Naïve Art

Yusof Gajah

Recently I went out with my mom looking for paintings for our house. We went to Plaza Ampang aka Yow Chuan aka Worth It Karaoke. Years back Yow Chuan is equivalent to Lot 10 but now the only thing that is worth mentioning about the place is the cheap Karaoke. Yeah you can’t beat a Karaoke where they let you bring in outside drinks and food. Ok anyway we went there to look for furniture and stuff (don’t ask me why) but as we were looking around I stumble upon a gallery called Gajah Gallery. Gajah as in Elephant ok, the reason for the name is because the artist’s name is Yusof Gajah. I’m no art experts so don’t ask me why he’s fascinated with Gajah but I got to hand it to him. I really really like his art work. His expertise lies in his ability to create these Naïve Arts. Im not trying to be an expert here but Naïve Art is artworks which are similar to a kids painting. So you see these really bright and colorful paintings. Yusuf Gajah’s painting is unique to me because of the way he plays with the color. It makes the artwork really interesting and cool. It takes a special talent to be able to mix color and make it appealing. According to guy we met, Malaysians seldom appreciate such art. Well not this Malaysian. If I had the dough I would love to get one of his paintings. The one that we saw cost around RM 3 500. Ok for some that maybe cheap. For me is not, well at least at the moment (I hope heheh). Hopefully when we get our own place I wanna get one of his paintings. I wish I could post his art work here but then again I can’t cause his site has a script running to prevent that. Even if I could I would not, out of respect for the artist. So if you wanna see his paintings go to http://www.yusofgajah.com/

Cool huh?

By the way we could nt afford his painting so we got one from his student Azmi. Also a Naïve Art painting and not bad at all.

Recipe for annoyance…

When your office implements a car park pay machines but there are only 3 of the machines.

This is another classic case which is ever so common for us Malaysians. A noble idea but the implementation is crap. Did nt the management think or plan the whole thing properly before they implemented it? FYI the place I m talking about it Plaza Dumbass. Seriously that’s the name of my office building. The location of the building is excellent. No issues there. The building is located in Sri Hartamas where it is in the middle of PJ and KL however, the management is crap. Not to mention the whole building is poorly constructed (it leaks whenever there is heavy rain) and the management are crap. Im a bit worried, they re gonna open a shopping mall which is connected to our office. The thing that I noticed is the parking. So we re gonna have to share the parking space. Soon the parking will be overcrowded, so for us who work here we re gonna have to scramble for parking space. Especially when you come back to the office during mid-day. Seems like I don’t think there is enough space for all of us. You see this place, Plaza Damas (actual name) consist of 3 types of building. Office spaces, Apartment and soon to open Shopping Complex. It looks like all of us are gonna have to share the parking where no lift is provided. Even if there is ample parking, Malaysians just simply love to park by the road side. Ok if the parking charges are too expansive like KLCC or KLIA it is understandable. But just take a look at the Mutiara Damansara area, Ikea in particular. The parking is around 1 to 3 dollars but still people don’t mind carrying some of the ikea furniture and stuff to their car that’s parked outside by the roadside. Another thing that baffles me is that some of the cars parked outside are not your average budget car-kancil and what not. Some are expansive continental cars and Japanese cars. Come on you can afford to pay the monthly loan for the car don’t you want to take good care of it. What if it gets dented? Is it worth it? Anyway back to my office. I just hopped that the parking wont be an issue and I hope people don’t start parking by the road side. If they do I can imagine the amount of traffic jam outside my office. I just don’t want a situation where going to the office is a bitch. Plus the same road leads to our soon to be apartment, so please god take the jam away.

Apart from that on a personal note. I noticed that when I m tired and hungry, I do get easily upset. Huuurrmm I guess got to work on that. Gotta make sure I got food with me all the time.

Ekekekek ….

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