I’m leaving for Sibu tonight

huygens sibu second

I’m flying off to Sibu again tonight to coordinate and oversee
another deployment. It’s a short notice trip, I only knew yesterday and
the company gave me the tickets today. I’m going off tonight, my
apologies for not having time to reply the comments and post more, I’ve
got a lot of work to do. Jasmine, please email me again, coz there’s a
huge amount of mail to sort through and I can’t find yours.

Update: Kuching’s most exciting police chase just
passed by and I missed it!!! It’s the photographer’s worse nightmare,
five police patrol cars with sirens and lights flashing, chasing two
people on a motorbike. The police were armed, and pointing at the
fleeing culprits (from what I don’t know) but they didn’t shoot. I ran
down, digicam in hand, just in time to catch two patrol cars with a
police leaning out with a firearm in the first and the suspects in
front, and pressed the shutter release…and it told me “Card not
present”. I left my CF card in the card reader upstairs.

United Daily News features photo of me

united daily huygens

I graced the pages of the United Daily News today. Unfortunately, it
was just a back shot of me. The article spans a whole page and the
photo of me is here:

united daily mbks

I’m the one in the purple shirt. The one in the blue shirt is my
coworker and the only one with the visible face is my CTO, Alex.

united daily photo

Here’s a closer look at the photo. I think the paper wanted to scoop
all the others by one day since the official press conference was held
today. Look for photos of me in the papers tomorrow, coz being the
publicity whore I am, I stood as close to the mayor of MBKS as
possible, thus increasing the probability of my photo appearing in the
papers. πŸ˜‰

My apologies for not posting much and not being able to reply the
comments today, I’m swamped with work and I’ll have to fly to Sibu
tomorrow again to oversee another installation. It’s part of the work I
do, even though I mostly develop systems and do R&D, I also propose
solutions and supervise the deployment of it.

ICT 2004: Day 3 – Kodak girl

kodak models
The three Kodak models at a pre-shoot session

me kodak models
…and this is the one with me.

There was a photo shooting competition with the theme “Kodak Girl”
today. Basically, there were three models, no post production
(immediate CF Card submission) and the best three will get digital
cameras as a prize. I did not enter to win, so I politely refused to
submit the whole set of photos, like the others. I like retaining the
copyrights to my photos, and submitting it would transfer my
intellectual property to them. Here are some of the photos I took. I
can’t put up the whole series coz it would take up too much space.

kodak shot

I think I submitted this one. I’m not sure, but if I did, I’m an idiot coz this is not the best one from the series.

model two

This is the second model, got her to pose for a “camera tag” shot.

model three

This is the third model.

models interacting

Here’s one with the models interacting but since the theme seems to
be singular i.e. Kodal girl vs Kodak girls, I did not put this one in,
though it’s a good one, IMHO. Hmm…come to think of it, can you really
use “IMHO” in the context of your own work?

kodak like

Here’s the photo that I really like – I did not submit this though,
coz I realized her left hand obscured the Kodak top. Her name is
Shirley. If you think she looks familiar, you would be right. She was
at BTS 2004 too and she remembered me from that expo. You can see as
the SlideHide model here [sixthseal.com]. I talked to her after the session, more about that later.

shirley dark

This is another one I like – the image came out with a mysterious
aura. I mainly worked with Shirley coz she’s a good model i.e. she’s
responsive to the photographer. It takes good photographer-model
interaction to create good shots.

me shirley

Anyway, I talked to her after all that, she’s really friendly like I
mentioned previously, I pitched the pengsan.com advertisement concept
to her, told her it would involve drugs and I would need to have a
model release form signed upon completion of the assignment. I like to
work with her but I was apprehensive coz she said she was a college
student at first, but it turns out that it’s not a college here, so I
guess that’s okay. I do not want to jeopardize the academic prospects
of anyone on the account of the controversial pengsan.com ad I’m going
to push out.

She said she will be leaving Kuching next week, so the photo shoot
needs to be done early next week if it’s going to be with her, but
regardless, she told me she’ll hook me up with her other model friends
if I can’t do it early next week. I’m not sure, I could if it’s at
night, but night shots doesn’t have the effect that I want. I got her
number and I told her to think about it, we’ll be meeting tomorrow
anyway.

Oh, and before I forget…

This is today’s ICT 2004 video:

ict04 day3

Download: ICT 2004, Day 3 [sixthseal.com]

ICT 2004: Day 2 – Blackout!

bts blackout

We had a power failure lasting about 30 minutes during the second
day of the ICT 04, Kuching expo. It was complete darkness for several
seconds before the backup generators kicked in and the emergency lights
went on. That dim light sources were all we had until power was
restored.

ivy

This is Ivy from the booth opposite ours. She’s very friendly and
nice, considering the way I was taking advantage of their candy bowl:

candy bowl

The blue ones are the best, caramel, pure blast of sugar…mmm…

Here are some photos from day two:

case mod
This is a beautiful blue neon transparent case mod with a large flat screen LCD.

flat projectors
Flat video screens…

old skool
Old skool lobby style pitching…all of whom scattered upon seeing my digicam. πŸ˜‰

wcg04 nfs
WCG 2004 contestants playing Need for Speed: Underground.

case mods
Here’s another case mod…a nice aquarium design with plastic fishes and a water system enclosed on one side.

free_boh_tee.jpg
There was also free Boh tea being served. Umph!

…and the customary video walkthrough

ict04_day2.jpg

Download: ICT 2004, Day 2 [sixthseal.com]

ICT 2004: Day 1 – Doing what I do best

ida girls

…and it’s not pitching. πŸ˜‰ I’m not into doing that. I’m the
systems engineer so I’m just helping out. The two people above are with
IDA, the organizers of this expo and the previous one, so I know them
from the previous expo we had a booth in just two weeks ago.

me joanne

This is me and Joanne.

ro reps

The Ragnarok Online booth had representatives from Penang.

me with ro girl

I didn’t get her name. I was really exhausted (aka coming down really hard) yesterday since I only got 4 hours of sleep the night before and no sleep at all for several days before that.

girls unknown booth

This was even worse…

me with girls unknown

…I can’t even remember which booth they were from.

me foaf

She’s a friend of a friend, which reminds me, she wanted the photo,
will have to remember to get it developed at one of them kiosks
tomorrow.

Here’s the video from Day 1 of ICT 2004:

ict 04 day 1

Download: ICT 2004, Day 1 [sixthseal.com]

The Day 2 writeup will be up next, and we have models coming in for
a photo shoot tomorrow, so you can expect more of this. My apologies
for alienating my female audience, we shall have this sort of posts in
moderation here at sixthseal.com in the future. πŸ˜‰

ICT Expo 2004: Day 0 – Setup

kcba ict expo 04

This is KCBA ICT Expo 2004 – the second expo we’re establishing a
presence in. KCBA is the acronym for Kuching Computer Business
Association and ICT apparently stands for Information, Communication,
Technology. It’s organized by the good people at IDA Exhibition
Services and it’s at Level 5 of the Permata Carpark Building.

ict04 kuching

ICT Expo 2004 is more oriented towards entertainment and consumer
electronics, and is supposed to attract a younger crowd, compared to
the previous expo, which was mainly for suppliers and trade people. It
will officially open tomorrow, today is the day the exhibitors come in
and set things up.

wcg pcs

Anyway, the WCG (World Cyber Games) East Malaysia preliminary is
held at the same expo. That’s a pro gaming tourney, and I had half
thought about joining for fun, but they told me the spots were full and
the signups were closed five days ago. The above shows the boxes that
the games are going to be played on.

security wcg 2004

There was a security guard walking around, no doubt to prevent
competitors from installing aimbots or something. I got him to pose
beside the arena of PC’s and he kindly obliged. Cheers!

Here’s the customary video of the day:

ict2004 setup

Download: ICT Expo 2004 Setup [sixthseal.com]

The reason for the long pause is coz I was checking my Exhibitor tag
to see what expo this is…you tend to lose track after a while. :p

Well, since today is the setup day (not open to the public), not all
the booths are finished yet, but from what I see, this is going to be a
more interesting expo. There were a lot of promising booths offering
intriguing products.

intel loot me

Intel is also renting a couple of booths at the expo. They have a
“Loot me!” sign attached to their booth. There’s no one there, in fact
the whole expo floor was practically empty. Monitors anyone?

dreamsky booth setup

The booth to opposite us and a little to the left has Ragnarok Online – Dream Sky stuff. I’m not into MMORPGs…

ragnarok balloons

…but these balloons were going “Grab one, I’m cute!”

Here are some miscellaneous shots from the expo floor on setup day:

ict04 misc 1

ict04 misc 2

ict04 misc 3

I’m intrigued by this device.

infocus thingy

It goes “I am EVERYTHING & EVERYWHERE. I am InFocus.” I’m not
sure what it does, the dark walk in display doesn’t do anything, but it
could be one of those integrated home entertainment system things. I’ll
report back tomorrow.

poor john

This poster really made my day. Anti-intellectual property theft
(the correct term for “software piracy”) propaganda. This is John, a
“computer genius” falling victim to “software pirates”. Poor John…a
minute of silence please, for John’s plight.

idiot at ict04

Men behaving badly. This illustrates the concept of “chao huey”
well, a local term which literally translates to “fire escaping”. It’s
one of the few things that survives cross-language translation. Chao huey
is the term people use to describe that aggressive and pissed off state
of mind following prolonged and high caffeine intake before benzos are
called in to temper (no pun intended) the negative effects. It can
manifest itself in various ways, namely, aggressive behavior towards
other people, a general simmering rage, and here, it shows a shirtless
someone giving you the finger with his pants falling down, showing his
tattered, but comfortable briefs.

When questioned, the man said that he’s feeling hot from all the
manual setting up work and wanted to go shirtless. I did not talk to
him much coz he was really agitated and confrontational.

Disclaimer: I made sure that there were no organizers
in the vicinity before taking that photo. There wasn’t anyone at the
empty expo grounds at that time except for us and this girl who was so
surprised she stopped in her tracks as I was posing for the photo. This
is just a fun photo taken by an employee and should not be taken to
reflect upon the company in any way.

ict04 july 1

1st of July (tomorrow) is when ICT 2004 will be open to the public.
Come one, come all! I’m at Booth 30, say sixthseal.com and I’ll take a
photo with you. =D

Anyway, we take turns having our lunch break…mine is up, I’m going back to the expo to set up the wireless LAN.

BTS Day 3: Booth babes!

janet kam kam

The term “booth babes” is a totally un-politically correct term, so
we’ll use the phrase “aesthetically pleasing female liaisons” instead.
I’ve been in this convention for several days – tomorrow is the last
day. This is the Best of Show – Janet Lim from Kam Kam Sanitaryware Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of Kim Hin). She’s the Sales Officer, or so I gather from her business card.

janet is god

Of all the females in the show, I immediately noticed her – she’s
the one with the looks, the attitude (though that dissipates when you
talk to her), and…well, this is a difficult topic to approach without
seeming like a pig, so I’ll just say it once and for all – Janet Lim is
absolutely fabulous, the best female in BTS 2004 in my eyes.

I wanted to take a photo of her since the first day but I didn’t get
around to it until today. I think she was sick of me approaching her
for photographs/videos – I think I did that 5-6 times coz I wanted a
really good shot of her and my coworker Deng was going on about how my
photography doesn’t capture her beauty in real life. Oh, and the last
time was when I was totally ethanol impaired…now that’s a good
impression. *shrugs*

me with janet

Gorgeous isn’t she? My apologies for “spoiling” the photo with my
less-than-pleasant mug. I would say “/me drools” but then that wouldn’t
sit well with my gf, so I’ll refrain. πŸ˜‰ Oh shit, come to think of it,
I wrote down my blog’s URL in my business card when I passed it to her
– I hope she doesn’t see this…

janet me uti
Last shot, I was ethanol impaired while this photo was taken…

Nevertheless, I won’t be posting up the videos and other photos of
her – that’s my personal collection. :p I probably would go out early
tomorrow and develop the photos I promised to several people though-
just shove it into one of my smaller CF cards and pass it to a photo
studio. Come to BTS 2004 – see Janet in real life, I haven’t seen a
more elegant (old skool word, but it fits) person in ages.

Right, here’s the other BTS 2004 female booth personalities (it’s so hard being PC nowadays, I exhaust my thesauruses):

me with loh again

This is our booth neighbor Loh. She won’t be coming tomorrow (it’s
her last day) so I told her I’ll mail her photos to her. Come to think
of it, I’ll just pass it to the booth management.

nu coat girls

These are the girls from Nu-Coat. I didn’t get their name too, it
was a busy day today, so I had to run and shoot and get back to my
booth (before getting pissed at the end of the night though).

slidehide girl

Here’s the girl from SlideHide. Much props to her for being
friendly! She’s great! They have these concealable compartments that
would be perfect to keep your dru…er, items,
concealed…except the law enforcement officers here are too smart for
that shit. You know what they do when they raid your residence? They go
through the ceiling boards and toilet cistern – most obvious places of
concealment. That is why I put my stuff in plain view – I reckon
they’ll be looking too hard for concealed drugs to see the stuff that’s
not concealed. πŸ˜‰

me with slidehide

This is a photo of me with her. I took several (again) coz the
previous ones didn’t come out so well (people walking into the frame
etc) – thanks for being a good sport! Cheers!

lunch with deng

Okay, back to the convention stuff – here’s lunch with Deng at
McDonald’s. They have a promo going on where you get a McFloat for
McFree with a McChicken at no extra McPrice. Yes, that is my Xanax Face
(TM) – try and pitch rude strangers and tell me you don’t need some
chemical assistance without resorting to unacceptably violent measures.
Xanax is good. My friend, I would not have apologized if I wasn’t on
benzodiazepines, you high and mighty fuck. Retaliation beckons, please
don’t let me see you in town when I’m not representing the company. I
digress…

Anyway, we take turns for lunch, I like going with Deng, she reminds me of a friend I have.

huygens dinner
L-R: Jordan, Deng, me (Huai Bin)

This is dinner…at the discussion area booth beside our booth…we have a RM 50 meal allowance from the company.

We have two videos today, one of the last route inside and another of the outside exhibition area:

bts day 3

Download: BTS Day 3, indoor [sixthseal.com]

bts day 3 outdoor

Download: BTS Day 3, outdoor [sixthseal.com]

Tomorrow is the last day of BTS (Building and Trade Show) 2004 – come and visit booth S6 and I’ll feature you on sixthseal.com.

…but only if you say so, I don’t know who you are if you don’t identify yourself.

The night ended with an open bar for all exhibitors…drink, regurgitate, repeat. :p

open bar veritas dun mix
Alcohol and veritas don’t mix!

Now, I’m worried if I said things I shouldn’t have said about
veritas’s private life in front of management while under the influence
of ethanol…

Phrase of the Day: (hushed tones) Listen
mate, I’m just doing my job here. I’m representing my company at this
expo…don’t make the mistake of forgetting that after all this, I’m
just the average guy on the street. I will not hesitate to get a bunch
of my friends to smash your face into pulp if you try and start shit
again. I’ll tell you straight out…right here, I’m the silent and
apologetic company representative, but after I take off my shirt, I’m
the Ah Beng you see on the streets. I urge you not to piss me off, my
friend. This expo does not last forever and you do not want to piss me
off, lest you run into me at night. Do we understand each other? Good.
I’m Huai Bin, the systems engineer here…don’t hesitate to call to
email me or even call my cell phone if you have any tech related
questions. Thank you for your time, sir.

BTS Day 2: Termite Queen!

termite queen and king

I just noticed a booth by Termite System Specialist Sdn Bhd which has a real life display of termites! They have a chunk of earth with a living termite queen and king and heaps of termites swarming (or whatever it is that termites do) around. It’s wonderful!

Here’s a video of the termite display (with commentary):

living termites display

Download: Living termites display [sixthseal.com]

Today has been busy, so I didn’t get a chance to tour around much
and take photos. I hear we have one of the busiest booths in our show.
I know I said “We’re so confident with our product that we’re offering
you an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee” more than I cared to.
I’m not much of a pitch person…

at a group shot

Here’s a photo of me (white shirt) with the AT & A people (brown shirts).

bts parking tip

This is a tip for the people who want to go to Permata (for the
seafood, bar, or just to park there) – get your parking ticket stamped
at this self-service Parking Coupon Verification Counter and it’s a
flat rate of RM 2 per entry instead of RM 1 per hour.

This is the traditional show grounds tour, this time it’s taken in a different section of the Building and Trade Show (BTS):

bts day 2

Download: BTS Day 2 [sixthseal.com]

taking turns for dinner
L-R: Yee, Deng, me (Huai Bin)

It was such a busy time for our booth we had to take turns to
eat…note the discrepancies in the number of people and the number of
plates.

BTS Day 1: The grinning blue fluffy toilet

blue grinning fluffy toilet

This blue Madaya toilet mascot (yes, there is a person inside) was
walking around the show grounds and features a lift able toilet seat
which has a wonderfully detailed brown colored lining inside and sweets
on top of that. It’s a magnificent combination, I’m sure you’ll agree.
πŸ˜‰

toilet and me

I loved it so much I wanted to take a photo with it. Let’s dig deep for sweets!

deng toilet

I’m not the only one. This is my coworker Deng.

madaya ppl with toilet

Here are some Madaya employees with the blue sweet dispensing toilet that everyone loves.

In other news, here’s the first day’s tour of the show grounds, narrated by yours truly again, but this time I’m in it as well.

bts day 1

Download: BTS 2004 – Day 1 [sixthseal.com]

All videos from now on requires DivX 5.11, please take note of that, it’s the last time I will be announcing it. Cheers!

huygens datuk wong

Datuk Sri Wong Soon Kai was the guest of honor, he visited every booth. This is ours.

lcs girls

The booth opposite ours, LCS Trading, is staffed by people who’s not too hard on the eyes, to say the least. πŸ˜‰

me bts girls

Say hello to Loh (my right) and sorry, I didn’t get your name
(left). Sociologists discover that booth neighbors in expos tend to
fraternize, especially if they’re in similar age groups. In other news,
scientists discover that the sky is blue. They are still in discussions about the color of grass, but indications suggest that they might reach a consensus that it is green.

me bts girls 2

Alternate take, my apologies about the quality, it takes a while for
people to get used to my digicam. I hope my gf doesn’t see this… πŸ˜‰

bts day 1 food

There was free food as well

bts mmm food

Mmm…lunch!

Here’s a video of the Madaya toilet mascot:

madaya mascot

Download: Madaya mascot [sixthseal.com]

madaya toilet bye

The grinning Madaya toilet says bye!

toilet what treasure have you
…and just coz I can’t resist, I must add “Arr! What manner of treasure do I see there?”

BTS expo preparation video

bts industry

Industry was the word of the day as the 5th floor of Permata Carpark
was opened up for the exhibitors to setup their respective booths. I
watched empty space being transformed by various groups into functional
displays. There was a lot of carpentry, masonry and yes, the fumes of
various chemicals like paint, emulsifiers, glue and what have you. I
got high on fucking solvents…

This is a mini tour of our sections of the exhibition – narrative provided by yours truly:

bts setup

Download: BTS preparations video [sixthseal.com]

* AT & A is a company we’re very close with (share the same
building). Angel is the one managing it. We have no relation to Kim
Hin, it’s just a booth I passed.

We weren’t exactly fully done at this point, as I erroneously stated
in the video. It took a good six hours after that before we were done –
I just got back! I have to get there before 8 am tomorrow to boot. I
heard Phua Chu Kang is coming to the gala dinner (which I doubt I will
be attending as only one free ticket is given to each booth).

I’m tired…will reply all comments tomorrow and I’ll bring my CF
card reader along too, so you’ll get live updates on the scene.

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