Usha & Sanjay Engagement 19 Jan 08

From Klang to Nilai for a colorful engagements. For special moments pixelated in time, please email me at pixelatedmo@gmail.com or geraldmc8@hotmail.com for enquiries and bookings.

The Secret Paper Project

For almost a year i toyed at the idea of making a figurine for my good friend Donovan. He has always remembered my birthday and takes great trouble to get me something really nice... every year..... i on the other hand am a doing lah (not on purpose of cos) ..... so last year (Sept 06) i decided to make him something i saw over on the net. It was a figurine of the witchking riding a fell beast from the Lord of the Rings movies....

I researched for almost a year..... ofcos...most of the time i did alot of procrastinating lah ... then on the 1st day of September 2007 i started on the project...... what i thought wld take a few days to make, (his birthday was on the 15th of Sept) turned out to be a hell of a task ....of cos there were weeks where i didnt work on it at all.....but all-in it took me almost 4 months to finish it....

THe idea was to use any kind of material available to me for as minimal cost just for the heck of it.....So i used newspaper, MAsking tape, bits of wire, lots and lots of tissue paper, one small mecha figurine, Aluminium foil, a piece of nylon string and an egg crate. Apart from the mecha warrior, the most i spent on this secret project was poster paint and lots of PVA glue..... The hardest part of this project was to keep it a secret for so many months........... but i actually had fun making the figurine and it turned out well.... but me as usual kept trying to make it better, not satisfied with the outcome....so it took alot of effort to stop and except how it looked, otherwise it would have taken a few more months ...

For more photos of the making of this secret paper project...... click HERE

Betty & Egmont 5th Jan 2008

A simple wedding with a Hawaiian twist...... congrats Betty & Egmont... may your life together be filled with joy...


--mo

A Short Pixelated Christmas Story

So.... December has been ...very interesting (lack of a better word)....... and seeing that i cant put everything down in writing.... (Actually i can but im lazy) i thought i'd just post it with pictures..... (this blog is called pixelatedmo after all...... right.......

APM sang carols at that place next to Mid Valley.... (Yup i still cant remember what its called).... Gardens!!!!!!! yup Garden or the Garden or someting...... hmmm correct ah? Anyway... thats the same day i took the shot 'Dancing on the Skylight'...... hmmm APM didnt do too well the first day but they warmed up and did well on the second day..... fantastic....

Hmmm... seemed to have spend alot of time in Mid Valley in the days leading up to Christmas..... Rose and I found this fantastic curtain material in Kamdar (in 'the' Mid of the Valley) which we bought and had it made into lovely curtains...... i just love it..... a little sheer but ah... very very nice........... gives the living a nice colour.......

Did alot of cleaning and decorating and shopping and present wrapping and washing and shopping and carolling and photographing and shopping..... APM on the other had was busy practising Christmas carols....

We went house visiting and sang carols for two days.... and i got to practise using the Nikon D70 SLR.......... yup ....me with a digital SLR for the very first time...... i'll save that for another post.... anyway a big thank you goes out to my long time friend from school... Adrian Elliot for lending me his D70 to use for my wedding assignments......... thanks dude, i really really appreciate it........ (BTW girls he is single and available)....

Rose went all out with the decorations this yeah..... it really felt like Christmas after she finished..... :) We also bought those snow spray thingys .... but we didnt have time to do anything with it..... Then on the 26th of Dec i woke up and just went out and sprayed the sliding door with the snow spray... armed only with a rough sketch and my finger......

i guess its a little late....... but .... Merry Christmas Everyone and a Happy New Year to all my readers........!!!!!!!!........!!

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Picture of the Month Dec 2007

Skylight Dance......... Ok its not very christmassie... but i got this shot when i was at midvalley because APM was hired to sing carols in errr hmmm 'Whats that new place next to Midvalley?' anyway, i was alerted by Arron that there was a guy on the skylight at the centre court..... its always good to have 10x optical zoom....

Two other shots from the same series.....

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Christine & Adrian 22nd Dec 2007

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New Year Resolution... Wanted !

Hmmmm... I should be writing something more christmassy but i need to make an announcement ........... I finally did it....... i resigned from my company of which i have been loyally serving for nearly 8 years!!!! yup i did it.... ..... 14th Dec was my last day, and it felt really strange.... actually the last three days in my company felt almost eerie... hmmm... i dont really know how to explain it....

Well.... to some of you from my company who are reading.... i would like to say that ... i am really going to miss you guys (well you know who you are).... and i wish you all the best....

... i am FREE.... i am FREE........ i am....... unemployed ..........WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! kekeke... i know its not funny but for some reason im happy but a little scared too.... hmmm...

Anyway.... If you are looking for a Photographer to capture your special moments..... like Engagements, Weddings, someones Birthday, your pets birthday... anything lah.... feel free to email me at geraldmc8@hotmail.com ...... or leave a comment on this blog.... or call me if you have my number. Pixelated Mo is for Hire......!!!

Here's a some pictures taken on my last day of work.... more then half were off or working on a different shift.... sniff sniff... miss you guys lah...

Even mister pinky came over to wish me a fond farewell.......

I didnt want to post all the picks cos theres just too many :) ...i will try an compile it and email it to you guys (my ex co-workers) soon....

Anyway... i promised you guys and gals more pictures of Mega Mall in my last post.... So i shall leave you guys with a shot of the creppy mega mall christmas fairies.... pouncing out of some kind of shrub.... picking an unsuspecting kids who where looking for Santa...........

Merry Christmas Everybody and to Everybody a Happy New Year.......

mo

Let the Shopping begin!

Christmas is almost upon us and shopping is in the air. Went to mid valley two weeks ago to help Rose look for curtains. The deco in Mid Valley was not too bad. They seem to do a good job... especially last year and the year before that. This year it seems its a fairy land of something..... but once the fairies came out and started dancing... i felt a little scared... but i braved myself and tooke a few pictures of the fairies.... .....scary looking fairies....
Caught this guy in a shop window....and i just love what they did with pvc pipes in the background.... so...cool...


Mo Mid Valley in my next post.........

Wild on Wheels

Went to the Wild on Wheels car show which was organized by the AMC club.... a really good turn out of cars but not a good turn out of spectators. I got there in the afternoon and found out that many of the participating had left.... even while i was making my way towards all the cars ... a string of beetles and a combi left :(


Anyway click on the picture to have a look at more pictures of the show... some really cool cars...

November 07 'Photo of the Month'

Praying in the Pantry

Apeture F2.8
Shutter 1/6 sec
Focal Lenght 12mm
Exposure -0.33

Beowulf

The tale of Beowulf has been told in so many ways much like Homer’s Iliad… … and so far I have seen three…

The first one I watched was a C grade Christopher Lambert movie called Beowulf. It was so cheesy and bad with its cheesy graphics and even cheesier soundtrack…… … and like cheese it was full of plot holes…… the only thing good about this movie was the introduction of Rhona Mitra…….. even with Rhona’s ‘offerings’ and Christopher Lambert’s silver hair… I give it a 2/10…and with that im being generous …..what’s with the science fiction twists lah? Sheeshkebabs!



Beowulf & Grendel caught me by surprise… I didn’t know much about it until I wanted to know more about Gerard Butler after his performance in the movie 300…… it was noted that he did well in this movie too… so I went and got it. Beowulf & Grendel was filmed very well and although it’s a myth and was made famous in a poem, it was however portrayed very realistically. Somehow the grammar in that sentence doesn’t feel right….. anyway I would recommend this movie with a 7/10…. But mind you it can get a little dull but intriguing nonetheless.

Now we come to the latest installment of the famous poem of this infamous Norse warrior. First things first…. 3D animation has come really far… it was just stunningly superb. Its really hard to see the difference between animation and reality especially the skin tone and body motion…. But I think the animation of ‘hair’ still needs some work…
The movie captures you from the get go and it’s a wild ride from there on after but they did change the story a little bit… I call this Hollywootism. First, Beowulf does kill Grendel’s Mother but it was rumored that Grendel had an offspring. Secondly he does not inherit a Kingdom. The Movie Beowulf & Grendel followed the story more faithfully but the 3D motion capture Beowulf was more entertaining. So it gets 8/10.

MO.....

Checkout my BIG tripod!

Last Saturday My mum and sister took me and rose out for dinner to celebrate my birthday at Pizza Uno in Taipan... food was ok only.... but i have eaten their English breakfast before... and that was the bomb.... Anyway after we got back, the guys turned up at my doorstep to surprise me with beer and cake.,.... i must have been grinning from ear to ear.... and they even got me a present..... it was a big ass can kill a dog tripod for my camera..... !!!! wunderbar!!!!

see...with a tripod i can be in the picture too

Ofcos ....the guys moved on to the important things in life.... stuffing ones face and watching LIVE english football..... you can see it in their eyes that they werent impressed with the player tactics...

the girls were less then impressed...

time to cut the cake.....

G... being a 'shifty' person came late becos of work......GGGGGGGGGG

here's the BIG sakura tripod..... its BIG and sturdy... and damn stable.... it will certainly come in handy. Cant wait to use it properly. But the weight is surely going to be challenging... I am not sure if i would want to be lunging around with it on holidays.....

Anyway guys and gals...especially Dono... Thank you yeah... God bless!

The Indian Minority Report (borrowed from Jeff Ooi)

Now.... looking at the pictures above...in sequence mind you... Is what was reported in the Star accurate... visit http://www.jeffooi.com/ for more pictures of the truth..... To the Police i have these questions...... why round them up and corner them into the temple... then shoot tear gas and water canons when they are inside the temple gates.... These guys had nowhere to run...is this how you disperse a crowd...... hmmm what would have happened if the police had shot tear gas and water cannons at people inside the gates of the Masjid Jamek Mosque last november 10th 2007.....i'd really like to know the answer to that one...

...lets read what was reported in Star shall we... (btw this happened hours before the gathering in Jalan Ampang the same day)

Batu Caves temple property damaged, 69 protesters held

KUALA LUMPUR: Demonstrators broke into the Batu Caves temple compound and destroyed temple property early yesterday morning, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said.

He said the crowd that had gathered there swelled from a mere 200 people just after midnight to more than 1,000 by about 2am.

“The demonstrators forced open the locked gates and started breaking temple property, prompting the temple committee to lodge a police report,” he said. (They are protesting on the demolistion of a few temples... so they go to batu caves to deface the temple...yeah right!)

Minutes later several trucks of policemen, including those in plainclothes and members of the Light Strike Force unit, arrived at the temple and told the demonstrators to disperse.

However, they refused and instead fled into the temple premises, when police gave them a last warning.

When policemen pursued them, the demonstrators pelted and attacked them with stones and inter-locking bricks, resulting in several policemen being injured.

The demonstrators also threw a Molotov cocktail at a tourist charter bus, setting in on fire. They also shattered the windscreens and windows of several passing cars by throwing stones and bricks at the vehicles. (The road was already blocked... the only vehicles that were damaged were the ones parked at the temple... cant be sure about the tourist bus which was there at 3 in the morning!)

Musa said no tear gas or water cannons were used at the demonstrators during the incident. (Luckily... a picture paints a thousand words)

“By about 4am, 69 people had been arrested,” he added.

As at press time, police were keeping a close watch on the area

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i am not saying that i am for the protest and the way of protesting but it is the sense that the people should be given a chance to voice their opinions.... now with all the road blocks the police conducted over the past two weeks, the gathering still happened .... If the police had issued a proper permit and instilled guidlines on the premises of the gathering and what can and can not be done to hold a peaceful gathering to voice their protest ...am sure the police in turn would have had more control over the gathering .... Like i said before.... the police caused more traffic jams for the past two weeks but the protesters only caused a jam for half a day....that also only on a Sunday.... The human rights of these people were clearly violated but nothing is being said or done about that.......... well will the enforcers learn that restrain does not always mean control... ...
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Dreamy Purple

Shot this during Dan's Farewell party in Plaza TTDI. I found the foyer to be a dreamy purple or some sort of purple.... Took me a few tries to get the white balance right... not sure if i did but it turned out ok.

Anyway besides the Hindraf gathering which the police failed to stop even with road blocks and stationed police offices at varies locations all over klang valley which only made traffic worst every day for the past two weeks... which come to think of it was not as bad the few hours last sunday.... ok ok i shall not get into it.... for now.... for another post then.... but if you really want to see the truth about the gathering... then go to www.jeffooi.com and you can compare it with the reports you have read in the newspapers.... like how jeff put it... let the pictures do the talking...

It was my burpday yesday... but i really really really wasnt in the mood to do anything.... work an stuff lah...... but Rose eventually persuaded me to go out and catch a bite and a movie... ./...... Dinner was so so... tried a new mediterranean place in the new wing of Sunway Pyramid... eeerrr! i forgot the name .... it was something Fig or Fig something...hmmm... anyway.... it was not too bad but for what i got i think the price is a little too much.

After dinner we went and watched the movie Hitman ...hmmmm .... i like shoot'em up brainless movies.... but this one was bad... the action was ok lah... but overall it was a bad... anyway ... will write about it another day...
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Daniel's and Evy's Farewell Party

Daniel and Me.... Cant believe its been 7 plus years we have been working together... he joined the company about a year before me... the department will never be the same again. Your guidance and 'wisdom' will be missed.

Evy and me.... 3 years assisting me in running a department..... all the best to you on your future endeavors Evy. Well this is some what a late post (as usual) cos they left on the 31st of October... We had a little get together farewell party with lots of food and cake.... then went over to Waikiki 2 to party some more....

The two clowns...... after cutting the cake.... (dont ask me why we had cake.... but i must say that the cakes where delicious ...yummmmmm)

Dan and me...... we made beautiful music together.......

The after party... party.... at Waikiki 2 in Plaza TTDI.......... wasted?... no not yet...... we made sure we did not let Daniel go quietly ...mission accomplished...
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Lets Kick Some Ass!!!

Hot Fuzz…. was so hilarious lah…. I was in stitches watching this movie…. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were fantastic together, but then again I liked their outing in Shaun of The Dead better…. So if you loved Shaun, you would love this movie too… Well …I was thoroughly entertained so I will give Hot Fuzz a 9/10….. by the way Shaun of The Dead is 10/10 for me…




Wicker Man is the 3rd and last Nicholas Cage movie… in my quest to see if I really really hate him or not…… I really really hate him lah…I really do……. he has the same dopey look which makes me want to slap his face silly… Anyway this movie is a remake of a 70s classic. It was disturbingly stupid which left me with too many stupid questions like what the hell is he still doing there when he knows there’s something really strange going on in that place and he will need to get his ass off the island and bring in the big guns to nuke the place… Even the shocking ending does not make it any better….. 3/10


Dejavu had me going there…. for awhile at least…. Dejavu had me going there…. for awhile at least …. (Woah!… I just had a Dejavu moment)…… Then, somewhere half way into the movie…just as it starts to get really interesting …it crashed and burnt to the ground… with me feeling like a disappointed idiot…. It is official lah… the only time-travel movie which actual follows a proper time travel continuum, which made more sense then shoulder pads in a metallic green dress would be all three Back to The Future movies, with the Terminator series coming in second and 12 Monkeys a close third…….…. No other movie has done it better then Doc Brown and Marty McFly whizzing around in the Delorean…… …. Dejavu fails to deliver its story with conviction …….. 3.5/10 for me…. Maybe becos I expected more….hmmmm

If someone tells me, you need big boobs to be an ass kicking hot babe then I will have to tell them, No! You don’t need to have Double Ds to be an ass kicking Hot Babe!!... heck!... you don’t even need to kick any ass either, as Sabrina has shown in her post on Charlize Theron….but then again Charlize has kicked ass in Aeon Flux……. Anyway what I’m trying to say here is that Milla Jovovich is one hot ass kicking babe… as seen in all her Resident Evil movies… including the latest one, Extinction. This is a shootem up’ movie which you will enjoy if you turn your brain off…. But I must say there is a sense of Dejavu about the movie because it reminded me of so many other movies… Mad Max for most part of it……. Oh well, no points for originality… but I did enjoy the movie so it gets 6/10…



Ready to kick some ass!!!!!........

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