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I was scrolling through the photos in my camera and I found this really interesting photo!

The photo was taken in Seremban a few weeks ago when I was there visiting my friends. Placed outside the shops along the streets were small machines selling capsules with fancy toys inside, although the truth is that the toys that you get are usually not those that are being advertised on the machine. Really sucks, doesn’t it?

But I guess if any of you guys had a normal childhood, you would have at least bought once from those machines… Well, I did when I was young!

Anyway, here’s one that caught my attention that day, not because I wanted to buy it, of course, but rather the products that they are selling did.

Last time they were selling fake tamagochi and digimon figurines because kids were crazy over them. But now they are selling car logo keychains! Just answer this question: Does your 9-year-old nephew go crazy over cars? Will he run around saying how great the latest Lamborghini or Ferrari is?

Some might say “yes”, but I’ll bet most 9-year-olds will just say “…huh”?

Anyway, a closer look made me laugh out loud:

Ladies and gentlemen, introducing… the Fellari.

I think the Chairman of Ferrari will really have a heart attack if he sees this.

Ferrari, arguably the most famous sports car in the world, was being mispelled in the midst of all the competiting car brands surrounding it! You can almost hear the Mercedes-Benz logo beside it whispering: “Yo buddy, they can’t even get your name right, maybe you should just shove off!”

Let me clarify that I have absolutely nothing against Ferrari, just thought that you people might wanna see this. =)

The VISIT MALAYSIA 2007 tourism campaign is on! Let me feature a great place for you art lovers out there to go, in Malaysia!

But before that, please allow me to introduce:

The prestigious musée du Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, in Paris.

Image taken from visitingdc.com

The Louvre museum is the home for many famous historical paintings and arts such as the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, the Venus de Milo statue etc. It was a major scene in the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown.

Sounds interesting right? But if you can’t afford the flight tickets to France, I have a great recommendation, right here in Malaysia!

Back home, this is where I call the Louvre of Malaysia:

It is basically an underground pedestrian tunnel across a busy road, on which you are very likely to get hit if you don’t use the tunnel. Somehow it is the only way to cross the road, and as far as I know, there are no other alternatives.

So you walk through the entrance and voila! You’re in for some really cool artworks as it seems that here is the place where the greatest graffiti artists gather to show their talent!

This is the entrance staircase to the ‘galleries’. From here, you’ll start smelling an extremely sickening stench that could either come from rotten corpses or diseased water, it’s hard to tell.

Basically, it’s something like a scene that you’re likely to encounter in horror games like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, or Half-Life series.

Anyway, once down the staircase, you’ll arrive at the “art galleries”, and there’s no entrance fee! Yay!

Here are a few comparisons between the real Louvre Museum in Paris, and my own self-designated Malaysian ‘Louvre Museum’, I think you’ll find them strangely identical:

This is the Grand Gallery in the real Louvre Museum, Paris. It’s the place where many ultra-famous painting are displayed on the walls on either sides of it:

Image taken from davincicode.postkiwi.com

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The Grand Gallery of our underground “Louvre museum” (the scary pathway of the tunnel):

Caution: Don’t look at this photo at after 12A.M., it looks like a photo in which a ghost might just appear in the middle of the pathway… >.<

Here, we can truly see the works of some of the greatest graffiti artists in Malaysia! I’m not insulting them, but I’m actually quite impressed by their artworks! But of course graffiti should never be encouraged, right?=)

In the Grand Gallery of the real Louvre Museum, rests the great Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, with her famous and intriguing smile. Some people say that the smile has a hidden meaning in it…

VS.

Our own Mona Lisa with the great famous smile!

Yes, I know that is nothing too nice… But that’s just the opening! Here are some of the other artworks:

1) A vampire’s head, I presume. But with quite nice colours and tones.

2) A awesome dunno-what-is-it. But it’s really cool!

3) Incredible design, especially when it is done on a wall at such a large scale! But frankly, I really don’t know what the words are… =\

When it comes to art you always see these things =):

Those are the few nicer ones that I managed to get a photos of. Thats because when I proceeded to the exit, I finally found the source of the disgusting, horrifying smell:

A POOL OF BLOOD!!!

No la, I guess they are just some leftovers of the painting materials, plus some contained rain wate, all mixed together and unremoved for many many months, maybe years. And guess what? I actually STEPPED IN THAT DISGUSTING POOL!!

Accidentally of course!

All my mood of photographing left me instantly and I just wanted to get out of there to clean my shoes. Sigh!

But before we got up, I managed to get the photograph of a cute sign telling you the direction of the exit! How considerate of them!

Exit this way up….!

Well there you have it, my self-designated Louvre of Malaysia! I know there might be some other graffiti arts sites with better artworks than these, but anyway… *shrugs*.

Before I end, I must stress that it really really STINKS in there! If you ever need to use the tunnel try to wear a gas mask or something… I nearly fainted standing there taking these photos!

This entry requires the knowledge of the gaming term ‘LEAVER’. If you DO NOT know what a ‘leaver’ is, read on. If you do, please skip the next 3 paragraphs.

For those who are not familiar with gaming terms, a ‘leaver’ is a player who leaves a multiplayer game before the game officially ends, usually due to the fact that the player knows that he or she is very likely to lose the game eventually. ‘Leavers’ are particularly despised in popular multiplayer games like DotA (Defense of the Ancients), where the game is pointless to continue if a player has left, since the two teams would be rendered unbalance.

Usually, ‘leavers’ won’t simply leave the game by exiting the program since it will lead to bad reputation to his own username, thus causing other players to refuse him from joining their games in the future. A popular way of leaving a game with minimum impact to a player’s reputation is to fake a network disconnection or computer restart, so that they can leave the losing game as if they were ‘being forced’ by the network disconnection or computer restart.

The two ‘leaving’ situations can be faked by disconnecting the network cable from the CPU or by simply pressing the restart button of the computer, respectively. However, if the game is played in a cyber cafe, then faking a computer restart is usually preferred since disconnecting the network cable of a computer in a cyber cafe is rather inconvenient.

This is BlitZone, a cyber cafe in Damansara Jaya, PJ.

It takes almost 2 friggin’ hours to get here from my house by bus, and almost an hour by car. Although it’s rather far away, but it is my preferred cyber cafe in PJ area because it has a rather consistent amount of players at most times, a decent amount of PCs, sufficiently competent players, near Shu-Yi’s house, and quite convenient to reach. If you have a better cyber cafe suggestion of where Cyberjaya people use to go, please let me know!=)

However, apart from the advantages of coming to BlitZone, there is also another feature that until now I find exclusive to it: this cyber cafe is bloody excellent for ‘leavers’!

Because the reset button of your PC is right in front of your knee!

Don’t get too excited when you killed many heroes or are winning the game, because a little stretch or forward movement of your leg will instantaneously make you a stupid ‘leaver’!

I accidentally hit the reset button TWICE last night, meaning that I also ruined TWO DotA games! And NO, I was not losing in both of the games! Grrr….

I have no idea why the guys at BlitZone would want to put the reset button there. Here’s a close up shot of how close your knee would be to the reset button if you were the same height as me.

Well, I guess it’s convenient for some people, so if a guy is losing the game, his knee might just move a bit, and with a fake look of surprise on his face, both hands still on the keyboard and mouse, and say: “Aiya! Dunno why restart ady wor, cannot continue play lor…Rmk! Rmk!*=)”

*Rmk is the short form for Remake, which means to restart the game.