Charging up like a Creaky Ol' Battery

Wow, Keat's mom gave me a red packet containing 100 bucks for my belated birthday. Don't you love a person who push money into your palms? XD But yes, she's the best.

Hm..what did my mom give me? SHe did call up to wish me a happy birthday...or I think that was my dad. Waitaminute, she did not give me anything. But heck, who the hell care about these things. She put me through college and that's enough! :D I think birthdays are times where you have an excuse to treat your parent lavishly for their hardwork bringing you out and up in this world. Heh, bet the part of "creating" me wasn't hard. :p

Oh so it's Sunday and why am I posting? I'm posting cuz there'll be some delay in the page. Can only start working on it tonight as I'm outstation. Well, lucky for me it's a public holiday on Monday. Friday and Monday holidays rocks! I can do so much during long weekends.

If you've got time to burn, check these webcomics out. THey're deeelicious. I've been spending the whole of yesterday destressing; reading webcomics, playing BeTrapped, and eating. Feel great today. :)

Alpha-Shade
Awesome site, great art, great writing and most gorgeous clouds I've ever seen. Lots of female protagonists in a war story.

Monica Furious
Lots of booby action. This guy's awesome with a pencil and with inks. Story is pretty fast with lots of very good character designs. I love how he does the punks. Post-apocalyspe tokyo. And make sure to check out his galleries too if you're into white round asses in tight leather. :-p Looking at his stuff just makes me want to do him a ultra sexy fanart.

Giant in the Playground
This is a stickmen comic and it's hilarious like hell. You might not get it if you're not familiar with D&D stuff though. Simplistic and cheeky. I certainly wish there's a bigger archive to go through. Couldn't get enough.

I'm mostly attracted to the art before I decide to read a webcomic or not. It's pretty hard to convince me to start with one unless it has a huge archive and is still going strong. THat's a sign of a good storyline. :D

I wonder about other people. What makes you want to read a webcomic? The site design? THe art? The genre? Or because it's top10 in the whatchamalit voting list? Hm...

Made it Alive

It's finally Friday, and I'm finally relieved from my 24-hour support shift. WOOHOO!!! Damn I'm tired like hell, as much as it's fun. It was a miracle how i managed to still wake up and get my ass to work every morning...and still update the dang comic. Wahahahaha!

So yes, working on the lineart. Hope to finish it by the weekends and need to get to put in more work for the new layout. But anyway, Shin got another new voting button for ROMB with Buzzcomic. The least you can do, people, is to click on the two buttons everyday to vote. If you can do that for me, I'd appreciate it. Why are the votes important? It's because when I'm down and burnt out, the first thing I look at are the vote listings to make myself feel better (or worse). Yeah, i know it's stupid and shallow, but I'm just a person, and I need superficial reassurances like these sometimes.

Gee, I do get sick talking about myself and the comic. Hate it. Feels like I over-indulged in chocoloates or something.

Splitting Headache

Despite the crazy hours, deathgrip schedule nature of my job, I really do love it you know? I can't give you the reasons why. It's just when the pressure gets high and the schedule is tight, I just dip into this part of me which makes me intensely alert and logical. It's like I hit my Overdrive mode and I just go whooooshhhh! XD

This is a rush I don't get elsewhere; not from drawing, not from bossing people around. It's from solving problems and gaining control over situations where people frantically call you up in the middle of the night, expecting answers...

Gee, have you ever heard of people getting addicted doing 24-hour support work?

....I'm having huge headache from so many late night calls from Dallas. My head's practically buzzing. XD

At home

I'm lazy. Let the white do the painting for you!



I'm at home today, working and drawing. I love doing this, to just draw when the spirit moves me. Sometimes the images come out looking real fine, and sometimes they just plain suck. But no matter, it feels good, to be full of ideas again. Must have something to do with the songs I put on too. Kris Dayanti, Michael Bublé, Chihiro Onitsuka, Leslie Cheung, Santana, Simply Red, Pearl Jam, David Tao, etc. Yumsies.

Re-scripted the next page to make it more dramatic and made the first draft in Painter today. Lots of Gabriella x Matt angles to draw, but still beats drawing backdrops. Drawing backdrops needs the patience of Job and twice the amount of willpower. Guuuh...

I'm happy people find pleasure and inspiration in ROMB. Justifies the stress I go through to kick myself to update even when I rather be doing something else. Sometimes, after the whole day at the office, I come home to a darkened room and the last thing I want to do is to switch on the computer to do the lineart for the latest page. Drawing the lineart requires a huge amount of concentration and determination. Once I get started, I'll be drawing until 12-1am. This is something i do almost every night, to be able to bring you all a new page everyweek. Then on other days, I need to work on the script, arrange the chronological events and go rescript again until the characters sound right in my head. ROMB is a pet project that grew into a full time job. I enjoy this, when the other aspects of my life are problem-free. But that's rarely the case, as most of you know. And that's why i burn out so fast these days. Or I take so damn long to update. It's the same story. I think I am just juggling too much sometimes.

Still, like Bryan said, our webcomic projects are not something we can just stop when we feel like it, because it has grown into this monster of a story of epic proportions. That would be so irresponsible, don't cha think? So yeah, this is a do-or-die thing.

I often ponder the future of ROMB. Will I publish it one day? Will someone publish me one day? Will people want to continue reading if it runs for 10 years? Hm...I dunno.

There's no point to this whole post. I'm just droning because the weather is lovely today and I need an excuse to just type and type and type while sitting at the window.

So there. Have a nice day, if you're reading.

Best Guy in the World

For Keat, best boyfriend ever.

Matthew

If I'm Matt, I'll rip off Gabriella's little skirt+sweater, tie her upside down from a tree, and spank her. But that would get him expelled, and you all hot and bothered. XD

But yeah, Matt does have a problem with going to Sol. Kurt, or any university for that matter. He thought that once he graduates from highschool, he's free to go wherever. But with those grades, he's going nowhere but to the university. I guess most of us faced this before, to decide to give up on your own needs for others who have high hopes for you. In this case it's Aida's. The only reason he will go at this moment, is because of his sister. But Matt will reach a point where he'll snap and freak out if he decides to deny himself.

Gabriella's the class monitor, by the way. She is rich and kinda nerdy and is stuck-up like hell. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking of hot schoolgirl sex. No you're not getting that. Matt and Gabriella are like San and Jem. It will not happen unless you bribe me enough through Paypal. Mua ha ha.

But yes, shoutbox is back. Feel free to be weird there.

All of the stupid things....

Tsu made me so bloody hoppin'mad. My eyes were wet when I was typing that reply to his post in the forums. This world we're living in, full of selfish selfish people.

I'm selfish too. Maybe we deserve all this.

Raw

Do you know the feeling of loving someone so much that the sight or thought of that person brings tears to your eyes?

I'm so raw nowadays, that I don't go anywhere without my tissues.

Birthday was...

Saturday was my birthday and I spent a LOT for others. Heck, I always thought it was supposed to be the other way around. Well, Keat and I actually had a small gathering thing among the housemates. We had ice-cream cake, whiskey, fried calamari in chilli, ham, vodka, crispy anchovies, junkfood, sweet tea and gassy drinks. It wasn't fun. At. All. Basically, we talked crap and watched some kiddie movie that was showing then, laughed at a lot at unfunny jokes, endured boring boasting chatter, etc. No laughing until crying, no feeling like I've never had such a great birthday in my life, no desire to stay up all night. After cleaning up, everyone proceeded to their rooms by 1.30am. I'm never ever doing this again. Always feel bloody uncomfortable when people are trying to do stuff for me, ie in this case, being cheerful for my sake and saying nice bithday-ish things to me. So so uncomfortable... Now that I've tried it, I'm content. In the next years to come, I'm doing it privately with Keat.

I guess it's because I don't have enough good friends to invite. Most of those present that day are just casual acquaintances that I will probably pretend to not see if i meet them on the street. I wish my highschool gang is here. I wish I was with my family. Or just with Keat. Just a simple dinner would suffice and it would be great because of the people that's there, and the stuff that's being talked about. No more feeling strained.

Still, I'm happy that the housemates made the effort to be present, to help out with everything, to even cook for the occasion. Sigh, it's things like these that makes me feel uncomfortable, when people do stuff for me. Bah, birthdays are no big deals.

Weird Inspiration

Yesterday night, while playing Sierra's latest Leisure Suit Larry romp: Magna Cum Laude, I was struck with the weirdest fetish story idea set in the Regency era. It involves a soft-spoken and nervous young man who leads a dull life. Our young man is not interested in either sexes. He's only turned on when in women's clothing. Yes, the hero's a crossdresser, and damn, he looks better in dresses than in pants.

The story proceeds with our young man's mother arranging marriage for him with a plain young lady from a good family. The girl is quiet and mousy. He agrees to it, thinking that it's a "safe" marriage, where he can maintain the facade of being a respectable working class gentleman during the day, so that he may continue spending his nights locked in his room, wearing women's clothes and furnishing his rapidly growing secret wardrobe. He assumes the new wife will submit to his reasonable demands for privacy, and also be thankful to have such a proper non-interfering husband.

The new wife is all innocence and still painfully girlish. After a being (badly) briefed by her spinster aunt on her supposedly "wifely duties" on her first night as someone's wife, the girl is at the verge of fainting. In her mind, comical images of huge phalluses and blood-drenched nightgowns are churning around.

After a few weeks of BORING (read: no sex) marital bliss, our girl's nervousness has blown up into extreme frustration and self-depreciating assumptions. She wonders what her husband does in his room as soon as he leaves the table after dinner. One night, she opens her windows, clambers over to the balcony and looks into his window. She sees a woman in his room, and to her despair, the woman is very attractive. Both of them scream; her scream was because she's loosing the grip of the sill. As poor wifey falls, she vaguely realises that the woman has bigger breasts than her.

She gets confined to the bed with an undignified broken leg. Her husband denies everything and insists she was sleepwalking. She refuses to buy that, stating that she saw some female in his room, and he is having an affair. She bitterly accepts the fact that her husband dislikes her because she's plain and homely. But being the submissive wife that she is, she must suffer his sins.

And so on and so on...this wife character's a drama queen btw, and not unlike Genma Saotome XD (yes, Ranma's father). So yes, much silliness. Good comic material.

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...Man, why do my brain keep spewing up crap like this? T_T

And just for the heck of it...GET YOUR CURSOR SLAPPED HERE!! Just wait for the flash to load, then roll your mouse over the wench's luscious bosom a few times. Wholesome fun!

I don't know if I should invest in this game, btw. I've never quite managed to coordinate my motor skills well enough to play RPGs like these. People who stood behind me while I played Counterstrike once (oh so long ago) will thump tables in agreement. But still...I don't think I can resist a game with a trailer like that! XD

Page Completed

Page done and sent to Shin. Heard that she's going to Melbourne soon. That's nice. That girl definitely needs a break. But...no one to update the page when she's gone.. T_T

My birthday this Saturday. Nothing much planned 'cept for eating and much much eating. People ask me what I want. I truly do not know. I have nothing that I want except for that Reebok gym bag I saw the other day maybe. I had a distant twinge of desire when I saw it. But I was stressed the other day and wanted to spend money to unwind. So I did not buy it because I've been spending waaaaay too much lately. Siggghhh.

But yes, new page new page. I miss drawing Matt. He has such simple facial features and expressions. Easy to read like a book. So now you know two things. Despite Matt's laziness, he's top in his class, but he's not exactly happy to find out that he's being elected for an entrance exam to Sol. Kurt. And who's that creepy looking nerdy girl in the last panel. Ah, you'll see in the next page.

Til next time.

Slowly does it...

I've changed my mind about going to Cherating beach next week. It's just not worth it, to be driving 4 hours just to get there in the afternoon, stay overnight, check out by 12 noon the next day, and drive for another 4 hours to get back to KL. I'm bloody prone to motion sickness. I rather spend my birthday like any normal person does. I'm glad Keat agrees or I'll have to go just because it's free. That'll surely kill the fun.

So he'll be going back to Brunei this weekend, and returning next week. He'll be getting a bottle of Jack Daniels' and we'll have ourselves a merry little cake and drinking session! I've learnt that whiskey + greentea is the best drink to serve girls. They'll be drunk before they even know it! :D XD XD

Ah, the severe hecticness of the weekend and of last week made it impossible to draw. This week is no exception. I have to work days and nights, have a nasty amount of stuff to take care of in Klang, and whatsmore with the birthday preparations this weekend. And Sureen's needing my help to move, not to mention that i'll have to faithfully visit the gym this week because of my gradually expanding waistline. Ai caramba! But who knows, good things happen when you least expect it! I might be able to complete the ROMB page this week, but no promises.

Went for this makeup class last Saturday. Eyelash curlers are instruments of torture, I tell ya. But I came out from that class looking like exactly how I expect to look after putting on cosmetic. No surprises here, but people around me reacted like they're seeing me for the first time. Ugh, spare me. But still, it's fun. As usual, Pei was the "kiasu" one. She slapped on more layers of colors than anyone. Oh geez, that's so like her...hehe. It's like, the more skin area covered, the better.

But yeah, so much for my dull uneventful weekend. Will try to wade through the shit to bring you the latest in SewerLand tomorrow!

Fanart Contest

High possibility I'm going to join this week's contest at Drak's. Since I have a half-drawn fanart for Akira-san of Tsunami Channel, I might as well complete it! If I remember correctly, it was a drawing of Laika. Seifuku-clad schoolgirls with katanas are such the rage nowadays. Very Go Go Yubari. Which is pretty cool in a freakn weird shit sorta way. So let's hope I make significant progress with the ROMB page today to be able to CG the fanart. :)

It was raining this morning when I woke up. It's a wonder how I'm reading so late into the night nowadays (1-2 am) and still am able to wake up at 8.30am to get my ass to work. I'm the sort that gets whiny with headaches and dizziness if I lose half a minute of sleep from my solid 8-hour routine. Ah, so cool. It would be good if I can maintain such a lifestyle. That'd be glorious.

What are you, if not an image of me?

Fooled around the whole morning. Stumbled into a couple of friend's blogs. Good to be in touch with what's happening with people you met online, who had dropped outta contact. People's lifes go on, even when yours is stuck in a stinky whirlpool of bubbling mud. Change is good. All things must come to an end, good or bad. It's the finiteness of the world we're living in, where Time stretches heavily on our ignorant little heads. I learn not to plan to far into the future.

I see that Shin's updated the ROMB Character page. Thanks! :D I really love how the Madame turned out. Skanky. But beware of spoilers when you read the one on San's dad. Just a word of warning! But you won't be able to resist it anyway, now that I've mentioned it hahaha.

Haven't done anything much for the new page yesterday. Dropped back into the habit of reading. Bought a bunch of books yesterday and am looking forward to reading them. Seem to be spending money like no tomorrow nowadays. Depleted 20% of my savings in a few weeks. I'm feeling nothing, which is partly good as long as I control myself, because it's never too good to be attached to your savings. After all, it's just money. What do I have that was not given to me? Nothing.

I'm turning preachy. Better stop.

Undetermined Day

Doing lunch with Carol today. Hope to have a nice chatty time. Haven't had much time catching up with her lately. It's weird how we stay in the same house and hardly see each other enough to start a proper conversation.

And the boyfriend's already in Brunei, today being his first day at work there. I hope he's well and all that. I'm worrying about him a lot. I'm worried that he won't be able to fit in, I worry that he might find his accomodations too lonely and quiet, I worry that he might be homesick, etc. I have this stupid urge to take leave and hop on a plane to look for him to make sure everything's all right now because I'm here. I'm turning into his mom T_T....

Anyway, I just found out on Saturday that my aunt is demonised. She pushed grandma until the old lady fell and hit her head on the wall and scream incoherently in strange voices. Uncle and her are Jehovah's Witnesses and refused to consider a deliverance. The next morning, grandma awoke to find their room padlocked and belongings moved away. Uncle and Auntie crept off during dawn. This is very bad. Like an episode out of the Exorcist. Now nobody will take care of grandma. Last I heard, my mom and the sisters are going to pitch in to place a deposit for an Indonesian maid to take care of grandma. And to think that Ipoh is dull and uneventful. >_> I'm just glad grandma is okay.

Sarah MacLachlan's songs are so...inspiring. I wonder how it feels to be "blinded by mercy"...and what does being "burnt in heaven" means...Hmmm...

By the way, ROMB 7-01 is in progress. Draft is complete, scripting's been done for the next 2 scenes. Things are looking good. :)

Rave

Oh my god. Everyone take a look at the awesome fanart entries here. Drakahn's piece took my breath away. And I wish Dish would complete his..*rolls eyes to look at Dish*....WOW Such talent from the readers!!! :D :D

CLAMP Bashing

Okay, I hate CLAMP. There, I said it. Never really liked Card Captor, or the art in RG Veda, or X. Ugh, too much superficial teen angst. But I guess I'm just too picky. I don't even like Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary, which reeks with androgynous characters bleeding prettily in beds of rose petals. Problem is, I do like androgynous characters bleeding prettily in beds of rose petals. The plot just couldn't hold my attention I think. Maybe I'm just jaded and pretty stuff like this don't turn me on anymore. XD Sweaty grimy men with bleeding katanas and gruesome wounds turn me on though. Vagabond! Wheeeeeeee!!!!!!

Anyway, I'm glad ROMB instills enough heart-fluttering in people to make them say such nice things bout it in their LJs. T_T All this gives me much encouragement to make a new wallpaper. Maybe after the next page update. Need to practice painting more anyway.

I'll try to do some light scripting for the new scene. Right now, I'm having a huge urge to tweak the Matt plot. According to Shin, the story's getting complicated, and I think I'm the culprit because I keep revisiting the plot to add further details and stuff....Hope that won't turn off people. :\ But it's not really that complex. Rereading the archives should fix that. Was doing just that yesterday night. Man, looking at your old art is like going back to old vomit. Cringefest!!! ;__;

So anyway, I also completed 5 new character pics for the Chara Sheet section. Will be sending them to Shin maybe next week. Right now, I'm still working on the new archives layout. It's really a pain linking each and every page for all the 6 chapters. Think I'll just copy paste from the original keenspace page... >_> ...should've thought of that earlier. After that I'll start on the Omake page, which I'll rename to Gallery. Then there's SOE's stuff to be converted over to Jushin. Every single page needs a new layout. Sigh...................wonder when I'll finish. Probably never..T_T

Am going back to hometown this evening. Boss allows me to leave at 4pm. Joy! Bringing back the PSone for the kid brother. It's officially his. Hope it still works though. Haven't used it for...so long. He'll need new memory cards too. Ha!

And we're having sushi for lunch. Going to Genki! :D Hm....will need to get 2 birthday presents while I'm there. October = birthday hell month.

Fuzzy Brained

I didin't get enough sleep yesterday. Now I have fuzz in my brain and my line of vision is blur. But I think it's just laziness taking up tangible form. When you're lazy too long, it sorta cooks itself up into this heavy black tar of doom that radically subdues the urgent need to do any work. I also got the Thursday blues, because it's nearing the weekends and I'm already in rest mode.

Don't you hate it when you need to run errands and do chores during the weekends? My weekends are like fleeting sacred moments before the insanity of work starts again. And this Saturday I need to drive all the way down to Klang to get someone to fix my apartment and reactivate the electricity. Dumb ex-tenants who didin't pay their bills. I hope Sureen comes with me so I don't psych myself to death during the long drive. Okay, I could probably take this opportunity to bring her along for a facial too. But I might end up paying because I'm such a needy and eager-to-please little idiot.

It's October already, and October's a month of birthdays. Need to save up for presents. Just shot a mail to Pei to start thinking of Tee's birthday pressie this coming 10th. Then on the 19th's my little bro's turn. I wonder if he'll be happy with just a trip to KL. Hey, talking about him, I just remembered he's taking his PMR exams about this time too. Will need to call him tonight (if I remember). Oh boy oh boy. Then, on the 26th is Keat's. I'm running out of ideas on what to get this guy. He's the toughest customer yet. But I guess he's having a worse time trying to think of what to get me in return as well. Ha ha, good luck if you're reading this! Muahaha!

I really miss my family. To think that my sister is going to be somebody's wife in the next two years or so is just so.....weird. Still couldn't get used to the idea yet. She still behaves like an anime character....or more like an anime hamster character.....Hyper like hell and can scrunch out more than 3 facial expressions under one second. T_T

And my lil' bro....last time I went home he played the cello he brought home from school for me. It was so funny because there are 3 cellos in the school band but only one bow. Everyone had to take turns to use the bow. Otherwise it's just plucking plucking at the strings. Dumb. XD So yeah, and he showed me his drawings. Seems to have improved a lot since the last time i sneaked a look at his sketchpad. Sad thing is, he's not using his WACOM due to some corrupted driver issues with the PC. That was a waste of money and a pity, because if he starts now, he'll be so awesomely good by the time he's 20. I suddenly even got this perfectly stupid idea that maybe someday in the future, we could be a brother and sister manga team from Malaysia! I'll draw and he tones! (I'm mean!) We'll be Invincible....!!!

Okay.

So I was thinking, I created lots of familial ties in ROMB because of how these ties mean a lot to me in my life. I used to have this weird edgy relationship with my parents. Never did realise I love them at all until my twenties. All the while I was like growing up in a house full of strangers who hated me. And all they do is yell and hit me. I just did not get it. That's like San and dad. Deep roots of angry misunderstandings and hatred during his teens that somehow just turned out good as San matures. I'm looking forward to further delve into this side of ROMB. Right now, San's nothing but this weird bishie with an agenda, quirky at times and just plain lame at most. And then there's the Poh siblings. The sister who sacrifices it all for her brother. Very noble but actually very stupid if you look at her inner conflicts. It's always her needs vs Matt's needs. She knows what she has to do but still, she takes pleasure in making herself suffer in the process of doing it, just to increase the value of her sacrifice in her mind. It makes it more worth it? More pain more gain? Aida's made herself semi-masochistic from years of repression.

I realise as I type this that I've done a fairly bad job in keeping the characters consistent. The personality development is still too superficial. I guess I can't do so much since this is something I update once a week. Just have this habit of building and building them in my head that I always forget that the readers do not know them as well as i do. Ah, at least at the end of this, ROMB will be something special to me, if not to them.

So now I'm pushing to finish the Matt splashpage by this week. I fear that if I take too long a time, I'll end up scrapping the whole thing. It doesn't look that good at the moment. I need some refs. Gone are the days when I could paint without refs, straight outta my head. Do you actually believe that drawing skills could depreciate? I actually don't. Maybe I have higher expectations now. I want my pieces to look more realistic and anatomically-accurate perhaps, and background color washes just don't do it for me anymore. One of these days, I'll need to learn how to put in time to paint backgrounds.

ROMB Chapter 6 Page 27

This new page was pretty hard to draw. People have to look consistently like each other, since they appear more than once in the page. But anyway, I had a swell time doing Kyung. He turned out really good in panel #1. Want to give him that nonchalant but controlled-violence feel with the draped jacket and noodle-slurping. Drawing the arms were the hardest. I need to stop drawing rubbery looking stumps and emphasize more on muscle+bone definition, memorise some important shapes, etc. I also seemed to have forgotten how to shade San's hair properly. Now it looks like....straw.... T_T

But back to the plot, I hope I'm not confusing anyone with all the mention of Taiping-Lin, SaiChuan, neutral zones and Northern gangs. Taiping-Lin is basically the Northern boys, controlled by Mr. Hoong (aka Old Man North). THey're just a fusion of all the small-time gangs up north in Oricon Bay. There's where the bad part of town is. SaiChuan, on the other hand, are the Chinese Triads in control of the most prospherous territories, e.g. ChinaTown and the city centre. I have not introduced any characters from SaiChuan at the moment, except the mention of one in San's Broken Arm flashback: Micah Lee.

So San spies Elijah keeping some bad company. Now maybe you'll understand what the chapter name means. :)

I'll be shifting scenes to Matt after this at the beginning of Chapter 7. Flesh him out a bit, then to Jem. Will probably intro Basil White too (San's GF Fighter). Then I'll pick up where Chapter 6 left off maybe? Something like that, not necessarily in that order. I'm just flipping happy that this scene is over. Ugh....drawing background intensive pages are really exhausting.

Next Stop: Chapter 7 Splashpage. Will try to churn it out fast to make up for the lack of update last week. Need to speed things along.

Okay, people, enjoy the page. If you find the need to say something and the shoutbox's not available, try the forums or just reply as Anon in here. Thanks for reading! :)

Headway WOOHOO!

Made headway with the new page (which is supposedly last week's page .__. ) I'm just left the last panel. Not sure what to do for that yet. Can't believe I did so much by just NOT playing games for a single night. Man, gotta watch my gaming time. But it's a good thing really that I have such a short attention span. I quickly got tired of Space Channel 5 Pt2 after 3 days and got it to PC play itself to unlock the costumes. Now I'm halfway through six PS2 games: Glass Rose, SP5 P2, FFX, Kingdom Hearts (boo!), Mister Mosqeeto, Katamari Damashii... Ugh.

Hm...I suddenly have this huge craving for icecream. Some vanilla butterscotch chocolate sort of craving. Nothing intelligent to type at the moment. Just fooling around in the GameCopyWorld forums.

Clippers

This picture immensely soothing. Got it from here.

Parasites

Has anyone seen/heard Utada Hikaru's English song, Easy Breezy?...brrr...so MTV-ish. Bad. But still, am listening to her Deep River album right now with Final Distance. It's charming how she blends English into the Japanese lyrics.

Notice how I don't blog during the weekends? It's because weekends are precious. I did not work on the new ROMB page. Too many distractions. Happy and unhappy ones. Marathon-gamed until I got this huge whopping headache. I deserve what I get. And to think I'm actually considering a Nokia N-Gage QD. I'm getting obsessed.

During lunch today, i chatted with Pin a bit. Talked about her life as a divorced child. It's incredible how independent and strong people get when they're left to fend for themselves. No such things as alimonies in those days. When your husband gets tired of you and decides to give you the boot, you're out on the streets. Pin and her mom (now in her 60s) live 2 hours apart. Her mom cycles around, does nothing much at home, doesn't watch tv, no hobbies really, and I could only imagine the loneliness she goes through. Sometimes I think as married people approach old age, they have this morbid hope to be the one to die first. My grandmother often complains how my late grandpa is luckier than her, getting to die first without going through the loneliness. Just like having your heart broken all over again at old age.

People can't help placing hopes in other people, creating a mess of pseudo-parasitical dependencies; which gives the impression that one could not survive well without the existence of another. It's just so ... human. People foolishly relying on each other to make life meaningful. I wonder sometimes if I can survive this world if everybody else died.

Oh man, what the frick. I don't feel like sweating it out on the treadmill while strapped to MTV today. I'll just go back and sleep.

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I screwed up. Bought the movie tickets, but for the wrong time. Will have to rush to the cinema tomorrow to be able to catch the movie on time. Ack! What's wrong with me?! Got a serious "talking to" from the boyfriend. T_T

Anyhow, after much googling for Seaman, I realised that it was published for the PC and PS2 as well. Oh lordy! And that was in 2001. This is not happening. Fifty bucks that I'll not find it in any gameshop. Even if I do, there's this problem of finding the special PS2 controller needed to interact with the damn mutant.

On a brighter note, Pin commented that I look sooooooo good in my new top. Like, you sexaaay biyotch!! YES! XD XD

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I marvel at how shallow I'm becoming.

The Sims 2

I have found a strong solid reason to ditch my old pc for a new one. I want to play Sims 2. Was reading reviews today and they were too good to be ignored. One of the most detailed favorite review would be the extended version from GameSpy. I've always been a sucker for human sim games. From the sound of it, the AI is pretty good and deep, catering for lots of special events and behavourial patterns. I really need to try this out. Ever since the original Sims 1, I've been harbouring a secret hope that one day they'll start developing highly immersive sims. Because hopefully from there, we'll be seeing sophisticated human-rearing games very soon. It's high time American game developers tap into this huge Japanese-monopolised market. See how big creature-rearing games like Digimon and Tamagotchi has become.

One very disturbingly fascinating game I never got to try was Seaman. Don't have a N64, you see. You'll also be needing a microphone to plug into the console to access this freakshow. The great thing about this game is that you'll forget Seaman is merely polygons. He has a personality of a full-fledged bastard, but irresistably lovable. Yes, you're bringing up a fish-with-a-face mutant that talks and (if brought up badly) uses choice expletives on you. Oh man, I'm torturing myself by talking about the game I'll never play. Oh please release Seaman 2 in PS2 or in the computer! I'll even buy the original game, I swear!

Mmm, see what I found when I was googling for Seaman sites. Totally creepy T_T:
http://schubart.net/images/Jinmengyo.jpeg

Ooooh, lunchtime. Going to get Resident evil 2 tickets! Joy! :D