XX Chromosome

G2000 image consultant

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g2000 consultant

Meet my image consultant. 😉 I went to get a new suit after work
yesterday, just went opposite to Tun Jugah and went into G2000 for the
works.

g2000 consultant me

I had different opinions on the tie and the shirt color, but after
her explanation, I acceded to her advice. There’s a very important
meeting later today, and I need to be properly attired for it.

I think I spent more on clothes this month than the whole of last
year combined. I guess that says a lot about how much I allocate to my
attire budget…which is not much at all. 😉

The beautiful girl peeling onions

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pretty girl onions

I saw a really pretty girl peeling onions while going to a
discussion session today. She was just standing there, skinning the
small purple bulbs, and smiled at me when I walked past. I asked her if
she would mind me taking her photo, and she kindly obliged. I’m sure
most guys would agree that this is one of the better entries in the
double X chromosome entries. 😉

Mild Seven PitParty 2004

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mermaid music cafe

Our entourage of about 15 people attended this event – the Mild
Seven Pit Party 2004 at Mermaid Music Cafe, which is organized to
broadcast the Renault F1 team finals live. The event is invitation
only; the tickets were obtained through one of my friends who works
with JT Tobacco (which has Mild Seven, Salem and Winston amongst other
brands under its banner).

door check

The Mild Seven Brand Ambassadors (an euphemism for
customer/public relations) were out in full force – mostly local girls.
We had a tag around our wrists upon entry. I was told that they get RM
200 for 4 hours – not bad pay at all…heck, it’s more than my hourly
salary. 🙂 One of them is a friend of a friend and she told us that
they have quotas to fill – we helped her out, I bought two limited
edition Mild Seven Renault F1 Team promotional packs.

mild seven limited edition

It costs RM 10 each – cheaper than the retail price of RM 5.40 per
pack, plus you get a free drinks coupon with each purchase. It’s a pity
I’m a Marlboro smoker, but it was good to get these for my collection
anyway. Anyway, we got a free drink redemption coupon (valid for beer
only, not distilled liquor) upon entry…however, there was a little
loophole that gave us free flow liquor. 😉

mild seven pit party pic

Basically…there were a couple of BA’s (Brand Ambassadors) going
around, asking if we have got a drinks coupon, when they saw a can of
this limited edition pack on our table. The correct answer is “No”. 😉
I got four drink coupons for each can, instead of one – that gives me
eight drinks (not including the jugs of beer that my friend shouted),
plus JT Tobacco gave each table a free jug of beer, so I was less than
sober by the end of the night, considering I pound my beers instead of
sipping them.

Here’s a couple of shots of the BA’s before I continue my post, just to keep the interest of the male population out there:

brand ambassador friend
I forgot her name, she’s a friend of a friend.

mild seven ba first
I didn’t get the name of this one either…

mild seven ba smile oy
I took six (!) photos with this one, and she was smiling, but never did
manage to capture it on the shot, and I gave up after six tries…

mild seven ba friend full
This is the same one from photo #1.

Anyway, there were also two simulation F1 cars for entertainment:

f1 sim cars

I went for a spin on one of them…didn’t keep my attention for long
though, and if my performance on that track is anything to judge my
sobriety by, I’m glad I wasn’t the designated driver tonight. 😉

sim machines

Here’s a first person perspective of the simulator:

fps sim

There were other contests as well, but the night was a blur to be honest…the two that I remember was:

mild seven limbo
Limbo contest – two jugs of beer on the house for everyone who gets through, one jar paid to the house for failed attempts.

contest vrrroomm
The contest where they got people to emulate the F1 engine sound.

There was also (terrible) food supplied for the patrons. I could barely choke down my plate.

pit party food

Here are more shots of the Mild Seven Brand Ambassadors:

mild seven ba friend
It’s hard to track who is who after a while…

mild seven ba smile smile
It’s very bizarre, I took about 10 (some were shots of her with my
friends), but never could capture her smiling on the photo, even though
she did IRL.

…and here’s a video from the night:

Download: Mild Seven PitParty 2004, Kuching [sixthseal.com]

mild seven f1

The person with the impaired auditory function that was singing in a
generally unacceptably loud volume (not that anyone cared, since most
of the patrons were not sober) would be me, I’m afraid. My apologies. :p

This is a partial group shot of our entourage:

pit party partial group
I’m the only XY chromosome in the photo, so I don’t need to point out which one is me. I’m wearing the Mild Seven polo T-shirt.

me ah girl
This is a shot of me and Ah Girl, we came together.

It was a fun night, I haven’t had an ethanol fuelled debauchery (the
tame kind) night out in quite a while, and I thoroughly enjoyed this
one. It’s a pity it was a Sunday night instead of a Saturday night.

ICT 2004: Day 4 – Logitech girl and expo roundup

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ict04 exhibitor

Today was the last day of ICT 2004, Kuching. It has been a great
expo – I had more fun than in the previous one, although the company
benefited more from the previous expo coz this one doesn’t attract our
target market. I’ve just returned from packing up all our stuff and
moving it to the showroom and here’s the writeup of the final day of
ICT 2004.

me and ivy apacer

This is Ivy from the booth opposite ours. I’ve got to know her
during this expo, and I’m glad I did. She’s really nice and seems to be
happy all the time, a quality I very much admire, since I’m severely
lacking it. She reminds me of one of my friends. Here’s a short clip of
me bothering her with my digicam. 😉

ivy video

Download: Ivy video [sixthseal.com]

That gives a better picture of what she’s like, photos doesn’t preserve the character of someone.

Logitech girl

logitech models

This one is for the male (or female, if you swing that way) readers.
The same three models, this time with the theme “Logitech girl”. I
didn’t enter the contest though, coz I had to fix the network problem
at the booth so I left without entering.

shirley pre logitech shoot

Here’s a pre-session photo of Shirley. We talked about which photo I entered yesterday for the Kodak contest.

logitech shirley

Again, I mainly took photos of Shirley – she’s the one with the sex
appeal (easy to see from the pre-shoot product demonstration) and she
has a great personality.

logitech model 2

This is the second model. She’s a little too “stiff” and
self-conscious, IMHO. She’s alright in the looks department, but she
needs some help in other aspects. I find it hard to work with her – she
the type of model that poses the way she wants, not the way you want.

logitech model 3 first

This is the third model. She’s not hard to work with per se, but
she’s more of the “girl next door” type, personality wise. I do not get
the feeling that she’s 100% comfortable with her body.

logitech model 3 second

Here’s another shot of the third model. She seems to be popular with the other photographers, for reasons which elude me.

shirley comfortable

Shirley, on the other hand, is comfortable with her body and much
easier to work with. There’s no self-consciousness in her poses, which
is good.

shirley logitech close

Here’s a close-up of her. I would have entered this for the
competition, except I had work to do. The photo doesn’t have the
Logitech product in it, anyway, but I thought it was a good one, told
her to bend down a bit for a shot with more sexual appeal and took it
at body level (instead of from above, which would make the photo look
undignified instead of provocative – a fine line to toe).

Anyway, like I said, I didn’t enter the contest this time coz I had
to run back to the booth. I did not win the Kodak contest either, but
IMNSHO, the winning entry wasn’t good at all – it was washed out and
unfocused. There were heaps of other more deserving entries (not mine,
this time they were pros with digital SLR’s fitted with the proper
lenses), but I’m not the judge anyway. I had a very similar photo
though, and I didn’t even think about submitting it.

ICT 2004 – Day 4 (last day) video

ict04 day4

Download: ICT 2004, Day 4 [sixthseal.com]

This covers Hall B, the outside hall. The customary daily walk through, this is the final one.

Convention food

kikyo tei 1

kikyo tei 2

The canteen was stocked with food from Kikyo-Tei, a Japanese
restaurant, but it tasted terrible…typical sloppy convention food.

sloppy expo food

…which I had to eat anyway due to a booth manning shortage.

Ragnarok: DreamSky Online giveaway

ro stuff

This booth is just to the side of us. I’ve been looking at the cute
balloons with a less than benign eye for a while, but something else
caught my attention – a plush pink one with the same design! It was
even better than the balloon. I got it in the giveaway. 🙂

ro giveaway

It was the first item up and the question was “What booth is RO
occupying?”. The first guy who answered got it wrong, and I stepped up
and said “19-23”, which was a wild guess, and the wrong answer, as I
later found out when I looked at the map. However, props to the RO reps
from Penang, they knew I wanted it (asked if it was for sale
previously, it wasn’t, it was for the contest) so they let me have it.

ro mc

The MC was going “Is that the right answer?” to the RO reps, and
they said “Give it to him”, even though I was wrong (didn’t even say I
was wrong, though they didn’t answer then the MC asked if it was the
correct answer, coz it wasn’t). Cheers! 🙂 It’s the one that everyone
wanted, it’s just so cute! I said so too, I went “Thanks, this was what
I wanted.” 😉

ro lucky draw

They were giving away all sorts of RO merchandize from lunch boxes
to jackets. However, that’s the lucky draw prizes though – you need to
buy something to be eligible. I did get an RO pen from the group
contest where we were divided into three groups and see who could
collectively shout “RO” the loudest.

ro prizes

Our group was by far the loudest one, everyone was enthusiastic,
joining in for good fun. I was offered more pens later though, but I
declined coz I just wanted one. I did ask for a poster (which was
supposed to be a giveaway) but the girl (same one I took the photo with
on the first day) was kind enough to just give it to me.

my ro stuff

This is the RO stuff I got…I don’t know what the CD is, it’s given free to everyone who passes by their booth.

Other points of interest

wcg04 war3 playback

WCG 2004 East Malaysia preliminaries were held and finished today at
the expo. I don’t know the results, didn’t follow the games. I noticed
it had ended when I saw this group of people sitting around watching
the winner’s recorded game. This is Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. The
winners were announced after the photography contest, but I didn’t
stick around for that.

boh fill er up

Free Boh iced tea. I finally just took my big water bottle along and
asked nicely for them to fill it instead of taking one small cup after
another. They were kind enough to oblige.

benq sodas

BenQ wins the Most Ingenious Profit Generating Idea award. They were
selling sodas right inside their booth. It was popular – I had several
Vanilla Cokes myself.

keyboard touch me

This keyboard that has a “Please touch me” sign. It’s just so wrong on so many levels…

too much fast furious

There was a projector showing The Fast and The Furious over and over
again in the booth a little to the left and opposite ours. It was
entertainment, but I watched it so many times, I swear I can memorize
half the script (not the full script, Ivy, but I’m getting there, and
if the convention went for much longer…). I had hoped that they would
show Finding Nemo (which they did for a little while in the first day),
but they went back to The Fast and The Furious…turns out that it was
the only licensed DVD they had, when I asked. We had taken to calling
the movie “Too Much, Too Furious!” by the end of the expo.

Jesus, I can see Vin Diesel in my dreams…

Must…not…sleep…

Ending

Here’s a video showing the end of ICT 2004.

ict04 end

Download: ICT 2004 ends [sixthseal.com]

This is one to cap off the expo…it shows the exhibitors packing up. ICT 2004 – a great expo, and a fun filled four days.

ICT 2004: Day 3 – Kodak girl

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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 1 – Doing what I do best

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ida girls

…and it’s not pitching. 😉 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. 😉

Fansign from Lainie

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lainie fansign

This is Lainie
[tabulas.com], one of the more interesting bloggers out there. You
can’t read an entry without seeing the words “Nessa” and “Daphne”, not
that it’s a bad thing, mind. 😉 One of the blogs I actually enjoy
reading, her exploits rivals the best of anyone’s, but some entries are
private only. My favorite thing to do over there is to steer the
conversation towards something else. The digression of today is
balisongs.

Thanks for the photo, Lainie! You look great!

Update:

lainie sign 1

lainie sign 2

lainie sign 3

This is the permalink:
Lainie loves Sixthseal.com [tabulas.com].

lainie cat

Just in time too, I didn’t feel like writing today. 😉

BTS Day 3: Booth babes!

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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. 😉 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. 😉

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.

Cheap prepaid reload cards

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howee me crown 1

I went to Crown Square just now to meet up with Hau Ee. She’s from
Sibu as well – I remember a bunch of us going for supper at Taman
Harmoni the previous time I was back home. Anyway, she told me she’ll
be in Kuching for a couple of days and I’ve been meaning to get the
discounted cell phone reload cards off her, so off I went. From what I
understand, it’s an annual commitment for pre-paid cell phone cards
(across all mobile operators in Malaysia) where you choose the plan you
want (according to your cell phone usage needs) and you get the coupon
codes every month at a highly discounted rate.

I’m not sure if I got that exactly right…she explained the plans
to me, but I was so scattered today that I could hardly comprehend what
she said. It’s Sunday today and that means it’s the last day of my
high-intensity weekend warrior run. High-intensity runs (constant and
compulsive maintenance of peak plasma concentrations, no food,
dehydrating conditions) tend to deep fry the brain towards the end.

It also didn’t help that I consumed massive amounts of clonazepam,
nitrazepam, alprazolam and lorazepam to chemically accelerate hypnotic
activity so I could turn in earlier tonight. The benzodiazepine
combination hit me harder than I expected, though I wasn’t aware of
that, and placidly cruised to town while downright sedated. I only
realized that my reflexes were impaired when I nearly drove up a curb
while making the U-turn that I take everyday and skidded (it was
raining and the roads were slippery) after going into a corner too fast.

I made sure that I was ultra careful after that and reached the
destination and back without any vehicular collisions. Heh. Anyway, I
reckon this spot is where I’m supposed to insert the obligatory harm
minimization message to urge people under the influence to avoid
driving. 😉 Well, like I said, the combination made me scattered and
higher level thought processes were affected so I had a really hard
time understanding how the discounted pre-paid cards work.

howee prepaid plan

Anyway, I finally gathered that there is an upfront fee (the annual
plan rate) and you can resell the reload coupons that you don’t use to
someone else e.g. you can sell the unused ones if you didn’t make a lot
of calls that month and thus have surplus cards. It sounded like a good
idea, except that I don’t use my cell phone all that much, and I’m too
lazy to sell any remainder cards to other people. 🙂

Thus, I didn’t go for the annual plan and just got a RM 50 Digi
prepaid coupon off her. I still have credit in my cell phone, since I
usually make outgoing calls from my house phone. I don’t remember the
last time I reloaded my cell phone, but it was barred today coz the 3
month validity period was over, so I can receive calls but not make
outgoing calls. The system Digi uses allows you a fairly long grace
period and you don’t lose the existing unused credit you had before the
validity period expired.

The existing credit is just stacked back on when you reload, adding
the balance to the new value. The validity expired today, so I just got
a single reload coupon off her, instead of opting for the cheaper
annual plan, since I don’t use my cell phone that much. I still need to
reload though, since a phone that doesn’t allow outgoing calls rather
defeats the purpose of having a cell in the first place. 🙂

howee me crown 2
L-R: How Ee, Huai Bin (me).

Excuse me, dear readers…I’ll have to reply the comments tomorrow. Sleep beckons me…

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