Knights In Shining Armor Don't Always Get The Girl

Okay, after an eternity of awaiting,
Chapter 17 is now out.

=)

As a footnote,
my novel isn't following others with one major story arc,
but branching out to small, different ones
like any long-running anime would.

Midnight Fancies

Another doodle with a tablet in -you guessed it,
the middle of the night.

Only thing is, it's with my tablet.
=)

What We Really Are, On The Inside

So today my college, TOA (The One Academy)

hosted it's annual Halloween party in the main block.

Well, this was my first time heading for such a shindig,
and let me tell you, it was AWESOME.

Before I move on to pics of the event itself,
allow me to introduce the cosplayers (costume players)
of CD0905-2.



Albert the Mutant
(using my shotgun...)




Johnson the Jason
(Jason from the Friday the 13th)



Melvin the Witch
(Yes...he's trying to be a female witch. Weee~)


Patrick the Vampire
(Edward Cullen, eat your heart out...literally, maybe...)



Yipin the Pirate (Left)
(He's a pirate. Arrr.)
&
Terry the Working-class Zombie (Right)
("Hello, I am Terry the Zombie. Here's my card. Raaargh.)



Han Yang the Demon Claw
(Made out of 100% organic flour! It smelled good!)




Shaz the Joker
(Yes, THE Joker. His Joker laughs are epic, and so is that manic smile.)
&
Bee Lian the Doll
(Think Bride of Chucky + Ju-On. She's the right size, too.)

And last, and maybe the least of all...



Leon the Slayer
(I'm not supposed to be a cosplaying as a demon or ghost or whatnot.
I'm supposed to be the one *hunting* them with my arsenal of weapons. Details below)



The Joker vs. The Slayer.
Batman, where the hell are you?
(Shaz needed my shotgun to complete his Joker getup. It really worked! He was one of the most popular because of his great Joker impersonations and his height. 195cm! Oh, and carrying a shotgun while laughing manically helps...
But that meant half of my costume prop was gone...==)


Preparations.


So before the party we were all at Shaz's dorm getting ourselves ready.
Bee Lian brought an entire arsenal of makeup and other effect kits
to dress us up gorily (Me excluded. I just used a lil' white-dyed hairspray)

Mid-preparation, I had the cheek to go to Youtube
on Shaz's laptop and blare out Michael Jackson's Thriller
to suit the mood, everyone extremely pleased with it.
Terry actually danced while we were grooving slightly to it.
Too bad it wasn't played in the party
=(
The King's music was *made* for cool events like these.


Patrick's costume and makeup was basic if compared
to all the other vampires from the other cosplayers
out there in the party, but man,
he was the most handsome one just by being plain.



Fuck my lousy camera. Seriously, gimme my DSLR!
Okay, Terry being well...Terry. He can be a crowd-pleaser at times.
We all can =)



Boom! Boom! Firepower!



One of the best cosplayers tonight, deffinately.
Yes, that's Bee Lian after her full transformation.



If I didn't know her...I'd be really, really scared right there and then.

Shaz's Preparation

Why the special treatment for Shaz's part of the post?
His makeup was the most intricate amongst us,
especially because we had the genius artist Lee Kee to help us out.
That dude has undoubtedly earned my undying respect.







"Stop laughing! I can't put it on right!"
is what Kee sometimes said as Shaz was constantly giggling. =)





Halfway done.



Actually, yes, that lipstick on Shaz's lips belong to Bee.



Well, that's Shaz for you.
It'll never be boring with him around. Really.



Lee Kee actually made some fake blood clots that looked real.






"See the tonal value and the change in hue and saturation?"
Drawing 2 lessons applied to real practical use
XD


What's a crazy clown without sudden mood-swings?
This pic genreated peals upon peals of laughter from everyone who saw it.



The Doll


Still makes me cringe a little in fear...



These few shots were taken when we all had
to dim the lights in the waiting room for awhile.



Perfect opportunities, if you asked me.
I still hate my cam.




Strange enough, all her ex-boyfriends were never heard of
again after the break-ups were done....




Me, trying to look half-decent for an emo-shooter-dude shot.
Lousy camera = bad lighting. Diu.

The Party


Saying the party was boring would be a downright lie.
Seriously, we weren't bored for even a single second!


Shoddy work, but there's Ern Nee the Witch next to Bee,
with Kok Wai and Mei Kuan the Witch(2) above.


The Three Witches(Ern Nee, Mei Kuan & Jing Ting),
Beee and Kok Wai.



Doesn't look like much,
but when the heavy rocker band came out to perform,
everyone was yelling and jumping.



I'll kaotao to this guitarist.






"Now this is my kinda music!"
Shaz said when the guitars began jamming. Hard.



The lead can really scream.
He should meet Linkin Park's Chester.
Who knew we had rockers in TOA?



The only shots I could take were when the crowd wasn't
so hyper, as people were literally jumping and rocking.







"Hillarious!"
He said that several times, sometimes regarding people's costumes.
XD



"Why so serious, short stuff?!"



The Witches again. They won the Pumpkin Carving competition!



Albert the Mutant turned to become
Albert the Smart-Dressing Witch -err...Wizard.



Bee wearing what used to be Melvin's witch hat.
Shortly after, Shaz wore the hat between his legs...



BeeKee
(Bee Lian x Lee Kee)
One of the few TOA couples I know.
Kee needs the gun nearby,
y'know...just in case...



Albert with Patrick's coat and my pistol.
Alot of the other people in the public
wanted to borrow my gun for photoshoots.
^^"
Even got a few candid shots with me comparing my pistol
with some guy who cosplayed with a minigun...(a Gatling gun)
==



Terry pulling off a Thriller dance move,
with Ern Nee ready to show him who's boss.
By now, t'was already the party's end,
and an afterparty was called for.



The Afterparty


So we strutted ourselves down Sunway with Joker faces
and zombiefied fake-blodied faces
and shotguns trotting, getting alot of attention.

I had to borrow what used to be Han Yang's cloak to cover up
the shotgun as we walked through the nearby police station...


So we decided to have the afterparty at the nearby Old Town (LOL?)
and when we walked in, all eyes were on us.
I had to wrap and hide the shotty as we may still get the wrong kind of attention...




Kee's camera-shy when he doesn't want his pic taken.




"This is what The Joker does after work."
-Shaz-




With the shotty hidden,
the boys played with my pistol instead.
Credits goes to my cousin for lending me the shotty. =)




Sucky camera to blame.
IF you're wondering,
the guy on the left's trying to lick the gun from my photo angle
XD











Terry's new definition of a handgun.




"This drink's green for some reason....I like it."




Shaz seriously likes toast with ice cream.




"...Why does she get the big gun...?"
-Yipin-




"Do bullets taste like M&Ms?"



"Stupid Shaz...can't you take even one photo nicely?"




"...Nevermind."
-Bee Lian.




Just a fraction of a second later,
Shaz's finger hit straight home.




"Shaz's hat needs a little blue pill."
-Terry



Caught Yipin in mid-teleportation. Oh yeah.
Oh, and the guy with the read hat behind is with us too.
We were one big gang in Old Town.
=)



...Sometimes, having a camera like mine has it's moments...



...And most of the time I hate the fucking thing...

I'll postone of the better group photos taken from
from the better cameras...



All in all, it was a heck-load of fun.
Can't wait for next year, guys.
=)

Gwendolyn

No, she's not Gwen Tennyson.

I was having some fun with Shaz's A4-sized tablet and decided to make

this sketch a colored one.

Mind, it's my first time drawing something straight from the tablet,

so like, it's not my best work,

though I am quite satisfied with the result

as it's only a lil' sketch.

Shaz, Bee and Terry thought she looked like me...

==

But to be honest, I modeled her a lil' to be like my future daughter.

*shrugs*

Tell me what you think, yeah?

Morning Rain Whilst The Sky Remains Black

If the title confuses the hell outta you,
it's now 2 in the morning here for me.

Why am I still up so late?

Well, it's usual for us TOA folk, actually.

But what I wanna whine about now is how long I took to finish
what I think is one of my best work so far.


Hugh Laurie / Dr. House


I swear to God that if it wasn't for the wrinkled paper
and the poor lighting, it'll look better.

Heck, you can ask any of my college mates how the real thing looks like.

But what peeved me about the drawing is that although it took me
my average of 4 hours,
I took up an entire hour to construct the proportion.

Yes, 1 hour to get everything as spot-on as humanly possible.

And without keeping track of the time,
I stupidly spent another hour just to shade the left eye.
WTF?

Well, to be honest,
I was referring to the way one of my seniors did the same picture,
so I got carried away.

Die
Die
Die.

I should be getting some sleep now,
but I'm tempted to finish the last level of Halo 2 tonight
so that I have nothing to itch to do when I get back tomorrow.

*Then* all I have to do is to finish my other work that's due by next week.

Ugh.

We don't have things easy, I tell you.

Losing The Race That Wasn't Even There

It was all make-believe by my mind.

All it ended up doing was hurting me again, badly.

Why do I even bother to do it
if I know I'm never going to stand a chance?

I never saw the hints,
giving off too much of my own in the process.

Every move I made, intentional or not,
was saw right through.

I'm tired of having my heart broken,
I'm tired of being seen as such a ridiculous hopeless romantic.

Maybe the 100% wasn't meant to be a positive one.
Maybe it just affirmed that we were never meant to be.

You wouldn't have been the first.

Hell,
I can't say if you'll be the last.

The only thing is...
Will it come to a point that I'll be afraid to fall for someone again?

Every Silver Lining has a Cloud. Really.

Be it by the hands of Fate that we shan't be able to meet on this day.

Lest my heart be burdened by this.


It is your companionship that I miss.
My feelings for you are not involved in this debacle,
only my desire to see you after a year's absence.

Only as friends.

Is that too much to ask for?

Comparisons

Just to show you guys out there what Bee Lian is like
compared to the great almighty Shaz.

XD

Reflections

Chapter 16 is now out, people!

And as promised, the action's toned down.

Alot.

You'll know what I mean.

;)

The Picture Frames We Call Memories

So I'm home early for a change,

since class ended early today.


Finally dug up the old family digital camera since I need to use it
for one of my classes,
Letterform and Calligraphy.

Wanted to focus more on the guy in the center.
Y'know, the one standing up? He's the lecturer for the class,
Gabriel. And he's Swiss, ladies.

This was supposed to be just a shot showing the class, but little miss Bee Lian thought I was taking a shot of her. "Perasan little shorty,"
would be Shaz's comment on it.

And speaking of Shaz...there he is.
He's one of the best in my class in terms of drawing.


And since he's like, the tallest guy in class,
and in contrast Bee's the shortest (okay lah, the cutest too, okay?),
he torments her on a daily basis to our class's amusement.
It's all good fun in the end though.
Unlike how *some* people do it...

Too bad I couldn't get a clear shot of what he was drawing
exactly.

In order:
GC, Sim Yang and Patrick.
Sim and Pat are also 2 of the several classmates I bow my head to
in terms of their Figure Studies drawing,
besides Shaz and a few others.

Melvin (blue t-shirt guy in the middle) having some fun
as the guys share a laugh or two about some jokes
we came up with.
There were too many for me to remember which joke exactly...




We then had to go out and find some pics of
things that resembled alphabets,
like how a lamp post would look like an 'I'.

I thought the lion of Sunway Pyramid looks like a 'r' from this angle.
Whaaaat~?
It kinda does!

Later on...

Bee wanted to try this new restaurant for lunch,
so we went along with
Shaz, GC, Mei Kuan and Ern Nee,
and later visited by Ken and Vincent.

After much hard efforts from me and GC to get a snapshot,
I managed to get one of Channiece with her other half, Boon Sin/Sotong.
Not a very good one, though, as I practically freaked-out when she saw me.

This is one of my experiments in trying to draw old men.
The results were rather okay for me,
since I got a few approving nods here and there for it.

"Why's the rum...always...gone?"
-Captain Jack Sparrow-

Credits go to Shaz for giving me the reference picture for this piece.
It's one of my best by far yet.


And I got a few praises and constructive feedback on this week's submission
and I appreciate them, although a certain party's comments were redundant, to say the least.



Just goes to show that the majority
will always overwhelm the individual
in several situations.