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Logorama

Logorama, winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Short. There’s about 2,000 logos in it, very arty and educational (?), though you get nothing much from its story.

You can watch all 16 minutes of it here. See if you managed a glimpse of Windows. Or McDonalds crashing into Weight Watchers, any coincidence?

How's the show?

Chopin 200

2010 is Fryderyk Chopin’s 200th birth year. In line with his bicentennial birthday, which has just passed on the 1st of March, there are numerous festivals, piano recitals and dedication concerts worldwide in commemoration of arguably, the world’s most played composer (if there’s such a title to be given). BBC Radio 3 has some live performance broadcasts that are worth a listen.

Feed yourself with a calendar of events and interesting reads over at Chopin Year Celebrations. If you stay in Europe, there’s probably not enough time to visit/watch them all.

Back here, I will celebrate it by challenging myself to his Ballades (which I have never attempted before). These days, you could drop by IMSLP for scores.

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Gotta use this space

Hello, World!

Here am I again. People say Facebook killed the blog. Some say it’s the iPhone. And to the webbies, Twitter has had the last laugh. I wouldn’t say I succumbed to any of the above, except maybe I somewhat cannot resist checking my farm to harvest my lemon trees and plant grapes. I never got started with the other two anyway.

I believe too much tech is bad for health (literally and indirectly), just like how eating too much carrots is.

So here am I again. Maybe blogs just got rarer and more retro these days, and you know I got a penchant for those stuff. Gotta use this space!

On a (very important) side note, happy anniversary, my dear!

By the way, I’m going back to Verdana.

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I'm alive but busy

Hey peeps, I’m alive! Haha.

Bukan malas mau tulis blog but have been busy with work, new house stuff and wedding preparations. So, if you have stopped being a reader of my blog, that’s totally fine, because you won’t have anything to read anyway. :)

This is a little late, but most of you would have seen our wedding site at http://www.johnsee.net/wedding. Please bear with the pink.

A sudden thought. As much as I hate being tagged unnecessarily on Facebook, I probably don’t have a choice when you guys come with your mighty lenses during my wedding. Be kind! Hehe. :)

Meanwhile, please drop by our wedding site.

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Early wedding announcement

Here’s an early public announcement, Mei Sin and I will be getting married on March 8, 2009.

Yes, it’s gonna be on the mother of all dates, as far as recent Malaysian history is concerned. I’m sure there will be plenty of celebrations for the 1st anniversary of the tsunami, but please don’t abandon us. :-) Anyway, there will surely be lots of jokes going around on that day, you bet! It’s on a Sunday, but the next day’s a public holiday, which makes it convenient for those of you traveling from outstation. Mark your calendars ahead, will ya? Hopefully, the Titanic has sunk by then, and all Malaysia will be looking forward to a much more important date than 8th of March. Just leave the date for us.

Before any of you (married ones) start your cringing nag on how torrid and stressful the preparation process is, how couples eventually cannot wait for it (the planning) to be over, and how much it has eaten into your savings, and la-di-da, please stop. Hrrmph, seems quite normal to hear all this, isn’t it? :-)

Rest assure that my meticulous self has given too much a lot of thought into all aspects of our plan, and everything’s going on well so far, on schedule.

Wedding site coming up soon over here. More details to be blogged later…

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