Mixed Feelings...

I'm having a mixed feelings now...

I'm happy because that my once congested table is now 'free' and a little bit sadden also because I'm currently without my desktop pc anymore as I've recently 'donated' it to my youngest brother in KL for his studies. Well,... It's about time anyway since I've been saying that I would passed it to him since last year...Sorry bro, lambat...hehehe.

It just so happened that his friend was going back to KL on Thursday last week, so he smsed me whether the offer was still on. Took me a few minutes to decide before I finally said yes and then eventually made the arrangement to meet up with his friend to 'kasi kirim' the pc only with him. It wasn't easy though, as because of the short notice, I had to stay up the whole Wednesday's night till early morning to backup all my data before packing it nicely to be put into kargo. I've used up about 10 DVDs all together for my data!!!... That's a lot considering all my project drawings, pictures, downloaded movies and animes were inside there...hehehe.

Last time, a friend of mine lost his DVD rom and graphic card when he brought his pc back from Sarawak through kargo. Luckily the motherboard and CPU were still intact and basically he had to fork out money to buy those missing items afterward. Pity him for the unfortunate incident and actually there is a good lesson to be learnt from his experience. Fearing that the same might happened to my pc, I took the hard disk out and left the rest within the casing but I made sure that the box was securely taped all around...Bungkus mati punya...hehehe.

I met up with Azrun ( my brother's friend) at Terminal 2 around 6:00 am and passed him the package. Fortunately, he took the extra 20kg luggage limit when he booked his flight. So, I ended up paying nothing for the 'delivery' since his total luggage was about 16kg only altogether including mine. I jokingly informed him to ask for 'belanja' from my brother once he arrived in KL for all his help ( My brother is waiting for him there at KLIA). Thanks man....were my last words as I bid him farewell and I was glad when I recieved sms later that day from my brother saying that everything was OK.

So, I'm stucked with my laptop as my workstation and blogging platform from now on... It will be quite some time when I'll be buying a new desktop again. Maybe wait until I move to my new house.... :)

Feature Wall # 1: Sandakan International Airport

View from the mezzanine floor

Close Up View

Took these pictures of the feature glass wall at Sandakan International Airport while I was on a project meeting there early this month. It reminds me of the stained glass pattern normally found in church buildings and with the lobby area being double volume, the feeling also more or else the same. Maybe because of tired, somehow I didn't check the wall in detail. I'll take more close up pictures and will post them here when I go there again soon.

Ceiling Design # 1 : Berjaya Times Square KL

Continuing on my post on my recent my trip to KL, I was 'jalan-jalan' at Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur at night with my brother and found these interesting ceiling designs :

OVAL ROUND

One of the most commonly found ceiling design that you can find around in any big complexes nowadays. Typical round cove lighting treatment on the columns top as well and it fits perfectly with the round shape columns. This one reminds me of the UFO space ship sometimes or simply a big glowing egg. Next to it is something like a 'steps' ceiling design.

STARS

Found this one while I was at the lobby area at lower ground floor level. It's located just above the ATM machines booth ( notice the maybank signage at the bottom there). Really liked this one due to its intricate layering and the lighting effects it created. Fantastic!!

STRIPES

I think I saw this one just near the place where I found the oval round ceiling. Would have been great if its lighting were working as well as the effects would have been interesting to see. As it is, it looked pale but I like its dynamic pattern.

In case you are wondering, all these ceiling are made using fibre plastered ceiling board. It's a flexible material, easy to cut and modify to any kind of shape or design that you want. Good reference.

Architectural Model #1 : Club House

Club House

Took this picture while I was on trip to Kuala Lumpur recently. We were visiting a newly launched residential project show office in Damansara Utama and while looking around, I snapped a picture of the club house model before I was stopped by one of the staff. Later my friend said normally picture snapping is not allowed in such places. Unfortunately so, as the residential house models were also very well made with interesting design features that's worth looking at for design reference in future project.