Invader Zim shoes

More shoe painting shenanigans!
This time it's for Nazim's birthday next week. He's turning 12! My kid brother is finally going to be old enough to get an IC. How bizarre. :p Anyway, I'm OK with posting the pics up now because he definitely doesn't read this blog space.

As you can see, he's a big Invader Zim fan.
I had some issues deciding what to draw for him. I thought of maybe drawing some L4D2 zombies but heck that's a lot of painting to be done and I'm an amateur. So I settled for this.
I quite like drawing Gir. He was the easiest. x)

Tomorrow I'll start on making Hanna's shoes.
Yeah this is the problem with having siblings born close to each other. Scrambling for presents. Haha.
I still haven't finished studying yet. Pffft.

Avatar inspired shoes

Tried my hand at shoe painting for the very first time. :)

Base colour.

Hehe. Blue stripes. Avatar-inspired! I have that movie on the brain.
(After watching it in 3-D, watch the Making of it. It's pretty darn awesome.)

Finished pair.
Took me half a day, including time spent taking breaks and stuff. It was loads of fun.
I sprayed them to keep the paint from coming off but I'm still a little nervous about it. Gotta go buy a new can specially made for fabrics because the one I've got is for paper. Then going to put it through a wash just to be extra careful.

The laces that came with the shoes were white but I replaced them with the ones from my old NS shoes. Can't wear them anymore because the inside sole has peeled off. Those shoes lasted me a whole year! In fact, a year ago tomorrow was my very first day in camp.

Hmmm, memories.

Layer me this

Baked kek lapis yesterday.

Two big things about making kek lapis:
1) Separating 30 eggs. :O
2) Building the cake layer by layer by layer.

Only the yolk will be used to make the cake. Only 5 egg whites are needed.
So the rest of the egg whites?
Well we'll be having a lot of yolk-less eggs for breakfast in the near future. :p

Separate the mix into two, one with rempah and one without.

First layer! This was around 11 or 12 in the afternoon.

FINALLY DONE.
7 hours later.
I spent the whole day in the kitchen with the laptop. Whee.
It rained in the evening so it wasn't so hot.
Sadly, I made the layers too thin so you can't really see the layer pattern. :( Still beating myself up about it. At least it tastes good. Hmmm.

Oh and as is tradition with every exam season:

Drawing yayyyy. :B
Sabriel (the girl) and Mogget (the cat) from the Abhorsen trilogy.
So. I've been re-reading the Abhorsen trilogy (best modern-ish fantasy book series ever forever in a bed of clover). I'd forgotten just how awesome it is. Sabriel (main character) is about the ONLY female main character in a fantasy series that I do not hate. She is cool. Very cool. The fact that Garth Nix is trying to make a movie out of this baby gives me happy tingly chills. If they do it properly it could be amazingly awesome. Like, zombie horror meets fantasy slash romance.

And Touchstone's actor better be pretty damn hot. Because I've built him to look like Hugh Dancy in my mind. Mmmph.

Starting line

Puasa tomorrow! Most likely.
So yesterday I bought passionfruit bubble tea.
My favourite bubble tea is from college ... I dunno, it's just nicer than other places I've tasted. So I won't be having that for a month. Haha. But I've fulfilled the craving so I'm satisfied.
Here's to an excellent Ramadhan month! :)

And here's some Pendragon fanart. Anybody who wants to read it but doesn't want to be spoiled ... well stop reading this post. I warned ya.

"I don't know why I did what I did, but it would have been wrong not to. I got out of the chair and lay on the bed next to Courtney. I got down on my side behind her and put my arm around her. She hugged my arm around her waist."
- Pendragon: Soldiers of Halla pg. 420

Bobby and Courtney.

This book is weird when it comes to shippering.
It's like MacHale couldn't decide which couple to put together so he settled with what's safe.
Which I don't really mind but still.
I was kinda hoping for Mark/Courtney. For a little while.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ATUK!
I meant to post yesterday, but I forgot. ^^;;

Pn. L chased a bunch of us to class today. Because we were walking slowly. Evelyn happened to be walking behind us, and she got most of the poking. The rest of us ran, ran as in "OMG RUN FOR YOUR LIVES D:" but couldn't really, because a few of us were sporting heavy bags. So yeah, that was funny. xD

Oh, and to any Twilighters reading this space, check this out: Clicky! Something I drew during the weekend. Inspired by Sofeya quoting poor Edward on her blog. xD

Other than that, today was tiring. I dunno why exactly. Anyway, Internetzz time for me is now limited. I'm only online right now because I'm finishing up an Agama presentation. I need to study for Trials.

Ps. Damn you SA FORMATIVE. Dx *shakes fist*

EDIT: This happened just now during dinner:

*Nazim and Hanna just watched Friends*
Ross: I haven't had sex in a long time!
Hanna: Yeah, Ross hasn't had six in a long time! *giggles like the six-year old she is*
Me: Yeah ... he hasn't had ... six.
Mama: Uh-huh, he hasn't been sick for a long time.

Drawin'.

Drew this entirely on GIMP2 with Bamboo. I used my mouse for base colours. These are Max and Fang from Maximum Ride, which is a cool book series if you don't mind being thoroughly confused by the untied plot lines at the end of the books.
I'm not really happy with how Fang turend out - he looks sunburnt. xD But hey, this was my first try at semi-real colouring, so I'm going to improve that in future.

Your complimentary weekly update.

School's pretty blah lately. People keep being absent, and CLP lectured us on how it's important to not miss class when we go to uni ... I'm not worried for myself, since that I've got a crazy obsession with not being absent. But more steadfast people than me have switched ideas, so here's to hoping the obsession with never missing a day continues.

Then Pn. B lectured us on getting money together for class layout. And the people who keep being absent, because she wants their excuses and whatnot ... it's crazy, every morning it's the same thing. In the end, I just turn my brain off, I can't stand to listen anymore.

On the other hand, there's been a lot of Avatar news. The show's ending in July, which is a long way away. I don't mind, prolong the days till SPM plskthx. But the trailer looks so cool! It's only 2 minutes long, but it's like throwing a hungry dog a miserable little bone, the way the fandom are reacting. Then there's stuff about the Twilight movie, which is partially very amusing and partially kinda suffocating. I don't feel right belonging to a fandom consisting of 95% females. At least with Avatar, it's half and half.

I just realised how boring this post is. Hmmm. Have some Jasper/Alice love. They're my favourite couple in Twilight. Bella and Edward can go on dodging her eventual vampirism, as long as we get more Jasper/Alice goodness. <3Brush credits can be found on my DeviantArt page.

Fluffy emo cartoon hair

I've watched half of The Jane Austen Book Club on Acu's laptop last night. Had to stop because Papa wanted to go home. But so far, I just have to say that Hugh Dancy is oh so adorable. And hot. Yesss. His character in the movie has an R2-D2 ringtone. Hahaha, he's so geeky.

Went to OU with the fam this morning. Hung around MPH for a long time, since that all of us are readers: Papa went for the comic section, Mama went to look at the magazines and cooking books, and Nazim and Hanna hung out at different parts of the children's section. Mira and I went to the young adults' section.

So, I was hanging around the adventure/mystery shelves, and there was this boy sitting on the floor reading a book. And he had fluffy cartoon emo hair. xD
So I walk down the aisle towards where he was sitting and looked at the books on the shelf opposite him. Then, out of curiousity, I looked down, wondering what he was reading.

First I saw the edges of a black and blood-red cover. Then the words ... and I'm pretty sure I was still as a statue by now, because I just realised that he was reading Eclipse. xD I was like, whoa. He's reading Eclipse, lol. I thought it was funny.

Anyway, as a celebration of the beginning of the holidays, I drew Bobby Pendragon of the Pendragon book series. He was fun to colour. :D

Bobby Pendragon (c) D.J. MacHale
Art (c) me.

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Run and run and run and never look back!

Merentas desa this morning is my last one. At least until I go to one in the future. But still. No more.

Awww, there's that sudden twinge of Last-Year-O-School Syndrome again. :(

Anyway, the Hijau juniors aren't as bersemangat as I had wished. Kinda annoying. But we'll whip 'em into shape in time for sukantara. I hope. They just need some pushing.

There was this random dude jumping around the stage before the prize-giving, promoting some shmancy dance/martial arts class thingy. He was sweating all over the (now carpeted) stage. I got bored after seeing him punch and kick into air a few times.

Anyway, I finished the Caleb thingy that Lakshmi was asking for. Y'know, the dude from The Covenant. The kinda plotless movie stuffed full of special effects and hot guys and one girl in a towel. Geee.


Have yet to ask her whether she wants this one or the one without a background. And I'm afraid he doesn't look like Caleb, more's the pity. I'm horrible at caricatures, or anything similar. Hmmm.

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Credit for brushes here.

First, some fandom stuff ...

Yes. I have to get these stuff off me first, before presenting the pic-load which is the birthday party. xD

Firstly ... I decided to try out my new pencil. Meet Fang. He's from the book series: Maximum Ride, by James Patterson. Drawn with my new pencil, inked, scanned then coloured in GIMP2.

I've never managed to draw a picture of him that I'm satisfied with, because, well, I just can't get him to look like how I picture him. And this time, I managed it! :D He's supposed to be wearing all black, silly little emo-brooding birdboy, but I didn't like the idea of playing with black and greys. So I gave him navy blue.

Now, another thing.

A Twilight-related thing.

I looked it up on the great and ever-informative Wikipedia (long live that blessed website xD) and here's what I got:

"Twilight is the time before sunrise or after sunset when sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere and the surface of the Earth is between light and dark."

Haha. Kidding!

I looked up the actual book page, and I found a bit of what Stephenie Meyer is writing: Twilight from Edward's point of view. I read the preview chapter, and asdfghjkl. Why didn't she write this one first??? D: Edward's POV is so much more interesting than Bella's. *sulks* Sure, he's long-winded and bombastic, but I don't mind long-winded when it's interesting.

And anyway, I like to read about the rest of the Cullens. Edward hogs the spotlight, but of course. But all the little things about the other guys make me happy. xD

Hmm. So I may not really like the book. But I admit that the characters are interesting. So there. And I think I will buy New Moon, no matter how people say its boring. This way, I can lend it to all the other sorry people, who, like me, are too hesitant to buy the actual thing.

I will be doing everyone a favour! Yay. xD

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Credit for brushes here.