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If you're going to make a stupid, horrible, incredibly offending joke, couldn't you have gotten your spelling right?

Beauty + brains!

Mia wants.

(Slowly starting to get back on track. This weekend, will be working on thesis and taking photos of a lot of new necklaces I made.)

Flying to Davao. Back Monday.

Dammit.

Quite a few new calligraphy pieces at my deviantArt. More to come after I get back from Davao. (dreamlessness, I'm leaving Friday, so if you need that ad posted... ;p)

Also:

Not happy with how the bottom lettering turned out. Might end up repeating the whole thing, ugh.

I need new nibs. And ink.

Scans later tonight, I hope. I just did a really beautiful page and I'm a little frightened of adding the finishing touch (two words in the usual alphabet) but eventually I'll have to do it... Agh. Mia! Face your fears!

Also did a few experiments with ink and acrylic. Was fun.

Anyway, my dragons let me show you them:



the scroll

Are they not cute?

Okay, back to calligraphy. I'm doing it on the floor and my back hurts something awful. I need a drawing desk, srsly.

I got better only to catch the flu again. This is getting annoying.

Things I'm I should be doing right now:
- Editing stuff for Diwa
- Alibata calligraphy
- Finishing up Sola and Lune (ink drawings)
- Writing for Jake
- Researching epidemics/health economics topics

What I'm actually doing:
- Random surfing
- Mini-naps

I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

So dreamlessness posted dragon eggs, and I couldn't resist (come on, dragons):



Click the images to view descriptions.

Also playing Requiem as a Soul Hunter and CoD4 as a... kitten. Heh.

my otp

*tears*

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Guys, laptop is being wonky. Cannot email properly, sorriez. Will try tomorrow but most probably will only be able to email Wednesday.

Hello, Mia's sick and says she'll be back online tomorrow to continue working/chatting/writing/etc. -Jake

Of course I'm doing memes.

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out :)

( so HAY SUP YO? )

I might not graduate this semester because one of my professors last semester still hasn't given me a grade!

DOOOOOOM.

I hate this. I just want to get out of UP. I've been here eight years. I've gone through basically every academic status possible. Let me out.

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Have been depressed lately (so much so that it's annoying), what with all the horrible academic mix-ups and the recurrence of severe reflux-induced vomiting/coughing fits. So, as usual, got a lot of art done.

Illustrations:
- Sketch of Sola (not part of any series, just a random girl with a lot of hair ornaments, in a sort of deco/whatever-it's-called style)
- Sketch of Lalage (second in the Calvino-inspired series)
- Some inking done on Vine and Blossom (second in Flora, after Briar Rose)

Jewelry:
...dude.
- The Glow of the Setting Sun (Scintilla 5): chain-link bracelet with ornaments in glass, crystal, tiger's eye, pearl
- Ugat ng Araw ("Vein of the Sun," Habi 1): silver necklace with a geometric design rendered in red glass and gold and black crystals
- Firefly at Dusk (Scintilla 6): chain-link bracelet with ornaments in glass, crystal, pearl, abalone

Pictures during the week. Will be accepting reservations starting Friday. Shop to open next week. (I'm not panicking, I promise.)

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Sorry cannot communicate/write/e-mail/comment as of now. Not in proper (read: non-homicidal) state of mind. Too upset and full of RAGE.

Sometimes I wish I'd gone to Ateneo instead.

I finally finished Phyllis, the first in a series of illustrations inspired by Calvino's Invisible Cities.

( click for art! )

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Oh and: new Tegaki post: Isabel. I don't know! I just wanted something colorful! Also, I like purple hair!

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In other news, yesterday was a strange Call of Duty day. Got my score up to 55 kills, 0 deaths in a hardcore sabotage game. Could have been higher, I think, but I ran out of ammo and had to die.

Instead, am doing memes!



Groundbreaking thinker

( stuff you already knew about me )

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I guess my main disagreement with this result is the "extroverted" part. I spent so long on the first page trying to choose with button to click! Because I love being alone -- I really do -- and I always need a lot of time to think quietly in a corner, and I hate large parties, but... I like being with friends too, and... "I never leave others in any doubt about what I think and what my point of view is."

Well. Haha.

I like the part of the description of the AT -- analytical thinker -- which goes: These subjects could interest you: literature, science fiction, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, Internet, drawing/painting, astrology, spiritual things, meditation, music, writing, strategy games, politics"

Oh hey, you just described a huge chunk of my hobbies thar.

It's funny, though. Five years ago I was an ENFP -- extrovert intuitive feeling perceiving. Now I'm a cross between an ENTP and an INTP. Where did the feelings go? Noes.

Gaiz, real life is being very demanding and I've been sick lately -- not painfully sick, just debilitatingly sick, which is not much better -- so I'm holding off posting for now. I am posting bits and pieces, though, on other sites, plz to add if you have accounts there, (or sign up, HINT HINT):

http://twitter.com/ephemere (TALK TO ME, TELL ME YOUR NAAAAAME)

http://tegakie.com (my blog: http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=25035, my username: ephemere. Have just one entry up, the test one I posted, but will rectify later!)

Stuff I will be working on once I'm done with the real life (read: business) requirements:

- PARALUMAN. I need someone to go over the submission guidelines and tell me what's wrong, PLZ.
- fic: Haru fieldstripping guns. Also aiming. Maybe shooting.
- crackfic: gamer horror! With romance! In Filipino (maybe)!
- articles/blog entries: From Dinosaurs to Dostoevsky and Bang Bang, You're Dead
- illustration: Phyllis
- links list: causes and advocacies

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...I'm beginning to think I need a PDA or something. Too many details! Setting up a business is hard! Inventory! Stock! SPREADSHEETS OF DOOM!

Aaaaand the sun's up. My cue to go to bed.

Hai guys, have been away, computer problems and working on a lot of real-life stuff. Here's one of them:

http://diwa.likhain.net

Diwa: the Likhain online shop and print gallery

Finally uploaded a CMS and got it running (switched from Joomla to Drupal, because I really didn't like Joomla and I hate how every other good-looking Joomla theme requires payment to download). I'm running the site on Drupal, Ubercart, and a few other modules.

I've opened new user registration, so feel free to create user accounts. Once the site is set up people will be able to order online through those user accounts (you can also automate payments, etc) and shopping will be much easier overall than the usual order-payment process of Multiply-based shops. Plus, if you have a PayPal account, you can make payments immediately and you'll get your order much sooner.

Diwa has a Multiply mirror, please go ahead and add it if you're on Multiply: Likhain@Multiply. You can place orders for products there, too; everything on the main site will also be added to the Multiply site.

I'm taking a break for now, will finish setting up the online shop over the next few days (weeks?). Target date for opening of both the main site and the Multiply site is June 15, 2008.

WIP - Briar Rose in digital color

I'm coloring one of the prints with colored pencils, but I thought I'd try doing a digital painting too. It's going as slowly as the traditional method did. Haha.

Haven't done anything yet except lay down big blocks of color. At least there's some progress, though. I'm thinking I'll make most of my userpics from teeny little snapshots of my art.

This morning I took my PI100 final: an oral exam featuring 63 questions/theses, one of which I would have to answer in two minutes. I dipped my hand into the question bag, pulled out a scrap of paper, and-- what do you know, I got the most interesting question of them all: Talk about a current issue: (list of a lot of national and political issues), etc.

I focused on the etc. part. Since I didn't really feel like discussing JPEPA or the rice crisis, I chose to talk about (what else?) Mga Ibong Mandaragit and what's been written about it in various blogs over the past few days.

I liked discussing that issue with my professor, and I think he found it interesting as well. We ended up talking about blogs and Wordpress and feed readers. Good times.

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Just before I took the exam, my professor looked at the attendance sheet and asked, "What high school did you come from?"

I paused, trying to gauge whether this was a good question or... a bad question. The last time a professor asked me that he ended up launching into a tirade against: me, drawing in class, misuse of intelligence, and the arrogance of the youth. "Pisay," I said, in approximately the same tone I use to shamefacedly admit stupid mistakes.

"Ah, I thought you were from Assumption or-- one of those schools? Where did you learn to write like that?" He pointed at the name I'd written on the attendance sheet.

Oh. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. "Um, well, I don't really know..."

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After the exam my professor handed me my midterm result and said, "Your score here's so low, why?"

"I don't... memorize things very well?"

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Despite not having written anything coherent about that infamous "Birds of Prey" post and the resulting furor, I haven't remained unaffected by it. My reactions to frustration consist of either getting sick or coming up with a semi-related crack project in response to it, and apparently, since I'm almost done with the "getting sick" part, I'm moving on to the crack.

To wit:

- Florante at Laura translation project (because I enjoy translating)
- LOLcat Noli and Fili scripts (because!)
- Basilio+Maria Clara and Flerida+Laura fic

I was going to do the whole Noli in LOLcat summaries, but then I came across this site, created by Paurong and Zine2hamster, and what caught my attention -- apart from both of them having an admirable love for the classics -- was that the comments were 10% gratitude and 90% "bakit hindi ninyo linagay yung (obscure detail)? kailangan namin yun, palagay pls" or "may script ba kayo nito, pahingi po".

It's probably better to laugh than to get angry, at least in this situation, since ranting about lazy students and lackluster teaching won't get me anywhere. Solution? LOLcat scripts. Elias: I r dai nao, wivout cheez or shiniez. But you who dun dai, say hai to teh shiniez, taek care of teh cheez! Dun forget ded kittehs! Maybe I could even include the characters' distinctive speaking styles! Don Tiburcio would be all *whimper whimper crai* and Simoun would go WHUT MARIA CLARA IZ DED? NOEZ. We'll see.

Of course I'll put up a disclaimer gently hinting that if you found the LOLcat while looking for a Noli script, sorry, but maybe you should make your own? Still...

(This should be fun. I mean, when I was doing Kthxbai fo realz I almost hurt myself laughing. And I got to analyze Mi Ultimo Adios line by line while doing it! Literature and crack: winning combination.)

I don't have a copy of the Noli yet, though (NO, RLY! kitteh no has moniez!) so I'll work on Florante at Laura for now. I also bought Dekada '76 and will try translating it after I'm done with Florante at Laura. I'd do Mga Ibong Mandaragit, but I couldn't find it, woez.

There are probably easier ways to get over frustration than embarking on half-baked projects, but honestly I can't think of any right now that are as useful or as interesting. I'm not doing it just for the lulz -- believe it or not I thought carefully about motivations and possible criticisms before I decided to go ahead and do it -- but sparkly shiny cracky lulz does help a lot.

A pendant this time. More here.

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Man I have so much to write but I'm so sleepy x_X Urgh. Will e-mail stuff tomorrow morning, sorriez for the delay.