Tapirs! And a puppy.

First off, Happy World Tapir Day!
And Happy Birthday to Fifi and Jess! :D

Back to the tapirs ...

Tapirs are large herbivores that belong to the Tapirdae family, of the Perissodactyla order of mammals. Four species of tapir exist on the planet today, all of which are endangered.
Info yanked from the World Tapir Day website. :)

Speaking of furry critters, I climbed into a longkang this evening to rescue a puppy. I heard it yapping while I was cycling. Found it wandering around in the deep drain, looking miserable and with a bad leg. I followed it around for a bit till it settled down to rest. Then I cycled back home, got Nazim and came back for a rescue mission.

I got into the longkang and tried to pick it up, but it kept moving away. It growled at me too. Heh. I followed it some 2 meters through a dusty spiderwebby tunnel, then it went into a bigger drain with a much lower roof. So I climbed out, crossed the road and checked under the longkang there -

And it was gone.
Seriously. It wasn't there anymore.
Nazim and I ran around in circles looking for it, but gosh knows what small ceruk it crawled into. So we left after ten minutes. Just a while ago, Mama went out for a while and came back saying she heard dog noises yapping. She said she's been hearing those sounds for days now! D: Poor puppy. Hopefully, next time I hear it again it'll let me carry it out.

Today is definitely going into my ECS journal project, man. Too eventful not to. xD

Why I can't live without handphones

Hey, why isn't Blogspot letting me post photos? :(
Grarh.
EDIT: For Nad, who wanted a sparkly pink serial killer pony. :D

After college I walked to the flyover where Mama usually picks me up and realised that I forgot to bring my handphone. So I just waited. Then it started to rain. Good thing I had my mini umbrella. As it got heavier, it hit me; I told Mama that I had meeting today ... what if she was waiting for me to call first? That got me worried. But I just waited anyway.

For half an hour.

Then I kinda got a bit noodly in my head wondering whether she was just late or really was waiting for me to call. I walked back under the flyover and crossed the roads a few times, like some confused chicken. Then I made up my mind and went to ask the traffic policeman for help. xD

Traffic policeman #1 didn't have credit. D: So he told me to cross the road a bit further where Traffic policeman #2 was on duty, saying to tell him that he asked him to help me. So I crossed the road and waited for the road to clear, because the guy was standing in the middle. Finally, the road cleared! I crossed - then realised that the policeman had crossed to the side of the road. So yeah, that was ... frustrating.

Finally, I found an opening before the cars could start again and managed to ask him for help. He was real nice about it. Gave me his phone and told me "Jangan bawak lari pulak". xD So I called Mama, who really was waiting for me to call and wondering why the heck I wasn't answering my phone. Five minutes later, she came to pick me up. Haha.

And that was my eventful adventure of the day.

So thanks, traffic policemen guys! I dunno what I would have done without you.

Check the medic

Played around with the original DELTA logo we did for camp. Whee. :D
I'm trying to design a DELTA t-shirt ... just for the heck of it. If it turns out nice I'd like to print it ... but not for everyone because I dunno how to ship it out to 101 people. O_o;; I wanted to put everyone's names on the back of the shirt then realised that I don't know all the boys (I'm missing 9 names), and whether I could squeeze in all the names. So Jamie and I were scratching our heads over it:

Jamie: How are you going to put in all the names? There're a 101 of us!
Me: Hehe. We're like the 101 dalmatians. And Zizan and One are Pongo and Perdita.
Jamie: LOL!
Me: Haha yea. *feels a little guilty* Kesian the both of them, they always become the brunt of all the jokes. xD

Which is true. Sorry you two (if you ever find this webspace ... gwaa). We love you guys, you know that. xD Yen knows, right Yen? :D Haha(If you read this webspace too. Which I doubt. Gwaa times 2).

As for my life right now, all is good. Went to orientation on Monday and Tuesday which was OK, not bad. Got a group of people to hang out with already. :D Haha. And I don't have classes on Thursday! Which is awesome. I don't start till next week.

Oh and went to driving theory class yesterday. Hoping to take my practical class during the weekend.

ID pls

My new Deviantart ID. I change my IDs every year, so this is the one for 2009.

I know it doesn't look like me, but it was fun to do anyway.
:)
Done entirely on GIMP2.
And yeah, that's my new haircut.
EDIT: Tweaked my 'mouth'. So that it looks a leeeeeeeetle bit more like me than the first one.

Guess who?

For Nad, 'cause I happen to be in an art-farting mood. ;)

EDIT:
And here's yet another drawing. What do catfish eat?

Oodles

Finally got to colour this drawing I made more than a month ago. This is Reina, from my Dime Trap story which is still a work in progress. The story, not the drawing. I'm going to draw Fever real soon.And, here's a five-minute sketch of a young Rolf. Probably around 14 or 15, about the time when he started becoming a pain in the backside. xD
Anyway, I've finished reading Sir Thursday by Garth Nix. My favourite of the Keys to the Kingdom series so far. When I first started reading this series, I lent the books to Tarsha and she pointed out that Arthur, the lead, had a lot more sense in his brain than most other fictional main characters. I re-read the books, and it's TRUE. He actually thinks about things. Before doing them. And the things he worries about are so very realistic. The best part? He's a sweet guy who's humble and does his best, even when he doesn't want to, and he has BACKUP PLANS. And (yes, more kata hubung) when he gets the power (i.e. the Keys) he actually uses them to their fullest extent (except towards the end of the series, because ... gah, just read the book). Instead of flailing around like a lunatic with no clue what he's doing. The thing about Arthuer is, even when he's flailing like a lunatic, he does it sensibly. xD

If he was older (he's probably around 13 or 14 ... not very clear EDIT: He's 12! Holy CRAP. D: ) I would totally have a fictional crush on him. xD Can't wait to read the next book.

Oh, and in case I don't get to tomorrow,

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI
Maaf Zahir dan Batin

Have a good one and make sure you don't overload on the food. ;) And happy duit-raya-collecting!

Yes, two reasons.

Updating is now not constant for two reasons:

1) Trials. Duh.
2) My computer got taken over by a Trojan Horse pretending to be an Antivirus. It is both very annoying and quite amusing - y'know, to what lengths these people go to make our lives miserable.

Oh, and I watched WALL-E, which was quite nice, but not exactly that awesome. Then I watched Clone Wars because Nazim wanted to. It was NOT awesome. Then bought a Hancock DVD. And y'know, I was pleasantly surprised. It was quite good.

And, I'm reading Breaking Dawn. No offence to you loyal fans, but I laughed every time Bella cried. And the birthing scene was horrifying. And Jacob's imprinting makes me unhappy. :(

Here, have a drawing. Drew her days ago. 'Tis Reina, from my Dime Trap story. She's the one with the aeroplane. Whee.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ATUK!
I meant to post yesterday, but I forgot. ^^;;

Pn. L chased a bunch of us to class today. Because we were walking slowly. Evelyn happened to be walking behind us, and she got most of the poking. The rest of us ran, ran as in "OMG RUN FOR YOUR LIVES D:" but couldn't really, because a few of us were sporting heavy bags. So yeah, that was funny. xD

Oh, and to any Twilighters reading this space, check this out: Clicky! Something I drew during the weekend. Inspired by Sofeya quoting poor Edward on her blog. xD

Other than that, today was tiring. I dunno why exactly. Anyway, Internetzz time for me is now limited. I'm only online right now because I'm finishing up an Agama presentation. I need to study for Trials.

Ps. Damn you SA FORMATIVE. Dx *shakes fist*

EDIT: This happened just now during dinner:

*Nazim and Hanna just watched Friends*
Ross: I haven't had sex in a long time!
Hanna: Yeah, Ross hasn't had six in a long time! *giggles like the six-year old she is*
Me: Yeah ... he hasn't had ... six.
Mama: Uh-huh, he hasn't been sick for a long time.

Scribble-mode and poll-analysing.

Updated my blog layout! :D My blog malfunctioned earlier this week and my layout went all wonky. That was why it was white all the time. I thought of putting the old blue-splatter up again, but felt like drawing something (I haven't touched Bamboo in two weeks!). So here's the new layout, complete with The Fish. Which is the name of the little leopard, by the way. He's the plushie I go to sleep with every night (other than Roony the homemade rabbit. lol.).

I coloured the same way I did for the SPMonkey some posts back. It's lotsa fun to do. I'm thinking of making a cutesy little-kids series of as many animals as I can. It's simple, and a great way to de-stress, compared to drawing one of my human characters and slapping the colours on (I've got like, ten unfinished drawings of characters from my SIPUT project story thing. And I don't think I ever will finish them.).

Anyway, blog poll results! According to the statistics ...
Many people enjoy good-looking villains over all other aspects. xD With the number of hot fictional villains out there? Buaha. (But yess, they are indeed hot.) And, people also like cookies. Nobody thinks that bad guys should be hated. Haha. Wow. xD I'll probably have another poll up in a while, I'll just have to think of one first.

And, well, that's all I have to say for the moment. Just a short, quick update. Ooh, and by the way, holler out which animal I can draw next. I don't guarantee that I'll get it done, but I'd appreciate the input anyways. ;) Ciao, guys.

Stupid Paper Monkey

Nad, thou art most inspiring.
Mehtinks you have an obsession with monkeys, though.

Plans after SPM:
1) Do happy-dance and other random acts of spontaneous glee in the padang sekolah.
2) Throw out every single book related to SPM and school in general outta my room and into the recycling bin.
3) Get started on Unnamed Story Idea Project Thing (which I will now call SIPUT because it's too long.)
4) Have some kind of huge form 5 gathering. I dunno where or when, BUT I WANT ONE.
5) Start them driving lessons.
6) Start rock-climbing again.
7) Look for a job at borders. Or Kinokuniya. Or heck, The Star, The New Straits Times. <--- I agree with Nad's choices. xD
8) Create the ultimate banana split thingy. Iffah and Sophie know what I'm talking about. :D
9) Start scrapbook of high school years. I really wanna do this. :P
And finally,
10)HAVE A BLAST. This should also apply when getting into university/college/whatever.

I tag;
1) Evelyn
2) Laksh
3) Sab
4) Sheren
5) Shifa

Untitled.

From left to right, top to bottom:
Lusia, Coyle, Shayna, Elizar,
Jerrica, Windy, Portin, Lewie,
Torres, Scout, Favid, Rolf.

Characters from the Untitled Story In My Head.
Nad's met some of them before, haven't you, Nad?
And I just want to say, yes, I know Coyle and Shayna are freaky-looking.
And I love Rolf. I'm his number one fangirl.
xD

Sketchy colour cards.

Messing around with Bamboo again. This was lots of fun. I'm hoping to get most of my other characters done this way too.
These are two from that one story idea I've been carrying around in my head for the past month. I've actually got the whole thing planned out now, thanks to Mira. xD She gave me the missing piece I've been looking for the past week.
So yeah. Elizar and Lusia. Both my characters. No stealing. :D

On another note, school starts again in two days. Lovely. *forced smile* I really miss everyone, I miss all my friends, I miss talking to everybody ... but I really, really don't want to go back to SPM madness.
It's catching up with me.

Groupies.

Characters from a story I'm hoping I won't abandon. I'm in the middle of plotting it right now and figuring out what the characters are supposed to do and stuff. :) Left to right, Elizar, Jerrica, Rolf and Windy. It's an alternate dimension story with magic and stuff (lol, am I fantasically lame or whut. xD).

Again, messing around with Bamboo, trying to see what works. I managed to get some kind of coloured pen quality to this, and I intend to try some cell-shading in the near future. That's an interesting colouring technique, and I want to give it a shot.

Drawin'.

Drew this entirely on GIMP2 with Bamboo. I used my mouse for base colours. These are Max and Fang from Maximum Ride, which is a cool book series if you don't mind being thoroughly confused by the untied plot lines at the end of the books.
I'm not really happy with how Fang turend out - he looks sunburnt. xD But hey, this was my first try at semi-real colouring, so I'm going to improve that in future.

Your complimentary weekly update.

School's pretty blah lately. People keep being absent, and CLP lectured us on how it's important to not miss class when we go to uni ... I'm not worried for myself, since that I've got a crazy obsession with not being absent. But more steadfast people than me have switched ideas, so here's to hoping the obsession with never missing a day continues.

Then Pn. B lectured us on getting money together for class layout. And the people who keep being absent, because she wants their excuses and whatnot ... it's crazy, every morning it's the same thing. In the end, I just turn my brain off, I can't stand to listen anymore.

On the other hand, there's been a lot of Avatar news. The show's ending in July, which is a long way away. I don't mind, prolong the days till SPM plskthx. But the trailer looks so cool! It's only 2 minutes long, but it's like throwing a hungry dog a miserable little bone, the way the fandom are reacting. Then there's stuff about the Twilight movie, which is partially very amusing and partially kinda suffocating. I don't feel right belonging to a fandom consisting of 95% females. At least with Avatar, it's half and half.

I just realised how boring this post is. Hmmm. Have some Jasper/Alice love. They're my favourite couple in Twilight. Bella and Edward can go on dodging her eventual vampirism, as long as we get more Jasper/Alice goodness. <3Brush credits can be found on my DeviantArt page.

Fluffy emo cartoon hair

I've watched half of The Jane Austen Book Club on Acu's laptop last night. Had to stop because Papa wanted to go home. But so far, I just have to say that Hugh Dancy is oh so adorable. And hot. Yesss. His character in the movie has an R2-D2 ringtone. Hahaha, he's so geeky.

Went to OU with the fam this morning. Hung around MPH for a long time, since that all of us are readers: Papa went for the comic section, Mama went to look at the magazines and cooking books, and Nazim and Hanna hung out at different parts of the children's section. Mira and I went to the young adults' section.

So, I was hanging around the adventure/mystery shelves, and there was this boy sitting on the floor reading a book. And he had fluffy cartoon emo hair. xD
So I walk down the aisle towards where he was sitting and looked at the books on the shelf opposite him. Then, out of curiousity, I looked down, wondering what he was reading.

First I saw the edges of a black and blood-red cover. Then the words ... and I'm pretty sure I was still as a statue by now, because I just realised that he was reading Eclipse. xD I was like, whoa. He's reading Eclipse, lol. I thought it was funny.

Anyway, as a celebration of the beginning of the holidays, I drew Bobby Pendragon of the Pendragon book series. He was fun to colour. :D

Bobby Pendragon (c) D.J. MacHale
Art (c) me.

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Bits and pieces.

All this new fandom stuff is coming at a completely inconvenient time. >_< SPM, dangit! Or at least until after March test. I'll wait then.

Anyway, school is strangely empty. Wait, scratch that. Class is strangely empty. Laksh and Iffah didn't come (again) so everything was strangely quiet. Had class with CLP in the morning ... she said something about Alysha being a bad K.D. 'cause she was absent today. Which induced many WTF??? faces. :|

Then had Mr. C. I still don't understand what he's saying. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just really don't get his accent. *flails* Recess was normal. I drew a lot. During duty. Mostly Avatar fanart which I am too embarrassed to post online. Hee. BM was normal, then Add Maths, which was kinda refreshing. Nothing like integration to kick the brain into gear.

Prefects' orientation is starting to get to me. Everywhere I look, juniors! I'm tempted to give them all free signatures so I don't have to think of questions. It'll all be over next week. Grr.

And here're a ouple of drawings to look at. Meet Vamp-Boy, Were-Cub and Hybrid Girl!



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Of rats and other furry creatures

Molly decided to celebrate the Year of The Rat by bringing one home today.

She was sitting calmly behind one of Papa's bikes, just waiting to be discovered. Mama saw it first, and went "Molly tangkap tikus!" and she happily picked up the (dead) rat and scurried out of the front door, her job done. I bet she was pretty excited. "Mama, mama, look what I caught! :D"

I don't want to think of where she brought the rat afterwards.

Anyway, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Careful on the oranges, you might get sick. And try not to celebrate like how Molly did. Poor rats. ^^;;

And here's a little sugar glider. Nothing to do with the new year, I just felt like drawing one. <3 I think I'll name her Pico.

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Green Ninja

GO HIJAU!

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Credit for brushes, textures and font here.

Run and run and run and never look back!

Merentas desa this morning is my last one. At least until I go to one in the future. But still. No more.

Awww, there's that sudden twinge of Last-Year-O-School Syndrome again. :(

Anyway, the Hijau juniors aren't as bersemangat as I had wished. Kinda annoying. But we'll whip 'em into shape in time for sukantara. I hope. They just need some pushing.

There was this random dude jumping around the stage before the prize-giving, promoting some shmancy dance/martial arts class thingy. He was sweating all over the (now carpeted) stage. I got bored after seeing him punch and kick into air a few times.

Anyway, I finished the Caleb thingy that Lakshmi was asking for. Y'know, the dude from The Covenant. The kinda plotless movie stuffed full of special effects and hot guys and one girl in a towel. Geee.


Have yet to ask her whether she wants this one or the one without a background. And I'm afraid he doesn't look like Caleb, more's the pity. I'm horrible at caricatures, or anything similar. Hmmm.

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Credit for brushes here.