The Synapse Connections of a lifetime

Somewhere in my memory suddenly sparked a short vision of my primary school. I grew up studying in S.M.K Stowell, one of the earliest primary schools in mainland Penang. Anyway, while just sitting around in my room, I remembered what Cikgu Rosli told us back in Stowell. I don't remember the year but he was described to us a story about aliens in Stowell. Being young kids, we were really amazed by that story, but it was just buried in my memory until that day. I went to Google and searched "Bukit Mertajam, Alien", and to my amazement, there really is several articles about the Alien story that Cikgu Rosli told us about. It was widely reported in the local papers that day, and apparently similar episodes were encountered in several states as well.


The aliens of my former school was unlike normal aliens. They are miniatures, barely 3 inches tall. I remember Cikgu Rosli telling us about a book that has all these stories, but he never showed us. Someone in a forum posted this:

Apparently the aliens look like clowns with star pattern on their shirt and pointy boots. :P Kids back at those days have no imagination? :P

1970 - A ten year old student in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia reported seeing about 25 landed small objects among the bushes just outside school grounds. From each of the objects emerged a three inch tall humanoid. As he approached the UFOs the school bell rang and he returned to class and did not see the objects depart. After school six school boys in the same village reported seeing a very small disc-shaped object, blue in color, land in some bushes near their school. Five little men described as merely three inches tall emerged from the object. One was dressed in a yellow suit and the other four wore blue uniforms. They were seen installing some type of aerial on a tree branch that apparently sent out signals. The boys became frightened and ran away. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 812, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28, # 5).

CASE 3: Bukit Mertajam, 1973

A group of boys playing football in a school field sighted a small UFO landed nearby. From it emerged tiny creatures which immediately one of the boys tried to catch. A beam of light was fired at the boy’s hand. The UFO flew away.

After toying for almost two years, I finally made the move to get a DSLR. Goodbye Panasonic FX-9, you have been an excellent camera. Hello Nikon D-80, you are so complicated I haven't finished reading your manual..

Got the camera off ebay at a reasonable price, the camera was shipped from Hong Kong within three days! The D80 is pretty heavy, but Nikon really knows how to build it so that it feels perfectly in my grip.

SLR photography is quite difficult, but it's really fun to learn all the tricks of the trade. The hobby does require a substantial amount of $$$$ though.. which I don't have.. lol!

Did a first test run in UNSW at night with choy the other day, results were not as good as I hope coz there's a few aspects that I needs to learn about. It's slow but I'm getting a hang of it.

The next thing I tried to do was to set up a mini-studio in my room for my Gundam. I dun have all the expensive lights, so I just use my kiam siap table lamps.

It turned out.. OK, but not very good, still have much to learn..

D80 is so exciting!