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.

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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.