Banner Design

I'm try to make use of some thecnique that I had learnt from the past tutorial. So my first assignment is to design a new banner for this blog. Not a perfect one but this is the final result.
Comment are most welcome!!

Flying without wings

Flying without wings
Originally uploaded by lowbihong

Another photoshop practice following the PSDTUTS's tutorial. Kind of statisfy with the result although the resolution is not that good.
Hopefully I will get time to create my own design one day :p

梦该醒了

昨晚，作了一个梦。

梦境与现实的差距，我竟傻得不愿意从梦中醒来。

害怕留不住那画面。

原来，我还是一个不懂事的小孩。

原来，我还被回忆牵绊。

原来，我一直选择逃避。

原来，我看不见我的未来。

原来，那只是一场梦。

梦醒了。

路该怎么走呢？

Penang should think small to grow big

"YOU can take a Penangite out of Penang but never the Penang out of a Penangite, " wrote Soo Ewe Jin in his commentary titled "Penang should think small to grow big".

Ya, you should read this article if you are Penangite and care about your home town. I cannot say the writer had provided the best idea or solution about how Penang should get develope along with it World Heritage status, but he did point out the eager of us to see Penang shine.

I had the chance to visit Edinburgh and Guanajuato, both listed as World Heritage City, and I can feel the excitement living in the city like this. The city itself can tell the story. However, what make the city so attaracting is the people who live in it. How they teasure it and the effort to make it the best place to live in. And I do believe Penang have the same quality. What it need is the awareness, and to have a great vision to get a balance between developement and protection.

This is how the article end

"If Guan Eng gets it right, the resulting inflow of the right industries and the people will turbo-charge the existing businesses in Penang. People will get to eat genuine char koay teow and not just from shops in a mall in Damansara claiming to have the best Penang char koay teow.

And everyone will be happy to be living and working in a Unesco World Heritage Site."

This is my dream too. To live and work back to my home town in the future.

2 inspiring story to share

Come across this 2 sites, showing amazing photography projects. I found it very inspiring and meaningful, so I will share the link here, and I hope you too can feel the story behind the photos!

1.Days With My FatherBy Phillip Toledano. A series of photos capturing the days between the photographer with his dad after her mum passed away. The photos are beautiful, and the story are sad and touching. I can feel a strong bond between the son and the father.

2.wisdombook.org
By Andrew Zuckerman. A project to record the experience of a group of people who have make their mark on the world. Their experience is the wisdom, the greatest gift for next generation. I love the portrait shots, all done in white background. Beside the clean feeling, it focus strong on the story teller and make them stand out sharply. It tells a lot by just looking at these portraits.

Web Design In Photoshop

I found this amazing tutorial on wed design in a website call PSDTUTS.
So I give it a try step by step and do some modification that fit my style and this is the result.
What I lack now is the knowledge to slice this PSD file into HTML+CSS.
Ohh....I start thinking of designing my own website with all the technique that I have learned here!!

你给你的孩子们一双翅膀了吗？

在网上发现了这个屠妖节的广告。
看了，鼻子一酸。怎么了？自己竟被它感动。
广告里，看到的是贫困，但注重教育的一对父母
一个肯为梦想而努力的小孩
3大民族互相扶持，鼓励的社会



自己一个人在国外留学已经快5年了。想起了还在马来西亚的父母及家人。我不知道自己可以飞得多高，多远，但很想对你们说一声谢谢。谢谢你们给我这双翅膀。是你们给我继续走下去的勇气。

Sick

"Ah-choo!!".....a sneeze and I knew it, something was wrong with my body.
So, this morning my nose is flooded.
I hate this feeling.
Hope that I can get rid of it soon.

那些日子

第一次听到这首歌，是第一季的超级星光大道。林宥嘉用他那忧郁的歌声深情唱出，很快就被他所吸引。后来才知道原唱是淘晶莹。袁惟仁的词曲，不管是男生还是女生，都唱出了歌里的无奈。





你还穿着那些华丽灿烂的衣服吗
或者不需要那些外在证明自已了吧
回想那些单纯 其实有点残忍
现实拒绝我们的认真

你还带着那些美丽的回忆睡着吗
还是不需要那些假象欺骗自已了吧
时光总是短暂 心里藏着遗憾
遗憾变成我们的牵绊

我知道 认识你 爱上你
了解你 看穿你 并不简单
可是 离开你 失去你 忘记你
我又该怎么办
尤其时常在梦中 有你作伴
总教人在梦与醒之间两难

我知道 原谅你 放纵你
包容你 疼爱你 其实不难
宁愿 背叛你 隐瞒你 报复你
我也比较坦然
在这虚幻城市中 无人陪伴
我只好在爱与恨之间离散
我只好在爱与恨之间选择离散

不是说好,要永远在一起的吗?
可是,你已经离开了,好久,好久
到底怎么了呢?

醉了

头有点疼。是昨晚喝多了吧。

看到两位前辈醉倒在地上，或许多喝一杯我也会像他们一样。
可是，理智制止了我。
身体是有点不听使唤，脑袋却是清醒的。
想要忘却的，却如潮水般不断的涌上来，怎么挥也挥不走。
我就是这样的一个人，永远有一条隐形的绳子捆绑着自己，一直不敢越轨。
我不可以醉。
醉了，我会控制不了自己。
醉了，我会给人家添麻烦。
醉了，我会让人担心。
醉了，我怕我会变得更脆弱。
醉了。。。

可是
醉，到底是怎样的感觉？
醉，真的会让心情好一些吗？
醉醒后，明天会好一些吗？


今早，回到研究室，
发现，醉的代价是一副找不回的眼镜，一台不知放到哪儿的手提电话。

醉了，日子还是要过。
醉醒了，要面对的还是同一个自己。

醉了可以不要醒过来吗？

面具

The Mask
Originally uploaded by lowbihong

每一个人都带着一幅面具，试图去隐藏一个自己不愿去面对的另一个自己。

那个懦弱，脆弱，可恶，可恨，可憎的自己。

他讨厌带着面具的他

更讨厌脱下面具后的他

望着镜子，他何时才能提起勇气去面对

面对那藏在面具之下，丑陋的自己

什么时候才能，才能抛开面具？

面具太沉重，把自己压得好累，压得透不过气

一种陌生的感觉，连自己也认不出来

可是，面具下的"它"却是那么的不堪一击

心里拼命地拉扯

拉扯

陈绮贞

陈绮贞，或许你没有听过她的名字。不过她的歌曲却有独特的感染力。
「华丽的冒险」这个专辑伴我做过无数次的日子。
今天又是这把悠悠的歌声伴我度过了一整个心情很蓝的下午。

华丽的冒险

长长的路的尽头是一片满是星星的夜空

这一趟华丽的冒险没有真实的你陪我走

长长的时间的旅程充满太多未知的诱惑

说不清对你承诺过的一切

还有多少没有实现过

不愿放开手

不愿让你走

疯狂的梦没有了你

还有什么用

不愿放开手

不愿让你走

不愿眼睁睁的看你

走出我的生活

华丽的冒险，一个未知的旅程。

The US made a history. How about Malaysia?

Obama won. In the presidency election yesterday. The first black president in the history of United State of America.

"It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America,"said the elected president in his victory speech.

I cannot say America had a clean history of racism, and there was murder threat posted by those white racist during the presidency campaign. But they make it, the people in US has made a history, elected a president without looking at his skin color but his ability to lead the country.

I hope the same thing will happen in Malaysia too. Someday in the near future. But what happen recently in Malaysia worried me.

The appointment of Low Siew Moi as general manager of the Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS) has caused a serious debate, not about her ability to seat the pose, but her skin color, being a Chinese. Why do those people have dout that a Chinese won't do a good job in helping bumiputera?

Zaid Ibrahim stated out his opinion that the obsession with the Ketuanan Melayu doctrine has destroyed something precious in Malaysians.

According to him

“It makes us lose our sense of balance and fairness. When a certain Chinese lady was appointed head of a state development corporation, having served in that corporation for 33 years, there were protests from Malay groups because she is Chinese,”

“A new economic vision is necessary, one that is more forward looking in outlook and guided by positive values that would serve to enhance cooperation amongst the races. This will encourage change for the better, to develop new forms of behaviour and shifts of attitudes, to believe that only economic growth will serve social equity, to aspire to a higher standard of living for all regardless of race.

“We need to meaningfully acknowledge that wealth is based on insight, sophisticated human capital and attitude change. A new dynamics focused on cooperation and competition will spur innovation and creativity.

“Some might say that this is a fantasy. I disagree. How do we go about transforming the culture and values of the bumiputeras so that their ability to create new economic wealth can be sustained?

“By changing our political and legal landscapes with freedom and democracy.”

Ya, that is the problem of our country. But when someone speak out the truth, this is what he get

Perlis UMNO liaison chief and former Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said “Zaid should repent. Otherwise he should get out of the ‘rumpun Melayu’.if Zaid continued to question the Malay supremacy concept, then he should no longer be a Malay as a Malay should be defending the Malays and not running them down.”

Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar, who is incidentally an UMNO supreme council member, as saying that Zaid was “a traitor to his own race and should apologise for his remarks.”

What can we hope for, if our country is still lead by this kind of politician?

A big disappoinment. I hope for change after the Mach 8 political tsunami. Although it had changed the political stucture in Malaysia it could not change the racist thinking rooted deep inside some Malaysian.

I hope. Like what Obama said before he end his speech.

"while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we cant, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can."

Ya, Let's pray, Malaysia can change. Yes We Can!

有没有。。。

如煙　　曲/石頭　詞/阿信

我坐在床前　望著窗外　回憶滿天　
生命是華麗錯覺　時間是賊　偷走一切

七歲那一年　抓住那隻蟬　以為能抓住夏天
十七歲的那年　吻過他的臉　就以為和他能永遠　

有沒有那麼一種永遠　永遠不改變　擁抱過的美麗都　再也不破碎
讓險峻歲月不能在臉上撒野　讓生離和死別都遙遠　有誰能聽見

我坐在床前　轉過頭看　誰在沉睡　
那一張蒼老的臉　好像是我　緊閉雙眼

曾經是愛我的　和我深愛的　都圍繞在我身邊
帶不走的那些　遺憾和眷戀　就化成最後一滴眼淚

有沒有那麼一滴眼淚　能洗掉後悔　化成大雨降落在　回不去的街
再給我一次機會　將故事改寫　還欠了他一生的　一句抱歉

有沒有那麼一個世界　永遠不天黑　星星太陽萬物都　聽我的指揮
月亮不忙著圓缺　春天不走遠　樹梢緊緊擁抱著樹葉　有誰能聽見

耳際　眼前　此生重演　是我來自漆黑　而又回歸漆黑
人間　瞬間　天地之間　下次我　又是誰

有沒有那麼一朵玫瑰　永遠不凋謝　永遠驕傲和完美　永遠不妥協
為何人生最後會像一張紙屑　還不如一片花瓣曾經鮮豔

有沒有那麼一張書籤　停止那一天　最單純的笑臉和　最美那一年
書包裡面裝滿了蛋糕和汽水　雙眼只有無猜和無邪　讓我們無法無天

有沒有那麼一首詩篇　找不到句點　青春永遠定居在　我們的歲月
男孩和女孩都有吉他和舞鞋　笑忘人間的苦痛　只有甜美

有沒有那麼一個明天　重頭回一遍　讓我再次感受曾　揮霍的昨天
無論生存或生活　我都不浪費　不讓故事這麼的後悔

有誰能聽見　我不要告別
我坐在床前　看著指尖　已經如煙

太多的事情，太多的故事，太多的理由，太多的理智

有没有。。。那麼一种方式可以让一切变得简单一些？