RIP Yasmin Ahmad

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." - Claude Monet

That was one of Yasmin Ahmad favorite quotes.

Though i don't know her personally but is such a waste for us Malaysia especially in advertising industry. For those who never know her, you can see her Petronas Ad every festive seasons. I guess not on this coming Deepavali. And hard to see another movie director as good as her. For those who dunno. She was the director for alot of famous movies such as Sepet, Guhbra, Mukhsin, Muallaf and few others more.

The day before she got stroke my bro just saw her and had a smoke with her. She was a wonderful and friendly lady he said. I will say she changed the perception most of the Malaysians and keep reminding us in every way by her ads.

May she rest in peace.

Yasmin Ahmad 1958 - 2009

Name : Yasmin Ahmad
Occupation: Leo Burnett creative director / scripwriter / director / producer
Place of birth: Bukit Treh, Muar, Johor
Date of birth: July 1,1958
Husband: Abdullah Tan Yew Leong (married January 2003)
Education and career
• A graduate in arts, majoring in politics and psychology from Newcastle University.
• Worked as a trainee banker in 1982 for just two weeks.
• Worked for IBM as a marketing representative while moonlighting as a blues singer and pianist by night.
• Began advertising career as copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather.
• Joined Leo Burnett in 1993 as joint creative director with Ali Mohammed and eventually promoted to executive
creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur.

Films
Rabun, Sepet, Gubra, Mukhsin, Muallaf, Talentime
• Also responsible for numerous Petronas ads and Singaporean commercials

Achievement highlights
• Bintang RTM 1975 runnerup
• Most Original Story and Best Film (Malaysian Film Festival 2005 – for Sepet)
• Best Film (27th Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, France – for Sepet)
• Best Asian Film (18th Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan – for Sepet)
• Best Film (Global Chinese Golden Arts, Malaysia – for Sepet)
• Best Screenplay, Best Film (Malaysian Film Festival 2006 – for Gubra)
• Silver (Netpack Festival, Indonesia – for Mukhsin)
• Best Film – Grand Prix award by Kinderfest International Jury and Generation K-Plus category Crystal Bear
Special Mention (Berlin International Fim Festival, Germany — for Mukhsin)
• Best Asian Film (The Cinemanila International Film Festival, Philippines — for Mukhsin)

This is few of her famous ads

Hari Raya ad


CNY ad


Deepavali ad


Funeral TVC Commercial


the video below is a tribute to Yasmin Ahmad

High Dynamic Range imaging (first try)

HDR image processing is a technique that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

For example you take few different pictures with underexposed or overexposed and correct exposure with a same angle and combine it all together.

Here is my first try of HRD imaging.

This is the picture of under exposure

Here is the over exposure

This is the normal exposure


After some adjustment of all combined pics. Here is the result.Some other HRD images

I like the effect of these three images below

My hamsters are lesbo

Just got another two new hamster last night but the sad thing is they can't get along well. They doesn't like the new ones but they can get along well with the new female or maybe they have never seen a male for a long time, they just too used to females as i can see they always lick each others. HAHA. They bullied him till he bleed so i have to separate them. SIGH

Poor little fella, he got bruised on his eyes!!
Thought of giving to someone buy they are just too cute to give away!!!

Anti theft system in Malaysia

We all know that car theft is a major concern among of all car owners here in Malaysia. No matter how hard we try to prevent it to happened or how expensive the anti-theft system we bought they always can come out with a way to break into your car. Every car owners out there is trying every way to prevent this crime to increase by installing expensive anti-theft systems, steering lock, gear lock, pedal lock even prevent from parking their car for long hours in dangerous zone rated with high crimes rate such as places like Wangsa Maju LRT station, Asia Cafe Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Damansara, Kepong and Cheras.

For those who driving a car like Satria Gti should be extra careful because this is one of the hot car for the 'market'. Few of my friends who driving this car got stolen before. I got a friend that his car got broken in for three times!! week after week!!

If there any way to prevent this from happening? this problem existed for more than few years already. Should we blame the PDRM or blame ourself for not taking extra attention about this?

Few days ago when i fetch my friend back home and i saw this owner has a cage to lock his car inside. This looks ridiculous to me and funny to me at the same time. WTF!!! i think breaking the padlock is easier compare to break into the car. Maybe this is just to slow down the thief. But to build a cage like this is not cheap though. Damn kiasu!!

Rallying compilation

This is one for the rally fans out there. Its seldom you come across a good compilation but this video is simply amazing. Featuring clips from the distant and not so distant past to the fairly recent, it also features every international rallying hero you can think of - almost. So rally fans, turn up those speakers, settle in, get comfortable, this is going to be the best five minutes of your day. Hats off to the person who made this clip - simply amazing effort.

source: zth