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A Walking, Talking, Dancing Candelabra

Yes, I’m still floating somewhere in Beauty & the Beast land. And I’m now quite delighted with this picture because it’s one of those very rare pictures that I’ve done directly on the computer that turned out as I wanted it to - even with a graphic tablet, drawing on the computer isn’t that easy. Also, it turned out well considering that I was referencing a picture where the pose was completely different. (See here.) Well, the picture’s not perfect, but I’m still happy with it.

*grin*

Don’t know if anyone’s really interested, but here’s a step-by-step of my process.

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Tale as Old as Time

Went down to KL with Anna on Saturday morning and had a blast in the capital city. Managed to see the new wing of Sunway Pyramid, got to see Aquaria KLCC (finally), went to SIB’s Sunday service and had lunch with Candice and had my fill of Italiannies~

But out primary mission was just one thing:

I really really enjoyed myself, despite there being a few things that I didn’t quite like and the one technical glitch that happened near the ending. Was quite worth my RM200+. The programme booklet was rather worth the RM30 too. I don’t regret buying it. hehe

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Drawing Day

(Wanted to post this before midnight but didn’t quite get around to it…)

It was Drawing Day yesterday so I indulged in a bit of drawing for several hours - with Chinese ink and rice paper. Haven’t done that in a while. The last ones I did were some random trees… in a kinda graphic style.

Eclipse

Was randomly drawing clouds in Photoshop and ended up with this. ;P

Winds of Change

Before dinner, I was drawing this and totally planning to colour it nicely (I haven’t done a nice coloured pic in a long while). It was how I felt - like there was a little breath of change in the air, a breeze, if you will.

Some time after dinner, stuff came up and the breeze turned into a gale.

Not a cyclone, certainly, but a strong wind. It was unexpected, uncontrollable and it knocked over a few books and a vase, and a picture frame fell off the wall. (Talking in vague metaphors is kinda fun…)

I’m not to blame for the wind, of course, but in a way I feel like it’s my fault that the books fell off the shelf, that the vase crashed to the floor and broke, that the picture dropped from its hanging place on the wall. If only I had shut the window.

• Feeling: windblown
• Watching: Gedo Senki

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

First, my unbiased and relatively spoiler-free opinion.

It was a fairly decent movie, more dramatic than the first one (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe). There was some really beautiful scenery that reminds one of The Lord of the Rings films and had me wondering where on earth they shot those parts. The soundtrack I liked, but I’m not really qualified to give detailed commentary on it, so I’ll leave it at that. Decent art direction and design, with an interesting take on Telmarine fashion (those little flat ruffle detail thingies on collars and sleeves, especially).

One thing I didn’t like was the accent the Telmarines had. It was… Irritating. But since the Telmarines aren’t native Narnians, I suppose it’s natural for them to have a different accent.

Storywise, there were one or two bits that could have used more explaining, but that’s not a particularly major complaint for me. But certain other things, like a romantic link between two of the main characters, were rather a waste of screentime, especially since there was not enough shown of the character interaction to make it really believable.

All in all, it’s probably one of the more worthwhile shows out in cinemas at the moment.

Now… For my frank - and full of spoilers - opinion as someone who has read this book over and over again and counts it as one of her three favourite books in the Narnia Chronicles (alongside The Horse and His Boy and The Silver Chair).

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• Listening to: Stardust OST (Ilan Eshkeri)

Argh, this Heat!

(Hm. I think I’ve just found a new way to write my blog posts when I don’t have anything substantial to say but I feel like blogging. hahah! 楽しいじゃんこれ! ほんまに… ）

Mini-reminiscing

Finally upgraded my Wordpress system. Hm. Overall looks pretty good, except that I wish my Earthtone plugin worked properly with the new interface.

And just so this post isn’t completely boring:

One of the few crazy things I did in uni - photoshoot with the R.Age team in the middle of the night in the middle of one of Cyber’s (relatively deserted) roads.
It felt insane… And fun.

Sometimes I think I didn’t do enough crazy things during my four years in uni. The nuttiest thing I can think of was probably going up to Genting with the others on a mere whim for just a few hours at 11pm… then returning to Cyber by 6-7am. Only to drag myself off to Moral class at 9am. hahah!

Or maybe going back to KL for a week when Star Wars Episode III came out and turning photographer for the Sci-Fi Fan Club (and in the process also becoming a sort of minor Jedi costume expert, having to fix tabards and belts) was crazier. Watching EpIII about three (or was it four?) times within five days was certainly madness.

But I think if I had spent my uni years doing zany stuff, I’d have regretted not working harder at my studies. Heh. So I guess “only a few” crazy things isn’t that bad.

• Listening to: Taiyou no Kodomo (Kanjani∞)

Blackout.

Amazing how you can amuse yourself with a camera when there’s no electricity.

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. - Matthew 5:16

And I wonder, for the umpteenth time in recent days, where does He want my light to shine?

あーどうしよう?　分れへにゃ…

• Listening to: BRAND NEW DAY, BRAND NEW LIFE (V6)
• Reading: The Grand Sophy (Georgette Heyer)
• Watching: Kanjani∞ 47 Tour (Dome concert)

Two Roads

Remember that Robert Frost poem we learnt in school for the English lit segment? I’ve never felt more like the traveller in the poem than I do at this point in time.

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

(I like poems that actually rhyme somewhat - like this one - so much better than those that don’t… Don’t you agree? :P

Actually, I suppose there are three roads before me, but one I really really don’t want to take (short of God forcing me to take it, hahah). It’s the other two roads that bother me. As I told Lenard yesterday, it’s hard to think which road to take because the main issue is that one is more risky and the other is ’safer.’ Not that either of them is necessarily easier than the other - I compared it to swimming in a lake and swimming in the sea. Both ways, you still have to swim. But you risk drowning and sharks more in the sea than in the lake. The biggest difference is the risk factor. I’m not a risktaker by nature (although I do occasionally jump into the deep end - like when I chose FA as my major), and it’s really hard for me to get over the apprehension of taking risks - especially those of a certain magnitude.

And the thing is, the riskier road - the road less travelled - has an intriguing pull for me. Kind of like what FA had. I know it’ll be tough; very likely more difficult than I imagine right now. Yet I want to jump at the chance. (Seems like a lot of change in direction for some others I know as well - one is leaving his Intel job to go to pilot school in Singapore, and one of my ex-classmates, coincidentally also Intel, is leaving to go to Australia in the middle of the year.) But at the same time… I admit that I’m also rather afraid of taking the chance.

Maybe it’s high time I snapped myself out of my comfort zone and just go for this. Part of me really wants to… But another part of me is biting nails nervously at the thought of it.

*deep breath* Got to trust God more. Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your path.

But first of all… Lord, could you kinda help me get rid of this cowardice? haha