ManMeng's Lifepad

[Rant] Hot Boiling Lives

It’s been rather an emotional month for all of us, with all the brewing incidents around the world, riots, diseases, economic meltdown. I could have gone a bit too far and think it might be some sign of something, but I think we can definitely still be optimistic in going through all these shit. Despite the flu season that is happening towards these few month ahead, I guess all I can say is you to take really good care of your health.

Inside a Korean restaurant located at Amcorp Mall, Malaysia. A superliciously yummy place to be. On the fourth floor, right beside McDonald’s.

While they may be a Korean restaurant, they’d serve Japanese delicacies as well! And it’s nothing less than delicious than you can expect.

It’s pretty funny how I’m able to find this bottle once again after the last time I saw it during my college day. It’s a cidar.

A building located in Fusionopolis, Singapore. A pretty futuristically inspired building that connects 3 block to each other through a hanging mid-air bridge. Sounds cool enough?

Got myself a new bling from Converse, and I’m loving it!

Can you spot the bird? It seems unpleasingly familiar, at least in Singapore, besides that I’ll be able to spot few Pipit around. Anyone know what is the name of this species?

And on a fine day was passing through ION Orchard, right above the Orchard MRT. Was on the verge of completion. Opening soon in Q3 2009 it seems.

Took during the rainy days.

[Inspiration] Surreal Works

Ryohei Hase
The illustrations produced by this artist is so vivid that it looks almost unreal.

The original Microsoft family.
Really a piece of nostalgic article about how all of them came together as Microsoft employee and 23 years after that.

Vote For Hope – MC Yogi
Thought it’s tad bit old, but serves as a good reference for motion graphics designer looking into incorporating speech/lyrics as part of their work.

So Many A Seconds
Though there might be tons of infographics (information visualisation) in the form of graphics design, it’s pretty rare to see it presented interactively. However this is a nice depiction of information from World-o-meters. And there’s even an updated statistics on Swine Flu death!

Geocoding with RSS / Papervision3D
This got me started in geocoding for some of my experiment using both geolocation and papervision. Demo is at : Globe.  (I think the geo location thing screwed up somewhere)

[Inspiration] A look into the past years

Was digging through my old archives of draft again, but I found some of the events posted were pretty amusing nevertheless.

Secrets of Google Earth

You will find the 10 minutes of your life spent on this video will be really noteworthy. Perhaps the world has a lot more secrets waiting to be unveiled by us.

Perfect Macbook Holder?
I’m not sure if IKEA is still selling this?

Wired : How the Iphone blew up the wireless industry

A quick look back to the past.
SteveNote Expo
This was a great game with a great touch on the design and art direction, pretty neat to a point I thought it’s a game from Apple themselves. Generated quite a lot amount of buzz when it was launched, and launched at the right time before the annual Apple’s Conference.

Time To Go
A great piece composed by one of my old friend back in the Counter Strike age. Some commentary from himself :

I wrote this song after bringing a very close and loved friend to the airport. The song makes me think about the heavy ticking of a clock. With every tick you realise that time is running shorter and shorter. When you dont think about it, time moves faster then the speed of light, but when you are counting the minutes, the ticking gets heavier and heavier. Take care little sis.

Infinite Oz – Tinman
Perhaps I would consider this site as one of the most understated one since its release on the interweb, though there’s lot of hoo hah but it did not last long. The images from the site still lingers in my mind clearly. Really beautiful artwork and amazing actionscripting feat (At that time itself). Enjoy the infinity loop.

Grafikas- Drew Europeo
Another amazing illustrator. Vivid design palletes and grungy street styles.

I Am Human Now
In need to skin your mac?

Mondialito
Though it might appear weird for me to like this kind of music, but it first occured to me in Taiwan when I browsing through some musics and I found this is a piece of…music I like?

[Inspiration] “Life”ly articles

Besides looking into something related to design, somehow I’d enjoy going through articles that features unique lifestyles or cultural values.

Snack Characters
It’s really a shame to see PingMag went into hiatus at the end of 2008, but like many other avid reader of its blog, the quality of the content are really top notch and you will really appreciate every single bits of effort poured into its articles. Though it might not be talking about the greatest design in the world, but what makes it really special read is the content that focused in sharing what is so unique about the Japanese culture, the insights and some of the history.

Clouds Appreciation Society

This must have come to me as a suprised since I thought it’s me that has weird fondness on clouds. Thank god.