New Year Resolution 2012

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Boxing day!

What's a boxing day?

I first heard about boxing day during my first year in Hong Kong.

They told me its the day after Christmas...

Boxing day...

This is what came into my mind:

Yeah...Boxing day.........was Mohamed Ali part of this?

Turned out its a day when children open their christmas present..HAHA..

Anyway, there is a TV host Jimmey Kemmel, called upon his audience to play some tricks on thier children, the last time was on Halloween. Lets check out this one on Christmas Present...(not as epic as the Halloween one though)

So what did you get for Christmas??

Merrriii Krrismas Babii!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! Drew this fat Santa myself 2 days ago but didnt get to post it up before Christmas....stupid YES internet failed to get connected for days....

Didn't do much this year......just went out to fix my car's side mirror which was knocked by a truck earlier this week.....yes a truck drove too near to me on a highway and my right side mirror was knocked off. Now I have a new BLACK side mirror on one side while the whole car is silver in color. Am I trying to be a hipster? Nah....just Lazy+dont wana waste money paint itin silver, the vanilla colour is in black.

So how was your Christmas my friend?

回到另一个陌生的城市

From my sketch book:-

正在整理行李准备回/去香港。

开始分不出来什么时候要用'回'什么时候要用'去'了。

从一个异乡到另一个异乡。

接下来的路，好像挺曲折的。

哦，对了，满行李都是零食! 哈哈.希望到之前不会被砸碎。

在香港的朋友们，如果没有约你出来，给我打个电话吧。看看有没有空挡。

时间是比较紧迫，没有办法大家都约出来，先在这里道歉了。

有个朋友问我这么仓促的离开，有没有心理准备。

其实这种情况下真的是不得让我说有没有心理准备。有时候周围的状况和个人的性格配合下，选择只有一个:好处是不用作出选择。

好啦，继续收拾行李......

（PS今天设计了一些东西被人说丑，是有点悲哀。我喜欢画东西、设计东西，但是画/设计给别人真的是XX的痛苦。还好没入那行，画给自己看就好..hehe）

[我画漫画]九把刀?谁?

以前就有聽過九把刀的名字，一個月前因為風靡大中華地區的一部小說改編電影讓我再次注意到他。

這名字也太怪了吧!（雖然只是筆名!）

剛剛找到一個做animated GIF 的網站，好好玩哦~

http://picasion.com/

Wrist Pain- Carpal Tunnel..??

from my sketch book-

suffering from severe wrist pain after using an unusually tall table with an unusually low chair.

Just got a new chair yesterday from a nearby furniture shop, feels better but I think the consequence of month-long improper posture will not fade away that easily.

If I am not careful enough, the photo below may happen to me: WARNING: GROSS IMAGE AHEAD:

OKAY I saw one even grosser, but lets just leave that outside my blog (You may google image Carpal Tunnel to have a look, AT YOUR OWN RISK people)

Things happened recently that happened to me since I last updated?

Here we go:

1)Just asked company for a transfer to KL(Shah Alam actually) currently 90% approved....

2)My kelisa came to me all the way from Penang, started driving around, brought mum to Pasar Malam/Tani :D

3)Just got my father to Hospital KL, a govt hospital, and realized what an A-hole private hospitals are.

4)Been watching lots of Hokkien drama with my Mum/Dad

5) Been watching lots of HK drama with my mum.

6) Heading back HK from 15th to 19th November. to pack the remaining stuff.

7) Changed a new laptop :) Fujitsu!!

8) My DSLR is slowly dying of fungus infection, thinking of switching to Nikon after this (You caught me...zero brand loyalty)

9) tries to exercize......not very successful apparently.....too lazy to wake up early.

Anyway, Seems like life took a quick turn for me :)
Lets all stay hopeful!

Went into the MARKET

FINALLY,

after days and days of courses/reading....and strong influence by some daring guy....I am IN THE MARKET...WOOHOO!!

It happen this way..
boot up laptop, look at browser...first news hit me: Jack Ma's news last night.

Check price, think think, check price again...think think...repeat this for 45 min.....then

click...Buy....buy...BOUGHT.....

:)

Don't know how will it turn out.

Best of luck to me :)

Putting a dent in the universe

During the days when my buddy, CK (Chuan Keat) just got hired by Apple as an engineer, he always repeat quotes after quotes from his boss Steve Jobs.

Really.....(talking bout 'almost religious like' admiration, LOL, this guy never use apple before he got hired!)

One of them is the one above :" Putting a dent in the universe." The full quote is as follow:

“We're here to put a dent in theuniverse, otherwise why else even be here?"

For those who don't know, I am currently on a long leave back in Malaysia, in the unfamiliar realm of Klang Valley (instead of my home town Penang) for family reason.

While hanging round, I got some spare time to think about what I am going to do next.

Steve's death remind me again of this quote.

I think the scariest thing is probably not death itself, but the thoughts you have on your death bed, that you know that you haven't really do what you wanted to do before you die, and you will never be able to do it. You are lucky if you believe in afterlife/second-life.

Oh yea, have been seeing a lot of the comics on line showing steve in a christian styled heaven. Just to be fair, I know he is a Zen Buddhist. So I drew him in a more Buddhist styled afterlife (actually just replacing the usual angels with a Buddha/monk).

Everyone can learn something different from Steve.

超人

我第一次認識他的時候，他叫諺明。他和阿信是我對五月天最早的記憶。

他只是一個鼓手。

娛樂新聞里他常常被其他團員調侃。他常常無言，而且一副臭臉，但是沒有辦法反抗。有時候有點替他可憐。

兩年前當我親身體驗五月天的演唱會時，他已經結婚生子，還改了名叫冠佑。他依然和我印象中一樣，被其他團員戲弄，但是因為身在現場的關係，我無意中體會到他們對他哪拐彎抹角的照顧和愛護。

"........人不可貌相！"

-阿信，2011年5月23日，香港[就是]演唱會

这是一種兄弟間的信任。

因為我知道你就算這麼被我們戲弄，你都不會懷疑我們的感情。

因為我知道就算你們這麼調侃我，你們都不會放棄我。

我總是覺得我最能代入冠佑的位置，常常被別人開玩笑，有時候也回不了嘴。

但是，我承認，有時我動搖了。

你們是不是放棄了我？

兩年前 和 今年的演唱會，冠佑都唱歌了。

兩年前唱了“製造浪漫” 男女都唱。(這首歌原本是男女對唱），很搞笑。

今年唱了"超人“。

鼓手撐起了整個樂團卻只能在吉他手主唱貝斯手的身後。

可以得到大家的肯定，是感動的。

大家來聽聽冠佑AKA諺明的歌聲。

Flatsharing 104: I swear, it was there for 7 days

When I first know Flatmate B likes cooking too, I am rather glad: maybe there is a chance to exchange recipe or a flatmates dinner get-together. I am being really optimistic.

But that idea lasted probably only a few days after I saw his first attempt in cooking. He might cook really well, but he almost completely skipped the 'cleaning' part.

The most impressive thing he did is to cook rice in the living room (thats strange enough), and the rice cooker (with leftover rice inside) is left in the living room for a full 7-day.And many time unwashed pans/plates/leftover ingredients are all over the kitchen.

The worse part is the food he cook is, most of the time, curry.

ANYWAYS, so sorry for the delay, I realize my last entry was posted exactly one month ago! Have been too busy guys. I actually drew the draft for this (and the next ) on the bus on my way to work ! I hope I can turn out more in the future by rethinking the way to work on it. Its actually rather time consuming to draw one (contary to what I expected it to be, an alternative of writing lengthy blogs in text, lol), the previous 2 entries took me about a few hours to complete.

Lastly, allow me to introduce to you: Flatmat B! The only non-Chinese in the house. do skate boarding, cooking, I know he also smokes and drink (like flatmate A), however Flatmate A and B doesnt get along really well.

Flat Sharing 103: Smoking

When I was searching for flatmates, I always put "non-smoker" as a very top priority criteria.

Unfortunately among my 4 (in reality, 5) flatmates: 2 are smokers.

I don't like its smell, and I have the rights to not have cancer.

I made it really clear to them, no smoking is allowed in the living room/kitchen/dining room..etc shared compound.

It is all well in the beginning. Until once I saw lighter in the bathroom. and I smell something fishy: smell of cigarette in the bathroom.

Oh gosh

At least....its only in the bathroom...i thought, after switching on the ventilation fan before I shower.

Not too long after that, I smell cigarette in the dining room.

Damn it.

I started questioning them indivually , of course they didn't admit, blaming the other guy instead.

There was once I was trying to clean up the place, and discover one single cigarette butt beside the table in my living room. Angrily, I took my broom and try to swipe it prepare to confront them later. I conveniently swipe under the table as well, and a dozen or so cigarette butts came out with an empty bottle of coke and some peanuts shells.

Good job.

As I am about to explode, one of the smoking flatmate (nicknamed :Flatemate A, as depicted in the cartoon above) came out from his room and quickly explained that it was the other flatmate's doing: he brought his friend here from some crazy drinking: it was Friday.

I sent him a message:

Found your cigarette butts in the living room. We agreed that no smoking is allowed in the common area. You might want to find another place before this happens the 2nd time.

However, flatmate A is no better. He is actually the one who smoke in the bathroom. The thing is, at least the other flatmate admits that he smoke. Flatmate A always acted as if he is obeying the rules, but he do it secretly.

I found a huge amount of half filled beer can in the place...I always thought how come they would leave beer on the table/living room overnight, that would spoiled the beer.

Until once the 'half filled beer can' was toppled, and a stream of black smelly, disgusting liquid flow from its opening.The "cans" are his ashtray...plus water..=__=

He also leave a polystyrene beside the balcony door for his cigarette butts: its okay..as long as he smokes in the balcony. BUT he never clean the bowl, the bowl is there for a few months, with the butts pounding up.

A few days ago, I stay up really late to work. I walk out of the room at 4AM for a toilet break and VOILA, he is smoking with a unusually large cigarette! It looks like he rolled extra tobacco in it.He gave me his "oh shit' expression.

I was in toilet rush so I didn't say anything but walked quickly passed him to the toilet.

As I came out, it was gone. Not a trace.

He probably quickly put it into one of his 'half filled beer can', or he smoked out the entire gigantic cigarette in 1 minutes...if the latter is true, I have to admire his skills and pity his lung.

This morning I was cleaning again. There is an empty "Mr. potato chips" tall container around the corner, filled with some usual food packaging that my flatmates usually will not throw into the garbage can but store it in some random places around the house (this will be featured in the future cartoon). I thought it was just that, but when I threw it into the public garbage disposal site, the water flow out on my hand accidentally from the Mr. Potato Chips.

Damn you "half filled beer can".

Anyway, Yeeteng and Juliana (my 2 most craziest fans..lol) suggested I make my characters in the cartoon more recognizable so its easier to tell each person apart.

As a very good cartoon artist (ehem), I decided to lay out some characters in the future flat sharing series, here are the first 2, thats ME and FLATMATE A. =)

Flat Sharing 102: House Keys

Hi guys! Its flat sharing experience again!

This experience happened in the early days of my flat sharing.

I simplified a collection of situations in which the house keys are involved in this comics strip (I am lazy to draw hhaha)

Basically they would forget to bring keys when they come back home, and would rather shout my name REALLY LOUDLY so that I come down to open the door for them.

I guess the entire village know there is an Alex Yap in 250 Tai Poi Tsai Village now.

What went through my mind :" hey, the cell phone is invented for some kinda purpose"

The other experience is that they would give me a call and say:" Alex, I need to get back home, forget my keys, can you pass me the key..like now?" ....

And normally this happens when I was in a hurry on my way to somewhere. I can always say no, but I am very soft-hearted, I cant imagine my housemate cant go back home and have to stay out until someone comes back.

Unfortunately, they forget keys almost every other day in the early days.

And the worse part is, after borrowing your keys, they would normally forget to give it back to you. And you become the one who cant get in. So you call them, but they normally wont response to you (either sleeping, doing some sports, dint pay attention to phone, or drunk...)

No...they are not really drunk all the time...they are drunk sometimes.

But it really make no difference if they didn't answer their call. Right?

Peace!

[p.s. Luckily it didnt happen as often now =) ]

They are the real ultramen

...or ultrawomen.

I pay my highest respect to the workers in Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, the fire fighters, the Japanese Self Defense Force and all who risked their health and life for their responsibility in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Incident.

They are..the real Ultramen of Japan.

You defined the meaning of responsibility.

You defined the meaning of courage.

You defined the meaning of selfless.

Bless you and your family

Bless Japan.

Quote: [source: Pocono Record]

Salute the heroes at Fukushima

22 Mar 2011

......Yet essential personnel stayed, as long as they could, valiantly trying every way they could conceive to get power back to the pumps to avert a meltdown and the subsequent massive release of dangerous levels of radiation. When that failed, they began diverting sea water into the cooling ponds. When explosions and rising radiation levels required even the evacuation of the few remaining technicians and firefighters, they tried to drop water from helicopters. But radiation levels prevented even that by mid-week.

The Japanese government ordered anyone within 20 miles — 20 miles — of the Fukushima plant to stay indoors if they were unable to evacuate. Yet hardy souls continued battling the disaster there, risking what might be lethal doses of radiation for themselves. They are incredibly brave. By Monday, they had stabilized three reactors.

....

This is a comics strip of "On the news series: Japan Earthquake 2011" . Stay tuned for the next "Flat Sharing Series".

My 1st Comicsblog: Flat Sharing Series & How Comics Inspires

Always wanted to try this, although my drawing is pretty mediocre.(Laugh =D)

I love drawing =) I drew on small pieces of paper when I am bored/sad/disappointed/[fill in the blank with negative feelings]...mostly because when I draw I thought of my childhood: I love drawing on small pieces of paper when I was really really young.

Also, I love comics in particular. If you don't know, my family operates a comics/manga rental shop back in penang =)

I think comics is a very strong medium to express oneself. It can deliver a very layman message in a very compact way yet the audience will not be stressed out by the amount of information. Many times it inspired people to think more about the topic; it is so powerful, it once caused tension and even assaults between two religions, remembering the Prophet Comics Series a few years back.

Lately, a berita harian comics depicting Ultraman ran away from the tsunami, of cause this is referencing to the Japanese Earthquake.

Many regard this as nonsensitive.

I disagree. I think without understand the message the author wanted to deliver and judge is not very fair.

What message do you see from this comic?

What I saw is a disaster that is so massive, even the mighty Japan, represented by Ultraman, cannot handle.

There is nothing about being not sensitive.

But I admit he could have drawn it a different way, that would avoid being slammed they way he was.

And don't get me wrong, I hated Berita Harian to the bone, for 2 reasons:
1. It is controlled

2.And I was forced to write summary report from this paper when I was in my secondary school.

Nevertheless, I have to repeat, the ultraman comic, is really nothing compare to the attempt to relate the earthquake to "Green Technology" and "Climate Change", especially from a person who seems to use 5 bottles of aerosol on her hair everyday.

Hey, I didn't say who.