The DinoPig
24 September 2007, 4:41 pm. 20 Comments. Filed under Art.
I have a stuffed pig named dulu. So now I got a sketch of dulu...
plus *justflyakite's DinoSaurs...
plus a commission request with $20...
and I get my DinoPig!
My new darling 
A snapshot of youth
25 August 2007, 8:15 pm. 17 Comments. Filed under Art, Design.
I started three designs and got stuck. Seems like I've lost my old sense of "artistic" designs and started joining in the trend of the whole "clean and simple" blog designs. Don't know whether that's a good thing or not but I'm not very good with it either. Official design block and driving me nuts. Any inspiration ideas? Here's me on the verge of scraping my latest design.
So in place of my design block, I opened up a new canvas in Photoshop and started more doodling in reminiscence of my high school days last year. I welcome my gang: Meep/Eeep from me, BoBo from Jennifer (I fail to draw the evolved version) and the r3t4Rd3d Momo from Mona.
I remember how we'd very naively sing It's a Small World to my lyrics and the junior girls would look at us with unanimous weird expressions since they had always thought we were "mature" senior students.
The bulk of our comic strips were evil acts against Mo because well... It's a pretty... r3t4Rd3d-looking goldfish.
And I just procrastinated more from studying. But today's the first day of my two-week holidays, give me a break. Now I need design inspiration, inspiration, inspiration... They're looking so plain and boring and doodling makes me blanker. Grrr.
"Intellectual and well-informed hobbit"
25 July 2007, 7:40 pm. 23 Comments. Filed under Literature, School.
I am absolutely hopeless. As a follow-up from the major trip I had before which gave me two serious bruises, I had another bad trip and now I have four huge bruises on my legs. It's reasonably funny now from retrospective view. But it hurt like mad right after I fell and my right leg was wobbly-wobbly all day.
Anyhow, at the start of my Economics lecture today in school, we were given a feedback form to ask about what we think of the lecture and the lecturer. This lecturer is great. He made boring economics lectures fun and engaging with his sense of humour and most, if not all, students love his classes. But the funniest of today's lecture was not something he said, but a particular feedback comment my friend's friend had written:
Which parts about the teacher's lecturing are good?
He reminds me of a very intellectual and well-informed Hobbit. I happen to like Hobbits. They are playful creatures. Mr G. J. is a playful Hobbit, but he seems like he may be a bit [far] away from the Shire. I think we should put him in a cage and send him back to the Shire after this Economics 111 semester. But other than being a Hobbit, he's super awesome!What suggestions do you have for improvement?
Bring Gandalf to class.
So it was a bit of fun for the first 15 minutes or so laughing over the feedback comment in economics. I "remembered" the comment word-by-word because I flipped out my cellphone camera and took a few shots, claiming to throw this into my blog. My friend said I have no life. Maybe I really don't. If I was the lecturer I would hold on to this feedback sheet and match its handwriting to an exam paper I would receive a few more weeks down the track.
That gave us a good crack-up but um... "Racist" against hobbits? Personally, I think any book that manages to rouse major international attention is successful writing, whether it be actual great writing or not. J.R.R. Tolkien is a genius for being able to construct such a complete and persuasive fictional world. I think he also wrote 12 books just on the history of Middle Earth. My sister and I have discussed about the high possibility of him being an alien from another world which he based Middle Earth on.
Another top fiction? I'm thinking of Harry Potter. I heard that USA managed to sold 5000 of the newest Harry Potter book in the first minute they were officially released in bookstores. Apparently, that's the best book-selling record so far in the US. From this point of view, it's a successful book. Over-obsession may be a bit too over-the-top for my liking, but there's no reason to hate it so much either just because there's a large number of fans all over the world. My dad calls the book childish, but everywhere I walk on campus, someone would be holding the last Harry Potter book. I wonder what J. K. Rowling might be up to now. Counting cash or writing another magical series?
