Published at: 04:02 pm - Tuesday February 09 2010
back when i was studying animation one of the memorable lessons from one of the mentors there was about creating characters for a project (animation/interactive/storytelling) is to make a central character distinguishly memorable compare to other characters.
cheap way of doing it would be the physical differences, such as if the whole population in the ‘world’ is average looking people, the main character would have 1 leg instaed of two, or the character have a bald head or hair with interesting pattern while the rest or ‘normal’
looking at my current condition (balding, almost 1-legged, fat bastard) i’d accuse myself of trying to have too much character.
heading back to .id for 8-10days in 3 days time. really wishing the leg would be alright before then.
Published at: 05:02 pm - Saturday February 06 2010
sounds like typical end-of-a-stage/defeat a boss in an action game, gaining an ability like double jump or hook grab, etc.
being able to walk isn’t terribly exciting, really, unless one hasn’t been doing it for awhile, then suddenly the distance barrier between kitchen and bedroom becomes bearable!
Published at: 06:02 am - Wednesday February 03 2010
spent most of the day yesterday (and the night before, and i expect most of today as well) in bed as my left foot is swollen and made me unable to walk normally. it’s a lot better now compare to yesterday, but why do these catastrophic things happened (computer broken, foot swollen, water from a bottle got poured on top of the modem, isp not working for few critical hours) when i’m having a mind to do something constructive?
perhaps the subtle lines in the stars would want me to be a criminal instead?
Published at: 03:02 pm - Tuesday February 02 2010
jumping around wiki made me remember about my days in junior/senior high, where i cheated on tests by literally writing the test materials on top of my table using combination of rune (from playing ultima on pc), english and chinese, so the teacher wouldn’t be able to tell if i was cheating, even if s/he was curious enough to inspect the table. runic was always my last option, only used it if i know for certain that the teacher who was supervising the test can read both chinese and english.
Published at: 11:01 am - Sunday January 31 2010
today is that last day to register myki for free (else it’d cost $10 or so i heard). tried to do it last week, failed. tried to do it again twice earlier today, full of fails. on the first try the system simply said “error”, while the second time it said “the person you’re trying to register is already in the system”, while i never get any sort of confirmation page or anything. it recommended that i give them a call. not bloody likely.
and the minister of transportation (who, one would think, oversees this whole myki project) retired from politics citing health problem of a family member, just few weeks after the completion of this ‘myki’ thing. right after a huge hefty amount of commision, one would think.
Published at: 05:01 am - Friday January 29 2010
there’s that old saying that says “united we stand, divided we fall” or as we say in .id, “bersatu kita teguh, bercerai kita runtuh”, and we usually illustrate this with the bamboo analogy, where one can cut a single bamboo easily, but would struggle to cut clean a stack of bamboo bunched up together.
it’s all good, until you realised that being bunched up together isn’t a very comfortable position. it’s like train molestation in japan, you can’t even see who’s backstabbing you. and you will ended up screwing up someone without intending it, just because of the close proximitiness of each other. and if one of the bunch caught fire? yep, that’s right, it’d burn everything.
and if we try to tighten the rope/string used to tied the string, it’d break anyway. not to mention the price of conformity that you’ve to pay, because different shapes of log won’t fit together as well as exactly-same-sized-cut log.
Published at: 07:01 am - Thursday January 28 2010
can’t help but remembering back when i was renewing my passport the other day. saw a girl on a tram near the arts centre, carrying a big white upright bass carry case, and her fingers were not painted/manicured/photoshopped/not even sure what they called those horrendous things right now, and (at least for me), she was much more desirable compare to the girl next to her with bling accessories and 4-inches nails.
yes, my taste is older than my age, but what is the appeal of having a painted 4 inch+ nails? i can’t see the practical use nor aesthetic value for it.
oh, and after so many years, i can actually see the finish line for pOff.
hoorah.
Published at: 12:01 pm - Saturday January 23 2010
was connectionless for a day, turned out the video card went out.
replaced it, and getting a new driver now. hopefully it’ll be smooth sailing from now. hoping to run p2csx as well if possible (mh2 theme song already playing on my head).
megan washington rocks. i’m getting older.
Published at: 12:01 pm - Monday January 18 2010
played around with the tablet to make some sort of birthday card for a friend of mine. quite fun making something which is not sprite-related, or pOff-related in general. didn’t know how a cat would look like, so that card was based on google image search of the word ‘cat’.
we got low 20s again today (come to think of it this is prolly the first time i am here that australia open (the tennis thing) opened in a rainy day).
saw a quite attractive neighbour collecting her mails in her tanks+shorts while i was waiting at the bus stop in the rain. ‘_’)b. since i’m still in the freeform-tablet mood i should prolly draw it while i still can remember the image.
[edit: added the drawing.]
Published at: 04:01 am - Sunday January 17 2010
currently beardless due to some .. unprofessional ways of handling the shaver. with no mirror, i shaved a little bit on the left, then a little bit on the right, then realised that the left was a bit too much, so had to even out on the right, and the whole process repeated itself till they’re all gone and i can see my chin again after all these months.
considering of joining twitter, but is it actually that fun stalking all your webcomic heroes? (main reason of doing it for me, really). until they can synch fb,blog and twit smoothly i don’t think i’m ready to jump to that new level of interactivitiness.
there’s that problem with google and .cn, and yahoo was somehow dragged into it as well. didn’t realise that yahoo in .cn was made into characters duck (ya) and tiger (hu).
