Ni Jyu Sai

Ni Jyu Sai is 20 years old in Japanese.
which soo happens to be...my age currently.

I've actually been expecting a rather somber birthday with late and awkward wishes as well as spending most of it reminiscing about being a teenager.
So thank you so much to those who have wished me Happy Birthday
and have given me early birthday presents that I had never expected to get.
Thank you~!
Turning 20 is nerve-wrecking due to all the implication I have made it hold
so there is no other words than Thank you that I can offer now for easing my heart.
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Arigatou, Terima kasih, Grazie, Danke

Didn't Make It

As the title says it,
This month's issue of Gempak indeed did not contain my drawing.

Turns out, I didn't make it. For both sections no less. I did cry a bit. I mean, it wasn't something really big but I really gave it my all with the details and to know that it didn't make it was pretty heartbreaking.

But today was my sis' bday and I didn't have the heart to ruin it for her. I'm going to work harder and send some more. Still pretty hopeful. The thing itself won't earn me big bucks or something of grandeur but it would boost my self-esteem I just know it.

If you're curious about what that two drawings that didn't make it look like, here's a preview of sorts:

On the left is the one for the 'OK ka KO' section. This section was in this month's issue but none of it contained that earphone girl.
On the right is the one for the 'hitamputih' section where they preferebly want you to draw characters from fandom. So I chose Hetalia. This work contains approximately 11 characters based on Himaruya's work. It was also the first time I drew Norway-san and I really loved this piece the most for its overall completed-ness. This month's issue did not contain 'hitamputih' section.

Maybe in a week, I'll get myself a new pen and get down to improving my lining abilities. God knows I need severe help and practice in that department.

I'm trying to be optimistic about all this. Thinking the drawing got lost in the mail makes me feel ten times worst than being rejected. Strangely though.

Even though it didn't make it, I'm still thankful of the support friends and family have given me.
It never was easy for me to give others my art that is filled so much with my love and dedication.
I hope it doesn't stop me.
The me who has always given up easily; I want to let that go and move forward
Become who I've always wanted to be.

I'm sorry, Okaa-san. I still spilled tears after all but like everything else that fell upon this fragile shoulders, I'll learn to get over it. There is still a future I want to reach for.

Added bonus!
My current desktop looks like this:

...is because I'm proud of it.
It wasn't easy drawing and colouring it. Trust me.
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Jibun, Ganbatte Aru!

Happy Birthday Nee-san!

Happy Birthday nee-san!
May your life be full of happiness and you get good results etc...etc
Oh! And you're getting old...er
Yes
To everyone...that bear is Ubby. He's freakin big and freakin scary and I dunno how on all hell are we going to get it back to Kedah
There are rumours saying we aren't though...>_>
Hnn...

Other than that...
Let me gauge your eyes with nee-san and me in kimono!

So lying.

I am the master of covering up! Nyufu~
Only Nee-san and I understand....TwT

Do not feed dreamy animal!
-_-;;
Nee-san sucks at acting captured

Owh, and random fangirl moment of the entry~
I just realized that nee-chan was my very own Prussia
T^T
a more sarcastic Prussia
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Off to celebrate the day
Yeah...she's 23 and still wants to celebrate

HBD Anis-chan!

Tomorrow is New Years Eve already!

I'm closer to being 19!
somehow...the feel of it is pretty...
T^T
I'm also getting closer to the date I have to give up the laptop to fix the screen. So I spared some time, more like 3 hours, to finish the pic for Anis-chan's belated birthday
and also to pressure her with finishing mine
X3
But to understand exactly why I chose to draw what I drew, you have to listen to this:

It...scared the heck out of me actually even though it wasn't that scary
I'm weak to surprises and those kind of dolls
But I listened to it anyway since her request was to draw whatever came to mind.
So here it is!:

Pretty crappy actually
I apologize for that sorry excuse of a staircase...
T_____________T
But the story behind producing this simple picture is quite...so and so
First of all, Hetalia fans must've noted that they're not wearing their usual clothes right?
That's because they're not.
When I stalked Himaruya-san's blog, I also found these that he filed as 'kodo___'

It's not really the same though, right?
T^T
but I really did try and I seem to have developed proportion identifying problem or something.
The fanart this time actually required me to do some research.
Do you see those flowery things on Poland and Liet's shirt?
I thought at first it was roses but then it looked too squigly to be roses. With that in mind, I googled 'Poland flower' or something like that.
Poland's National Flower is Corn Poppy. I was pretty excited when I found out.
Typical fangirl -_-;;

Corn poppy
Liet on the other hand, I couldn't seem to find his national flower even when I googled 'Lithuania flower'. I even looked it up in Lithuania's wiki
found out something else instead
Russia has invaded the vital regions 0wo!
Then, I nearly facepalm-ed when I remember Himaruya providing their biographies in volume 2
It read Common Rue
but once I googled Common Rue images, the flowers turn out to be yellow in colour.

Common Rue
So where the heck did those blue flowers come from?
In the end, I told myself, 'Poland must have corrupted Liet' and googled 'blue poppy' instead.
So yeah, everyone will have to just live with that.
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I'll have to do stuff like these more often

Hobby has Never Been This Tough

Please inform me if there is any mistakes in credits.

Yesterday...
I experienced something quite akin to what I will feel once I enter the world of occupation
and I also went through my worst sugar-rush ever to date.
but later that night,
I figured it was one hell of a stress relieving day away from my assignments.
I think it was probably because I got to spend time with my sisters.

I had a pretty much hectic morning that Thursday.
Rieya-chan and I were going to have a presentation for our Introduction to Computer and Application subject. We tackled the subject of telecommuting.
I'm not going to elaborate much on that but I think we pretty much kicked ass a bit because we relied on notes and not just read off the slide like practically everyone did.
By a bit over half past one, I was already making my way through the sunny streets of Hang Tuah, passing the Pudu jail.
I met up with my older siblings at Berjaya TS' Chicken Rice Shop and managed to clear some of their leftovers.
T^T
Nee-san left for class after a short trip to the lo- I mean restroom
By 2:20PM, we headed down to Starbucks and took over two tables because of electricity socket issues

While passing down there, I managed to snap pictures of the gigantic christmas tree that they had put up in the entrance hall of TS

Here's Aneki and nee-chan outside of TS with an amazingly festive Merry Christmas sign

But because the place nee-chan had chosen inconveniently had a problem with its free socket, she consulted with the store clerk about using a socket that we had previously thought was used.
So we ended up making our makeshift workplace at one table.
The day before that, nee-chan had attended an HP event because of an invitation from nuffnang and she was given the task of blogging about the event.
To assist her, I was in charge of editing and crediting some of the pictures that she took there.
Read her cover of that event
[Here]
She sat beside me and was typing off on Aneki's laptop while I did my thing.
We spent hours there with me continously running off to the surau on 7th floor and ordering my sisters around.
I grumbled about wanting to drink some chocolate anything so nee-chan was forced to buy this super delicious chocolate chips ice blended smoothie that had whipped cream with chocolate topping.
One of those sugar-addicting drinks cost around RM15
0_o
but I guess it's Starbucks...so there should be no complaints about the price
but it was definitely WORTH IT!
My energy level went from 40 to 98 in an instant!
Through the duration of us staying there
(from around 2:40PM to 10:30PM)
I had 3 cups of those heavenly drinks and was burdened with urgings to hurry up and lessen on my editing
(my pride lies in my creations, dammit!)
It resulted in me getting a mentally retarded sugar rush.
I really, really forgot to have a semblance of shame ay one point!
and Aneki and nee-san(who came around at 6) weren't helping much by recording my retarded octopus dance.
WAAAAAAAIIIIIII Don't post it on the internet!
;A;
Nee-chan's friend, Ejay-san, came to meet her there and bought us sisters another cup of that chocolate smoothie *v*
He also sent us to Putra LRT Station with his car.
[Arigatou gozaimashita, Ejay-san. Gomen nasai mou]
I was being very loud by then, the sugar finally reaching my brains.
I pointed at random things and squealed in gibberish Japanese and was trying to remember Namikawa Daisuke's 'Tomato no Uta'
Somehow,
after "Aka agete midori sagete tomatomatomato hn!", my mind just blanked.
Later on, nee-chan mentioned that she felt very embarrased because of our casual loudness.
Hafiz-san picked us up from there and sent nee-san and I back to our condo.
I kept going [doitsu! doitsu!~<3] onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"
Also my external which is dutifully behind my laptop ^^
I...kind of look awkward holding my stylus but it's really not.
Also, as an early payment for a future design I'll be doing, nee-chan bought me a Honey and Clover OST
[kya~ domo arigatou!]

I guess that's all for yesterday's adventure.


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Finals start this 4th Jan
right after my birthday OTL

The Sights Today 3

To Aneki, who could not spend this year's raya with us,
Happy Birthday!
Tanjoubi Omedeto~
I hope you celebrated it with a lot of thankfulness and prosperity

And so!
Third Day of Raya!
How has everyone around the world spent it?
I hope you spent it well.
As for my family and I,
we have been up to great adventures!
Going from house to house, this year is like our own little halloween
Okaa-san was adamant to cover up for the two years worth of raya that we spent on Aneki's engagement and wedding.
Okaa-san's pursuits has been most beneficial to us
[Arigatou na, okaa-san...ore-tachi hetare desuka? Gomen dearu]
ahahaha

This time around, I decided to rely mostly on the level than on blurring and image focusing.
So that you'll know it's not all photoshop.
I decided I'd limit the amount of editing so that I would gain more confidence on the actual act of 'capturing' than on 'editing'
I'm not a pro manipulator at the moment so a lot of things are still difficult for me.
Please bear with it for a while
I will work harder in the future

I wonder if Nee-san will notice that I've reddened her nails.
Lolz.
Sorry, I was practicing on the burn tool.

It's glowing a bit too much around the head. I still have bad mouse control.
I seriously like how this turned out and we really hadn't expect to see this vibrant little pest wondering around the garden

I played around with the levels only. It's glowing healthily, isn't it?
[kore wa mada mada desukedo]

This young kit had been resting peacefully in the drain when I spotted it.
It was such a great coincidence.
I've always wanted to take a picture like this but I couldn't have given it my all for fear that I might scare the kitten away.
It was already curious as to why a camera lense was flashing its way.

Lolz
Finally, a picture with me in it. Courtesy of nee-chan.
[Arigatou~]

This one was pretty random but I guess if you want it to express a message it can.
I used a bit gradient in here and tried to make the orange stand out.
I don't think I managed too well but I'll live.
I only felt like editing up to this pic so below are original pictures that depend solely on my skills as a photographer
...if I have any...


this last one was taken by nee-chan. I was actually feeling a bit sick.

today, for me...
was actually quite dreadful since I did a mistake and it messed badly with my head
I had felt really nauseous for quite some time.
Unlike yesterday, we were only able to go crazy with taking pictures at one house
but a gorgeous one
and I missed my chances at other places. By the time I was feeling like my old crazy self, we were already heading home.

Random fangirl rant:
Awesome math is: 69+27=96
XD
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Tomorrow, shopping adventure!
and the possibility of seeing Aneki again

Onee-chan's Birthday Video

mood: busy
mood picture taken from behininfinity

Sorry nee-chan, I don't feel like sending the e-card tonight,

but Happy Birthday!

Here's the vid she tirelessly uploaded last night

I'm not in it though.

The fairness of her face was partly artificial, shinjitte yo!

Saa...it's a short entry again.

At this rate, it'll be one entry a day.

Gah...can I take the pressure?

What the hell?

Anyway, ending this with a pic of Danna and Hijikata-san whom swiped clothes and attitude

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Happy Birthday Onee-chan!

Ah? What's that? Another Random One?

mood: random

mood pic from behindinfinity

Today...calls for another random short entry of my everyday random life.

...Because it is neither boring nor interesting.

So it's random. Live with it.

Today...

Wasn't so interesting. Nothing big happened yet.

In a few minutes, onee-chan will be celebrating her birthday.

She insists upon making a video of her birthday that she can upload on youtube.

Tomorrow...if she manages to upload it by time,

I'll embed it on my next entry...

or just link the url.

I seem to do a lot of those lately.

D.Gray-man chapter 183 page 19

Gah! This chapter, Timothy gets a lot more action than Allen and the others but it's ok.

They have another exorcist among them in exchange for losing others in the battlefield(coughSumancough)but I think Timothy is too bigheaded and proud.

Ah well. He'll change in time I hope.

Get to see Allen with revealing clothes.

He's got a large scar from where his innocence pierced him.

His room at their new headquarter looks comfy. Link has his own bed and it has an average type of window complete with curtains. They also have a study table in there as well as an armchair. It's so nice.

Gintama 4th ED screencap.

One day...I'd like to hear Gin-chan sing an image song...

while looking like that.

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Gotta prepare for the party.

Instant update

mood: Casual
picture taken from ~behindinfinity

Just for the sake of not updating since forever...

I will post random stuff about what's been happening lately.

Too lazy to elaborate on much.

30th March - passed driving test

31st March - quit job

1st April - celebrated Professor Syamsul's birthday. The event can be read at my nee-chan's [blog]

2nd April - celebrated my Okaa-san's birthday

3rd April - random day spent at home. Waited for brother-in-law to arrive

today - Attended e-commerce seminar. Won some junk foods and a bottle of beverage.

That's about it.

Regarding my interest/hobby:

Naruto chapter 440 page 14
Read Naruto up to the recent chapter but I skipped the Itachi arc for fear of having to spend the entire night reading it.

and...I cried a lot

-when Naruto was informed of Jiraiya's death.

-when Kakashi 'met' up with his father

-when Konohamaru showed his rasengan

-when Naruto returned to a destroyed Konoha

-when Naruto asked Tsunade if Kakashi had left for a mission outside Konoha

Stupid Pain

But...finally, Naruto gets to meet back with his father. Even for a short while.

Before that even, Ebisu recalled the feelings of Konoha's shinobi that had begun to change with Naruto's success and failures and how everyone has begun to have faith and protect him as an important figure in Konoha and not just as a weapon.

Thruthfully, it's starting to be obvious that Naruto has become even stronger and wiser during his fight with baka Pain

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...Ganbarudattebayo!!

Reaching a New Age

mood: happy

Recently…
I turned a new chapter in life…
Helpless against time’s race
On 3rd January…
I had to face the reality that I was 18
While all my other dongsaengs of 1991 are still…
Though this…
I still feel like 15
A person my age should be outside
But taking my interest into account…
I should make something out of this life
Ah…sshi…
Happy 18th Birthday, Aini.
On 2nd January…
The cake was already taken out
Unnie had bought chocolate cake
My favorite.
On it was the writing:
“Juhachi no Tanjoubi Omedeto”
Words that I chose
With festivity rivaling new years, I got my loudest and most memorable birthday song
With a stupid grin on my face…
My siblings…
My beloved siblings presented me with presents
I opened them with deliberate care
Ijah unnie and Hafiz oppa gave me broches and a birthday card
Intan unnie gave me a fluffy pink handphone strap
Kerun unnie gave me a handphone pouch with a golden embroidery of the word ‘Princess’
Wahida-chan gave me a black wallet that I use now
After the celebration…
I took out a gift given long before 2009 arrived.
That person had given me a necklace as a birthday present
Fiza-chan gave a sweet e-card
And my young prince…
He wished me Happy Birthday.
Later on, Opah gave me pocket money that I have yet to use.
The best birthday present though…
…and most expensive…
Was eomma’s birthday present.
She paid for my driving lesson class as well as gave me my phone number
The amount, going above RM800…
It’s my most expensive birthday gift ever
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I intend to do well with it.

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR~!!

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Let's get our old goals complete and our new goals started!

Saeng il chuka hamnida~

Saeng il chuka hamnida~

Saranghaneun uri Seongmin

Saeng il chuka hamnida~

Our Pumpkin...

Born in 1986...

He turns 23 today

Let's wish he has a great day today

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In three days, I will also...

Happy Birthday Donghae-Oppa!

mood: happy

Saeng il chuka hamnida~

Saeng il chuka hamnida~

Saranghaneun uri Donghae~

Saeng il chuka hamnida~

Happy 22nd birthday Lee Donghae~!!

Hope our fishy will have a successfull year ahead!