Bday 2009~~

This year is really a year of great changes~~
Original plans changed...plans remade...
For good or for bad, i'm still not sure....

I have decided to stay at my current company, turning from intern to a full timer. How long, i'm not sure. But right now, despite of some minor issues, i'm happy working here. The enviroment may not be all great~ but i hv nice n friendly colleagues and the working area is at least comfy. Well, like dad say, impt thing is to learn stuffs and put them to use. So i'm taking this as a learning experience, and looking forward to making and performing great results at this company.

Tryin to get back into the routine of doing personal drawings...personal projects...but too much has been goin on. Too many debates, too many sorting out, too many weighing of options...and too tired... Really hope to get some decent rest before i start working, but well, i guess i can't really afford to do that. Finally settled down after the big decision, its like a big stone smashed. Suddenly, all too relieved...relaxed... til i hv no mood to do anithin else... jus wan to enjoy working here for the moment before i slowly pick myself up again and see where i should head on from now on.....

I have chosen a path against wat ppl normally wud take...rite now, i sincerely pray to Gym that, its the right choice. (Never would have thought that i would have to use illustrator so intensely one day. I used to hate them... but now its part of my tool.)

Recently i've been all about fighting games. Bought my first PC GAME!! Authentic! lol... Street Fighter 4 for PC, and an arcade fight stick to grind with. The game is really hard to play though, doing combos and all, but its a real challenge. Making it look more like real fighting. Well i'll be working hard to master this game!! The reason i wanted to do it because i'm an joystick idiot...hadoken and shoryuken idiot. I cant do it for shit, and a guy who doesn't know how to play street fighter...shud really jus go bang a wall...LOL!

This year i received a couple of presents, startin from brother, got me a bunch of toys from taiwan, followed by firdaus & Daphne and then 911 party. Right now, i'm waiting for Med's present, a set of figurine which i had wanted since last year. Well i guess its still on its way~~ i got myself something too. Maybe i'll post them up when its here.

Warrior of Light from Dissidia Final Fantasy Trading Arts by Brother~~

SIC Tamashii special by brother~~~It really came as a surprise to me, as it was 3months before my birthday~~~

Surprise present from Firdaus and Daphne~~~~

A mechwarrior looking lego... it was really fun assembling it~~~

Teaser present by Med, she sponsored cash for me to capture this toy from a UFO machine...it was costly though~~

Completed model...i'm planning to respray it.

Present by 911, Jim, Lili, Dev, Jenelle, Andy, Moon, Rick, Pok and Cheng. Present was prepared by Cheng. Thanks everyone. Really loved it. And it came in time, i could use a player at work.

My new nano with crystal case~~ wun wan to scratch it~~~

There's engravin behind the nano as well...will post it the next time when Med's real present and present i got myself arrives.

Recently, started gettin interested in Tamiya cars~~LOL~ aniwae, not for racing...jus because the appearance looks cool...that's all...

Now thinking of how i can make my bay at work more comfy~~~

My first authentic Tamiya Pro. Thunder Shot MK II Black Special Edition.

It looks really damn cool~~ i'm gonna get real paint on it.

Current Fayleng: Prayin that its the right choice~~

Optimus Prime~

This few weeks, has been a month of decision making and realization...
Made alot of decision and rethink the decision i made and then making decision and rethinking them again...But today...i finally got the one answer...

Revert back to the old situation...this one word has made me conclude my decision...

After the final decision has been made, i'm finally relieved...and unstressed... had alot of support from med, brother and friends....

The war between the uncle and my brother's friend is over too...we came to a mutual understanding. Apparently, bro's fren's sister gave away bro's fren dog...and decided to wan it back, but the concurrent owner refused...after a ugly confrontation...we sorted it out calmly and managed to resolved the situation, with both side happy. And i'm glad to be of help...

This weekend was rather relaxing, eating, having fun...Went to CG overdrive las week and it was an eye opener...i guess... saw a live demo of professionals doing a digital painting...its really amazing...but i din really get a shot...cos my phone's camera is really..zzz...

Nothing much to say at the moment, jus feeling very relieved....



During the live demo, i decided to go bomb....and when i turn ard from the partition, this was wat i saw...yea can you even see the toilet's sign? i almost crap in my pants....



Optimus prime cosplay@iluma~~ the dude's not very posy though....



Couldn't catch him not moving...he's like posing 2 sec and changing pose...so it was like damn hard to capture the shot with my phone's camera....zzz...



Lol, brother@Mac Cafe Tampines...



Yep, chill out Himalayan Tea Frappe....i really can't stand sweet drinks...it really kills me....
in fact its murder.....zzz....

current fayleng: Hyper relieved....and glad....

Weekends~~~

Our first time at manpuku~~food is pretty good, and not really expensive as well, maybe i'll hold my bday celebration wif 911 here... :)





Recently i've been hangin out at Iluma's arcade alot... And we came upon this hilarious scene las week. 4 dudes on this arcade machine where u need to jump n jump to race thru obstacles. Well, there were alot of onlookers...LOL.



Well nice try, he tried to avoid the camera, but he seems like he was posing for the camera though.







Freaking imba long queue that never shortens...



You might think this is big, but the i think the one who made the floss kinda dulan me...cos ours is like the smallest he made.... those i saw is like at least 1/4 bigger....zzz



Imba big candy floss, everyone was freaking queueing at the IT show at suntec. Costing at $1.40 each, its pretty cheap as compared to pasar malam one. But eatin such a big floss is really pretty zzz... when we were 1/4 left, i was basically gonna vomit...







Hmmm.. not too sure wat this was for, but well, i saw a T-rex at tampines. LOL.



Our store is finally up and running, and finally selling our first bag on the second day...if i rem... This was the layout before yesterday. My bosses went down to rearrange the display in the front and changed them into alot of trexis and toys. Med and i agreed that maybe there should be more wallpaper of toys or images of the toys we have to make it look more fun. It looks kinda high classy and all.... but nonetheless, it still looks really cool, especially after the re layout yesterday.

For more images of the store...catch us here


I'll be dropping down to the CGoverdrive this weekday to check out some courses, and hopefully i can catch some useful infos.

Current Fayleng: Determined n a lil confused....it shud all end by the end of the week...

Karas~

Last night i was watching this anime, Karas. Well i have to say that the storyline and visuals are really very impressive. An anime from the henshin genre by Tatsunoko, the methods of production and storyline are not something u wud be able to see in normal animes. The fight scenes especially is incredibly good. For more details on this 6 episode anime by Tatsunoko production, check it out at wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karas_(anime)

Because of this anime, i've decided that i'll be gettin the figurine produced by Max factory. Surprisingly, the person who sculpted or designed this figurine was none other den Kenji Ando, one of the other sculptor for the S.I.C series.
















Images shown here are from Goodsmile.
Seems like Tatsunoko is the trend for me lately, Gatchaman, Casshern~~ Karas....
Another Upcoming movie from Tatsunoko would be Yatterman, featuring Kyoko Fukada.

Dilema n a busybody...

For the past few weeks, i've been so busy and shagged out by work that i have practically stop doin anithin once i'm home. LOL.

Trying to remind myself to not do that and pushing myself to do wat i'm supposed to do. By chance recently, i came across this school who is providing professional certs for wat i really wan to do and learn, downside was, the cost is almost on par with my degree. So wat shud i do... the advantage was, the course is shorter...guess this will have to be up to me to decide...(its abt digital paintin, matte paintin, some entertainment design and character design.)

Today, i had to accompany Med at the gallery, and well, some busybody came up to me while we were watchin video on Med's laptop. Can't really remember wat he said but here goes...

dude: Is your work in this exhibition?
me: Yea, its behind..why? (wtf m i tt famous?)
dude: which course r u guys from?
me: visual communication... (why do u even care....)
dude: the lights for the interior design exhibits are not on...
me: erm...ic...we're from visual comm... (r u deaf or wat? i jus said i'm from visual comm)
dude: but you're the gallery sitter rite? i think you have the responsibility to on their lights...
me: (F*** u...) the gallery sitter for interior design is over the other side, together with the product design peeps...

alrite...i know this sounds like i'm super keh gao kia, but well, we spent a good sunday to come down and sit in for the gallery, and if~ the interior ppl dun even give a damn~ why shud we? while they're enjoyin their sunday at home? I shud hv jus ask the jitoot dude if he was frm interior....well...god bless him i forgot....

recently i'm addicted to tatsunoko vs capcom...well, its a fantastic game, with the aerial combos and watever combos...its hard to stop. And Iluma bugis has 3 of these machines... so everytime i go to bugis for this few days, i'll jus drop by the arcade for a shot... had a try at SF4, and well, its really different and hard...sigh.... with punches slower and harder to combine, and special move harder to execute...its a pain in the ass for a joystick idiot like me to play....

For toy fans, Play imaginative at Iluma is finally opened and features alot of designer stuffs and cool toys. Do check it out, you won't miss it, its by the entrance outside Iluma. I got myself some nice badgee from Popkartsg the other day as well...they looks damn cool....(my interest in stuff is getting really random and strayin from wat i wud be interested in the past...)

Gallery entrance~

Gallery sitter location...

Legendary interior design and product design side...

My exhibit in the middle...had to use my postcard as namecard...whahaha...

Shasha's exhibit...tot i shud helped her put some postcard too...hurhurhur....

Gary's exhibit...yea...helped him put some postcard as well...muahaha...

Med's exhibit...well, she had her own namecards....

Javier's exhibit...for graphic design...

Acel's imba exhibit...blur....

Yewcheng's exhibit....the linework can even be seen at this size of the image...zz

Jim's exhibit....for advertising....

The badges i bot at popkartsg....recently i really like Thor after i read 1602 from Marvel written by Neil Gaiman. Its a really cool story. And of cos, iron mans...who can not love ironman...and the other dude is the flash...bot it cos the matt finish is really nice. The batman was part of a free gifts i received after i announced Firdaus's name...hahaha....he's my in charge at my intern work place. These badges r not those diy badges, from wat i'm told, they're actually authentic licensed product by one of the designers of mighty mugg. He has decided to start his own merchandise with all these badges. Its for sale at $2 per piece at popkartsg at Iluma Bugis entrance.

Hmmm...saw Cheng bot jim this jelly lens thing...so i went to buy a stretch lens for Med as well...haven try it out tho...haha...

Whahaha...my Kamen rider 1 & 2 caught by Med at the UFO machine @ Downtown. $3 spent in total. Simply love them...hurhurhurhur...have been addicted to UFO machine nowadays again...zz...

Finally used my spiderman keychain on my sling bag...might as well use it, or else it wud hv been a waste....

Current Fayleng: Dunno wat to do....sigh... Paper or money?