Wednesday, May 23, 2007 -

Yessiree.....yet another post from yours truly....this one is going to be a short,art-related post.......

A week or so ago,when Huiling,Wenjun and me met up for.......errr.....shopping....for Kuromi products throughout town......hahhaa....we started trailing off and talking about Nick names......anyway Huiling had previously gave Wenjun the nick name "Geeky Vampire" and I suggested that since Huiling's idea of recreation involves her downloading free movies and drama serials off the web.....she should be a pirate.....and since that picky fella ONLY downloads DVD QUALITY MOVIES...... She should just call herself "Picky Pirate"......hahha

So flashforward to A few days ago.....Wenjun called me up at 10.30pm and told me to go read her blog,cos she had updated it with some anime-ish artwork she drew of herself and Huiling.......as the Geeky vampire and Picky pirate...since I was in camp and had a 6 hrs long duty starting in 3 hrs time....I just mumbled that I would go look at her new posts when I got home and promptly went to bed.....

Well anyway my duty started at 2am.....and since it was going to last for the next 6 hours.....I started watching Al Pacino's Serpico on the office computer and I remembered about Wenjun telling about her drawings.....so I took a piece of A4 paper,some pens and highlighters and began to doodle my idea of what a Picky Pirate and Vampire would look like....

Many people might not know.....but I started off being A BIGGER fan of Jap comics then English comics...I was an Avid Reader of Akira Toriyama's DragonBall since I was in primary one all the way till Primary 6.......and I still have a HUGE soft spot for them........and a few months ago,for the sheer heck of it ....I pencilled this 2 page Gag strip featuring a anime-ish version of a well-known american comic character(Not Batman lar!),that I drew completely in the "Big eyes,Button nose" manga style except for the last panel where I had the character,drawn in the normal american comic style comment about how much he hates manga....hahha......so since I did some research before drawing the 2 pages......switching to the "Manga" style for this pin-up was pretty easy....

Since I don't have a scanner...here's some pics of what I drew..........


The preliminary rough sketches.....

Before you start on ANY drawing....You gotta start doodling and putting your rough ideas to paper by sketching and refining whatever's in your mind.......so this is my first crude doodles I did in my office...... Geeky Vampire was actually going to be a western vampire but I thought that the Chinese vampire would be a cuter version to draw.....I also did some Joke-ish drawings of Davy Jones and Sao Feng too.......

The Completed Drawing....



I really like the rough sketches I did.....I thought whatever ideas I had came out quite well on paper....and i thought It would be a fun piece to work on....so I went back home and drew a quick but complete drawing of The Geeky Vampire and Picky Pirate......there wasn't much pre-planning and I added things spontaneously as I went....took me longer then expected though...5 hrs of my freaking life!!....hahha...and I even Threw in Davy Jones in the background cos I really LIKED the Takopachi Davy Jones that I doodled....haha
Close-up of Davy "Takopachi" Jones......


I drew Davy jones in really THICK lines because I wanted him to look almost exactly like the cartoon mascot of the popular Takopachi balls outlet.....and I wanted to change the skull emblem on his hate to differentiate it from Picky Pirates...so I did a skeletal star-fish..


Huiling A.K.A "The Picky Pirate"

This is Huiling as the Picky Pirate complete with Jack Sparrow breads,big-ass hoop earrings she likes to wear....skull-handled sabre and perched on her arm is her cute little pet Sparrow.....called.... Jack!!!

Wenjun A.K.A "The Geeky Vampire"

I decked her out in classic Chinese Vampire duds....tiny fangs,sharp claws,flock of pet bats,big-ass geeky specs, a top hat with bushy cotton ball and Smiley face.....and originally I wanted the emblem on the chest to be her SirName "Chua" in chinese....but I did'nt know how to write "Chua" in chinese....hahaha...so I put in a Dragon emblem....



A little Hair Ball.......

When I did the drawing....towards the end....I wondered out loud how would I look if I were to draw myself as a cartoon character......since being the artist of this piece....drawing myself in would be quite self-indulgent and since I hate manga.....I decided to draw this tiny Human Hair ball at the extreme right hand coner of the drawing which would be 90% close to how I would interpretate myself as a cartoon character....hahaha


Close-up of both The Geeky Vampire and The Picky Pirate

There ya go......The Geeky Vampire and Picky Pirate and their pets teaming up against Davy Jones and his Takopachi balls.....
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Well..........alright This Drawing is dedicated to Huiling and Wenjun......So Enjoy....and The Squid is dedicated to Squid-lover Felix.....hahhaha....and with that.....let's put this post to bed....Its a wraaaaap!!

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Sunday, May 20, 2007 -

Alright Folks.......I'M BACK for a Big,Fat,Picture intensive and Text -unintensive post........about Felix Sit Zi Ping's 22nd Birthday!!!!
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And.......What a day it was............the gang met up at 11.45 at Harbor front and the entire activity lasted till about 10pm..........damn shagged at the end of it..........but it was fun, a nice,meaty outing...............something outdoors and different then the usual activities we do.........or as felix intends it to be "One last Hurrah before the girls enter the working world".........and it was organized by Felix himself......with some structural assistance of course.....hahhaa......
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I think overall it was a successful outing............we had fun...took a lot of funny pictures,enjoyed each other's company and swore off doing another outdoor activity for the next year at least....hahhaa..........the day started with a picnic with everybody contributing an item, wenjun brought Fried chicken,Potatoe salad and Chestnut drinks, Huiling brought pancakes with cheese and no syrup..haha....Gerald brought Sandwiches, I brough Sheperd's pie and Felix brought some balls and clam chowder...........then after that we started taking pictures at the beach and went cycling around the beach, took the skyride way up and raced down on Luges and finally we ended the day with Dinner and the traditional present-opening ceremony in AGI at Vivocity.......yeah.....it was a substantial outing....
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But Pictures speak louder then words so here are some of the pictures we took,culled from my camera and Felix's..........with some Director's commentary on each pic by Yours truly of course.....hahaha
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Here we begin our outing at The sunny Island Of Sentosa.....just north of the lovely Garbage island of Pulau Semakau....

The Birthday Boy,Felix Marks out our territory....


We commence with the first activity of the day....The Picnic....loads of food man...Sandwiches,Fried Chicken,Sheperd's pie,Pancakes,Felix's balls.......errr....NVM...forget Felix's balls...hahaha

Felix and Me snacking.....


The Girls.....awww....lookit that pursed up face and that pouty lips.....don't you just feel like drowning em'??....I do!!hahaha


Wenjun,Huiling and Sadako?!?!?


Huiling preparing to punch Felix's lights out....


Huiling preparing to punch an Ogre's lights out......

hmmm....something familliar about this pic but I just can't put my finger on it....hahaha..

NOW Kiddies....lemme tell you a sweet little fictional tale called.........

"THE COURTSHIP"

Like any romantic story worth telling our story begins at the beach with....



A shy Boy(Felix) falling for.....


The Girl next door,(Gerald)......


Crikey!!The Predator slowly advances on his prey.....and as you can see...2 drops of cold sweat are already dripping down Gerald's face...


Alas The girl shuns the boy's advances after looking at his Window Media player's history......Japanese Schoolgirls ain't her thing Baby!!


Undeterred.....Felix's seizes his Prize by force!!....Gerald is so terrified that.....she.....errr....still have time to grin and pose for the camera....hahaha....Felix is roaring:"I won't be washing my right hand for the rest of my life!!"....haha


Wenjun To The rescue!!!.......she introduces him to the taste of fresh sea water and brand new kinds of pain he's never even imagined....


Being a kind soul and all around saint...... I proceed to offer Felix a drink of water....hahaha

Felix...........I swear......I did'nt mean to do it........I...I.....Dude....man it happened so quickly.....but we're still friends right?! Right dude?! err...FELIX??

Oh Well......No point crying over spilled milk.....~sniff~Felix always wanted to bury a time capsule in Sentosa...well in the end I guess he got his ass buried in sentosa instead..

A nice group shot after a Job well Done!!Cheers dude!!

THE END

Da jia hao....Wo men shi... S.A.G!!!....Shawn....Ashley.......Geraldine.....hahaha




The devil herself and her off-spring.....

Wenjun and Gerald.......two Absolutely You-nique individuals!!!


Suuny Doll and Sylphie......or Gniliuh and Little Miss Robotie.....err...whatever the hell those names mean....

She was put on this earth to irritate me.......it was her calling in life.....and oh how she takes pride in her job....hahaha

Me in some dumbass pose...Talk about having a feet of clay....why is my fingers in that position anyways??!....


Felicia chin's favorite snack is my favorite snack...........we're psychically linked you and I!!! MEI REN YUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!


Yeah.....That's TOTALLY the face of a girl who DON'T enjoy outdoor activities.....hahha...Its the Super Happy smile that gives away the fact that she is not enjoying the activities...hahha

Me and Felix arm-wrestling for the right of ...NOT having to finish drinking his cold Clam Chowder !!!


Building sand castles........Guess the heat was really getting to them.........hahaha


A side shot of the three girls......


The Birthday Boy and the Girls....Huiling covering something that does not exists....just kidding!hahahha

The girls and me......


This is Felix, reincarnated as wild boar after the drowning incident.........no waitaminute.....the Picture of Huiling punching the Ogre.....the resemblance is uncanny!!! DEJA VU!!

Wenjun leaving her mark in the sand.......

Huiling signing off on the beach too....with a huge smiley face

A back view of the girls taken from the sky ride......

The girls getting ready for the Luge ride.......

The two Numbskulls......hahaha....hey ..waitaminute....errr...

Dinner time...... Some examples of the food eaten at AGI at Vivocity for the $50 per head Buffet!!......Damn the food is way too rich for me....


A nice birthday card for the Birthday Boy.......


Felix having a small appetizer before his main course.....Photgraphic evidence that Felix is not picky about his food.....ahhaha

Felix doing his best impersonation.....of the picture of the bear in his card....Please dial 1900-9129 for a $20 donation...all lines are open now....hahhaha

A close-up shot of the Birthday card with the well-wishes....


This picture can be viewed two ways.....its either a picture of Felix with the cool-ass Transformers Masterpiece Megatron figure or a picture that implies me not having the cool-ass Transformer masterpiece Megatron to myself.....hahhaha


Command and conquer!!!Tiberium wars!!!Collector's edition!!! Big Hole in our pockets!!!

Lastly we have Gerald passing her gift to the Birthday Boy........

Felix presenting the unwrapped gift.......A new home for Felix's legendary 3 Copper Coins....oh how those coins have haunted us lo these many years...


Aaaaaaaaaaand....Finally A kinda blurry Group shot of our gang of 5......a fitting end for our Outdoor excursion.....hahaha

Alright now that the pics of Felix's Birthday is over and done with......here are some additional pictures from my workplace..........you know all those crazy stories about army that everybody has? The funny thing is that as bizarre and over the top as they sound......I think most of them are true.....hahhaah.....From RPs dancing at checkpoints or playing base ball with squashed up balls of bread and a handheld metal detector as a Bat....I've SEEN some crazy shit in my NS life......Case in point.....

Wonder what I was doing at work prior to Felix's Birthday outing? Well I was doing counter Duty from 10 pm to 3 am..........I was planning to rest for 4 hrs after that and book out at 7am and meet up Felix and the rest by 11am that day........but things just don't go necessarily to plan do they?

I finished duty at 3am........and my Colleague Timothy anxiously woke me up barely 2 hrs later at 5am....he told me that he just locked himself out of the office and that the door was stuck......and like a half-deranged Jack Nicholson from the movie "The Shining" or some psycho from a crazy slasher flick he was HACKING away at the door with a metal shovel in the wee hours of the morning.....apparently he wanted to hack a whole through a door that was wide enough for his arm to reach through and open the lock.....

Man.....when I saw the door splintered and damaged with holes in it and chunks of splintered wood on the floor.....I thought I was freaking dreaming man.....damn....My nuts went straight up to my throat.........took me a while to just snap out of it.....borrow a bayonet from my RP friend and unlatch the lock with the most minimal of effort.......and when the dorr was unlocked...Timothy just gave me this look that seem to said:"Soooooo .....maybe Hacking the door into pieces was a tad too hasty,no?"........No shit Sherlock!!!.......

Here then are some of the Damage control efforts performed by my co-worker to conceal his insane attack on our poor pass office door.......he stuck cardboard signs all over the door with clear tape to mask the holes.....

"I'm just a door.Please be gentle with me!:)"???!?!??!......errr.....he did'nt exactly practice what he preached did he....hahhaa......this is clearly the work of a deranged but funnily creative and twisted mind......hahaha


Some other Meaningless signs used to conceal the scenes of the crime.....hahaha

Thise pic gives you a good idea of the extent of the damage inflicted.......just try to imagine holes in the place of the cardboard signs.....and you can get a clearer picture of how close this door stood at the edge of oblivion....hahhaa....

Well after those crazy pics........here are some pictures of me Goofing off at my work place....taken by My Co-worker on his very last day of work.....before he clear his ORD leave!!Good luck my friend.....don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!hahhaa....

Fantastic Four!!!! How hardworking I am!....... burning midnight oil to brush up on my knowledge of the Silver Surfer before the second fantastic Four movie:Rise of the Silver Surfer hits theatres next month.....

Basically the title of this comic gives you a pretty good idea of my state of mind....ahhaha

Ah Yes.......Hard at work indeed!!!Ha!!

And there's the end of all the pictures and stuff.......and also nearing the end of this SURPRISINGLY text-light post of mine..........anyway here's some odd scraps and updates......

Just got home from the Kinokuniya storewide sale........20% off!!and I finally bought the Authorised Biography of Al Pacino.......I finished Robert Deniro's Biography two weeks agao and I just finished reading Marlon Brando's biography.......so now it's time for Al!!!!HOOO WAAAH!! Its real interesting reading their biographies.........some of their life stories is just as interesting as the onscreen characters they play.......alcholic parents,absent father,bi-sexual parents cum starving artists....good stuff......interesting reading material...

I also just finished the movie "The Awakening's" starring Robert Deniro and Robin williams....its based on a true story of a rare mental epidemic that ravaged people in the 30's........they just become these living but unmoving vegetables .......and when Robin williams administer's a new revolutionary drug,L-Dopa to the patients they begin awakening from their vegetative states.......like Robert Deniro who has been comatose for 30 years since he was a young boy.........the scene where he awoke after 30 years and embraced his mum made my mum tear up siar!!!........but she kept claiming she was not.....women!!hahaha.......Very touching movie....with a sad,sad end........Robert Deniro is such a great actor because he is not self-conscious at all and don't mind acting like a total retard in front of the camera......no holding back at all.......its amazing.........only two person I know can behave mentally ill so convincingly.....is Robert deniro and......Felix.....only difference is...one of em is a millionaire and the other get minimum wage like me!hahah

Fun Fact:Wenjun can walk really fast when there's something she really wants to buy....like how she made me and Huiling walk at fast-ass speed from Shaw House to Takashimaya because she wanted to buy her kuromi junk...hahaha

Got my replies for my University applications for the local unis.........hahaha....here's a run down, I got accepted by SIM,turned down by SMU and I think NTU and NUS are lost causes.........apparently the only people I know who got accepted in NUS and NTU have scores of 3.6 and above........and SMU replied saying that only 1800 places are available and 13000 candidates applied.............but I think they were trying to make me feel better......because I could have sworn that they arrived at their decision due to my astonishingly Outstanding CCA record......hahahha

To be honest......I kinda like SIM's campus environment the best....its so near to my house and Ngee ann and kinda feels like an extension of Poly life........and wasn't like the absolutely MASSIVE campuses of NTU and NUS.......hahaha.....but as for how good an RMIT degree is comapred to NTU,NUS or SMU.....hahahha....well.........let's just say I'll be closely monitoring the Girl's Job hunting progress,they'll be my guinea pigs.....hahaha if they get nice jobs in record time and that SIM graduates are in high demand then Excellent!!! If they're still jobless after a year then......errr....I think its time to migrate.....hahaha...UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND HERE I COME!!!

Now I'm currently sorting out my leave and off and organizing my schedule to see if I can make it in time to attend the term that's starting in July.....hahaha...if I can.....then Felix and I will be Classmates again and Let all Fat girls BEWARE for the dynamic duo has returned!!......ahahha

Yeah......so you folks don't have to call me and ask if I'm ok.......I'm fine.....>sob<.........really....I..I.......I'm a big boy....>SOB< .......I'm so Totally not bothered by the SMU thingy..........so TOTALLY..........>SNIFF,SNIFF,SNIFF<......>sob<............oh well......there's an open window in front of me and a chopper on my desk.......so I guess it's time to end my post........Bye Folks......This me signing off........one last time....

GOOD BYE CRUEL WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

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What are you insane?! C'mon.........there's so much to live for........and I don't mean my hopes and dreams for the future and growing old with friends and family.....I mean Ocean's 13,Ratatouille,Fantastic four 2,Transformers,Shrek 3 and Pirates of the Carribean 3!!!!!!hhahahha.......In fact I Booked my tickets liao!!!hahaha....... I can't let my $9.50 go to waste............so I guess I'll live..... hahahaa....alright ...........I'm outta here .....Buh-bye!!!


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