EIGHT

...more days until existence. =| Sort of. LET'S GUESS IN THE MEANTIME WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS JING HAS GOTTEN AROUND EXPERIENCING WHILE NOT EXISTING!!!!1 ZOMG

[ ] Sitting around doing a whole bunch of nothing much
[ ] Trying unsuccessfully to do something much
[ ] Phailing due to not having a car/knowing how to drive in the first place much
[ ] Getting the Stung to Death treatment by local mosquitoes much
[ ] Finding out that local mosquitoes love me especially much, much
[ ] Watching and loving YGO The Abridged Series for the first time much
[ ] Watching the last 2/5 of episodes of America's Next Top Model much
[ ] Waking up at 8AM every day much
[ ] Going to bed at 9PM every day much
[ ] Walking siblings to school on foot much

[ ] Pretending to be social to damned neighbors much
[ ] Running... ...
[ ] Registering to volunteer at local YMCA
[ ] Registering to volunteer at suicide hotline
[ ] Looking at MCAT books
[ ] House chores much
[ ] Yard work much
[ ] Babysitting much
[ ] Yelling much
[ ] Getting yelled at much...not really

[ ] Walking into walls concerning a Jarek issue...much
[ ] Spending whole weekends looking at furniture much
[ ] Pushing shopping carts much
[ ] Secretly lamenting the family usation of personal lappy much
[ ] Getting a rootkit on lappy as happy result much...
[ ] Feeling the full extent of frustration at teaching children to read, very extra much
[ ] Getting sunburned for the first time in life
[ ] Getting remarkably tanned
[ ] Being reminded of exactly why the beach is hated, and how much
[ ] And for that matter, why camping sucks, too, much

[ ] Being exposed to real true hill billies previously believed to exist only in movies
[ ] Horrified at a brother who is apparently beginning to rap
[ ] Horrified at a sister who is apparently blonde despite lacking the hair color
[ ] Having occasional life-churning epiphanies
[ ] Being surprised at this very list for being this long

Eurgh.

JING JING JING

WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU, WHAT'S GOING ON, I MISS YOU KID

5000 HOURS IN MSPAINT.

NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE

Well, isn't this kind of embarrassing...it's already February. I'll turn into Slowpoke at this rate. :D WHICH IS WHY I THINK IT A GOOD IDEA TO POAST SHIT THAT I BELIEVE IS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE ON THE INTERNETS (or at least haven't had much exposure at ALL)...DATING TO VERY DAMNED OLD INDEED. LIKE, PRE-STUY, PRE EVEN TINA OLD. Point and laugh at your leisure. I don't really suppose I'm feeling all that correct tonight, given what has been drawn and poasted here earlier just now. Crap crap crap.

Ladies and gentlemen, behold Jing's first digital work (OH MS PAINT) ever:
December 26, 2002. And then,

January 25, 2003. In case people can't read. I suppose date isn't really relevant past those two, but I'll try my hardest to keep things chronological. (It's like 3AM right now, leave me alone.)

July 17, 2004. First time I ever went to Ohio, between freshman and sophomore year. I stayed with my dad for two weeks and had literally nothing better to do all day except soaking everything in Half Price Books into the marrow of my bones. I was up to CoT (book 10 of the WoT) back then...for the first time. And, for whatever reason, I decided to slap an Aiel (EXACT IDENTITY SPOILER-CENSORED) and Ayami Kojima together. I believe the notes are actually my plotting out how I'd have it as an oekaki. >_>; Of course it did happen, and of course it kind of phail'd, and of course I'm not about to show you that just now. Dig through fujou at thy own risk.

March 18, 2005. "Ganelon." One of those unfinished pieces on Goddess that is now lost in oblivion. Other than the ridiculously unfitting head, I think the anatomy is still something to be proud of from back then. Another thing I was very pleased with was the water effect. Too bad I haven't gone back to it much, if at all.

June 28, 2005. "Durga." Haah, back when I still believed in mousing my lines. Castlevania AoS monster influence...though to be technically correct, I had the color scheme of Kali (mistranslated as "Curly" in the game) in mind. Jing's first rather voluptuous figure, except for the ridiculously thin waist that also happens to be off. I think one thing in common with all the shittles I'm poasting here is that I'm HEAVILY inclined to go back to every single one of these and make them RIGHT, or COMPLETE. >=/ Except I never do.

January 23, 2006. "Stalk." Jing gets Open Canvas from teh rora. 8D I remember being extremely amazed by its "pressure sensitivity" available for mouse, and this was exclusively playing around with that.

December 2, 2006. "Water." ...And then I became incredibly guilty-feeling for a while for having something other than Oekaki and yet never using it to make something more serious. =/ I suppose this was my favorite out of all those other half-assed attempts. Very nice...texture. The one thing I perhaps miss about OpenCanvas. Then again, I'm sure at least one of Artweaver's brushes can achieve similar effects, and I'm suffering from the same symptom of never getting around to seriously play with it. @_@


Speaking of water, I missed one. D: ANACHRONISM LE GASP September 3, 2005. I've made several attempts to recreate this nice atmosphere through the years, but something is always off and eventually given up. Perhaps it's the hand-drawn Paint BBS white 1-pixel water color texture...or perhaps it's the pond. Simple, but apparently impossible to reproduce. XD I still remember that day: Jing scraping her little toe against the wall against all odds, and rora asking her out to windowshop at that exact moment or so. Trying on skirts on 86th Street. Dropping by my mother's store and catching her very, very surprised. At me, at a friend, at my bloody toe.


...Moving on.



May 20, 2007. "Mu." (And originally with Shaka in mind on the right...except the resemblance is so terrible his name didn't end up making it into the title at all. *tear?*) I remember when I was madly obsessed with crazy face angles at one point. The pointing-down period didn't last all that long...but here's my reminder. 8D Also my single Saint Seiya fanart...and a pairing, no less??!! OMFG what. Where's my Soma x Genya? T_T




January 28, 2008. "Rip." (As in, Rip Van Winkle. As in, HELLSING.) I have a very vague impression that I may have shown this to Jarek during one of our very earliest days back then. (2008? Le GASP!) In fact, I think I scanned it at all because Jarek said he wanted to see what I doodled. Hmm. In any case, special because it's perhaps the first Hellsing-related thing drawn since freshman year. That is, the OTHER freshman year...the special one. At Stuy.

Four years into the future...



March 9, 2008. Title as indicated. I just noticed the dates I've been using in this post are dates shown on the computer...meaning the day I scanned, or the day I last modified. Which can mean a lot of them are off and age a mystery unless it's a signed sketch. Hoo... -_-; Anyway. Boredom during tutoring of that Korean girl. There's been more, but she usually whisks away the originals...I think including this one. Scanned and thus saved because I actually liked it and had bothered with references. This I should definitely do more often. Also BOOBIES


April 13, 2008. And MOAR HIPS AND BOOBIES 8D INDEED Like, Oh, my gwad!~ *heart heart heartle much?

(In actuality, I believe this was the first thing I actually drew with my tablet. By which I mean it's not a bunch of squiggly lines and my name written over and over in various pressures and all that goodness. YES I KNOW THERE ARE STILL SQUIGGLY LINES IN THERE BUT UH THEY ARE QUITE THE ARTFUL DON'T YOU AGREE? I LOVE YOU LAVENDER CURVES)





...The end.

IN BEFORE JING'S LAST POST O' THE YEAR

Happy New Year all!

I'd like to include a "C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!" but I already did that a few posts ago and then Hyo did too so W/E.

So instead, good job guys. We posted moar than last year. I'm proud of us.

Edit: Or I guess, in before Jing's FIRST post o' the year now..

123rd Post!

Hay guys, it's teh BUN D:! First post since forever. I've been mostly a lurker though (on and off lurker, really) and I've been inspired to post again after our meet-up this weekend. So far, school's been good...There was supposed to be a meteor shower either yesterday or the day before but I totally missed it because 1. I was uninformed and 2. it was bloody 13 degrees outside >_>. FYI to the sky gazers of WTB, there's gonna be a MAJOR meteor shower (my friend told me it might be the biggest one of the year~) near finals week (which is like the 2nd week of December for me) so grab a blanket and find the dimmest place in your vicinity!

As some of you already know, I declared my major. I'm studying Environmental Chemistry. Why chemistry you ask? I wanted to revisit it since high school (RIP to Ms. Bulgaris) and turns out, it was as interesting as it was back then, except a bit harder -_-. Speaking of Ms. Bulgaris, for those who've taken her class (some of you guys are here xD) did you notice her coughs were a bit heavy and congested sounding back when we were taking her class? This article kind of explains why. I don't read the Spectator anymore but I did a quick google search on her and this came up. Now that I think about it, I don't even remember reading the textbook in that class...maybe that's why chemistry is so hard now -_-.

So, back at home, my bro called me to say that he got a computer. Guess what that means? I GET HIS OLD ONE *does a dance.* In the Kim household, my brother gets dibs on the newest computer and then his old one gets passed down to me. I don't reallly mind because it's better than the current one I have which, evidently gets passed to my dad/mom. Then again, they are kind of using my computer right now so it's not that big of a change.

Speaking of inheriting my bro's new computer, as most of you might know (esp. Veronica xD) I'm a huge Sims 2 fanatic -_-... Usually, I play so much that I get tired of it right away but recently, I've been downloading a lot of custom items and skins (which is making me play even more) and also I'm away at college so I don't play it often. EA Games came up with a new expansion pack which allows you to use magic X_X!!! Also, the player gets to build apartment-like complexes instead of making a mandatory house. This might not excite you guys much but to me, it's very interesting~ I can't wait to go play when I go back *_*! Since my brother's old computer was the only computer that can run the game without lagging like boob, I get to play it ALL THE TIME MUAHAHHAHA. This will end my social life for sho' T-T.

Sorry I'm ranting about my personal life here. I felt like posting something here on WTB since it was a significant little part of my intarwebz life. I don't really use the phrase WTB anymore...probably because it's sort of weird saying that, in public anyhow. Then again, most of you don't post here anyway...SHAME XD!!!

And finally, I'll end this long post with...
RANDOM ITEM OF THE DAY
Yesterday night, I was watching Good Eats and the potato ricer was mentioned. This is an essential tool for those who want incredibly smooth mashed potatoes. It takes it to a WHOLE 'NOTHA LEVEL.
Here's a picture of Julia Child, a chef with a beautiful personality, and a quote talking about her ricer she bought in the 50's:

"This is a great German potato ricer. It's good and solid. You see, the potato goes in and you go schoooom and out she comes! I love great big things like this, it really works very well. Of course it all comes apart for washing, so it's a very practical instrument." She's a doll xD...

This sort of remindes me of those KoOL KLuB emails I sent such a long time ago! Except this is longer and slightly more meaningful -_-... So ends the post that Hyo started. Please await for the future posts to come ;d~

Signin' off,
Hyo-Piyo

Somequotes

MY LIBIDO IS GONE!!!!!

I TOLD A FEMALE ABOUT MY FEELINGS FOR HER! LATER THAT DAY WE KISSED! IN A FRENCHLY MANNER! AND I THOUGHT :'AH! SHE LIKES ME TOO!'. HOW NAIIIVE! FEMALES DONT OBEY TO COMMON SENSE OR LOGIC OR REASON! FOR SHE PROCEDED To CRUSH MY ANGELIC LIKE SENTIMENTS BY STATING: 'I HOPE YOU ARENT THINKING I WANT TO GO OUT WITH YOU...' DISILLUSION!

AND NOW MY LIBIDO IS GONE!!!!!
I CANNOT BASTURBATE!


HER!

SHE PEES DARKNESS.

AND THAT PEE OF DISDAIN IS OVER THE FORMATIONS WhICH REPRESENT MY LONG LOST DUE-TO-HER-ERECtIONS

Or MAYBe, IM THE URINE! MEANING IM SOMETHING SHE REJECTS AND EXPELS FROM HER BODY, SOMETHING HTAT WILL NEVER GET IN, ONLY gET OUT. HOW EvIL OF HER.

I DONT THINK ILL SHOW THIS TO HER BECAUSE SHE WOULD LIKE IT. SO IT WILL BE MY PATHETIC LITTLE REVENGE!!AH!


======All credit/copyright/whatnot goes to Mimerich of fearsome======


I merely thought this was so epic, it deserves further propagation into moar people's minds.

UROBOROS

FUCK YES.
I know the Jing made a post about this already, but that was BEFORE we heard it. This definitely deserves a post purely to proclaim its win-ness. So, Jing and I listened to this a couple days ago @_@ and so did the Laura. <3

And wow was it WAY BETTER than anything I expected from Dir en Grey after Marrow of the Bone and Withering to Death. Don't get me wrong, Kodou was <3....but the album as a whole wasn't notable enough to me. [Though this may also have to do with the fact that I heard most of the stuff I liked on the singles "The Final" and "saku"...and wasn't that interested in what was only on the album...]

I really love their change of direction.
This is what I would've hoped Dir en Grey would've come out with after Vulgar. Kyo's voice is absolutely beautiful in a lot of the songs. Especially the ninth track @_@ I very much approve of the way they used drums in that track...and I think they used them in some other tracks as well but its late and I unfortunately can't comprehensively go through each one again and figure it out. My favorites were the ninth track, Glass Skin, and Inconvenient Ideal. But! That is only one day after listening to the whole album and I basically listened to those three songs repeatedly today...who knows what other songs I may discover the beauty behind over some time. Dir en Grey songs do at times take some time to sink in, and I think that may very well be the case with this album where so many of the songs sound really great at least at some part or other. The sounds have a very interesting complexity and there are a lot of things going on in them. I've read they used a "mandolin" to create some of the more unique sounds...will look into that later.

And for anyone that hasn't looked up or doesn't get the title at all, Uroboros refers to the symbol of that dragon/snake creature that's curled up in a circle devouring itself starting at the end....a reference to the idea of "reincarnation" or so, according to the wiki article...
and YES! reincarnation indeed, I am very pleased with this new revival of old DeG greatness. I had started to give up on them especially after Marrow of the Bone was completely horrible. I mean completely horrible. I honestly didn't like any of the songs on it...except Ryoujoku no Ame was OK-ish [tolerable anyway].

Furthermore, on a more personal level I was very excited with the way it was a reincarnation of old DeG fangirlyness which worked as conversational material and a means of connecting us further through our common DeG fangirlyness. Remember those good old days? When we were rabid little j-rock fans that ate up anything Dir en Grey or j-rock related? When we sought out magazines, pictures, interviews, similar bands to satiate our thirst? When we would readily be shrieking j-rock loving banshees if it was intended to promote what was godly to us? @_@
Yes, they were perhaps...*Ahem* embarassing times to recall personality wise, but they were fun! I know it was mostly Jing, Laura and I that tended towards j-rock [though if i recall correctly, Oli and Maggie had the hots for Miyavi or something], but I think it was around then that was the height of the friendship of the WTB as a whole as well. Something about the interconnected feeling and having something to talk about together really helped me feel closer to Jing and Laura especially, and to have something to blab about to the others as well. Especially since I'm not generally good at blab-ing what with the whole tending-to-be-quiet thing. I remember that j-rock collage or so that Laura made and put up in the locker we shared at the time to make it more "homely" <3 that was so cute. I really appreciated the way things were at the time. I appreciated how much we all talked together and met together and spend time together as a ball of friendshipful goodness. It was around the first term of sophmore year, and I'm seriously not making this exclusive to my friendship with Jing and Laura, but including all of WTB [aside from Jimmyn I suppose], we used to meet by our lockers in that little niche across from the cafeteria DAILY afterschool, and I remember Hyo used to bring in her tarot cards and once, was it Veronica? brought in travelpack monopoly <3. Then there were times we used to leak into that room right next to those lockers and draw on the board, all sorts of other nonsense...trekking off to Book Off or Kinokuniya or Chinatown even on a gloomy day....THOSE WERE THE DAYS <3

I honestly felt like we were becoming a wonderful little family of our own back then, and I fucking LOVED you guys. *Ahem* sorry for the profanity, the emphasis was needed to highlight the GUSHING INTENSITY of the feeling. Perhaps I just looked too stupidly apathetic at the time for any one else in WTB to understand how incredibly much I loved that time, or valued the friendships of the WTBians [I was going to type "Boobians" but....err...that seemed too strange] this lack of understanding, clearly proven by how easily I was later dropped...haha xD but that's not a story for this post! This post is about LOVE! and reincarnation.

My newfound love for Dir en Grey and j-rock was a highlight of that time, it was a reason why it was easier for me to connect with Jing and Laura and it's the reason why the WIN-ness of this new album reminds me of all that was in those times. Listening to Uroboros for the first time through, getting excited about it's goodness, and conversing with Jing and Laura about it was very awesome, indeed. I've missed the times when we used to converse even remotely like so and those conversations were probably the most I've communicated with either in some time...
At this rate, let's just hope their next album refers to and inspires a complete revival eh?