Loving Gorillaz! :)

Anyone acknowledged the latest album of Gorillaz?

Yeah, Plastic Beach is the name. 2D, Murdoc, Noodles and Russell are back! I managed to listen to all their songs, and my favourites are Stylo, Superfast Jellyfish and Empire Ants. 


And gosh, I love their new story concept, about how they ended up in this place called Plastic Beach. Their album tells the story on the life after El Manana, where the virtual characters lost their HQ, the Windmill and the way they meet each other. 


The funniest part is where Murdoc told the audiences that he took a bit of Noodles' DNA and used it to form a cyborg version of her. This band always keep me entertained ever since year 2001. 


You should watch this too. It features "Stylo" and "On Melancholy Hill" from the album. 

At the meantime, I currently have Lightroom 3 in my laptop. My Photoshop CS3 was removed as I am trying to install the CS5. However, my laptop crashed as I install it. This is a 32 bit laptop, though. :( 

Anyway,. enjoy Gorillaz :) 

Racism In Soccer

Happy that England scored! But what I didn't expected is Slovenia was out. Lando Donovan managed to score a late goal against Algeria and that was surprising.


Still, England still needs to buckle up for a more difficult series of matches as they are beginning to face the giants. Hopefully Mr. Rooney performs better. 


Anyway, while viewing at both matches (ENG vs SVN) and (USA vs ALG), I viewed at this comment. 

Yeah, the one in the middle. (Derka Derka)

Well, due to RTM's incapability to cover ALL sports, I had no choice but to follow some live updates from the site. And yeah, Derka-derka's comment is one of the thousand comments that are racist and unscrupulous. (perhaps millions)


I mean, you shouldn't be yelling hate/racist comments while celebrating the World Cup. The game is wonderful, where you have 32 teams from every corners of the world playing together in the spirit if humanity. Plus, it's the team you criticized at the max, not the country and the people. That has nothing to do with the game. 

Say No! To Racism. Love and celebrate the game together! Sports are meant to bridge the gap among nations. It is for world peace, not war. Don't we want to have peace, after all? 


Life is short, why hate? 

Taylor's Open Day (June)

Can't believe I can edit photos faster and still able to take some remarkable pictures even after weeks of not touching the camera! :)  

Anyway, I just spent my weekend helping out in the most recent Taylor's Open Day for the July intake. My job was basically categorized as in the admission/registration team, as I helped on student ID documenting and supported the registration procedures (my secondary objectives). 

And yeah, I managed to capture a few photos during my resting hours. And this is it. :)

Oops, wrong composition. Raffi, my senior managed to capture a better shot of visitors in the previous Open Days.




Design school booth. 


Biomedics  


Mr. Phillip consulting parents. I missed his lectures, he always shares a lot of interesting stories, with lessons of life. 




Consultations in the Hospitality and Tourism booth. 


Taylor's Engineering's Buggy. 



So, this is how they make COD: Modern Warfare 2. (School of Computing's Booth)


Communications' Booth: Pao's horror short film on abuse seemed to captivate many audiences.





Mr. Benjamin Loh consulting for the School of Communication - my school :) He has a lot of knowledge about the communication industries. 


Anyway, as I was working, a lot of things went through my mind. One of them was about education. It reminded me during my degree's orientation where there was an argument on the statement "Is education a right or a privilege?"


It is a human rights for everyone to have education, but if I were to say it politically correct, tertiary level education today is a privilege. I don't see any sense when it comes to the fact that social classes are divided through the quality of education. For example, the rich kids deserve world class educations from international schools, while those who can't afford it will study in government schools. 


While the poor will end their education profiles in their Form 6/ A Levels equivalent results, only the rich deserve the privilege to study for a Bachelor's Degree. However, half of them applied for govt. loans and these unfortunate ones will have no choice but to have more debts as they enter the workforce. 


By looking at this fact of inequality, something is very wrong. Education shouldn't be seen as a business or a course to find knowledge - it should be the tool for the development of humanity. I believe universities (or academias) during the days of the Greek philosophers are much more different than what universities are today, for people like Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, etc, are all great thinkers who don't focus on profits.