for all the books and got the gist of it, at least, haha.

the author used several terms in the book:

• Gnawers: the Rats.
• Flyers: the Bats.
• Spinners: the Spiders.
• Crawlers: the Cockroaches.
• Shiners: the Fireflies.
• Diggers: the Moles.
• Nibblers: the Mice.
• Cutters: the Ants.

all of the creatures are named based on what they do, thus the names.

	it's the beginning of the whole story. meet Gregor, 11-year-old kid and his 2-year-old sister, Boots, who accidentally fell to the Underland. they met the Underlanders and the talking animals (or bugs mostly) which were huge in size. in addition, they found out that they were the destined "warrior" and "princess" who will fulfill "The Prophecy of Grey" written by the Underland founder. he went together with his sister and his companions, Queen Luxa and Henry the Royal Blood of Regalia, Aurora and Ares the bats, Ripred the rat, Tick and Temp the roaches, Trevlex and Gox the spiders. story cut short, he found his missing dad during the journey which he must complete, prophecy fulfilled, and went back to the "Overland"
	again, Gregor had to go down to the Underland to help its people from the trouble as per mentioned in "The Prophecy of Bane", written, again, by Sandwich, the founder of the Underland. it was mentioned that he had to kill a-one-of-a-kind white rat (which was very rare and legend said it's huge, larger than the already large rat size in the Underland) to prevent the whole Underworld from doomsday. but, there's a line in the prophecy stating "die the baby, die his most essential part". everybody thought it was Boots, his 2-year-old baby sister. so he had to kill "the Bane" while protecting his baby sister. but again, of course, he was safe and went back to Overland to continue the rest of 3 books left.
	after Gregor left from his 2nd journey, the Underland was struck by a deadly plague, which is some kind of a pox with high fevers. his bat, Ares, was the 1st victim. eventually, his mother, who tagged along this time, also caught the plague. thus, he had to venture on a journey together with the help of rats and roaches to find the only cure in the Underland, as mentioned in another of Sandwich's prophecy, "The Prophecy of Blood". the cure was a plant which only grew in the Vineyard of Eyes. they managed to reach the Vineyard, only to find the ants came to destroy the plants and he lost some comrades throughout the journey. turned out the cure was not only in that Vineyard, but also in Regalia, the country where most Underlanders lived. the Regalian doctor in charge of the plague actually managed to find the cure but didn't tell the officials initially owing to some conspiracy being planned by the high councils. but, of course, then again Gregor was considered successful in fulfilling the prophecy, saved his mother and bat, and the rest of the victims of the plague. he went back to Overland but had to leave his mother in the Underland for further medical attention.
	on the previous journey, Queen Luxa, the soon-to-be-11-year-old-ruler of Regalia made an oath to the nibblers (the mice) to ask her for help in case of emergency. they did, but the Queen and her companions in the journey did not know why. his newly found 7-year-old cousin in the previous journey, Hazard, surprised everyone by saying that the nibblers left the "Dead Mark" in their supposedly habitats. the journey went on, and the found out that the rats had caught the nibblers and pushed them to go to "a place of no return". they can't save all the nibblers and Queen Luxa declared war against the rats. the story was very hanging and continued on the last book.
	the final book. the war took place, a lot of humans, gnawers, nibblers, spinners, diggers, crawlers and flyers died. Gregor's 8-year-old sister, Lizzie, was involved to crack the code used by the gnawers to initiate attacks against Regalia. eventually the code was broken with the help of Lizzie. Gregor joined the war partly because Sandwich's prophecy said so and because he felt responsible of what happened. In the end, Gregor successfully killed the Bane, while in the process Ares was killed by the Bane. the remaining gnawers was ruled by Ripred, who was pointed as the peacemaker by Luxa's cousin, Nerissa, to make the prophecy of Sandwich fulfilled. to avoid future wars with rats, Luxa made a bond with rats, to protect each other until the day they died. in the end, Gregor had to go back to Overland, left his love, Luxa, behind.

the ending was quite hanging also, with Boots made a comment that Gregor missed the Underland. it's not clear whether in the end they moved to other city or not.

well, it's quite a good read to kill time :p but i found it quite strange that this kind of books is categorized for young teens. it's quite bloody even for young teens. hahaha. maybe the time has changed :p

the hunger games

recommended novel to read! didn't read it until my sis told me it's nice, just a bit sadistic at some parts. which is true. it's another trilogy story, which makes it to the theaters. the first book will be on the screen on 23rd march in singapore. yeayyy.. can't wait to watch it (oops, sounds like the capitol citizens haha).

1. the hunger games : explains the background of the story, what the game is about, the history of the country, outlines all the important characters throughout the trilogy. the ending can be easily predicted since there are 2 more books after this. i got too engrossed reading it until 330am in the morning. finished it within one day hahaha..

2. catching fire : a bit boring because it's a bit of repetition of the first book with another hunger games being held. however, the ending is very hanging. lucky i'm reading when all three books are out. hahaha... here the author mentions the rest of the victors of previous hunger games.

3. mockingjay: the finale. conclusion of the war between districts and the capitol (oops, spoil alert for some who haven't read). quite a happy ending with the main characters remain alive.

anyway, can't wait to see all the 3 books on the big screen! but when i watched the trailer, i realized they altered the story to suit. haii.. as expected.. they won't be able to follow the author's imagination 100%. i want to know what it will become of the songs written in the books. how will they come up with the tunes? hahah

good byee..

(note: when i said "boss" it means i'm referring to the director who has been working very closely with me for the past 1.5 years. the rest i will just call as director haha)

this is my hardest good bye :( after thinking for a long time, i still decided to leave my work place. made my boss upset (i think) even though he didn't show it. i felt really sorry for him.

after CNY, everything went so fastttt.. got 2 more weeks remaining for working. told my most hard working seniors that i'm going to leave the following week. clearing up all the things. handing over the task to the rest of the team member.

i also felt very sorry to one of my seniors who has to handle one of my project alone after 2 juniors left at the same time :( so sorrryyy...

yesterday and today i keep clearing my stuff. wanted to take before-after photo, but forgot... so instead, i present to you halfway-after photo hahaha..

halfway done

after

in the end not really cleared everything lah.. still left a lot of stationery and files and boxes :p those two A4 boxes are empty. the huge box on the left is for my director. hahahah sorry huh.. since you didn't mention who will take over my project, so i will pass it to you.. and umm.. i left the rest of the drawings in my compactor, 2 rows of my 3-row-shelves :) enjoy it! oh, and the other one row, i passed over the space to my boss muhahahaha

and i got souvenirs: paper cuts and bruises. my boss warned me not to get paper cuts. howwww... i told him i experienced a lot already.hahahah can't be avoided oneeee

my boss still very nice to me T.T yest when i was clearing my stuff, he walked over to my place and asked for any documents / drawings need to be passed to him. then he helped me clear all my drawings T.T today didn't get a chance to meet him for a long time and even said goodbye. but it's okay, i overheard yesterday that he didn't like to say farewell. so ok loh :p i just left a gift for him. and for my 3 beloved seniors hahaha.. hope they all like it.

most of my colleagues were surprised when i told them i handed over my project mostly to directors and seniors. hahaha.. that means you really lack of young engineers lehhhh... go go go!! look for the E1, M1 and M2 haahah

well.. it has been a very great experience, very interesting line of work, but too interesting until you can't sleep hahaha. i will miss my company so much :( maybe the emails too :p but not the chasing. hmm.. maybe? hahaha..

anyway, i'm hoping for the best for all of my colleagues and project teams (client, contractor, architect, structure engineers). looking forward for the projects to be done and i can smile looking at it :)

yeah, it's february. valentine's day mode in the air!

i consider this quite nice song. i just found out it's twilight's soundtrack haha.