A Simple Brain with Simple Thoughts

Time to make a move....

2010-02-21T20:36:00.000-08:00

yea.. just in case you don't know.
I have decided to move my blog for various reason :D

New address : http://puppetism.blogspot.com/

Annoying Buzz - Mr Flash on Windows 7

2010-01-07T00:09:00.000-08:00

Here's the annoying thing.....
On the windows 7 platform, Mr Flash Adobe CS3 became a very unfriendly programme, that doesn't allows me to use it with any other programme. So whenever I have photoshop CS3 opened. The very unfriendly flash, just starts kicking up it's temper and crash like no body's business. Even with the tiniest movement you could think of... like just 1 click. It just CRASH!!

So now whenever I need the help of Mr Flash, I need to make sure I close all other applications before using it. .... -_-

And the new advernture begins....

2010-01-05T10:10:00.001-08:00

I am soooo happpy!!! ^_^

yes, because i finally got my driving license....
Maybe it's not a big deal... actually.
But it's one of the 1st thing that I accomplished in the new year ^^

And recalling how I struggled to go for each lesson ( which is all the way on the other side of Singapore ) and makes me feels so much happier that everything is over.
I do have my fun and awful time with the whole learning process.

I remembered the 1st time i hit the road when it was the evening peak period. I was so scared and nervous, fast moving cars were using their horns against me . I ended up so stressed that my body was shaking.

Then I had instructor telling me that he wants to die when he was instructing me, because I think I done some stupid mistakes which only a pupil like me would commit.

I also discovered recently that I do have an awful sense of direction. Which somehow all the past event make sense. When the instructor told me to go left, I ended up going right. Because sometimes I mixed up left and right.... lol And I now remembered walking towards a glass window thinking it was an exit in the past, while i squeezed through the crowd. Thank God, my friend actually turned my whole body by my shoulder to "gear" the direction I'm heading to avoid heading straight to the glass window.

And the whole moral of the driving lesson was to educate you to drive patiently, considerately but
smartly..

Happy New Year!

An unfinished story..

2009-11-03T05:33:00.001-08:00

So... the last time i watched a movie with MJ in it, was more then 10 years ago.

Yea, the cinema was almost empty despite it's opening week ( maybe due to the fact that it's Monday). I would said that this show filled me with excitement along with a hint of sorrow.

I saw how teamwork comes together, when poople really worked hard together. I saw how much respect MJ got, from the people he worked with. MJ's willingness to share his stage with others despite his super star statues and his high standards of requirement he needed to prefect his performing stage and at the same time , you see him expressing his gratefulness to those that helped with with a simple " God bless you "

"change it....change it" He goes in the show. If you think something is wrong or bad for you. Do something to change it. :)

You could definitely see the extreme passion he got for his work and music. I saw the excitement people had when they worked together with him. And hey,those smiles and joys you see were genuine. However, of course knowing to the fact that " This is it" will be an unfinished story that will be remember by history.

MJ indeed earned his legacy that he left behind....

The Artificial Nature

2009-10-09T06:53:00.000-07:00

I was just thinking of a garden in the near future where almost everything is machinery... but yet retaining its beauty.

Random thought of the day - 3

2009-08-22T17:32:00.000-07:00

When you thought you have forgotten,
When you thought you have lost it,
When you thought it will never happen,
It just creeps up behind you, when you are least expecting it...

The scream from the Gun.

2009-08-09T06:48:00.000-07:00

Alright, I'm finally back after sometime....

Random thought of the day 2

2009-07-12T07:08:00.000-07:00

能做自已想做的事，

能爱自已所爱的人，

这也是简单的幸福之一。。。

恩！这是小菱今天有所的领吾 ^_^

My favourite song.

2009-06-27T07:24:00.000-07:00

The man lived with his dreams, the man left the world with his legacy.
And the day he left, the internet almost explored with everyone's shock.

Ignoring with the facts that there are some bad stuff going on about him in the recently years of his life. But he was indeed a great musician, who produced great music. And great music should never be denied...

R.I.P Micheal Joseph Jackson

The mini deer in my house.

2009-05-30T09:19:00.000-07:00

BEFORE
Bobby, smiling under the sun and finally looking straight into the camera. Lets just remember how he will look like this way.

AFTER

And he turns into a naked deer~
I'm probably the only person that shaves a sheltie.

ahhhhh... but i got no choice!!!

The bushy girl

2009-03-23T09:21:00.000-07:00

The hair style was initially designed for some character at work... big bushy loud hair, but it ended up being rejected. But i kinda like it, so here am i playing around with it. Anyway it was a totally different style compared to the one I did for work.

And let's just say I'm having a bad hair day with this piece of work...

A Qustion, an answer and a thought

2009-03-10T06:29:00.001-07:00

A Dream

Definitions from the dictionary : a strongly desired goal or purpose / something that fully satisfies a wish / something notable for its beauty, excellence, or enjoyable quality

Question : Why is it so hard to reach for your dream?

Answer : If it's ever easy, it wouldn't be a dream in the 1st place.

Maybe the only easily way is to sleep...

The wall in my room

2009-02-09T09:26:00.000-08:00

I used to have a very silly thought that painting walls was an extremely easy job.
Till i painted my room myself...

At the end of the job i found myself with back ache, paint stains on my hair and clothes. But ignoring the tiredness & pain... it can be fun for some parts. OH.. and i learned that the proper paints for wall are extremely expensive!!

well.. at least the wall didn't turn out to bad for a first timer. ^^

A discovery on a Moo year...

2009-01-28T07:34:00.000-08:00

There are some discovery on a the Chinese new year..

I always thought that the surface texture of the cow is like the horse.
They are suppose to have very VERY short hair.

But I was wrong...

See... there are actually cows which are fury!
hee...

Happy Moo Year!!

Just a conversation

2009-01-07T22:13:00.000-08:00

This is the story of the body and heart.

The body and the heart had a conversation one day. The body said that whenever he is ill, there's always the doctor to make him feel better. So the body asked the heart, who will heal her when she is ill.

The heart replied by saying that unlike the body, no one can heal her except for herself.So she needs to find different ways to make herself feel better. Sometime she may be doing weird and crazy things that no one will understand, but it all doesn't matter for the worst thing to do is to ignore the fact that she is sick.

So...this may be the reason why we see people whom we know to act differently or weirdly from time to time ^_^

Happy New Year!! 2009!!

On a christmas night

2008-12-26T22:17:00.000-08:00

Fun is only limited by your imagination...

On the usual Christmas day, beside going to the church, exchanging of gifts... eating turkey...
You can always have "candlelight-picnic-dinner" on the beach instead of the usual house party.

That's basically how i decided to spend my Christmas night with my friends this year.
( well.. it became something like a potato dinner, because most of us brought potato dishes for the potluck and as usual it's still so warm in Singapore that we are all perspiring as we eat... how romantic.. =_= )

Nevertheless, when nightfall, the others played night volleyballs, we get to play with lights with our handphones^^

Can you see "PP" in the photo? Because my name is too long, we don' have enough really bright screen phones to form every single letter of my name and it will be weird to form PAU.. so we just settled with my initials .

or maybe just forcefully my surname... it's still 1 letter shorter then my name.

It's really fun doing it...really, but the fun also came along with the cruel fact that we all looked like a bunch of idiots waving or doing God-knows-what in front of the camera... and giggling non stop in the darkness.

but at the end of the day, we are all happy people...

on a Christmas night... : )

My conclusion of the day....

2008-12-18T08:01:00.000-08:00

x-box 360 is a horrible gaming platform... =_=

bumblebee...

2008-12-04T00:19:00.000-08:00

We were having life drawing in some unknown place, but cool place ^^

There was a transformable bumblebee costume found at the side of the drawing room.
Apparently it's a costume imported from the states in preparation for the promotion of the animated series of transformers. Some one will be putting on the costume, something like this....

and then transform into a car like this....

so whoever is going to put on the suit is literally going to have to fold herself up for the costume to shape like a car...haha ^^

Polar Bear...

2008-11-30T02:50:00.001-08:00

Another paint sketch....
I just recalled sth...
I was given the nick name "polar bear " when on my 1st day of school when I was young. ^^
Well... that's because of my name ar. I hated it initially, and the more i asked them to stop the more it just goes on... so it didn't stop. And i just decided to ignore it and let them call me whatever they wanted. Soon, i just got acclimated to it, didn't bother me much and somehow... it just stop. And became rather found of bears actually =P

Getting used to something, may not necessary mean the situation had a turn for good, but maybe on how you coped with the suitation for the better.

Someone still called me "polar " till this day.. lol.. you should know who you are...muahahahaha...

Songs of Innocent & Experiences

2008-11-09T04:41:00.000-08:00

I managed to get my final year project compressed into a really really small video. It's a project that was created through teamwork which also turned strangers into close friends. ^^ This is the 1st Render that we finished, with the mistakes here n there... sadly we are not able to get hold of the final render we made. But the graphics and story reminds the same, just that the other version would be much more polished.

Watching it again reminds me of those painful sweet experiences that our team mates and I had ( especially when one of them just left for Taiwan, n I'm not able to join the others to travel there for the meet up next mth >_< )

This may not be an epic show... but the process was definitely epic.
It almost killed me and my group mates. ^^
More then 3 months of painful sleepless night, working for more then 12 hrs in front of the computer almost everyday, camping over night in school... and thanks to it, i mastered the art of sleeping on the chairs without any pain.

It was suppose to be a 3 min clip project but we ended up with a 10 min clip ^^||

Our story tells about a group of creatures without mouth who happened to get themselves mouths.
Well... we mainly wanted to show how the good and bad things can happened with the words we said coming out from our own mouth. So in order to express it, the back part of the show got a little abstract...

Some 3d model Screen shots
from the clip.

And the video ^^
forgive me for the quality, it was originally a 10G file and now it's just 30mb after the compression ...^^||

It's a Dog's Liife

2008-09-30T10:09:00.001-07:00

Its hard to have nice pictures taken for dogs...

Even if they are well dressed, ready for a shot.

They would simply ignore you.

Looking at anywhere else... but the camera.

Sometimes they pose weird poses,

challenge you with difficult angles.

And even if you get them to look at your camera,
they give you the saddest look with their eyes.

In the world...

2008-08-29T05:14:00.000-07:00

AHHHhh...it's done!!!
I wanted to try have an illustration that feels as if it's from an old vintage book.
So i tried playing around with the old paper texture and for fun : P

Another piece of artwork for a friend ^^

I rule the sky...

2008-07-27T00:34:00.000-07:00

A quick painting for practice...

Part 2: The birthday brat surprise

2008-06-30T08:43:00.000-07:00

Sooo... as i was being hurried out of the event hall by my friends, I happened to be walking aimlessly following whoever that was in front of me and also in a deep conversion with bread. And somehow we ended up on a roof top !! ^^

Yay!! Apparently, my friends hurried me out of hall because there were some other people waiting up at the roof for me... with a cake ^^ ( and i was taking taking my sweet time, walking out of the hall... along with a slight reluctance xp )

As usual, funny stuffs happened in my little life. My dear friends got the cake and candles but not the lighter >_< . SO we waited under the hot sun for someone to get the lighter from the supermarket, but ended up borrowing someone else's lighter ( who was sitting near us all the time) . And because its really windy up there, they tried desperately to light the candles. And when they finally did, the lighted candles were rather short lived.... they only lived for the photo shoots.Hahhaa...

I don't remember hearing any birthday song from them, mainly because the candles went out before we knew it and i just started slicing the cake forgetting about the song too ^^ ||

Besides the surprise cake, there's also a card signed by all of them.... along with a special signature and a greeting by toy designer mori chack, the one who designed the famous pink gloomy bear ^_^ ( they said that they queued for almost an hr for him to sign... so i will appreciate it from the bottom of my heart ... muahhaha )

And to the best part ... the chibi L toy !!! Which was another surprise for me ^^

I thought i won't be able to get my hands on the chibi L toy as they are always.... always... out of stock. Mainly because L was almost everyone favorite character in death note. And the shop owners told me that they are not going to restock them again from japan.

Now with L in my hands, i have competed my set of chibi death note characters .... muhahahah....Thank you yp and thank you yh!!! It's the perfect gift ^__^

The surprises from my friends made up for the the short n not-so-fruitful time at the toy fair. ^_^ Thanks to them, today, i wasn't just a person who got a another year older. But a happy girl who is happy to have grown another year older ^^

Part 1 : The toy fair...

2008-06-30T08:05:00.000-07:00

Singapore 1st ever toy and comic fair....

Sadly, i didn't manage to see much of the toys that interests me. : (
I guess mainly because it was the last day of the fair, most of the toys were sold out, many of the shelves that were believe to be onces filled up with toys were just.... empty.

and its just... crowded... crowded... and crowded... ^^||

And because of the crowds, most of my time spent in the fair were just waiting for the person in front of me to move ahead so that i could make my move too.. LOL

But because of the countless waiting... my eyes landed on him!!

Tim burton's edward scissorhand !!

I dunno what you called those dolls actually, seen quite a number of girls carrying those kind of dolls around. And i thought they were kinda of scary. Imagine waking up in the night and have them staring at you... MUAHAHHA... But the edward scissorhand is cool!! ^^

Soon after this picture was taking i was being hurried out of the event hall by my friends...so that spells the end of my trip to the toy fair along with the only picture of the toy i have taken.... lol... ^^

The tiny eyes...

2008-06-22T08:13:00.001-07:00

An artwork for a friend... : )

The sound studio

2008-06-08T07:48:00.000-07:00

Once again, I entered the sound studio for the the voice recording for stone boy

The overview of the small sound studio for a small production. Which I is good enough ^^

That's the sound designer sitting there, he composed the opening music for the stoneboy. And someone is inside the recording room, voicing for Stanley... the miserable character.... muahahah... ^^

In the recording room ( if anyone can see.. ), behind the microphone , and ready for recording.

I'm always nervous whenever I enter the recording room. In fact I could feel myself shaking slightly.

But after a few successful takes, the nervousness just fades away...
There's suppose to be a screen in font of me... so that you could watch the animation as you record. ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶

Stoneboy is just a quiet character, so it didn't really required much voice acting. That's also because, he doesn't really do much stuff in the animation either. LOL.. he's STONE-boy after all. So throughout the whole animation he just go " huh" " hmm" " ahhh.."...

Even though my role in the recording is small n short, speaking as a newbie in voice acting, after the experience...voice acting is indeed tough. It's not just about going up to the mic and say whatever the character is suppose to say. It's also about giving life to the character, literally acting as if you are the character with just your voice. With just a simple " ohhh " i need a couple of takes to get that right. The pitch is either to low, or it sounded to feminine. Cause he supposed to sound like a cute boy, not some gay. And most importantly to sound expressive enough. Sound and music are the good friends to a animation film, a good music could push the film up to a higher level, covering up mistakes, making actions of the character clearer and conveying some stuffs to the audience which animation on its own would not be able to do it. Especially on emotions. ^^ A gd animation film is about team work after all = )

I guess to perform well as a voice actor, your really need to 敢敢做. When the character is screaming, you really need to scream. If its laughing, you really got to laugh. Pretending that the stage is yours. ^^ And applause to the voice actors behind the big screens... because they are really good. = P

The Round Kitty

2008-05-28T08:09:00.000-07:00

A quick paint practice. Haven't been painting for quite some time... ~ ~||

It's filled with mistakes... I need to study lighting.. I need to paint MORE!!!

Somthing to share....

2008-04-20T06:22:00.000-07:00

Muhahah... i was ransacking through some old files and found those ^^

I did this for some " freelance client " for his casual game project =_= .... a year ago. Oh well.. there is a long story ... very long story behind.

Well they r not the best work , but this project really make my life miserable for a period of time. Really, i even had a nightmare onces. So instead of leaving those files to rot in my com.. i guess i should just show then here.

I'm not sure if i could show them, but anyway... the the game is out and they used my stuff for it without paying me. So at least i should have the right to do whatever i want with it.

Even thought after the project or maybe during the project, i was very mad with the client... very mad.

Giving me last min jobs, calling me as late as 1am at night =_= , giving me this and that excuses for not wanting to pay me as i decided to drop out from their project ( hands on heart, the decision to drop-out took me quite sometime, i don't dislike their project, i just hate their managements ) And thinking back now, I'm wondering why am i so silly in the 1st to take up such project. He really dig me dry before allowing me to leave the team. =_= And sometime i felt that i was being con =_=

But at least , ( to console myself in a way ) MUAHAhhh... in return through i don't have $$ but the project gives me an eye opening experience with the industry, who to work with, what can be done n what cannot be done. What should be clarify before you start the project. And also ( again hands on heart ^^ ) I'm very grateful for my friends who stood by me, listening to my complaints, agreeing with my complaints and complaint along with me during the " hash" period ^^

Someone's big day

2008-04-04T08:11:00.000-07:00

It's someone's big day .... today (4/4)^^

the one that has grown up along with me
the one that has bring me lots of joy and fun...
the one that shower me with its unconditional love and protection ^^
the one that i love sooo much ^^

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY BOBBY!!!

ps: Don't you think he's like a model in these pictures, posing for photo shoots, with the wind blowing onto him ^^

When the Mantou meets the Char Siew Bao

2008-03-18T10:00:00.000-07:00

Here is something funny that my friend shared with me.

The Mantou and the Char Siew Bao when to watch a movie one day.
A very sad movie in fact.
During the movie, the Char Siew Bao cried n cried, pouring its heart out, crying non stop.
While the Mantou remained indifferent throughout the whole movie, neither is it crying
nor laughing.
Now, why is this so???

The funniest answer I got was from my friend "bread" ( no kidding, I really do call her bread... n theres a long story )

Her answer : " Its because they are watching a scene with explosions, and the Char Siew Bao, having stuffings in it, got so nervous while watching that particular scene that its stuffings came exploding out. Thats why its crying." ( by the way, this isn't
the correct answer , anyone care to give it a try?? ^_^"

A New Year Resolution

2008-01-01T05:01:00.000-08:00

A brand new year , brand new day with a brand new blog along with a brand new post and a brand new resolution.

This is my new year resolution " TO KEEP THIS BLOG ALIVE" ...MUAHAH

Anyone who knew me well enough to know that i used to have a blog knew that my blog would never be alive for more then 2 posts.... MUHAHA... yea somehow it just die... i dunno why. >_<

But with the encouragement of my dear dear friend "Nani" I decided to start a new blog once again=)

So with this new blog, it will show the longest life line of my blog and also kinda of a website thing for my works. My web domain just expired and decided not to continue with it for the time being. Knock me if i disappear from my blog again k? hee...

ps:
Nani said that i should say "hi" in my 1st post. so here it is " HI PEEPS!!! GREAT TO HAVE HERE!!" ^___^