Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Atlantiz Vietnam Backpack 2009

So, Atlantiz had their 2nd annual backpack thru Soon Seng and myself.

Our route

First stop was Saigon.

A beer to cherish

Independence Palace

War Remnants Museum with Fidel Castro inside!

Notre-Damme Cathedral

City Hall

Next day, we left for Hoi An, which is till now, my favourite place in Vietnam

My Son Ruins - No where near Angkor Wat

Soon Seng + Soon Seng 4

I look a little insignificant

4 of us in Hoi An town

4th day, we were in Hue for 2 days 1 night.

Forbidden City from the outside

From the inside

We traveled around with motorbikes

Martial art class in a garden at Thien Mu Pagoda

There were no smiles once we found out it was "death notes"

Next up, we were in Halong Bay after getting everything settled in Hanoi.

I don't know why so happy...

Maybe it's because of the sea

Or the sky

My Vietnam friend from Hanoi, Ming joined us on the trip

We had a great night, sleeping

Then we were in Sapa Valley.

With the mountain tribes - Hmong people

Now that's cool bro

Lunch

We had time to interact with the local people at Sapa town

Last stop was Hanoi.

In front of where Uncle Ho is sleeping

Our favourite shop in Hanoi

Uncle Ho says: Come again guys!

It was a great trip overall

Thanks Chew for the advice.

For more pictures just click http://tanweeser.blogspot.com/search/label/Vietnam%20-%20Backpack

Cheers.

Singing off
Crusader @ Atlantiz_29

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Video Sharing

Hey pals,

I came across some very meaningful video from my friends blog and I really think that you guys will like it...

Do check it out when y'all have time ya!

#1. How the internet is changing advertising...



#2. Did you know?



#3. Dove Evolution...



#4. Muslim Demographics



#5. Story of Stuffs...



Hope you all like it....

Cheers!



Atlantiz 6 aka. 凯元

Thursday, November 26, 2009

XuShen

concept ..color may need not be like that .
by XuShen

'cause we are awesome!




hehe...any comment?

Boey

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

nine...

What is having in ong's mind now...

1. Today is mum birthday...

2. Planning my silk road to taiwan... hope everything smooth... i am gonna shoot good photo there... just now recieve sms from andrew... he ask me got place to go or not... but kim yong and him is super god damn far away people... super serious vs super diao er lang dang... kao... lets imagine the scene... kim yong shy and dun want to talk all the way... he blame me bring other then he dun know...or andrew keep sorry bout can not understand what we are talking and joking... lol... god will make away... but how to tell him first?

3. How to spend my next whole week holiday in JB...planing to do some outing with hsia... Every no plan for her, sorry for her... i will do something...love u hsia...

4. Atlantiz shirt design... how come so far only got chew and me got design? Where are those who called them self artist?hello atlantiz... got chances pass by any clothing shop please help each other to see the plain shirt sell how much... i pretty sure mega sales is everywhere now... We targeted RM15 and below... unless the quality make me talkess...

5. where to go on 25/26 DEC for atlantiz gathering... Meng guan already say no to his college for the langkawi trip... We need to plan de... but not even an apply from atlantiz... as usual... lol... Since when our discussion become one people decision... gathering become some events that got free then attend... i dun mind atlantiz take advantage on me...but anyone can give suprise to atlantiz sometime ka??hope is hope...tired is tired... but tell u what... i am ong...

6. I learned too little thing in this training... fuck him...

Banana ong...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

ong 4th design

Roman ten X in the middle represent 10 years of brother hood...
A as simple as atlantiz...
est since 2000...

ONG 3RD DESIGN

~ATLANTIZ CREW~

Atlantizian, ATLANTIZ Needs A New T-Shirt!

Hi Atlantizian,

ATLANTIZ will become 10-year-old one month++ from today on XX/XX/2010. One way I want to celebrate this anniversary will be organizing a fun ATLAN-TEE design contest.

I think there are many talented and artistic people in ATLANTIZ, so I am asking you to show us your creativity and imagination by creating a new design that can be used for a new ATLANTIZ t-shirt. If there is enough interest, maybe we can also use the design for other things too.

However, we must see the design first!

(Sample)

Submitting Your Design

The design must be original and it must include the “ATLANTIZ” name.

It should be very cool, so everyone will want one.

Please submit/upload your design here. All designs must be received by 2009 December 20, Sunday 23:59.

Please also describe your design, and explain any limitations or recommendations for how your design should be used. For example, please tell us if your design can be on different colors or just some colors of T-shirt. This information may be used during the voting period so people can better understand your design and ideas. You may submit more than one design.

Voting For Your Favorite Design

ATLANTIZ visitors and members will be encouraged to view and comment on each design. I think this can be very fun and interesting if a lot of people submit designs (so please submit designs!). These votes will help determine which design is selected.

Winning Design

The winning design will be announced on 2009 December XX, XXXday. (During our Reunion Date)

The winning designer will receive a free t-shirt and, if there is enough interest, we can maybe provide bigger prize (etc: Free BBQ/Steamboat seat at Ong house). You can suggest reasonable prizes in the below comments for fun and we will consider them.

Attention: T-Shirt Makers

If you can make t-shirts or can recommend a good t-shirt making company, please contact me or Ong. I would like for this new ATLANTIZ t-shirt to be much cheaper than the original T-shirt from Stussy and CLOT (but of course also reasonable quality!).

By the way~~ we really need to see some designs here ~~~ plan to release New Tee before Chinese new year 2010~~~

Many Thanks.


ATLZ 7 aka BOEY

Monday, November 23, 2009

ong 2nd design

I love atlantiz~~~ simple and simple and simple~~~
lol~~~
god bless soon seng and wee ser for their trip~~~


X'mas'09 and New Year'10 cEleBrAtIOn!!!

To all the atlantiz PAPI~~

Due to this year end 31st never hit the weekend and since half of the atlantiz start working de~~ we just decided to switch OUR aannual new year celebration to the 25th 26th 27th of Dec~
So what do u all think?

after brainstorm after teasection after futsul activity last saturday~~~

few ideas might just give whole new idea of new year celebration to our ...oooOOOATLANTIZOOOooo...

due to time (not more then 2 days), budget not more then RM200...

How is sounds celebrate xMAS on top of gunung ledang? of just first check point kolam gajah to u?

ok~~ how bout teluk ramunia to u? go back and find back some old memory?

Kukup will always the place for us also?

okok, ong chin horng house will always be the first and last place for all the atlantiz since 2000~~~

hoping opinion flowing in~~~

come on my papi~~lets brain storm~~~~~~


the 9th wonder is wondering~~~

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Ong 1st design~~~



The first idea I wish to link atlantiz to GO GREEN~~~ thats y u see the tree~~
after that~~~ i found tat this tree is so unique among the google search picture~~
blaba bla balalablablabla~~~ just 1st poor design~~ don't want say so much~~~ just throw brick hopping jade~~~

OK~~ the main idea is we -- Atlantiz members all busying on own stuff...tats y u see the upper branches~~~BUT!we never forget our root~ and we cant change our root~~ tat is Atlantiz~~~

Together we will make a big tree~~ together we will hold each other's back to grow~~~ through communication~interaction~ thin & thick foundation~ we proud to be family of atlantiz and we wanted to grow more expose more to become the biggest tree in the jungle~~

wooowwwwwooohhohohoooooooooo....

Banana 9

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Xu Shen's Design





My design
Rationale :
1. Wanna emphasize our friendship that's as strong and as deep just like the anchor .
2. To supplement that, I've also included the year since we first called ourselve "atlantiz".
3. I think is good to have simple design , then we buy better cutting/design's shirt to print on it. Then we can have better looking , more comfortable and practical shirt to wear . ( No point print on sub quality shirt in which we are not going to wear them . )

Design objective : As simple as possible, and i'll like it to be more casual , less formal this year.

Note : I know i've misaligned the EST wordings ...


Xu Shen.
Manager






Atlantiz New Tee Design Competition
Rules and regulation:

> Any Atlantizian can participate...
> No prize will given to the winner...
> Winner will do all the shit jobs...
> Winner will get all the honors and respects if and only if the shirt are really nice and good quality... LOL~~~ this is AtlantiZ~~~

By the way~~ we really need to see some designs here ~~~ plan to release New Tee before next year Chinese new year~~~

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

In response to the article below ...

This happened yesterday.

I was expecting a parcel from Poland. The parcel did reach my house but it cannot be delivered without my presence. My mum didn't inform me of this and she only told me this last saturday. And so I urged her to help me to collect it on my behalf yesterday ( since post office is not open during weekend ). She called me yesterday night and told me that the parcel has been sent back to Poland and there's nothing she can do about it.

Well , I got pretty upset. i am in the middle of my preparation for my final exam and things didnt go very smoothly recently. I kind of expressed my discontent over the phone and grunted on how much easier it would be if she told me earlier about the parcel so that i can make arrangement to go back and claim the parcel. She apologized and sounded worried over the phone. I kinda ended the conversation like " OK lar , no choice, I will find a way to settle this. bye"

I went back to the table where I was studying before the call. I sat down and re-consider how I've behaved. Although I didn't explicitly blame my mum or use any harsh words, I didn't feel right about it. I'm afraid that she'll take the blame to herself and worry too much. I just couldn't concentrate on my studies anymore. After a few moments of thoughts, I left the study table and made a call back to my mum. I re-assured her that it is after all not a big problem and I could solve the problem fairly easy myself ( tho I have to admit things would be easier otherwise .... ) and told her not to worry about me. Then I started chatting casually with my mum just to cheer her up a little bit. To my surprised, I found out that she's not feeling well the whole day and yet she went to the post office to help me to ask for the parcel. I felt kinda ashamed of myself and I quickly comfort her as best as I could.

Indeed I felt a chill up my spines after the call. I'm so glad that I took the initiatives and made the call afterwards. After all, who am I to think that only I'm the one who has pressures and stress and problems ?


XuShen

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

母親,我怎麼讓你等了那麼久

I read this in Jing Wen's blog, thought of sharing with all of you aspiring youngsters and dream chasers.

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母親真的老了,變得孩子般纏人,每次打電話來,總是滿懷熱誠地問:「你什麼時候回家?」

且不說相隔一千多里路,要轉三次車,光是工作、孩子已經讓我分身無術,哪裡還抽得出時間回家。
母親的耳朵不好,我解釋了半天,她仍舊熱切地問:「你什麼時候能回來?」

幾次三番,我終於沒有了耐心,在電話裏衝母親大聲嚷嚷,她終於聽明白,默默掛了電話。

隔幾天,母親又問同樣的問題,只是那語調怯怯地,沒有了底氣。

像個不甘心的孩子,明知問了也是白問,可就是忍不住。
我心一軟,沉吟了一下。

母親見我沒有煩,立刻開心起來。她欣喜地向我描述:「後院的石榴都開花了,西瓜快熟了,你回來吧。」

我為難地說:「那麼忙,怎麼能請得上假呢!」
她急急地 說:「你就說媽媽得了癌,只有半年的活頭了!」我立刻責怪她胡說,她呵呵地笑了。

小時候,每逢颳風下雨,我不想去上學,便裝肚子疼,被母親識破,挨了一頓好罵。
現在老了,她反而教著女兒說謊了,我又好氣又好笑。

這樣的問答不停地重複著,我終於不忍心,告訴她下個月一定回去,母親竟高興得哽咽起來。

可不知怎麼了,永遠都有忙不完的事,每件事都比回家重要,最後,到底沒能回去。

電話那頭的母親,仿佛沒有力氣再說一個字,我滿懷內疚:「媽,生氣了吧?」
母親這一回聽真了,她連忙說:「孩子,我沒有生你的氣,我知道你忙。」

可是沒幾天,母親的電話催得越發緊了。

她說,葡萄熟了,梨熟了,快回來吃吧。我說,有什麼稀罕,這裏滿大街都是,花 個十元八元就能吃個夠。
母親不高興了,我又耐下性子來哄她:「不過,那些東西都是化肥和農藥餵大的,哪有你種的好呢。」母親得意地笑起來。

星期六那天,氣溫特別高,我不敢出門,開了空調在家裏呆著。孩子嚷嚷雪糕沒了,我只好下樓去超市買。
在暑氣蒸騰的街頭,我忽然就看見了母親的背影。

看樣子她剛下車,胳膊上挎著個籃子,背上背著沉甸甸的袋子,她彎著腰,左躲右閃著,怕別人碰了她的東西。
在擁擠的人流裏,母親每走一步都很吃力。

我大聲地叫她,她急急抬起滿是熱汗的臉,四處尋找,看見我走過來,竟驚喜地說不出話來。

一回到家,母親就喜滋滋地往外捧那些東西。她的手青筋暴露,十指上都纏著膠布,手背上有結了痂的血口子。
母親笑著對我說:「吃呀 ,你快吃呀,這全是我挑出來的。」

我這沒有出過遠門的母親,只為著我的一句話,便千里迢迢地趕了來。

她坐的是最便宜、沒有空調的客車,車上又熱又擠,但那些水靈靈的葡萄和梨子都完好無損。
我想像不出,她一路上是如何過來的,我只知道,在這世上,凡有母親的地方就有奇蹟。

母親只住了三天,她說我太辛苦,起早貪黑地上班,還要照顧孩子,她乾著急卻幫不上忙。
城裏的廚房設施,她一樣也不敢碰,生怕弄壞了。
她自己悄悄去訂了票,又悄悄地一個人走。

才回去一星期,母親又說想我了,不住地催我回家。我苦笑:「媽,你再耐心一些吧!」
第二天,我接到姨媽的電話:「你媽媽病了,你快回來吧。」
我急得眼前發黑,淚眼婆娑地奔到車站,趕上了最後一趟車。

一路上,我心裏不住地祈禱。
我希望這是母親騙我的,我希望她好好的。

我願意聽她的嘮叨,願意吃光她給我做的所有飯菜,願意經常抽空來看她。

此時,我才知道,人活到八十歲也是需要母親的。

車子終於到了村口,母親小跑著過來,滿臉的笑。
我抱住她,又想哭又想笑,嗔怪道:「你說什麼不好,說自己有病,虧你想得出!」
受了責備的母親,仍然無限地歡喜,她只是想看到我。

母親樂呵呵地忙進忙出,擺了一桌子好吃的東西,等著我的誇獎。
我毫不留情地批評:「紅豆粥煮糊了;水煎包子的皮太厚;滷肉味道太鹹。」

母親的笑容頓時變得尷尬,她無奈地搔著頭。
我心裏暗笑,我知道,一旦我說什麼東西好吃,母親非得逼我吃一大堆,走的時候還要帶上

就這樣,我被她餵得肥肥白白,怎麼都瘦不下去。而且,不貶低她,我怎麼有機會佔領灶台呢?

我給母親做飯,跟她聊天,母親長時間地凝視著我,眼裏滿是疼愛。

無論我說什麼,她都虔誠地半張著嘴,側著耳朵凝神地聽,就連午睡,她也坐在床邊,笑咪咪地看著我。

我說:「既然這麼疼我,為什麼不跟著我住呢?」她說住不慣城裏的高樓。

沒呆幾天,我就急著要回去,母親苦苦央求我再住一天。
她說,今早已託人到城裏買菜了,一會兒準能回來,她一定要好好給我做頓飯。
縣城離這兒九十多里路,母親要把所有她認為好吃的東西都弄回來,讓我吃下去,她才能心安。

從姨媽家回來的時候,母親精心準備的菜餚,終於端上了桌,我不禁驚詫──
魚鱗沒有刮盡、雞塊上是細密的雞毛、香油金針菇裏居然有頭髮絲。無論是葷的還是素的,都讓人無法下箸。
母親年輕時那麼愛乾淨,如今老了竟邋遢得這樣。母親見我挑來挑去就是不吃,她心疼地妥協了,送我去坐夜班車。

天很黑,母親挽著我的胳膊。她說,你走不慣鄉下的路。

她陪我上了車,不住地囑咐東囑咐西,車子都開了,才急著下去,衣角卻被車門夾住,險些摔倒。
我哽咽著,趴在車窗上大叫:「媽,媽,你小心些!」

她沒聽清楚,邊追著車跑邊喊:「孩子,我沒有生你的氣,我知道你忙!」

這一回,母親仿佛滿足了,她竟沒有再催過我回家,只是不斷地對我說些開心的事:

「家裏又添了隻很乖的小牛犢;明年開春,她要在院子裏種好多好多的花。」聽著聽著,我心裏一片溫暖。

到年底,我又接到姨媽的電話。她說:「你媽媽病了,快回來吧。」

我哪裡相信,我們前天才通的話,母親說自己很好,叫我不要掛念。

姨媽只是不住地催我,半信半疑的我還是回去了,並且買了一大袋母親愛吃的油糕。

車到村頭的時候,我伸長脖子張望著,母親沒來接我,我心裏忽地就有了種不祥的預感。

姨媽告訴我,給我打電話的時候,母親就已經不在了,她走得很安詳。

半年前,母親就被診斷出了癌症,只是她沒有告訴任何人,仍和平常一樣樂呵呵地忙裏忙外

並且把自己的後事都安排妥當了。
姨媽還告訴我,母親老早就患了眼疾,看東西很費勁。

我緊緊地把那袋油糕抱在胸前,一顆心仿佛被人挖走。

原來,母親知道自己剩下的日子不多了,才不住地打電 話叫我回家,她想再多看我幾眼,再和我多說幾句話。
原來,我挑剔著不肯下箸的飯菜,是她在視力模糊的情況下做的,我是多麼的粗心!
我走的那個晚上,她一個人是如何摸索到家,她跌倒了沒有,我永遠都無從知道了。

母親,在生命最後的時光裏,還快樂地告訴我,牽牛花爬滿了舊煙囪,扁豆花開得像我小時候穿的紫衣裳。
你留下所有的愛,所有的溫暖,然後安靜地離開。

我知道,你是這世上唯一不會生我氣的人,唯一肯永遠等著我的人

也就是仗著這份寵愛,我才敢讓你等了那麼久。

可是,母親啊,我真的有那麼忙嗎?

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Till December

Atlantiz29 @ Crusader

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Something all of us, the more priviledged to have access to education should do.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

-excerpt from J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech.

Just feel like sharing this with you guys.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Indonesia's Earthquake

Argh. Tsunami, Volcano eruption, earthquake.

It is time like this I cant help but ask this question again.

They told me that God has all the plans for us. So, I'll assume that God knows this will happen. And he didnt stop it from happening. Should I be glad that God has chosen me as the one that watches this suffering, not the one who's suffering?

If he loves everyone as equal, then why should some suffer, while some just stand aside and watch !

Or , perhaps, there's no equality at all. Even god himself.

I pray for you, indonesians, especially to those people who're affected by this earthquake. I pray to the Very same God who allows this earthquake to happen.

How ironic.

I really don't understand Him.


Saturday, September 26, 2009

mid autumn BBQ promotion part II

Dont want go? come on... u must be missing this~~~
No? how bout candles? childhood ? we dont want to forget dont we?
A ha~~~ lantern? for how many years de? how bout a tree wif lot of it? i bet it wont lose to a christmas tree...
Moon cake? come on~ this is shanghai moon cake~~~ my favorite one~~~ u tell me u still dont want to go?
OK...ok............ ultimate de~~~ have u forgotten chicken wing with ONG secret recipe? a....ha~~~~ wipe ur saliva ba~~~~
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no choice de... i want to call my cousin come and BBQ le~~~


anyone interest please leave us a message~~ have nice day~~ haha

Atlantiz_9










Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Have U Forgotten SometHing ImPortant?


Who is in?!?! who is in ??!?!? WHO IS IN?!?!?! WhowHowhowowhohwohohwohwohowhowh?

If let say 3rd OCT 2009 mid-autumn BBQ section at bangkali ONG's house?
Series of performance will be done~
Point the moon competition, see who's ear got most blood~~
Lantern making and Deco teaching~~
Sing Out Loud Moooooooon's Song ~~
Night photo taking competition~~
and the highlight will be
**CUT the only Mooncake~~~

I been waiting this for years de~~~
Miss ur guys~~~
B'Nana~~