Holiday I

With sis back, the psp is back too. Wahhahahahahahah~ I was surprised she had Star Ocean 2 in there, cos she seldom play rpg games other than the FF series... Anyways, I started a new game there. Didn't manage to complete it previously on the PS, the second disk couldn't be read and I was forced to give up on that game.



A picture of Rena Lanford from Star Ocean 2. Kind of losing that expressive touch of watercoloring... (Where's the Zen..... >_<)

Although it's not even halfway through the holidays yet... I felt time is getting short... Hmm....

Glory's 3 Day Visit

About a year ago, a maple friend from Malaysia stopped by Singapore and said hello to my friend and I at Vivocity. The past three days was her first holiday alone in Singapore... meeting up with the bunch of sg maplers she met online. It was quite a daring thing to do... for me perhaps... to travel alone and meet a bunch of people who she met once and few who she never met before, other than on screen. She was supposed to come with another mapler friend, but under some circumstances, she ended up arriving alone. Anyways, alone or not, I kind of found myself in a position of not knowing what to do when she comes.... and that kind of dragged to the actual day. So.... haha, there was more chat than sight-seeing.

After the first day, I was quite stumped at where to go the next day. She gets tired pretty easily, and didn't seem to want to shop. The Luge ride at Sentosa seemed to thrilled her, but guess that's about it... Thrilling stuff... I can't think where to find in Singapore.... (Dun tell me Geylang..)



We went to the night Safari the next day (well... the afternoon was talking and arcade-ing.) Rose and Skull joined us earlier. I hardly talked to them before, and since Glory wanted to meet them, she passed us their contact and we tried to organise a small gathering at Plaza Singapura. They were fun to talk with, a brotherly and sisterly feel. XD Amazingly, Idiot tagged along, without us asking. That quite shocked me there, cos I thought he didn't like meeting online friends. I was anticipating a little fight between Skull and Idiot, but think they managed to talk in the end.

Anyways, night safari. Yea. Too dark... my hands were shaky and the photos I took all came out blurry.



This one was exception, surprisingly....



The better of the two group photos we had.

Saturday didn't go very well... then the third day came. We had planned a bit for this: Flyer, lunch, Sentosa, dinner, departure.



Glory with the Jack plushie that Skull caught for her. She carried it around with her the entire day. She didn't had a camera with her for the trip, so I decided to take some pictures for her with mine instead. She's quite unconfident with her appearance and tend to 'siam' my camera at first... But hey, she knows how to smile in front of the cam, nicer than me at least, lol.



The popular angle to take for the Singapore Flyer...



Seriously, the sky was threatening to rain that last day. It hadn't been a good weather for the previous two, and the morning started with a drizzle. Somehow, the gray clouds quite clear a bit at noon.


Toying around with Glory's plushie at Suntec City.


On the skyride with Rose and Glory. I regreted not bringing my cam along on the first day when we tried the ride. The sky was a beautiful blend of pink and blue....


Girls one bench, guys another bench. Lol, they were talking pretty loudly there... -_-


After that.. back to the hotel for her luggage. Had a hard time finding it's location on the first day... we were running around in a circle... But hey, the room was nicely furnished.


Love the reflection on the window...

Anyways, end of three days there.... It's been quite a challenge to bring people around..... Poor Alton always being bombarded by 'where to go' etc. Consider it an experience, yea, lol. Hopefully I'll do it better next time.


RArrrrggghhhh!

Yay!! :)

Whew... holidays!!!!!!! XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
(Can't hold myself from that 'XD' there.... hahahaha~)

Anyways, 3D was done, together with HY's project.... so YAY!!!!!! XDXDXD

Super yay that my sis is finally back!!!!! XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

She seems to have grown fatter... but not so much that her belly is bulging or something. XD Anyways, this week is gonna be pretty much busy, next week too. Jaryn's asking me back for work due to Joanne's heart condition. Quite relunctant to go back though... bet she knows it too, but the fact that she's also asking the many old birds for help signified how bad the situation was. I wonder what would happen if Joanne was to quite one day? Haiz.... it's screwed man. Anyways, it's not gonna stop me from enjoying myself this month. Time's running short, gotta think how to spend this month!!

Something I did for Beryl in the earlier month. Decided to design a bdae card for her, one that can hold a maple card, since she's playing maple. :P




Haha, she's taking visual communication path. A budding illustrator (hmmm..wonder if that's a right description...), she's quite unconfident with her skills. Largely due to the fact that the vis comm environment is very competitive. After seeing some works and hearing from Ling, the standard seems pretty high, something which definitely made Ber's works paled from the rest, despite the interesting concepts. I suggested that she build up her drawing skills and merge it with her vis com ideas, although she felt it wouldn't help as much as getting that design sense. Somehow, I wonder is it design sense or is it the play of the computer programs that made her felt that way? Drawing isn't totally less useful, in fact, my former tutor pushed us wsc-ers to do illustrating during the wsc days... so probably I do felt the importance of drawing in design too. But Ms Joan Kelly was right too... you can have beautiful colors and brushstrokes for a painting, but with a bad composition, it's gonna look bad. Maybe that's why I got stuck with the drawing of this painting for a long time:



It's something which I owed a maple buddy for a long time... Requested by Yuin, his assasin and pole-armer separated by a wall, signifying his change and moving on. It was drawn almost a year plus ago, but I didn't know what to do with the colors. Somehow, the picture wasn't working, and I didn't really figure it out until recently... the steely was stealing the eye flow away. Tried to pull it back with the white, but I guess it just won't work. Might be better if it was tilted 45 degress downwards.... or it just begs another drawing that could be pieced up to it on the left. (I'll think about it...)

Used the new winsor and newtown paints that Xiu brought back from Aussie there. Love the colors they give, there was a certain shine to them. Hopefully.... I'll do more with it! XD