I really like this photo that I took while I was in Kunak, Sabah for the last time. All of our friends and family were having picnic at a this place where it has a natural hot spring going on. I was playing around experimenting with forevertulips’s new Sony DSLR camera and was snapping at everything. People, rocks, scenery even shoes.

This is a photo of one of our good friends having a blast with his two lovely daughters. I really like how this photo portrays happiness.

Oh, rc helicopters do make me happy as well.

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I mentioned about the contest before here.

Let me introduce you to the band members.

Left to right: Kay Kastum (Guitars,Vocals), Patrick (Drums), Walter (Keyboards,Vocals), Jefrin (Lead Guitars,Vocals), Giluk (Bass,Vocals)

This band was formed..let’s see…about a couple of weeks? But we do get along pretty well. All of us are Sabahan’s except for our drummer obviously. We would love to see you on that day. Here are some details to help you with:

Date: Friday, August 15th 2008

Time: 8PM

Venue: Titanium Bar & Dance Club
Level 101, Block A, Pusat Dagangan Phileo Damasara II
No. 15, Jalan 16/11 Off Jalan Damansara
46350 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Note: There will be a RM20 entrance fee which INCLUDE one drink - Jack Daniels whiskey, Finlandia vodka or softdrink. 1 voting slip will also be given to you - VOTE GLUTEUS MAXIMUS!!! :þ

****Additional Notes:

Audiences can vote for their favourite band as many times as they wish. To get additional voting slips (other than the one that is given to paying customers at the entrance), audiences can:

-Buy an additional bottle of Jack Daniel’s or Finlandia inside the venue at RM268.00 nett which will come with an additional six (6) voting slips.

- Buy two (2) bottles of either Jack Daniel’s or Finalandia inside the venue at RM488.00 nett which will come with an additional twelve (12) voting slips.

With Jack Daniel’s Global Tour as The GBOB Challenge Malaysia’s sponsor, Jack Daniel’s consumers can win the opportunity to go on an exclusive trip to Tennessee, USA. To enter the contest, Jack Daniel’s consumers can simply send a text message with the correct answer and a pin code (scratch to reveal) stickered on each bottle of Jack Daniel’s purchased. Five winners will be selected from the SMS pool whilst another five will be selected from GBOB audiences during each qualifying heats and finale. These lucky 10 will represent Malaysia to a 3-day 2-night party in Singapore with other participating SEA countries where the grand draw to the United States will be held.

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If you are into Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz or Brazilian Jazz you may be familiar with the name, Antonio Carlos Jobim. I really dig his music. The video on the right featured Jobim with Andy Williams jamming and stuff. Some info as per Wikipedia about Antonio Carlos Jobim:

Jobim’s musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Ravel, and by jazz. Among many themes, his lyrics talked about love, political repression, betrayal, and especially about the natural beauties of Brazil, like the “Mata Atlântica” forest, birds like the Matita Perê, and his home city of Rio de Janeiro.

One of his songs sung by Astrud Gilberto made a sensational hit especially in the US and internationally. In fact a key event in making Jobim’s music known in the English speaking world was his collaboration with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Gilberto’s wife. The song was entitled “Girl From Ipanema”.

The story goes that Jobim and his buddy Moraes would be chilling out in this “Veloso” bar-café and that the girl by the name of Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a fifteen-year-old girl living in Montenegro Street of the fashionable Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil would stroll past the popular cafe on her way to the beach everyday. Pictured here is Helô Pinheiro in her later life.

Oh she did become a Playboy Playmate in 1987 and another time in 2003! Well, you can do anything if you’re the Girl from Ipanema!

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There I was…feeling lonely and a little bit sleepy because of my lack of sleep, I was just about to grumble and leave the shop when lo and behold! I saw this bright light shining right at me (actually it was a car driving in to park in front of the shop) and then there was this three ladies coming straight at me. With my vision a little blurred due to the light, I slowly regained my sight… Read more »

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