Shane’s about to start a Star Wars RPG campaign and requested his major – NPC Rhen Sannin, the freighter captain – from the Star Wars Artists’ Guild. After giving some time for any other guild members to pick it up, I decided to claim the request earlier today… so I […]
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Packed Lunch is Packed
After only bring in sandwiches for snacks at kindergarten, Irfan brought an awesome looking packed lunch in his schoolbag which consisted of awesome meehoon goreng that Ain fried earlier in the morning He finished it off at lunch. I love the little fork and spoon set attached!
Continue readingFighting Evil So You Wont Have To
The Middleman is the funniest show on TV right now… if you’re a geek like me.[[image:middlepics00.jpg:Watch it on ABC Family (only one more episode left… Monday night):right:0]] But I’ll get to that in a minute. Created by former scribe of Jake 2.0 and Lost, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, The Middleman reveals to […]
Continue readingOn The Topic Of Names
Because of Wil Wheaton’s post at his blog who wished that his name could be turned into a cool analog like Cherie Priest, I decided to check out anagrams of our own names on Wordsmith.com. So as not to get too short a word in the anagram like “a” or […]
Continue readingThey’re Really Just Form Five Schoolkids
For a single glorious moment in time, the song Diamond Crevasse, as sung by May Nakabayashi the singing voice of Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier, became the most heartbreaking song in the whole universe. Thrice I’ve seen the ending of episode 20 and thrice I teared up… though it might […]
Continue readingAllie’s 1 Month Birthday
It has been an exciting time for us: Allie has been a fun and also challenging addition to the family. Everything we do is according to her schedule, so it has been hard to keep the blog updated with what we have been up to. I’ll try to do some […]
Continue readingA Letter To The United States
I don’t usually write long letters nowadays thanks to the internet, which allows you to communicate immediately to family and friends with concise information almost everyday, if need be. This has the result of never requiring to long letters to tell other people the various things that happen to you […]
Continue readingMore Pictures Painted With A Tablet
This time it’s not me. Irfan’s learned to not only draw and colour pictures digitally, but he’s also learnt to use layers. I’d create a file for him with two layers, and he’ll do the rest. He select the top layer to draw his line art. Then, he’ll select the […]
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The Parents of One Irfan Shafiq, Part Two
I took some family photos which I thought I’d put up here. Here’s Abah Irfan’s eye. And then, here’s Irfan’s Ummi’s eye.
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The Parents of One Irfan Shafiq
Irfan drew some stuff which I thought I’d put up here. Here’s Irfan’s Abah. And then, here’s Irfan’s Ummi.
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Burtt At His Best – A WALL-E Review
WALL-E, directed by Finding Nemo‘s Andrew Stanton, is indeed according to Ben Burtt, “R2-D2 the movie “. And as any Star Wars fan knows, Burtt has been the Academy Award sound designer for all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, as well as a writer for the Droids cartoon […]
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Chinese New Year, Sitiawan… Some Time Ago
The Nineties kind of rushed by me, as if I can’t wait to be somewhere but it looks more, as time goes by, like I will not be reaching there anytime soon. So a lot of the details of the time here were quite blurry. Take the following photos of […]
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Arakyd Diamondback Droid Stats
It was during the Enteague Sector campaign for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game which I GMed perhaps fifteen years ago. A new team of the Strikeforce Enteague, consisting of younger members, had to investigate the Malc Toldreyn Library on the planet Neeuderni to solve the campaign mystery arc of why […]
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Illustration Friday: Sail
The topic for Illustration Friday for this week is “sail”, as can be seen above. Now what would be weird is if the camera pans down and we see the mast planted firmly on a field instead of a boat. A higher resolution version of the image can be found […]
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Only You Can Save The World
I was tagged with a meme by Lil at iFantabulous some time ago and I finally got around to writing (and illustrating) it today. What I have to do is to fill out the form with 5 lines below to reveal my secret superhero identity and come up with an […]
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A Conjunctivitis Onslaught
Well, it’s not really an onslaught, but Irfan’s right eye seem to be suffering from viral conjunctivitis. He’s home from school today with a note from the doctor, and seem to enjoy eyedrops being applied onto his cornea. I think Ain’s going to pop an artery when she sees the […]
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