Ganjilnya

Dah ganjil 11 hari nampaknya Ramadhan kali ni. Haha. Setiap hari, menu bersahur dan berbuka lebih kurang je. Tambah-tambah kalau yang beli kat kafe. Menu depa pun macam hari biasa-biasa jugak. Kekadang, keluar bazar pun, cam takde pe la sangat nak beli. 2, 3 kali da pergi pun, beli benda sama je. Tengok yang tu mahal. Yang ni mahal. Ye la, mana tak mahalnya kalau compare dengan Kelantan. Dush.

Satu hari bersembang ngan Hakim dalam kelas, habis sume benda nak disebut. Sate, murtabak, gulai kawah, ayam percik, durian and entah pe la lagi. Ustaz pun join sekali habis.

Oh ya, Salam Ramadhan.

Returning To Where It All Starts...

"Farhan, was it you the one who I ran into this afternoon near the canteen?" Mrs. Sidhu asked me out of the blue in the class.

"Yes, it was me. I was about greeting you but you were in quite rush."

"Right, I was in hurry that I even doubted whether I really did saw you or someone else. I even asked myself later, "Should I give a second glimpse to make sure of it? Is he really Farhan? Is he really our Farhan? (Mere chortle in the class) Because the one that I know smiles a lot, most of the time. I'd never seen someone with such so serious looking just like the one that I met near the cafe"

I did nothing but smile.

Well.. Okay

Post terakhir sebelum pergi. Aku taknak taip panjang-panjang kali ni (walaupun post-post sebelum ni takde la panjang sangat) Mungkin sebab aku pun tak tahu nak taip apa. Tak tahu.



Masa ngah berkemas apa sume, terjumpa pulak angpau. Da expired. Menyesal pulak tak guna. Membazirlah katakan.

There's the shine of hope. Selamat datang dunia baru.

Jadi, setakat itulah kali ini. Ku tak ucap selamat tinggal. Ku ucap..

Semoga jumpa lagi.

Wassalam.

Jauhnya Perjalanan Malam...

Jauhnya perjalanan malam,
di saat ku menapak ke belakang,
dan terus ke belakang,
menjejaki landasan memori,
mencari yang tersemat di hati,
mengimbau yang penuh erti,
sejak terlakarnya
kisah hidup ini.

Jauhnya perjalanan malam,
tatkala kumelangkah ke hadapan,
menembusi terowong impian,
bertemankan pelita suram,
meliang-liuk nyaris terpadam,
sedangkan mancis pula,
ke mana menghilang.

Jauhnya perjalanan malam,
pabila yang kabur cuba disuluh,
menerobos pekat malam,
tidak putus-putus,
sedang merah dan emas masih lagi angan,
putih dan biru terkunci rapi,
dalam sebuah kotak impian.

Jauhnya perjalanan malam...

Selamat Datang Syawal 1430H

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Akhirnya, Ramadan kali ini telah pun berlalu pergi. Harapnya ianya tidaklah sia-sia. Haih.

Jadi, seperti biasa, di kesempatan ini, ingin saya ucapkan Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri kepada semua yang membaca post ini, khususnya buat keluarga dan kaum kerabat, kawan², rakan², teman², sahabat², jiran² serta semua umat Islam masa kini. Maaf zahir dan batin andai ada salah dan silap. Janganlah dipendam lama-lama, nanti jadi masam kalau tak diawet.

Buat ibu dan ayah di Kelantan, anakanda pohon maaf dari hujung rambut sampai ke hujung kaki atas dosa dan salah sejak anakanda dilahirkan dan dibesarkan selama ini.Maaflah, tak dapat anakanda pulang beraya bersama kalian tahun ni. Pilu sekali hati ini mengenangkan suasana raya di kampung. Sayu. Beraya di perantauan tak akan pernah sama dengan di rumah. Sungguh.

Saya berharap agar kita semua diberikan peluang untuk menikmati Ramadan yang akan datang dengan sebaiknya. InsyaALLAH.

Salam Eid Mubarak.

Farhan Mohamed
Lokasi terakhir : Bukan di tanah air tumpahnya darahku

p.s : pelik semacam je post kali ni haha
p.s.s : argh. aku tak dapat lari dari style lama

Happy Birthday Malaysia!

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Today is 31st August 2009. (heck yes,what a statement haha) By the way, I don't think that it's quite late to wish Happy 52nd Independence Day Malaysia though the clock just struck 11pm some moment ago, right? Aku pun dah design entah apa sempena hari bersejarah ini hehe. Well, it was actually a contenst entry of mine at Sifoo.com. Apart from that, Google doesn't even miss to wish Malaysians.

Geez, esok da sekolah balik buat sekali lagi. Students kementerian pula baru nak start trial spm. Nasib baiklah aku da habis haha. Uh oh...

It's Getting Nearer...

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The school is about getting reopened in a few days. But no enough preparations so far. Silly me.

Ahlan Wasahlan Ramadhan!

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السلام عليكم It's been the 3rd Ramadhan today. Still, I don't think that it's quite late to welcome it, isn't it? I was going through Abduzeedo.com's pages after not visiting there for a long time. There has been too much new things to discover indeed. Furthermore, they add up two or three posts per day there. I don't even think of getting finished checking through the pages haha.

Well, as I was there, a glimpse of a preview of a tutorial on creating folded typo. (heck?) You can view it here, on Abduzeedo (It's an Italian, or Spanish, or whatsoever that I forgot which means Abducted in english). Consequently, that inspires me to open up Adobe Photoshop CS3 hehe. Regarding those splasy effect, you can view the tutorial by Nik Ainley, one of the coolest photoshop master, here. Be that as it may, I couldn't stick to it really well. That's the reason why this another tutorial exists. You can have better explanations there, step by step. Good luck~

untunglah kamu andainya ramadhan kali ini lebih baik berbanding sebelumnya
rugilah kamu andainya ramadhan kali ini sama sahaja seperti sebelumnya
celakalah kamu andainya ramadhan kali ini kurang baik berbanding sebelumnya

Happy Fasting! Ni baru tiga hari, banyak lagi perlu ditempuhi. Banyak-banyakkan baca al-Quran. Sembahyang terawih sekali. Jangan ponteng puasa sudeee~

Video Review : Magic Flashlight

Do you like snowboard? I do! Since last 3 years, I've been snowboarding seriously. Very serioulsy. It's not easy to impress the viewers especially when we're doing the same stunts or something. Tricky, it is. Then, Mike Benson was born. He comes up with one of the greatest snowboard movies that I've ever watched. It's entitled "Magic Flashlight". What's the relation with either snow or board? You'll see.

Okay, the first two sentences above was such a lie. This Mike Benson impresses the viewers not by hovering for minutes, or rotating in the air relentlessly. He only adds some motion work in his video and that's done it. After Effects is used to achive the great result. The technique he uses is a modified version af Andrew Kramer's After Effects Light Streak Tutorial which needs Particular Plugin. Nice. Even I haven't yet managed to have a good command of it. Messing with settings and also scripting. D'oh. Enjoy.

Knife Show Inc and friends uncover a strange phenomenon at Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood. Snowboarding video takes place in and out of High Cascade Summer Camp. Shot and edited by Mike Benson. Starring Brendan Hayes, Eli weiner, Scott Stevens, Chris Beresford, Matty Mo, Jesse Burtner, and Casey Wrightsman.

Magic Flashlights from Mike Benson on Vimeo.

p.s:After watching this, my lil bro asked, "Do these things really exist?" LOL
p.s.s:I've actually stumbled this upon here

Tutorial : Photoshop Typography Masking

السلام عليكم Finally, I'm here again, typing new things heh. The only different thing this time is that this is not a mere post like before ones. I'll be writing a photoshop tutorial. It's just a remake though. Nothing to be proud of. Nevertheless, it's my very first one to be published. Actually, this is the consequence when one of those peaceful days of my life have been destroyed by Leo haha.

He buzzed me on YM, urging me to show him the true path of doing one of the tutorials on Abduzzedo XD. Maybe it wasn't clear enough for him. Nevermind. It was an Abduzeedo's reader's tutorial. Some kind of typography. Credits to them. By the moment I write this, I haven't yet asked for their permission. Should I? Heh. Without much ado, let's begin. Leo, I hope this is clear enough for you.

Step 1

Create a new canvas with a black BG colour. In a much simpler language, create a new project. (CTRL + N). In the original tutorial, he says the size of 1200 x 800 pixels. Well, that's a wallpaper resolution, I suppose. Nevertheless, I won't be doing this with that or I will ended up having my system working a bit slower. (Yeah, dummy oldy buddy) Hence, I choose 600 x 500 pixels.

Then, you should have a shape for your design in your canvas. I'll just use a simple one, AF, due to the laziness of creating a complex one XD. It's up to you though. Be creative.

Step 2

Now, hide that by clicking on the EYE thing which is the next to your layer in the layer pallete. Then, create a text box and start typing your text in it, filling all empty spaces. In this case, I just typed my name hehe. For the text setting, I use Segoe UI Bold 9pt #404040.

That's not enough yet. You now need to resize the text box using text tool until it's bigger than your canvas size.

Step 3

Allright. The next thing to do is rotate the text box. About 45 degree will do just fine. However, this step is optional. If you don't feel like having the text slanting, don't do this then.

Step 4

Next, unhide your smart object (the shape that mentioned on the 1st step). Then, make a selection by pressing CTRL and click on the thumbnail of your smart object. It's in you layer pallete. Marching ants (or something) of the selection will then appear around the edges your object.

Step 5

To see your object's selection clearer, hide the object layer again. Then, remember to rasterize your text layer.

Step 6

Select your marquee selection tool . Make sure your text layer is selected. Right click and then select layer via cut. You'll now have a new layer, with your text cut via the shape you just selected.

Step 7

You now can apply some layer style for the new layer. Colour overlay or something. Or you might want to refer to the original tutorial.

Okay, that's it. For the complete tutorial, why don't you view it here? I'll just stop here hehe. I added some elements for the final result. And it turns out like this.

p.s : I don't think that this is quite helpful -.-"
p.s.s : I've downloaded Dark Knight's OST. Suspense music, all of them! Bose
p.s.s.s : I made up the title of this post