Globophobia.

This is a story that will cinch the deal on globophobia. It's a real and valid fear. Even though it's a fear many are suffering from, it is still considered an uncommon phobia. Why are people afraid of balloons? For the most part, it more of the fear of it popping. That would be lygirophobia, which is the fear of loud noises.

But today, my story takes a different turn.

My story starts,funnily enough, at the 4th Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Fiesta on the 17th of March. It was a sunny Saturday morning. Caught a few balloons taking off. Yayness! After watching the big guns go off, it was bazaar time!!! I hunted down my usual hot air balloon fiesta vice : Bubbles

Pretty much this guy when it comes to bubbles.

Never knew bubble hunting could be so frustrating. Now bubble guns are all the trend. What happened to good old bubble blowing the old fashioned way? It's just a little science to it! The fun type of science at that  :(  After much hunting and over priced bubbles, finally found a normal, regular bottle of bubbles.

This stall didn't have it. That stick costs 3 bucks Nuh-uh

Found a lady selling really old stock and she let me have it for rm2. I can't find my picture of it. It was a purple Thomas the train shaped bottle. Creepy, but purple so yay! LET THE BUBBLE BLOWING BEGIN!

EDIT: found the picture of my loot from the fiesta. That's the notebook that fell from the 8tv truck and when i tried to give it back the crew just ignored the book in my outstretched hand. bleh YU! And the glorious Baked cookies. Reminds me of the cookies my mom used to bake. :( They were at FMFA too! And that purple thing in the corner is the bubble bottle! ( which Mikayla wheedled into giving to her a week later D: such a softie)

Moving on, there were 8tv crew, giving out balloons and freebies. Pink balloon makes me fly. Here are pictures of the pink balloon.

Bowties and owls. best combo of the day.

Oh cute pink truck driven by a cute old lady, why you so funny......

I spotted a nice empty, grassy area for an impromptu jump shot op! Glad my outfit of the day allowed me to do that. 

Teal layered top from F.O.S

Army green denim shorts from Brands Outlet 

Purple slim-fit sneakers from All Star (china brand one ar)

Such good times. Fun in the sun, all pink, perky and happy. And as always, I was prepared to say goodbye to it. All good balloon fun comes to an end at some point, usually, very short period of time, it being a balloon and all, mean to burst, deflate after it has served its purpose of momentary fun. Or so I thought.

Left the balloon in J's car since that day. Oddly, for the following weekends, I do see the balloon. and... it strangely never burst despite being left in the car under the sun for more than a week. Day in, day out, heat and rain. Then just this weekend, he dumped it in my car. ok, i guess? 

Picked up some friends later and, I can't quite remember what he said exactly, but I was telling him to be careful of the freaky balloon, and he said something that was to the effect of me getting this balloon recently. I then proceeded to explain when I got it. And there was a slight shock. Because.... this is how it looks like today, 9th of April 2012.

Close to a month after getting the balloon, it still looks the same. Not deflating, didn't burst. Just... like that la

He was saying, "yeah right, if it's that long it would have shrunk by now!"

As you can see, not much difference. It's just a balloon right? Maybe it's a real high quality balloon. Maybe. I hope so. So, for now, I'll let it brood in the back seat of my car, to live out its years accompanied by umbrellas and tissue boxes. Who's to say when its life should end? Who am I to burst it? It's stronger than I gave it credit for definitely.

It somehow scares me. Brings globophobia to a whole new level of pointless and odd.

That concludes the Putrajaya trip and the tale of the Odd Balloon. I do hope its not plotting my demise, sitting in the backseat of my car with all the time in the world.

i hope.

Saito College gets us ex-saito-ed!

It amazing where technology gets us with what it can do, and yet we sometimes tend to look down on the Malaysian potential in achieving the same accomplishments we give our western counterparts credit for.

When it comes to interactive concepts, we would never have imagined college students pulling off anything drastic, but Saito College has proven this wrong.

The students, together with industry veterans recently launched the college's RM100000 worth first phase of and advertising and communication campaign : 'Sa-Kun: The Rise of the Third Eye'. It's going to be a year-long affiar, spearheaded by Pirana Graphics.

I personally missed the tvc run, as we arrived a little bit later than expected. But from what I know, Sa-Kun and Ito-Chan are two cute round-headed characters. In this first episode, Sa-Kun tries to be more creative with his learning but is shunned by friends. The 40-second pilot ends with a cliff-hanger, which asks viewers to get to the Saito College FB page to watch the 2nd episode.

It's not just watching though, you can actually help decide the fate of the the characters and the story line by posting your suggestions onto the Satio College FB page.

I'm a huge fan of augmented reality and interactive stuff. So knowing that our local young 'uns have actually come out with something like this, it's amazing, it pushes boundaries. I mean, imagine going to TGV cinemas like every other time to catch John Carter, and ta-da it's not just another ad before your movie, and you actually get to get your hands into the thought process and development of the series. It's a milestone and you can tell the students involved in the campaign love what they do. There's the passion there that fuels what they do and of course the product of the passion will definitely be worth the watch.

You can go to https://www.facebook.com/saitocollege to get in on the on-goings :) Also... SUPPORT!

pssttt! you get to see how Sa-Kun looks like if you go there! :)

Arthured

DISCLAIMER: crappy mobile pics thanks to lazyness and much fun with friends.

so it was Arthur's Day. and i had tickets. for me, it wasn't about boozing. i had three things in mind when i invited or asked who i asked:
       
           i.those who enjoy the company
          ii.those who liked the music
         iii. those who liked the booze

So YAY! unfortunately, there were people who didn't enjoy or like the other people who were going, who have no idea who is who and not a Taio fan...and lastly....doesn't drink.so.sorry i didn't want to make this difficult for everyone else and easier for them too. Sorry for those i asked but couldn't make it as well :(

So yay as yay can be. we were off! horrid jam at the roundabout.SO CLOSE.yet.so far. D: but in the end sampai juga.the whole time von von n yailee were doing their make up. lagen: thank God i'm a guy.

 lagen: thank God i'm a guy.

Obligatory arthur's day bg pic

unrotatable pics up ahead D:

Ohkay, so all that was before we really got swinging.After that it was clappers, singing along, head bopping, woo-hooing and....i don't quite remember. but yeah...

Obligatory screen shot of crowd

obligatory attempted Taio on screen shot

Honest truth? too busy hanging out and listening to the music to whip my phone out to take more pics.

really. 

i wasn't quite happy with the one drink i had.kinda flat. but two sausages in a hotdog?win.

anyways, we wanted to dance a little, but we didn't want to squish like sardine at the stage where many people were. neither did we want to stand around like cool cucumbers. too mainstream.

so we picked a spot right behind the sound systems which meant no view of stage but of all 4 huge screens.good enough.and danced off to taio.sorry if we scared you cool non-dancing cucumbers who saw us. girls just wanna have fu-un.

So after the whole she-bang came the real bang bang boomz.

DEFINITELY NEED SHOT OF FIREWORKS

The invited [super bright mode]

normal mode

attempted after-party camwhore

more of that

le gurli gurls

not forgetting the mess of the aftermath

Obligatory globe picture with ming ming

obligatory lighted up harp pic with random people

We waited quite some time for the human jam to clear up thinking it will also clear up the car jam...

we were wrong....cars weren't really moving,couldn't even back up. Didn't even bother to turn on the engine...

waiting le boredly for traffic to ease up

all those pretty lights are cars not moving.

but eventually i had space behind me and we zoomed off to the other non-congested exit and had good noms in McD.

polyvored version of my outfit (as close as i could find la)

le lagen camwhore shot .fake serious.

So, some came for the drinks, some came for the acts,some for the people

I went for the company,enjoyed the acts and had a drink :) is contented. ;)

gah.pics cannot be rotated for goodness knows what reason.waiwaiwaiwai.

tuuATUR!

SO! it's over for the sem! like woohooooo!!! the cold weather accompanied this experience of realizing you're "free". SO plans plans plans? just the right time to pick up my Arthur's Day tickies! SO ngam the timing.habis exam terus enjoy. so went with party ppl Yailee and :Lagen. Found my way to centerpoint after not being there in MOOONTHS. Got my 4tickies + 2 for blogging..so yay! cool day for now....nak gi kite flyinggggg D: anyway.... bright red hair colour for < rm 10? is YES.is WANT.is HAS. so so so sosososossosos....for now, happy parteh peeperl.

AND MEE