I have a Role-playing Games category right over there at the left sidebar on the front page of the site. I’m sure there’s a lot of visitors to this site that will probably shrug and say, “I dunno”, or half-heartedly answer, “Something like Dungeons and Dragons?” Well, Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game (RPG is the popular acronym attributed to it), true. But it’s more than just D&D and we’ll get to that later. If you ask ten gamers, you’d probably get ten different answers on the description of an RPG. So this is a description of a role-playing game as what it means to me. What Do You Do? A role-playing game (RPG) is a collaborative game where players take roles of characters in an interactive story which is planned out and refereed by a game master (GM). There needs to be at least two people in the […]
Continue readingThe Gallery Is Upgraded
After a long time of uploading images and hard coding the html (and later php) files into the Hishgraphics Gallery, I’ve now deleted the old setup and replaced it with a proper Coppermine Gallery CMS. It took some time to get the hang of the system, but I think I have it down enough to get by. There are still a bunch of stuff from the old gallery still not updated to the new place, but I’ll fill it up as time goes by. Sorry, I don’t intend for the gallery to be a community site – that’s what this blog is for – so comments and ratings are disabled. Just enjoy the stuff I got on there. [[image:gallery_upgrade01.gif:Dark Finale and Symphony of Light:center:0]]
Continue readingTwenty Eight Weeks
Monday marked the 28th week of the pregnancy. We are now 70% of the way! Another 12 weeks or so to go!! Time seems to just be flying by. The shirt isn’t snug over the belly, but believe me, there’s a pretty big one under there! [[image:28weeksa.jpg:Sila at 28 Weeks:center:0]] Hey, you know what they say about pregnancy being a time when your hormones go nuts? Well, it’s all true. One minute, I’m sitting and playing with Lily, the next I’m in tears because she won’t let me pick her up and I feel rejected. Sheeeesh. Be careful or I’ll go ballistic on you too: [[image:28weeksc.jpg:Happy and smiley one minute:center:0]] [[image:28weeksb.jpg:Tearing heads off the next:center:0]] Don’t play-play OK??? 😉 On the whole, things are getting more and more exciting. I can feel the baby move around constantly, and sometimes when (s)he is feeling ornery and kicks hard, Vin can feel […]
Continue readingPictures of Lily
[[image:lily06.jpg:Lily in the fruit bowl:center:0]] Pictures of Lily By The Who: I used to wake up in the morningI used to feel so badI got so sick of having sleepless nightsI went and told my dad He said, ‘Son now here’s some little something’And stuck them on my wallAnd now my nights ain’t quite so lonelyIn fact I, I don’t feel bad at all Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderfulPictures of Lily helped me sleep at nightPitcures of Lily solved my childhood problemsPictures of Lily helped me feel alright Pictures of LilyLily, oh LilyLily, oh LilyPictures of Lily And then one day things weren’t quite so fineI fell in love with LilyI asked my dad where Lily I could findHe said, ‘Son, now don’t be silly’ ‘She’s been dead since 1929’Oh, how I cried that nightIf only I’d been born in Lily’s timeIt would have been alright Pictures […]
Continue readingSpringtime, Finally!
YAYYYYYY! I think the snow is over (knock wood)! The daffodils finally bloomed, and our party-crashing lilacs (or hyacinths?) have crashed the party again! Check them out: [[image:spring02.jpg:Cheery daffodils:center:0]] [[image:spring03.jpg:Happy sunny yellow goodness:center:0]] [[image:spring01.jpg:Purple Party People:center:0]] Seriously, the daffodils blooming always makes me smile! 🙂
Continue readingSteampunk Star Wars
Via Boing Boing, I came across Sillof’s Workshop that displays awesome custom made figures… of classic Star Wars characters in steampunk forms. Unbelievably awesome and of fantastic quality. I wish they were selling this en masse in the stores. Also, I can see an awesome alternate-universe Star Wars RPG campaign running based on these figures with Rebels and Imperials and Jedi with steampunk tech at turn-of-the-20th-century Earth, with clockwork droids and balloon-powered speeders and such. Check out the figures (as well as other coolness such as custom Dune and Gaslight Justice League figures) at the link above. Addendum: More Steampunk Star Wars concept art can be found in this thread at CG Society Forums. [[image:steampunk_sw.jpg:League of Extraordinary Rebels and Imperials:center:0]]
Continue readingA First To Fall
[[image:toothless_irfan.jpg:Dental entropy?:left:0]]Look who’s lost his first baby tooth… today… on April 11… 2008 Common Era. When the tooth was loose he was concerned with bleeding, but after the tooth fell out in school he didn’t seem too concerned. He was proud of it, even. No blood and pain, he made a point of letting everyone know. I wish he didn’t discard the tooth in school though. It’s now probably in a waste bin or down the toilet or something.
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ƃolq ǝɥʇ ɹǝʌo pǝddılɟ ǝʌ,ı
˙ʞuıɥʇ noʎ ʇɐɥʍ ʍouʞ ǝɯ ʇǝl ¿ɹǝʇʇǝq uıɐɹq ɹnoʎ oʇ ʍolɟ poolq dlǝɥ oʇ ʎɐʍ sıɥʇ sǝlɔıʇɹɐ ǝɹoɯ ǝldnoɔ ɐ ǝʇıɹʍ ǝqʎɐɯ ¿ʇɐɥʍ ɹo pǝʇɹǝʌuı ƃolq ǝɥʇ ǝʌɐǝl ı plnoɥs ¿ʞuıɥʇ ǝldoǝd noʎ op ʇɐɥʍ os ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ǝuıɟ ǝq llıʍ ƃolqǝʍ ǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ǝloɥʍ ǝɥʇ uo ʇnq ˙ʎɹʇuǝ sıɥʇ ƃuıpɐǝɹ ǝlıɥʍ puɐʇspuɐɥ ɐ op puɐ ǝsıɔɹǝxǝ plnoɔ noʎ ʇɐɥʇ sı ʇı ʇnoqɐ ǝpısdn ǝɥʇ ˙ɹǝʌo pǝddılɟ ǝq oʇ ʇı ɹoɟ ʇɥƃıɹ sı ǝɯıʇ ǝɥʇ ǝqʎɐɯ ˙ƃolq ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ ǝƃuɐɥɔ ɐ ɹoɟ ǝɯıʇ s,ʇı ʞuıɥʇ ı ʇı ʇnoqɐ ƃuıʞuıɥʇ ǝɯıʇ ǝɯos ɹǝʇɟɐ ˙dılɟ
Continue readingLegion of Three Worlds
I’ve always been a Legion fanboy, having first read the Legion of Super-Heroes back in the late 70s-early 80s. Having started relatively late, all that came before was compressed and presented to me by the Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes mini-series. After writing last year’s Green Lantern Corps epic The Sinestro Corps War, Geoff Johns is back with veteran artist George Perez with something that knocked me unconscious for a minute… Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds. Here’s a tidbit from the interview at Newsarama: Newsarama: Let’s just start up front and say what people are probably thinking, Geoff. Three Legions! When someone starts reading Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, is there anything they have to read first? Maybe they should read your Action Comics story that included the Legion of Super-Heroes? Or study up on Legion history? Geoff Johns: If you want, sure, but you don’t have […]
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Irfan the Photographer
Nowadays when eating out, Irfan asks for the phone so he can scamper all over the restaurant being an avant-garde photographer of sorts. He just aims at something he likes and clicks. Next time I’m giving him the phone when we’re out in the park or picnic or balik kampung. Here are some of the photos he took recently.
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And The SDF-3 Is Still Missing
Robotech Defense / Expeditionary Force is back in force in the form of the direct-to-DVD movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. And this time, they’re continuing directly from the Robotech The New Generation (the third chapter of the series that was derived from the Japanese standalone series Genesis Climber MOSPEADA) episode “Symphony of Light”. In fact the first 20 minutes or so is a retread of the Battle of Reflex Point from the point of view of the returning fleet. However, this also means that the aborted Robotech II: The Sentinels movie and novels (especially The End of the Circle) has been de-canonised and considered never happened. Returning characters include Scott Bernard, the Invid simulagent Ariel, Louie Nichols formerly of the 15th ATAC. Previously non-canon characters Vince and Jean Grant, General Reinhardt and Janice Em are also featured. New characters that pop up include Marcus Rush (brother of Marlene) and Maia […]
Continue readingTwenty Four Weeks on the 24th
I can’t believe it. Four more weeks have passed since the Halfway Mark! We are now 60% of the way there. I think there’s been more progress on the belly in the last four weeks though. What do you think? [[image:24weeks.jpg:Growing Belly:center:0]] I’m feeling pretty good, all things considered. Aches and pains that are considered “normal”, sure. Lots of whining to poor Vin, of course, but on the whole both baby and I are doing well. Baby does a bunch of moving around these days, which is a cool yet bizarre experience. Seems like the “flutters” are growing stronger now. (This post not brought to you from my cell phone since I refuse to get a phone that does all those crazy things! It will only be extra ways that work people can get a hold of me!) 😉
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Writing From The Phone
Out of the most futuristic, science fiction type devices to enjoy a boost in technological development and application is Alex Bell’s baby: the telephone. This post is bought to you from my mobile phone.
Continue readingTwo Alien SWAG Requests
It’s been a while since I took some time off to draw requests for SWAG. Here are two new characters: Colonel Toby Aambar, as requested by “donp” and Whistler, as requested by “Velovich”. Toby is an Ortolan not an ortolan, and Whistler is a Tynnan, whose species first appeared in Brian Daley’s Han Solo’s Revenge. Click to expand images: [[popup file=”swag_aambar.jpg” description=”(thumbnail)” alt=”Toby Aambar” align=”left” ]] [[popup file=”swag_whistler.jpg” description=”(thumbnail)” alt=”Whistler” align=”left” ]]
Continue readingGRRRRRRRR SNOW GRRRRRRRR BLIZZARD – Follow up
So those of you who romanticize snow, and think it’s cool and stuff, sure it looks pretty until you realize that in order to get out of the house you have to shovel the entire driveway or you’re stuck. Here’s poor Vin, shoveling first a path to the mailbox (so he can pick up the mail and his newspapers): [[image:snow20.jpg:Shoveling the front porch first:center:0]] Here’s a little comparison – first photo is the front porch prior to shoveling, second photo is after: [[image:snow16.jpg:Can’t even see the front porch, snow level with the 3rd step:center:0]] [[image:snow23.jpg:Front porch shoveled:center:0]] See how much snow Vin had to remove? Sheeesh. Anyway, more pictures below, as always mouse over for captions: [[image:snow21.jpg:Lily watching Vin shovel:center:0]] [[image:snow22.jpg:Unearthing the second step:center:0]] [[image:snow24.jpg:Made it to the driveway!:center:0]] [[image:snow25.jpg:Shoveling shoveling:center:0]] [[image:snow26.jpg:Are we there yet?:center:0]] Vin shoveled a path to the mailbox first, and the next day shoveled most of […]
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A Night Out In The City…
… and the city is known as Tehran. Last week I spent a better part of a week (for work purposes) in Iran. The first photo of the entry two days ago showed Azadi Tower of Tehran, close to Mehrabad Airport, which now only handles domestic flights. Tehran was a bustling city, there were plenty of Peugeot cars as well as their national Khodro cars. It seemed to me that it’s actually safer in Tehran than in Kuala Lumpur. I saw plenty of young women walking alone, presumably back from work with their briefcases, at night. I wouldn’t walk alone at some places in KL’s inner city. There were many malls in the city much like the ones in central KL, selling everything from Gucci to Versace. Families with infants and preschoolers walk the streets at night to have dinner at the many fast food outlets there. Everyone was friendly, […]
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