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A New Year celebration with EBC friends at CECRIB. We had sugar overdose from desserts & curious looking ice-creams.

From left: Mr. Giraffe(my birthday gift), Totoro(bought from lelong), Astro boy(my hubby collection), Straw Giraffe(birthday gift for my hubby), Pink Bunny(bought in Singapore). My new toys for 2006. Hehe…
Giraffe riding giraffe? How peculiar…

Selected Artists are invited to take part in an exhibition at National Art Gallery this year from April to June. Here, some artists Sarawak gather at Boonia Gallery at padungan to meet the new director of KL National Art Gallery(seated in the middle wearing red shirt).

More manipulation of identity and using persona as a playing ground.

Batty and numerous other Friendsters routinely violate the site’s user agreement by creating fictional characters as profiles instead of, or in addition to, their "real" profiles. These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").

Emboldened by their masks and often preferring the weird over the normal, fakesters are turning Friendster on its ear. They link to other users they’ve never met in real life, flouting the site’s original intent of connecting people through verifiable personal relationships. Many compete to link to as many other users as possible, so that their fictional characters function as social hubs in the Friendster network.

Though to an outsider the fakester uprising might have looked like a big practical joke, there were serious issues behind it.

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