Showing posts with label interests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interests. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My Suicide 03.29.1967

One of the better soundtrack I've heard in awhile. So beautiful! So good that I have to upload it to youtube myself!

The score is from a recent movie I watched awhile ago called The Artist. The movie was beyond words. Definitely check it out. I think the 'public version' is available online now. Not bootleg. Whoops. This is the movie trailer. The trailer is so good it pretty much sums the movie.


So this is me showing my support for the movie - Hope you win big for the upcoming Golden Globe and Oscar next year! You deserve it!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

My 1st Visit To ILM Studio

There's a new movie out now everywhere else besides U.S. - The Adventures of Tintin, by Steven Spielberg. Fortunate enough, my pal Cory was invited to a private screening over at ILM (Industrial Lights and Magic) - the visual effects studio behind almost every major hollywood blockbusters - Ironman, Transformers, Captain America, Avengers, just to name a few, and he asked me to be his plus one. So so so stoked!!

I've been really excited about this ever since I saw the teaser trailer
The entrance to the ILM theatre~ That's the Jedi Fountain. How George Lucas was that huh?
Darth Vader: another Lucas icon
What an eye opening visit! Too bad we can only take pictures around the entrance. Back to the movie - it was a really good movie. Best adjective to describe the movie? It's very Steven Spielberg! LMAO. A lot of lens flare shots, 50s jokes (which I really enjoyed - its all about retro peeps! Haters gonna hate!),  Sharks, Indiana Jones vibe and etc. Just the last one makes a movie hella good already. The CG part just blew my mind away, like completely. I like how every scene was transitioned beautifully from one to another - that really takes a lot of effort to make sure the visual flows. Action sequences were really well constructed too. The good thing about Spielberg is, you are always quenching to find out what is going to happen next - because he is just that good at building up the anticipation. I like how the graphic sticks to the original designs of the comic version of Tintin. That really takes a lot of studies. Jamie Bell did a great job breathing life to Tintin too because I can see Tintin as a real life human instead of just an animated character. I've seen The Polar Express but this one is a way better Motion Capture than that one was. So to sum this trip up - go and watch Tintin already!! Definitely gonna be a contender for Oscar's best animated feature next year. Won't be surprised if it wins.

(P/S: I wouldn't mind working at ILM at all!!)

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Captain America

There are two ways (generally) I get inspired to do a drawing: either I am extremely upset or I watched a movie that leave real deep impact on me. So this is me doing Captain America, literally. Still in progress because it takes the patient of god to do a painting like this. Wonder how others able to do it within 2 hours. FML
2 hours
5 hours
7 hours


Seriously I don't remember I can paint like this. Gosh. Talk about improvement

UPDATE: Done in 10 hours! Not that bad actually

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Beyoncé: 4


Just watched the documentary "Beyoncé: Year of 4". So inspiring. Not sure why some critics hated that album but I think its her strongest album to date. My favorite song? I Was Here. Check out the lyrics:

I wanna leave my footprints on the sands of time
Know there was something that, and something that I left behind
When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets
Leave something to remember, so they won't forget

I was here
I lived, I loved
I was here
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark so everyone will know
I was here

I want to say I lived each day, until I die
I know that I had something in, somebody's life
The hearts I have touched, will be the proof that I leave
That I made a difference, and this world will see

I was here
I lived, I loved
I was here
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark so everyone will know

Sunday, May 29, 2011

2011 Summer Movie BlockBusters (thus far!)

I've been checking on my blog stats and realized my most viewed post is still my review for 2009 Summer Blockbusters. Therefore I had decided to do a new one for now. With the summer movies that I watched thus far, here are some of my thoughts on:

1. Scream 4


Brilliantly written screenplay and hell lot of funny punchlines. I had my jump-on-the-couch moments watching it too! If you don't find the movie funny that's probably because you ain't watching enough of horror/scary movies to get its humors. Note: this is not some cheap parody movies like Scary Movies. One takes great intelligence to watch and the other one doesn't. You be the judge.

2. Fast Five

My first thought was, REALLY? ANOTHER ONE? They all looked effing same to me! I guess the studio realized that too. Therefore, instead of putting too much thoughts on storyline and character developments, they just filled the movie with more actions and gravity defied stunts. The result? A no brainer action flicks that's good for everyone!! HAHA. Anyone else thought it was kinda gay when The Rock was fighting Vin Diesel? I DID! *AWKWARD!


3. Thor

One word: overrated! Natalie Portman was the only draw for me to watch this movie. I am not the biggest superhero flick on this planet, nor will I be. And this movie was just ok to me. Weak plot, too organized I guess. And worst part, Natalie Portman is so replaceable! I am still wondering how they fell in love with each other. Love at first sight?




4. Bridesmaids


HILARIOUS! It served just right as a comedy but I think it was draggy at times and slightly too long. Everyone was so funny nevertheless! There is a NSFW blooper floating around the internet which is equally funny! Check out at your own risk!

5. Priest

Motherfucking @#$%;*&;^%#@!!! An action flick with only 3 action sequences? REALLY? They didn't even try to redeem themselves with this one after the shit they pulled out with Legion. Shame on whoever that involved in both projects!


to be continued..

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Black Friday Sales

The long anticipated Black Friday Sales was finally here! Ugh.

So I started my shopping as early as 3 in the morning. Trust me, I am not the earliest. By the time I got myself into an Old Navy store, the queue was already 'tangling' around the store, every level for each departments. Ugh. So I figured maybe I can spend some time here queuing for a 15dollar pair of jeans since I was gonna meet with my friends by 6 after that. I ended up queued for an hour and half for a pair of jeans plus some boxers and undies. Totally worth it. LOL.
Holy shit crowded! 
Have you seen aggressive male shoppers? Tons here!

 After that I went to browse in other stores like H&M and Gap. The line was crazy. I don't even feel like going in because its just too many people there.

Super long queue: The store was not even opened yet.
Gap (but no gap in the line)

It's almost 6 by the time I was done cursing over the store that lied about 50% on all sales. I wanted to get the damn book so badly but it was way too expensive. So I went right away to the Westfield Mall to meet up with my friends Sarah and Daniel.
Westfield  Mall when it opened.
H&M
Tik Tok tik tok.. it was about 9-ish soon after my friends done their shopping at Old Navy (too). We thought we were gonna pass out anytime soon if we didn't get our breakfast, so we headed to Denny's which is located just around the corner. Aww. I love breakfast.
Breakfast at Denny's
 And then we kept going on with other stores Adidas, Superdry, Quicksilver, Hollister, A&F, Vans, Borders, Nike ... till 11 plus. So effing exhausted~ we just dismissed from then since everyone was getting tired.

It was such a fun shopping day. Ironically we all wanted to get some computer stuffs but we realized there aren't any computer hardware stores in the town at all! (or so we thought.) Well I didn't really get myself a lot of stuffs because I can hardly breath due to overcrowd mostly everywhere near the major shopping attractions. I'm glad we didn't visit any Walmart or BestBuy because I heard its worse in terms of the crowd and queue. Haha. Definitely a very good experience.

Walmart (from google)

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Photography on Hiatus

This is gonna be a sad news for those who just drop by and see the photos and skip the reading because my beloved Nik has gone for a long deserved holiday. I can't help but to send him in for service because I'm getting a lot of dusts and weird 'bulu-bulu' (I swear its not mine) in my photos and I had to edit them out in photoshop one by one. So I brought him to a camera shop and they agreed to help me with a reasonable price. So yea, no artistic photos for the upcoming two weeks.

Nik
Meanwhile, I'm dying to get two of my animation homework done. I might be able to upload it as soon as this weekend if I can complete them both by Friday. Till then, CIAO. ^^

My "Fanshu" in the making.
Gonna do a lip sync animation with this fella. Imma named it Patrick.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Good Morning San Francisco

Most of you already knew I landed in San Franc safe and sound via facebook not too long ago. Well, life has been a bless thus far. I can't really ask for more. I have this very nice and friendly auntie taking care of me while I'm here.

There are some interesting stuffs I would love to share: in the State, they have this carpool system whereby people can carpool with strangers to get to the city. Why would drivers want to fetch people they don't really know? Haha. Answer is they get to skip the traffic lanes and avoid the toll once they have more than 3 passangers in the car. Brilliant idea right?

Another place I visited today was the farmer's market. They are extremely cheap. And if you are just broke that day, you certainly can visit the market to get free samples and eat all you want. That's what I did today. Settled my lunch with food samples. Haha. And then they have a store, like a local mart, that solely sells their own brand's products. The red wine they produced, priced for 1.99USD only. Hard to imagine right? And they have free coffee for everyone. So the good plan is, go to grab something to eat in the market, get a coffee from the store, your lunch is settled. Haha. Pretty amazing.

No pictures taken yet because I forgot to bring my camera out for the past two days. Maybe tomorrow. Till then, bye and sweet dreams.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Confession of a Shopaholic

Yes.. if you know me close enough, you will know that I'm a shopaholic. It's not that I'm addicted to shopping, but there are few things that I can't resist when I"m supposedly window shopping:

1) Discount
Believe it or not, this works most of the time. It doesn't matter if its a 10% or 70% sales, because it gives me one good reason to buy something I don't need, simply because its cheaper and I'm saving by spending less. HAHA. When I get home only to realize, I can save more by not spending at all.

2) Buy one get another one for free/ 50% on 2nd piece
Just another way to attract my attention when shopping. Are you kidding me? We knew this trick since forever - like 3? One lollipop for 20 cent and 3 for 50 cent. Still we fall again and again because we thought its worthy. In my case, I will keep telling myself I'm buying the 2nd piece to have myself more choices of colors for the same pattern. (autohypnosis)

3) Brands
Don't judge me - yet. I'm not Gucci or Prada when its about shopping. I mean, they are still out of my league. It's embarrassed to admit but I have sharp eyes when it comes to quality of the material (given the history of me in clothing).

4) Fitting
With the height of mine, its hard to find clothes that can fit me well. (Unless they have XS for men.) Therefore, when I can find something that fits me well, I might not think twice purchasing. (failed again)

5) Limited Edition
That means only a few people owned the same thing. It becomes special, precious, unusual, not common, cool.. etc etc.. So that explained the latest purchase:

I was supposed to "have a look" at the Adidas limited edition Star Wars collection shoes

I tried it on, it fits me well, but I told myself I can't afford it. Yes, I did. Then they have something else for me.

6) Membership Card
WTF! Its like the promoter can read my mind! That is one fucking killing factor that affects all my judgements when it comes to shopping. So she offered me a membership card with the purchase of RMXX and above. Damn! How can I say no!? I tried again and again on the shoes, I ended up dropping it off and walked away from the store bought another pair of shoes that looks better on me. Epically failed! So this are the pair of shoes I fell for. Sigh. With the membership of course.



Overspent again. Sigh.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Busy Month

I haven't been free for the last few weeks. Sigh. A quick update about what I was working on lately. Its a video assignment. Below are the few still frames for the video. In addition, I was also working on my final animation short, which I am very passionate and excited about, am gonna show the characters by next week (or so I hope).



Monday, June 1, 2009

Supernews!

My current obsession:

Monday, February 23, 2009

A Love Story

Tree was a very strong man. He didn't bow down for anyone. However, he knew, deep inside of him, he had a strong feelings towards Leaf, the lady who shaded over him for years. Leaf was a very soft-spoken lady, and of course, Tree was aware of that, but he refused to tell her his feelings due to his ego. He thought, their bonding was so strong, it needed no words to define it.

Leaf, on the other way, felt the same for Tree. She loved his independence; his strength to stand by his own; She was hoping one day, maybe he might confess to her, but he never. "I might be just be another girl in his eyes," Leaf told herself. She wasn't too heavy to leave Tree, just that she never wanted to.

Times flies. Leaf is getting tired of waiting. She knew - the answer she'd been waiting for, might never be heard. And then came Wind - a young, bright guy. He flirted with Leaf once in a while, but Leaf didn't pay him much attention. Tree was alert with Wind's presence, but he knew, Leaf was never going to leave him, and so he didn't give much care on Wind.

The Wind kept blowing. Strong and stronger. One day, Leaf decided to leave Tree. She'd been waiting too long. Maybe he just doesn't bother, she thought. She took up a big courage and leave with the Wind. Tree was upset and all he could do was just a smile and wish all the best for Leaf.

Tree was heart-broken, but he didn't realize, Leaf's departure wasn't because of the Wind, it was simply because Tree didn't ask her to stay.




To Be Continue..

Us Against The World - Christina Milian

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Fresh Breath

As I mentioned earlier, I was struggling for my assignments and all.. therefore I just turn everything off and decided to renew my layout.. AGAIN.


ByeBye!

Walk Away - Paula DeAnda
Walk Away - Vanessa Hudgens
Walk Away - Dropkick Murphys
Walk Away - Franz Ferdinand
Walk Away - Kelly Clarkson
Walk Away - Funeral For A Friend

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Inkhearted

I have not been to the cinemas for quite awhile, missing movies like Bedtime Stories, Ip Man, The Spirit and etc. Finally I got a chance to re-enter the cinema, with few friends of mine: Loky, yCheong, and lovely Biugor. I got to say, the movie is so so so overrated. BTW, its "Inkheart" we watched. (Spoiler ahead!)

The show started with quite an interesting opening:
Mo, a father, who didn't realize he was gifted the talent (to bring out the characters from any books if he reads them out loud) mistakenly summoned a few villains from a book, and, as return, his wife was swept into the book. Ha!

Brendan Fraser doesn't look like a father! His always-the-same-expression was killing me! Grr.. go back to the jungle, George!

Then the daughter grew up after 9 years of hunting for another copy of the same book (which I don't understand why:"was it necessary?" after the ending later) because the original copy was burnt or something. (I barely remember) Then they finally found one, and here came the crisis: villains appeared, grabbed the book and threatened the two of them to summon for wealth and fortune, etc etc. Then I fell asleep. Story continues, bad people's bad intention got badder, good people's big plan to rescue the hostage, and eventually the hero saved the day! Yaiy! Finally end!

The ending was kinda lame because it said the daughter saved the day by reading out the ending she wanted as she was writing it on her hand. WTF? If she can do that at the very beginning, what's the point looking for another COPIES (they found 3! All destroyed.)

The story is not really as excited as it was shown on tv commercial/ trailer/ preview. Its kinda sucks. Haha. But its not that bad due to some jokes and funny characters in the middle here and there.

Helen Mirren: I'm not sure why was she even in that movie. But she was fun to watch.


Farid: One of the characters from Tales of the Arabian Nights who happened to be summoned by Mo.
Overall, its a crappy show. Don't Watch it if you are fans of "adventurous" kinda movies. I will rate it a D+.

Umm. song for today will be:
You Complete Me - Keyshia Cole (Its new!)

Owh and check out the new video of Leona Lewis - I Will Be! Loves it!
Enjoy the CNY holz y'all!

UPDATES: On 2nd thought, its quite an interesting movie if they summoned Edward Cullen!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

At Last

Anyone watched the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama? I don't even know what's inauguration until I wiki-ed it I didn't. But since everyone is talking about it, why not? Instead of streaming for oath-taking ceremony, tears of joy videos, I found a very beautiful performance by Beyonce, for the first dance of the prez with the first lady. Enjoy~



Currently listening to:
My Life Would Suck Without You

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Shopped Till I Dropped

Finally Finally Finally I bought myself 2 reds for this coming Chinese New Year. (Choi Phew, thought I was gonna wear a black shirt for the 1st day of CNY!) I'm not gonna say I love it very much, but its definitely something I would put on occasionally. Haha.. I like how the sweater is linked to me. (The number 9!)

"Yaiy! My sweater! It was wrapped in the "fire cracker"! Nice right? So Cute"

Right after, I accompanied Loky to go for a window shopping at QueensTown QueensPark somewhere as he wanted to get a pair of new slippers. By the end of the day, he didn't get the slippers he wanted to but I got myself a pair of new shoes instead. LOLness alert right?

My new shoes from Reef!

Loky I found it quite similar to one of the shoes I had. But its ok, that just indicates that I am very me!

See, its quite different, somehow.


I had a great day (Shopping is fun and good for releasing stress just so y'all know). Hopes everyone else is prepared for Chinese New Year as I am.

Try and listen to:
At Last - Etta James



UPDATES: KEN BLOGGED ABOUT HIS NEW PAIR OF SHOES TOO!!!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

A Day Off Assignments

Bored, Lazy, Empty, and etc.

Not in any mood to do my homework or assignments. Just wanna free myself for a day. (Stop thinking idea bitch!)
And I would like to take this opportunity to dedicate a post for everyone who helped in my assignments for the past couple of days: MOON HON, MOON, WEI KIAT, SUMI, YEW HERNG.. Not sure if I'm gonna fail this time, but without any one of you, definitely I won't make it through.

Currently working on a new character again. Guess the sketch:


Hints: It's inspired by a fresh songstress! Gonna reveal the answer when the piece is done. Meanwhile, check out:
Dead and Gone - T.I.
I Will Be + Run - Leona Lewis
Love Remains the Same - Gavin Rossdale

XOXO

Thursday, January 15, 2009

1st Tagged

OMG! I'm being tagged by Josh! Yaiy! So Fun! LOL.

1. Does it matter to you if your boyfriend or girlfriend smokes?
~ This will never happened. I'll never date a smoker. What more a smoker bitch.

2. How about drinking?
~ Since I can drink, why not.

3. Do you liked someone you can't have?
~ What?

4. If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
~ No!! Just hint a bit! I might reject you on your face. LOL

5. What's your favourite sport?
~ Used to be football I guess. (Since that's the only sport I played in high school)

6. It's saturday night, you're home alone... what do you do?
~ Invite people to my house and shoot for a porno.. Just kidding.. Watching horror movies seems to be me

7. Do you like roller coasters?
~ So so.. the previous ride I had wasn't as exciting as it promised.

8. When's the perfect time to have a bf/gf?
~ When I wanna bring him her to show off

9. If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
~ Robert Pattinson!! (I Know! I know!)

10. What are you doing this weekend?
~ Dinner and shopping with my sister!! Haven't seen her in 1,2,3,4.. 4 months time I think)

11. What is your favourite restaurant?
~ Somewhere I don't see lalas

12. Have you ever hugged someone?
~ DUH!

13. Ever kissed someone you weren't attracted to?
~ I planned to save my first kiss for him her. (RIGHT!)

14. Do you like anyone right now?
~ I love money.

15. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
~ Bitch Eyes and hair?

16. Which do you prefer, Beach or Mountains?
~ Umm.. beach?

17. What kind of phone do you have?
~ Sony E

18. Computer or Laptop?
~ MAC!

19. Jeans or sweats?
~ What should I answer? Sweater?

20. Which year(s) has/have been the best so far?
~ The best is yet to come babe!

21. How old are you gonna be on your next birthday?
~ Age should be a secret for everyone!

22. What should you be doing right now?
~ Chat, Sleep, I don't know?

23. What is your favorite TV show?
~ Any shows with good looking actors.

24. What's been your last purchase?
~ A clutch bag. Whoaps! For my sister ok? What were you thinking?

25. Are you attracted to girls/boys that smoke?
~ What for? Making the world hotter? I mean green house effect here.

26. Have you ever fallen on your butt in front of a crowd of people?
~ I have no idea.

27. What do you do when you're at home?
~ I do what normal people do at home.

28. What is your favourite subject?
~ Umm.. I love art and music appreciation.

29. What's the best thing that happened on you?
~ I'm Me?

30. 10 person to tag
~ Rob Pattinson
~ Yen Lee
~ Mei Hui
~ Ryan Seacrest and Brangelina

And there u have it ! My first tagged!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Preparing Rodney

I was being told I took too long to get a simple comic strip done. Therefore, I wanted to take this opportunity here to clarify, it ain't easy to do 1 (What more if its gonna be a nice 1! Haha)

Step 1: Rough Sketch



A rough sketch is very important as its gonna determine the placing and spaces for the story. It takes approximately 5 hours to get it done. (Not including the times spend on ideas and characters design.)

Step 2: Outline



After a rough sketch is done, I will outlined it using my laptop. This stage will take around 1 day.

Step 3: Coloring



Coloring is the easiest (and hardest in the same time) in preparing a comic strip. This will take some times if u can't get the color right. Grr.

And there you have it, 3 seems to be simple steps to create a comic strip.