Of Wallpapers

Whew! no time to Blog these days, well actually there IS! But most bloggers would know times come when one winds down for a while then picks up speed again!

In the office now making wallpapers instead of working my ass off. Heres two I just completed, both in 1024x768 resolution in case anyone might fancy them! HAH! It would be lovely if anyone actually uses these!! ^_^

Liquid Red


Download a larger version >here

Skyscraped


Download a larger version here

Liquid Red was done for the hecks of it. I'm not too sure why either or why I used what I used. On the other hand, Skyscraped is done in one of my favourite styles. All images used for both wallpapers are all mine, nothing stolen ^^ I used a few photographs I took and played with shapes and shades to come up with Skyscraped which was quite fun to do. Might make more if my boss is out of the office more often!

Anyways catch the world soon!

Of Episode III : Spoilers Ahead

Well since everyone that has seen the darn movie seems to have blogged about it. I shall too! No everyone will know what I have to say about STAR WARS EPISODE III : The revenge of the Sith!

Watched it in GSC Midvalley, chosen mainly because of their THX system! WOW! Blow my brains out! Probably about 10% different from other cinemas. Or well at least I don't know how to appreaciate good sound systems. Or maybe I just haven't been to many movies in the past months!

Ok well to sum up the whole show,

"Annie's a bitch and Obi's the One"

I'm breaking this down for easier reading. STOP READING IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED THE SHOW YET! SPOILERS AHEAD!

Padme

Padme is a really ditzy love-struck old pedophile. First off, Anakin is like,.. SOOoooo much younger than you! Way to go cradle-robber! And then, her taste in men go into the homicidal and crazy variety. Anakin polishes off a whole village of Tusken Raiders in Episode II and she still loves him and goes goo-goo over him. In Episode III, he wipes out a whole temple full of Jedis, massacres a bunch of children, turns evil and develops the trademarked "evil-eyes" and STILL theres apparently some good in him, to Padme of course.

Your husband is deranged! Move on!

The Jedi Council

The Jedi Council is of course another silly collective of super powerful nitwits. A whole council full of masters and not ONE can identify Darth Sidious. Senator Palpatine = Darth Sidious. Is he able to mask his force so effectively that not even the Green main-man Yoda can detect it?

And sometimes one really wonders just how "Master" are these Masters. 4 Jedi Masters go to confront Darth Sidious in his lovely executive office. *swish* *swash* *swoosh* Three are now piles of meat marinated in medichlorians quivering on the floor. Whatever happened to these MASTERS??

Mace Windu dies a horrible death here. But at least they remained true that Mace is a master swordsman (sabersman?) and did not lose to the Palpatine in a Light-saber duel. I'm not sure if Palpatine was play-acting his weakness or was he indeed defeated but Mace's death was a pity. Well at least Jango Fett is AVENGED!

The Jedi Killer

In the animated series THE CLONE WARS by Cartoon Network, General Grievous is an unstoppable combination of lightsaber combat and unearthly mechanical agility. He slays 5 Jedi in the series but over in the Movie, he falls to a Blaster shot from ONE Jedi, albeit a master. I am hoping that THE CLONE WARS II will explain his coughing fits and constant need for that silly cloak of his.

Obi-Wan

The reason I choose Obi-Wan as the man-of-the-match is because he not only defeats Grievous, but also kicks Anakin's ass in the grand finale battle. Well yes, he did get tossed aside by Count Dooku (Darth Tyrannus) but that was insignificant compared to his Victories.

The part where he turns anakin into a limbless charcoal stump was a little amazing and funny in a sadistic way. Honestly I would doubt anything could stand the environment of that volcanic planet without a life-support system. The heat alone, the stench of brimstone and sulfur would overpower anyone / anything. The fact that Obi-Wan could still trounce Mr.Evil Limbless is an added mystery.

Obi-Wan's the MAN all right. Not Mr.Annie-Lovedrovemenuts.

Finale

I did like the finale,.. the overall ending where they try to tie in Episode III to IV.

They introduced Leia Organa's father, the Senator Organa and Alderann which later gets blown to bits. They also bring in Wedge Antilles, a future Hero of the war and leader of Rogue Squadron. Chewbacca is introduced on Kashyyk. R2D2 and C3P0 stick around and get mind-wiped to explain their sudden amnesia in later episodes. Also Obi-Wan's ability to become ONE with the force is explained as something learned from his former mentor Qui-Gon Jinn in his astral form.

A good end to a good tale. By far the best of the Episodes I and II.

And GOOD GOD! Anakin is DRESSED in BLACK! That makes him EVIL!! DUH! GROW some brains Jedi Council! He's already violating your dress code.

Of More New Acquisitions

I've a brand new liability!



Its a Proton Wira 1.5 SE Automatic. Black and sporty. EXACTLY the same model as Kim Fatt's. Hey Kim Fatt! Wira brothers now. Yes I notice the horrible pickup but being someone that has driven Ford Telstar and a Nissan Cefiro most of his time, both which are a LOT more powerful than my little black-mobile. The pickup is a little apalling, BUT its fun all the same. One major thing I love about it is the fact that its completely MINE!.. Bwhaahhaha YES MINE!.... after 6/7 years of installment payments of course! LOL But in the general sense, It shall be MINE! Yes I shall be eating bread and butter for a loooong time.

So far I've been thinking of the additional accesories to add on that will make my car supreme! or at least VERY COOL!

a) Little blinky lights on the hood.
b) Bright NEON lights underneath the car.
c) BLUE interior lighting
d) Bloody bright Stormlights that will cut through rain and fog like Jason does silly stuff.

Now that will make my car the ULTIMATE JENG jinjang car, so I'll probably aim for these first ;-

a) a Mp3+CD Player with a fancy display.
b) Some decent speakers or in other terms "I want to play SQ (Sound Quality)"
c) Simple car knick-knacks like a fluffy tissue box holder or some Ambi-Pur car freshener or something.
d) Car stickers!!!!!
e) 15inch Sports rims.
f) Techno CDs!!!

What I would LOVE to have on my car if possible ;-

a) Bloody big spotlights on my rear to blind tailgaters or idiots that either have bloody bright headlights or left their high- lights on.
b) Driver operated auto-middle finger-er device for the common fool.
c) Top mounted gajillion rounds per minute Vulcan Chain Gun.
d) A sunroof so I can fire my gajillion rounds per minute Vulcan Chain gun.
e) Caltrops deployment system.

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Manchester United Lost to Arsenal today. And I discovered I don't really care for a Long Island Ice Tea. Stupid cough mixture taste. BLEARGH.

Of MMORPGs and Zeny

Been really slogged with work lately, so I only have time to come up with a semi-interesting story.

Ages ago, I used to play this MMORPG Ragnarok Online. The cutesy kiddy online game which everyone happens to love now. (Malaysians). Well, the sole currency in this said world of Ragnarok is the ever-desired ZENY! Zeny is power and Midgard is suffering from a case of severe inflation.

Although I have left the Ragnarok Community ages ago, I am now about to do something really really silly. I will be buying 350 million zeny. If that number does not shock you then, perhaps if you see it numerically, 350 000 000 zeny. WOW Thats a lot of eggs!

WHY? You might ask,... well NO its not to fund a fetish for that utterly delicious head gear or that totally incredible pointy magical weapon that will make me the Ultimate Warrior. Its more of a currency exchange. I'm buying "zeny" with REAL money to sell to someone in exchange for World of Warcraft reloads. Another MMORPG which I am currently immersed in.

Now the logic is,

Every month I pay RM60 for a Warcraft Reload. So for 6 months I pay a grand total of RM360.

Now I buy 350m zeny at 65 cents a million. 0.65x350 = RM230
65 cents a million is cheap. The Current rating for zeny=ringgit is RM1 per ringgit.

Next I sell the 350m zeny for a 6 month reload for Warcraft.

RM360 - RM230 for a grand total saving of RM130. Which is quite a lot!



ANYWAYS, lets see what else I have.

The Gnomes of the Gnomish Syndicate. An Alliance based all gnome guild on the Scarlet Crusade server. Disbanded after its leader made off with our guild funds. THAT devious bastard!...



Gilean Underharrow, former Chef now servant of Slyvanas's movement against the Scourge. Currently sitting on the throne of Lordearon which was previously vacated by its foolish king. The powers of the elements are now at the command of overlord of Chefs.

I shall not only CONSUME the souls of the unwary but also cook them in a delicate sauce and garnish with some coriander. May the Dark Lady watch over me.

Of Chaos Knights & Advertising

Nothing very interesting today,..

After being to Elaine's Blog. It seems even she's afflicted with the Star Wars bug. She has a lightsaber wielding hamster on her front page for crying out loud!! I shall have to combat her with one of my own but later. The force shall be with me.

Part three is coming out soon. I wonder how bad that'd suck. Anakin gets a little grislier and Padme is still a poor judge of character. On a brighter note, I found Darth Vader's Blog! Pretty funny if you're a Star Wars Geek-a-holic. The writing style is worth seven penguins. http://darthside.blogspot.com/

Also might be getting a new computer for work! Any good specs? Alienware is out of the question.



I have no concept. I have no reason. But this is some demonic Chaos loving Demonknight! ooooooo! Chilling. What I'm trying out here is nullifying line-art so it looks more natural. Kind of failed here but the end result was ... well.. oh-kay. It looks more like an image for "OMFG MY HEADS ON FIRE!"

Added speckle flames around his head. basically pixels of red at lovely locations to give that "oh-so-hot" sizzling feel to it. I can't wait to try out the latest Photoshop CS2 once Ah Bak decides to burn it for me.... MR BAK.. the time is NOW.



Well back to work.. work.. work...




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Of Rants and Rangs

Just a warning before anyone proceeds, this is a VERY BITCHY post below. If you dislike people bitching, then do not read on, and also go buy a .5 Desert Eagle to shoot me. I probably won't die but it would stop me bitching for a while.

Heres the bitchfest ;-

A friend of mine loaned some money to Mr.X some time ago. Now, while it was a mediocre sum, its not little enough to be overlooked.

Mr.X sits at home all day playing an online MMORPG. He and his girlfriend practically spends most of their time whittling away on their little digital avatars walking around and engaging in fights all day long.

Mr.X has indeed dropped out of college on the excuse that he will be changing colleges. For a fact, that is a load of bullcrap. He dropped out from one of the easiest courses around, somehow failing subjects that are ridiculously easy to pass. Why you ask? Well he spends his time in his little digital world with his gal which he met online. Why study or work when you can spend all day killing bouncing jellies?

Amazing!... Now I recommended to my friend to go pester Mr.X for that said amount or at least keep giving him a constant reminder about it. Mr.X is still suckling off a meager allowance and yet affords to support a girlfriend. Food, smokes,... occasional entertainment.

Now my friend is a great guy and doesn't really want to pressure Mr.X seeing that he has things that he has to take care of with his little income. (I don't know if its little, but just to be safe). My friend is content to allow Mr.X off the hook until one day if he miraculously strikes the lottery and decides to pay up. Now if indeed Mr.X DOES strike the lottery tomorrow, I will eat my shoe. But the odds are, my shoe is practically safe..

Points to be taken in consideration in supporting my view that my friend should indeed put the pressure on Mr.X to cough up ;-

1) Mr.X isn't retarded or handicapped in any way (physically anyway), so much that he cannot look for a part time job. He just rather stay at home and play games.
2) His priorities are whacked when he spends all his time virtually, While pro-gamers support themselves in Korea. Its not viable in this situation. Cyber-athletism is an excuse.
3) Paying for a smoking habit and a girlfriend when he can't even afford to pay a debt. Or even make an effort to come up with a solution to it.

So to sum it up, collect the money from this slug.



On a side note ;-

I live a very virtual life myself. Its sometimes scary to see someone a little worse than you. Sometimes you understand whats up with parents that BAN their children from playing excessively as it is SO easy to lose youself to a virtual game world.

Of Movies & Cherry Blossoms

I was yearning for a good flick to watch and with so many movies to choose from, its not easy. Remember the time we used to have the usual Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Drama, etc etc. Why not DO away with all that useless classification and introduce BRAND NEW GENRES!


The Trilogies - why have one movie when you can have THREE! Gone are the days where one or at the most two movies would suffice to tell a tale. Now every movie is clamoring to be an "epic" 3 movie merchandising gimmick. Blade III is kind of a good example of a story gone dry yet they milk it for all its worth spoiling the entire thing. Chuck in a few good guys, a few bad guys, dig up the ULTIMATE KING OF VAMPIRES,... stir and mix it up, and you have a 2 hour special episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (which I followed ^_^). The Star Wars wait is about to end.

The Reversals - Ever since Mr. M.Night Shyamalawotsit's Sixth Sense, tons of shows have popped up on screen giving viewers that special "twist". The "OH I'M ACTUALLY THE DEAD ONE!" twist that shocked the world in all its filming glory. Other scripts that are similar to this genre is the "OH, MY BEST FRIEND IS THE BASTARD/KILLER/CHEATER!" movies. The only problem with this genre is, you begin to identify the villain early on in the movie. No more clear cut I'M EVIL villains anymore. The villains are now more obvious than ever before, and they don't even need to be wearing spanky bright costumes.

The Backwards Film - Stories that unravel backwards!! While I'v not seen many movies of this genre, they are out there lurking. Some leaving the viewer so utterly "WTF-ed". It was great for "Memento". But just you wait. Theres probably films out there that I haven't complained about using that weird tell-the-story backwards technique. Too much of this and its like shoving food thru your rear-exit and hoping it hops out of your mouth.

The Giant Advert - Movies that are SO blatantly advertising stuff. ONE movie I can mention is iROBOT. OMGWTFBBQ! They mentioned/showed his Converse All-Stars at least 3 to 4 times. He even had a CD player from JCV (was it) and his hyped up AUTO-CAR thing. I can't remember the brand of the car though. It was like sitting through one giant advert. While its understandable they had sponsors, it kind of made the show cheap.

The Hong Kong Allstars - I thought only Hong Kong flicks used this technique until the trend washed up on the shores of Hollywood. The way to do it is to get a FRIGGIN BIG CAST of famous people, and write a story for them. Who cares if the story is good, with that much STAR PULLING POWER, no one really minds if the show bombs. Ocean's Eleven and Be Cool are examples. For some reason its late and I can't think of more but you get the idea.

The Refilm an Asian Flick - Hollywood has gone Hog-wild buying out scripts of successful asean movies and refilming them at the same time destroying whatever original. The Grudge was a "whitened" version of Ju-On. I kinda hated that show because it was totally mindless and everyone dies but its a GREAT example of this genre. Infernal Affairs the Hollywood version is in the making now,

The Comic Hero - Comics are coming back, but not on pulp paperback. They're coming back on the SILVER SCREEN!..... Spiderman, Hulk, DareDevil, Elektra, The Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Batman and even Superman even have RETURNED! or at least made a debut. Btw Nicholas Cage is dude in Ghost Rider. Poor sod has to wear a toupee. WHY NICHOLAS CAGE!?!?! Stupid casting agents. Most of them are already burning in comic hell for their heresy against sequential art....

Thank Goodness the "Sports, Lamer Underdog Team Wins" and "Hypersteroid Goon Squad" have died out. "The Dead are Alive" and "Natural Disasters" are still hot this season. Theres this flick "Undead" coming out soon that has the heroin holding a triple barreled shotgun. Looks stupid but talk about kick-back!!....

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Found time to scribble and paint something,..

.....Sakura-chan from Naturo! I've just finished d/loading Episode 133. Animation and fight scenes are getting a lot better. I must commend their fight choreographers (hope I spelled that right). For the image below, most of you probably have an idea that I can't draw manga for nuts. I born from Western Comics so my influence has always been from there.

She looks a little older here. Theres nothing like an innocent Japanese girl in a uniform, eh? HENTAI!.....

Of being Lost & Blinded

I'm working now!

Monday was officially my first day of work and while the Bossman is off to Bangkok, I was supposed to go visit the office with Ah Bak, my former uni-mate and now colleague. He handles the Motion Graphics department* and I handle the Animation and Web department*. (*When I say department I mean just one of us each. makes it sound more important.)

Now, Bak has been to the office 5 or more times so I was pretty sure there wouldn't be a mishap. I heard from the Boss that the first time Bak drove to Cheras to look for the office, he was lost for a grand total of FOUR HOURS! He gave up in the end when he noticed the road he was on was leading to Penang. In honest truth, 4 hours CAN bring you to Penang.

All was well, I picked him up from Sunway and we were headed to Cheras. New office equipment in the back and a map in our hands leading to my future place of employment. We were off to green pastures!

Nearing Cheras, I saw a road sign pointing to Jalan Cheras so I looked over to my navigator who was closely scrutinizing the map. Left he said and Left I exited the highway. We came to a Roundabout where I once again questioned him,"Eh, Which direction wei?" He was in some sort of delirium when he replied left again, past MAKRO hypermart. So Left we went...... we were soon deep in the belly of Cheras. Little was I to know what was coming my way....

Then Ah Bak starts yelling,"Oh Shit! Oh Shit! I dunno where is this!"

I was dumbfounded. He's been to the office like 6 or 7 times already and yet we were lost again. Bak was soon gibbering in the passenger seat totally confused about the roads. We passed GIANT hypermart, missed turnings, took off road shortcuts and finally I figured it out 2 hours later. In that time we were stuck in the same Traffic 3 times, we stopped at multiple petrol kiosks, we passed Makro 3 times.

I practically visited every road in Cheras (slight exaggeration) but truly it felt that way. We reached Shimelin Perkasa (Shimelin or shimmeline or something,..) without no further major mishap. Bak snaps out of his stupor and remembers the place so he leads me to the office blocks. I park the car and then Bak delivers the ZINGER of this story.

HE DIDN'T BRING THE OFFICE KEYS!

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On other news,..

I just paid Jonathan Poh for my web hosting. OMGWTFBBQ! I'm broke again. Anyways thats one thing I won't have to worry about for the next one year at least. He also notices something. RHB Bank Malaysia ( http://www.rhbbank.com.my/creditcards/airasiafreeflight/ )
Rips off the rounded card idea from Virgin Money Aus. EVIL! ( http://au.virginmoney.com/virgin/publish.nsf/Content/VM+HomePage?OpenDocument )

Of Photoshop Work & Caption Contest

Timmy the Roach
Illustration to the Below Stupidity



Doodlits with paintbrushes, layers and some default filters.

Also I found this Random image off Google.


Think up a Caption for it! After A week, I'll collect the whole lot and see what comes up!

Timmy Roach Tale

Timmy the Cockroach was scuttling about minding his own business. It was just another usual day in Roachland and today he decided to spend the evening examining a tear on one of the manling's netting windows. The strange world of men seemed so far yet so close at times and today, Timmy's curiousity got the better of him.

Peering through the torn wire netting, Timmy clambers down the window and scuttles around on the damp floor. Probably a man-flood happened here. Humans have such a tendency to waste water. you would begin to understand why most of their squishy bodies are filled with it.

Before him looms a giant orange pail, a massive construct of the man-lings to which its purpose was unknown to poor little Timmy who was but a simple city roach. Then, a whistling sound and a massive Smack was heard as the news literally hits Timmy hard. A giant newspaper seems to have fallen from the heavens above to strike Timmy senseless. He could not feel a few of his legs and his inner organs felt a little misplaced. He see's a feeler lying only centimetres away.

Cool water gushes forth carrying little Timmy down the little covered manhole that was usually closed. The darkness swallows Timmy as once again he is returned home to his cannibalistic kind. Soon his brethren would sense his weakness and move in. It was only a matter of time before the feeding would begin. Timmy concludes that today might have been better spent in bed.

Of Camera Spooks

Its 6am now, and I am not asleep.

I just watched Shutter, that Thai ghost movie and I must say it is a pretty good ghost flick. For those of us that studied Cinematography in college, you will love this film as it is chock full of it without being overwhelming. Suck eggs Malaysian Film Directors.

Storyline isn't anything ALL that new, but its a pleasant change. A bit of the usual ghoulie action but nothing overly cheesy. Well at least I wasn't sniggering throughout the entire flick. I am NOT the person you would want to go watch a ghost movie with as I find everything funny. I found the GRUDGE hilarious.

What sort of Ghost movie kills EVERYONE in the movie and leaves the ghost still at large. VERY unsatisfying. I'm still an old school fan of the out-moded "Happy Ending" where the Hero/Heroine should escape from the haunted hospital/holyground/jungle/house/asylum and burn it to kingdom come. You don't JUST go kill of ALL THE CAST and expect people to think, WOW! Thats very avant garde!.. >.<

Well at least it didn't have one of those, OH, TURNS OUT YOU'RE DEAD AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT! ghost endings. I give Shutter a 7 penguins ratings. Which is pretty good! Everyone should go watch it.



BTW I still have EXORCIST : The beginning for anyone interested in watching it with me.