Bz~

Today almost died on my way to school~ Too tired, slept at 530am this morning and the day before was 430am. It was taking too much of a toll on my body, but nevertheless, i dragged myself up. The reason for the late nite sleep was because i had trouble determining wat to write for my essay. Yes, its hard to believe that i spent half an hour to write but 4hours to digest the information available and decide what to touch on. Had to cab to school in the end as i was running very late. Yea it sux, my presentation was crap, although i only prepared 4 slides, but during my presentation, i totally forgot to switch my slides. Zzzz, they din matter aniwae. As i still haven really decide on wat to write for my essay, i was practically stumbling thru my presentation, trying to grasp my topic.

After a hellish 3hours presentation class, i finally get to eat lunch. It was pretty fun as 狗狗帮 got to go out again! With special appearance from Elle! Lol, Vincent is in the gang, but i din give him a name as of yet. We grab pastamania and were having fun thinking of a name for Acel and Fuwen's new dog's name for awhile before moving on to Suntec City's Carrefour. Gary had a lot of ideas but we felt it was all to weird, when he finally gave a superb name, Leca or Leica, Acel's name spelled backwards. Gary needed to get some meat and med n me need to grab some Bailey's. Got a sudden call from Garo seller and i had to leave the guys to go get the items. We went to meet the guys again at Gary's house after reaching med's house. It was rather tiring and i knocked out on Gary's HOLY BED...LOL! But it was fun looking at the puppies and dogs playing around. Big rain when i was gettin back home after dinner, it was kinda fun running in the rain wif Med and med's mum..lolol. I guess its more fun to go school when you know that you have a bunch of nice frens there... :)

Yes! The collection is finally complete~~ :)

After so much effort, the search is finally over! Thanx Wolftaro.






Recently, i realised Garou has really grown bigger, his body is getting longer and his feature is getting sharper as well. Dun grow up GAROU!!! LOL!!!

The art of Studio Photography~

The shock trooper toy i bought the other day. Lol. Its pretty cool actually.

Today was studio photography, and as usual, it was a very enriching experience. :) I have always enjoyed Photography lessons, and i realised that Acel has alot of potential for photography. Her feel and effort is all there in her image. Yea, should grab hold of some of her works and showcase it here. The topic today is to shoot items that reflects light and yep, as Sufan said, its a pain in the ass to do it. I brought Garo Kiramekibito for the shoot and as you can see on the pictures, its kinda like a suicidal mission. LOL! The first image basically shows the problem i need to tackle for the shoot. At that angle, i need to remove the two big white patches on the top and lower portion of the front cover. The overall lighting is too dark as well. The box itself is actually reflecting the white table top. We spent like 1 hour to fix up the white reflection, the end result is the image below. Its not the best, but time din allow me to further adjust the image. Felt really bad though, cos Fuwen, Amos and Melody brought their item and couldn't shoot cos of me. T_T sorry guys~~

Today was really tiring, had to rush Weiming's 8pg portfolio, finally finished it yesterday morning 4am. End up sleeping til 10pm after i reached home jus now...zz man. Still gotta do presentation powerpoint (Ewwwww~!) and essay draft for tomoro.

One good news to share, Acel can finally keep a dog!! YAY!!

Mono and lazing~~

Cover image from Wikipedia.

This weekend was rather mono and nothing much happened, Last night got activated last minute-ly for a snack out at East coast Park's 24hrs Carl's Junior by my younger brother. Din really wan to eat but my Ji toot brother made me took a bite of the Portobello Mushroom burger, end result, Epic Good game, i bought one meal as well. Sigh~

Ah Tan & Gf came along as well, and we practically jus sat there enjoying the place, burgers and chatting ard. It feels good jus not doin anithin and lazing my time away, apart from the guilt of knowing that i'm supposed to be rushing my assignments for school. LOL! The overdrive last nite made me woke up very late today, supposed to drop by Chinatown Square to check out some toys but it was getting too late, and i'm getting lazy as well. Fuwen called me last nite and told me that Acel wun be getting a dog cos her uncle can't allow her to do it and the chain consequences was too big. i was like Wow~ that's such a pity.. Sigh~ i guess not everyone can jus rear a dog as they wan~

Nothing much to share with everyone, but was surfin ebay and found some nice pictures of the upcoming Batman Dark knight figures from S.I.C. The details is as you can see, imbaly detailed! At least this time round was better, i remembered the Spiderman version was kind of a flop~ I might be gettin the batman, estimated price shud be ard $120~ But i guess priority is on my Masked Rider first! :P I attached some design sketches as well, this time round it was a collaboration with Masakazu Katsura, the illustrator of Zetman. I seriously love this dude's comic man, he was also the illustrator of D.N.A, I.s and some other works..

狗狗帮

Lol, got really bored, and i ended up doing the crest for 狗狗帮, lololol...Ya after choosing the pic for half an hour, we settled on this scary husky's pic.LOL! This is the member's list not in order of rank~ cos there's no rank!! lolol

狗狗帮。跳动一兵。哑巴豆豆 -sha sha (Shaker mute) Lolol, she know we're joking :P

狗狗帮。犬神一将 -Garey (Dog General)

狗狗帮。迷路一军 -Fuwen (Get lost Platoon)

狗狗帮。三别抄军 -Melody (Scout Platoon)

狗狗帮。真导行一帅 -Terry (Navigator soldier)

狗狗帮。超苏东一兵 -Acel (Blur blur get lost soldier)

Ya, its kinda lame, but when everyone doing it, it becomes so funny~~lololol

Terry The Great Navigator!!

Any spidey fans out there?! Maybe its a little late on my part~~but Spiderman the web of shadows for psp is gonna be released soon! The gameplay video seems rather cool and i'm so looking forward to the release of this game!! The combos and all!! OMFG!! Spiderman is scheduled to be release on the Oct 21st. Final Fantasy Dissidia is gonna be released soon as well, if you guys dunno what it is, pls! go see the trailer i attached! It will put you of your feet! *to FF fans. The rumoured release date is supposed to be Dec 12th.

Trailer for Spiderman Web of Shadows

Trailer for Final Fantasy Dissidia

Alrite, paper talk, no comments, its rather boring, and i thought i can see the actual paper making process, but no, videos...that is faulty at first, which plays like those japanese ghost movie cursed videos..lolol. I figured it was either the dvd rom, or the video codec. Lol.

Today, i finally met up with LING!!! Lol! And i hv an announcement to make!! I'm finally passing my Throne of the Flower Guards to her. Yep, i finally managed to hear her tok abt her sweet, dramatic, dynamic, out of the world, amazing, crazy, imbaly haomai~, superly gao lat love story of how she got together wif her concurrent Bf~~ Lol! Ling u shud see this. Hahahaah..*smiling to myself. Yep, you win me on the Test of Haomai-ness alr. Its always good to tok to an ex snake ops kaki~ We were jus chilling at MOS and toking kok, and times jus passes so fast...We shud do tt more! Anyway, feel kinda sad for her that, her perfect relationship is gonna hv to withstand so many tests, guess someone up there is not always fair to everyone...*sigh. Aniwae, as ur fren, i can onli say... Jiayou ba~~~lolol. I hereby announce u the next successor of The Flower Guards!

Old Crest for Flower Guards

Ling's New Flower Guard Crest.

While i was having a Flower Guards meeting, 狗狗帮 were getting lost in the north region of Admiralty!! Lol, was hearing Garey and Med tiu-ing about how they got lost and searching for roads there..LMAO, Of cos la, 狗狗帮no. 1 star Navigator not ard ma~~~ :P Just jokinf~Anywae, Garey the general of INUGAMI CLAN is gonna recruit a new member soon! lol, check out this big dog!

Yes~ handsome dog~lolol, he's gonna add him to his Army of Dogs! Can't wait to go Garey's house to see this dog when he adopts it. Weekend is finally coming, hopes the seller for Garo vol 3,4 and 7 dun tua me! T_T Recently, i was thinking of designing a masked rider hoody for myself, lol, too crazy alr~ was checking out price for printing after dinner jus now, if all goes well, it should work~~ :P I guess that's all for today~~ back to my 99 things~~

Zzz..i actually got so bored that i spent 15mins, doing the new flower guard crest~~

Dog hunter~

Today was rather mono, starting my day with men's health.. Ya i know, i'm fat alr...zz... so i'm gonna do something about it, its a pretty good magazine i would say, with lots of health and nutrition info for guys~ yea, why else wud it be called men's health den~ just came back from a jog in the park. Recently i think i accidentally step on either Garou or Ruki's shit, damn down on my luck. Keep making mistakes and gettin scolded. :(

Yesterday was a rather long and tiring day, for more info, refer to Gary's blog on the 25th sept. Yep, to summarise we ran all around Singapore to hunt for dog. We basically went from Clementi to Holland V to Ang Mo Kio to Hougang and den to Buangkok. Yea~ Wow~ i dun even go so many places when i go toy hunting or collecting. But all in all, it was really fun, goin around with classmates, joking and chatting...it was like since i was in poly tt i did tt? Lol~ those were times~~ We saw 4 maltese from a same owner, some dogs at pet lover in holland V and one Shih tsu at hougang. The maltese, in my opinion, to be honest...sux~ lolol. Dun really like them, cos they look like they're balding~ guess i'm too used to Chihuahua, lol. But the Shih tsu was really cute, and black and white ones are pretty rare to me, cos i nv see one before. The shih tsu was really adorable and playful. Had some tips exchange with the uncle owner of the shih tsu seller, he sounds really pro. He grooms his own dog! tt's like so cool~ cos u save so much! Anyway, i'm determined to paper train Garou!!! ROAR!!!

Spent most of the afternoon sleeping and stoning on my couch~ and den, finallly i made up my mind to start on my 99 things i love~ LOL, right now, i'm still at the 11th, GOD! Do like this exercise though, because it'll be pure drawing and drawing, which is what i always liked. Gary msn me regarding his hairdye~ but i think i wud need to wait for a few days more to help him do it, unless he pass me the balance tomoro...Cos i have exactly $60 in my bank!! Yea, the result of splurgin on Garo figurines..God i wish this month ends asap. Alrite, back to my work~~*munching on my almond nuts, they're tasteless but exceptionally addicting to munch on~~

If we loved each other truly, i should accept ur flaws, and rightfully i asked the same of you~ i tried to do it, why haven you?

Hmmm...

I have a statement to make~~

Dunno what to say today, got too bored and ended up catching Mamma Mia! with Med last minutely after lunch. It was pretty good and funny, although i was skeptical at first. I mean, the audience all uncle and auntie. *shrug. But den its a Tuesday noon, LOL. After that i went hunting for Starwars Dvds but to my disappointment. No have. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. In the end, to satisfy my urge to buy something related to Starwars, i got myself a Clonetrooper from the animation Clone wars. Lol.

Something suddenly came to my mind today, A couple of weeks ago, we were having debate in class. A classmate pointed out that Design is not cheap. It was my group debating that it is not cheap. I fully agree with this statement, and it's not supposed to be in the first place. Opposition's debate was, making use of ik*a as an example. That ik*a has cheap and good design, that's true to a certain extent. But quality and strength of materials was compromised, so when i mention this point, i was stopped by the lecturer and she said, that's not design alr. At that moment, i realised, yeah~ that's true, its not design alr.

But after pondering for awhile...think again...

The same lecturer mentioned earlier that, Designers are problem solvers, and she strongly emphasized this point. Yep i agree on that. That would mean, our design, being a by-product of us, designers, (not yet, but you get what i mean) is the solution? Based on that statement she made, that would mean that my consideration of strength and quality wasn't wrong? Because, the solution is made up of the selection of material, design, cost, etc... If we are problem solver, won't that mean that people who come to us, would want problem solved for good? Instead of getting lower strength and quality product? Most of our lecturers, always emphasize on selection of materials, strength, durability and design of our packaging and some other 3d product. So am i wrong to say that, strength and quality being part of material selection is part of design as well? And no, i'm not saying that ik*a products is lousy, because i myself love their products, but we all know that, they use lower quality materials for their products and their product is not as strong, but most of the customers are ready to accept that for the price they can save. The point here is just that, a good design that works is definitely not cheap.

Upon my conclusion to the previous thoughts, something else this lecturer said made me wondered too. Design is all around us. Every step we make, the way we use our utensils, hold our tools, try to get ourselves unstuck in a road full of junks, a new piece of design for a magazine, all this is design. Upon hearing what she said, i thought, that would be true, if designer is problem solver, den design is simply, in her term, solutions, ideas, or even inventions. Then, she proceed to tell us to name what we feel is the best designed item in our life ever. Someone named lightbulb, i thought fair enough, its one of the greatest invention and design for our life. She said no, that's an invention. I was appalled by that statement. She proceed to name, takeaway packaging and further elaborated, but my thoughts drifted away. I was thinking, is there any difference between design and inventions den? Lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention An interesting article on invention from wikipedia.

I guess, its simply dangerous that, as a design lecturer, that you simply try to impose your opinion and ignore doctrines onto unaware students. If you really want to do so, at least elaborate on the important points of why it is so and not simply make a statement and say it is so.

I guess that's all~~ niteeez all, sorry for the long article, and i do hope u read and share with me your thoughts. :)

I think i'm in the dark side of the force alr, constantly trying to oppose the lecturer~~zzz

3 hit combo posting~

Today abit lor soh~ so i posted 3 different posting. After lecture today, i went shopping for Garou's couch and cushion, we finally managed to get a similar one from the original owner at ikea. It was really well received by Garou, he is sleeping on it now and don't make as much noise as well. Ruki is starting to get used to Garou as well, and they were sleeping side by side. Its really adorable. Had to force myself to exercise today, end result is...paralysed now. Only my finger can move now. LOL!

Thank you CD5E Grp 1

豆花街の竜太郎's left arm of power.

(Tattoo work by Jerald with 4 color ball point pen)

Yea, it might be a little late, but thanx CD5E grp 1, you guys rocks. It was really fun scripting for the Yakuza story our group was doing. The initial storyline by me was rather plain and boring, until Gary gave me some ideas, yep, end result was a chain combo of ideas. I was really happy writing the script for the story, and i end up staying up the whole nite to write it. I had written script for my own animation and comics, but writing a script for it to be actually directed by me with a group of friends was really fun. The best part was everyone really trusted me, and co-operated with me, even when i keep asking for cuts on a single scene. Doing test run and all, really, the experience for me was really...WOW...indescribable. You guys rox! I was really glad that it was pretty well received by the class, even if they dun like it, the laughter from the class is really fulfilling for me alr. But i guess the storyline seriously needs improving on my part, due to the short time frame, alot of scene was shortcutted and i had to abandon storyline for humour. The story took advantage of what the audience alr knew, so further elaboration was omitted. But given one more week or 2, i guess it can still be fine tuned!

Some of the cast from the team.

The full cast list is, Gary, Keith, Jerald, Acel, Benny, Vincent, Fuwen, Melody, Shasha, Amos, Millie and Me! We had extra help from Grp 2 as well, which really improved the over all impact of the video. Million of thanx to Team Da jie Da. :)

Boring~

Something i drew while i was damn bored at lecture, thing to note is, normally i dun even draw. That's how bored and long it was. Zzz.

Today was a rather tiring day in the morning, goin to lecture...its one of the most boring lecture in the whole time table. The whole lecture is nothin but constant re-elaboration on points that is as obvious as anithin else. Nothing against the lecturer seriously, but i feel, as a designer which u so love to call ourselves. Shouldn't you consider the impact, the massive amount of words and slides will have on your audience? Yep, nice color and font is good, but reading from the slides is not. If that's the case, i guess the slides can be sent to us thru email? That's what i realised from my previous lecturers as well, when we present, they'll say that words over slides and readin from slides is boring, but well, they do the same thing. :) Thought i should share some presentation mentality with everyone. Solely personal, i welcome feedback though. But point to note, all this notes was from a presentation lecturer, which i've tried to follow closely ever since :P

Point 1: Words ratio over image shouldn't be over 3:7, maximum 4:6, ideal would be 2:8 if not, chances are, you would end up reading from slide and your audience gets really bored. Especially target is students, with attention span of a puppy? lol.

Point 2: Don't have more den 10 slides, maximum 15. If not chances are, yea.. they're falling asleep and praying for time to pass. Its a torture as well, you shud try it.

Point 3: Don't over elaborate the obvious? Things like You need basic english to converse well. Yep, its ok if its one example, it kills if its like 3 similar scenario but diff examples?

Point 4: Ok, this is hard, but always pay constant attention to your audience as well. Look at how they react and maybe you can improve on, lengthen or shorten your presentation. Nothing always worked as plan, so its always good to have changes in the last moment.

Last point: Yep, i know its hard, even if you ask me to do it, i dun have the confident to do it well too, knowing is one thing, doing is another. Don't get carried away by your presentation, yes you have alot to say, but are they interested to listen more? But i guess if you have to do it, at least work smart, chunking all the words is tedious and unrewarding. :)

In unexpected situation, more slides might be needed and amount of words might need to be increased over images, but to what i know so far, that should only happen to statistical informations. Yep, that's about it i guess. Let me know what you think, so that i can improve on my presentation skills!

OMFG!!!!!

Garo Vol 8 @ $30! (Estimated @ $80)

Garo Vol 6 @ $30 (Bidded @ $46)

Garo Vol 2 @ $30!!! (Ordered @ $55)


Garo Vol 1 @ $70

Garo Kiramekibito @ $25 & $45

Yes...Like the topic title, OMFG!!! I'm finally 3 series to completion of the Garo collection. Today i had to wake up early just to get ready for the few places that i'm gonna need to jump to. 1pm at Buangkok for Garo Kiramekibito 12inch figure, 2pm at China Square Center for Garo 1 and search for the rest of the series, 3pm at Yishun for Garo 6, but something, unexpected happened!! Once i reached CSC after collecting my Garo Kiramekibito and Garo 1, there was a friggin discount on Garo series!!! Yes, and when i say discount, its really discount. I got the top 3 items at $30 each!!! Yes $30!! It was supposed to be $80, $46 (Yishun dude) and $55 in order, and i got them all at $30 each! Sad part was, i kinda got scam for Kiramekibito, the last item. Auction seller sold it for $55 with a scratch on the left knee, and the same shop was selling at $25. Yea, bang wall. But i decided to get the defected item for display and buy an extra to keep. So all is well! I managed to get a $10 discount of the defected item as well. :) wheee... And i decided to bring Kiramekibito for shooting on next Monday for the shiny item, i'm sure its shiny and reflective enough. LOL! Yea, nothing much apart from Garou whining thru out the whole day, cleaning his pee and poo, hushing him to sleep, and Melody and i had to sneak out for dinner while he was asleep, all is fine i guess. Finally sort out a misunderstanding with a fellow fren, so my day was extra perfect i guess. Lol, apart from being scammed for Kiramekibito. Star wars the force unleashed is really superbly fun, i couldn't stop playing while omw to the different locations today, i had to play until it was out of batt. The different combi of the dark force, and killing is, zzz..imbaly song and addictive. Zz man, luckily the batt was out when i was reaching home. Aniwae, Garo banzai, Usu usu!!

An update on Garou, for identification purpose, i'm renaming our dog to Garou instead of Garo. Lol. They're basically the same meaning. :)

Garo Vol 5 acquired~~

Today was day 1 of Garo with us, he was still pretty whiny and crying. But i guess that can't be helped, cos he still hvn gotten use to our house. He was chasing Ruki around the whole day, lolol.. and Ruki looks like she was chased by a dinosaur. Lol. Aniwae, today was as busy, had to tend to Garo, as he hasn't got used to Melody's house. Supposed to bring him together to Pet safari at Simei, but he was whining non stop, end up i had to ask Melody home and go down to get his milk and food myself. The way back was a killer, our lunch, milk n food and his cage..and did i forget to say the long walk back from Simei under the sun? lolol. But it was fun, tending to him, lolol...jus like a little baby boy.
Starwars The force unleashed is finally out 2 days ago, i finally got it on my psp before i went all the way to Bukit batok to collect Garo vol 5!!! Super long ride... but i was too busy playing starwars to even notice that time has passed.

This starwars game is pretty maneuverable, with easy use of the force. Just that i have to get use to remembering the different combo, but it still ain't too hard. The customising of ur lightsaber and upgrading your force power makes it more fun and interactive. There's different costumes and modes to unlock, ensuring you won't be bored. The story mode itself is enough to keep my attention on it for very long alr. The boss fights combines the mode from God of war, where you enter different key combi the computer gives to finish off the boss. Overall, i like it, but i guess i gotta finish the game to judge. :)

The transaction was smooth and yes, i finally got it, @$55!! Not too sure if its cheap or expensive, but the size is like, how u say... imbaly big. Just look at Garo in the picture. Can't wait for sunday to come...

Still haven do any homework, too busy with Garo & Garo...but i guess i gotta start today~