ROMB's like...a slow trudging old elephant

An old friend asked me if I really wanted to continue with ROMB. He said that it's ok to go on with shorter creative projects.

I know what he meant about wanting to start on something shorter. But I'm not THAT sure if I want to stop ROMB where it is. Sure I'm kinda tired with revisiting old plots and trying to meet ppl's expectations, but ROMB's like the melting pot of everything that I'm passionate about... gaming, martial arts, people, etc. If I drop this now, I'm not sure I can create something which allows me to live so... spherically satisfyingly through my stories.

You know what I mean?

Oh well, I'll stick with it for a few months and I'll see if ROMB can still give me the Joy.
But hell, having to do this with a site revamp ain't helping at all. T_T

After a long long long... hiatus

Yep, we're back in business! *deep breath*



ROMB is back, with a much more streamlined storyline! (I hope) Story continues just exactly where I stopped. Updates will be kinda sporadic but consistent in some way. Will try to concentrate telling the stories instead of including too much crap from the side characters. :D

Site Revamp

KK and Shin are "all excited" over the ROMB site revamp. I'm letting them take mad reign over this mini project. KK's been wanting to scratch his web designing itch since forever. You know, one of those "if-I-had-more-time-I-would-blablabla" sorta thing. All of us have at least one of those...so it's really cool to actually find a reason to do it. I know how it feels, cuz I'm a "if-I-had-more-time-I-would-continue-with-ROMB" person.

This time round, I'm thinking of a clear clean interface with no adverts and link exchange preferably. I'm really past that age where I still read online comics and actively get involved in webcomic forums. But perhaps just those comic list links like Onlinecomics.net. Cuz I do think it's crucial that ROMB has lots of readers. Otherwise it defeats the purpose of having its story told and no one who cares enough to listen.

Am not sure how to design the site, will leave it up to KK. But I'm worried of conflicting tastes and stuff. I don't want it looking too rigid and sterile. WHat I have in mind is something neat and cosy. IKEA comes to mind XD. Shite, I'm hopeless aren't I? Can't stop talking about furniture, even when illustrating my preference in webdesign.

Oh anyways, we're pretty much disgusted with our local ISP over here. As usual, service's good ol' Malaysian style. The line transfer took 2 trips and 1 week to accomplish, while the reactivation of my ADSL is still unsuccessful. Something about the phone number already reactivated but the port still not activated. Whatever wherever. I'm forseeing bad shit brewing in my not so distant horizon when they send me the monthly ADSL bill ....CHARGING me for something that is yet to be activate. A whole load of cow shit. Screw you, TMnet.

Yes, as you could tell I'm pretty much pissed at the whole world right now. Work trouble and stress. WTH WTH WTH.

Sigh.

Getting Back into ROMB

I'm going to resume drawing the last ROMB page where I last left off one year ago. Yeah, with San at the disco with Az and Andrea. From there, the story will experience some change from what I initially planned last time. Hopefully it has grown more mature and streamlined. I remember my Little Black Book of Plots having stacks of notes about each character's background and so on and so on. This will have to be relooked into. Don't want to degenerate into Bleach. Was disappointing how the story fell flat on its face as soon as the number of characters exploded when the gang entered the Spirit World.

Yup, need to restart the cranky ol' drawing engine and warm up the old geezer. I imagine with the many months in between since i've picked up the stylus, the cranks and stuff will be a tad bit rusty. Heh :)