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Post 49: Expect to wait awhile before 50 comes up. It did, after all take two days of work to get this up.

Okay, the text on screen appears several seconds after I type it, my software's been outed to Microsoft as illegal, I'm running programs I didn't know about, overzealous malay websites about going to hell appear in My Documents for no apparent reason and refuse to leave, several icons appeared on my desktop that I didn't know about, three new applications installed themselves yesterday, QuickTime is open but nothing's playing and I can't close it, Adult Friend Finder has somehow dominated my Firefox, critical system errors greet me at every turn, and my iPod beeped at me.

You know you're in trouble when your iPod beeps at you.

I mean, how does it do that? iPods don't even have speakers. I suspect it's beginning to gain sentience. Apart from its inexplicable 'you watch what I say you can watch' attitude, the battery bar is no indication to how much power the iPod actually has. It just displays a reading as high or as low as it likes. And it gained the ability to beep at will.

Anyway, while I was supposed to post some happy things and a couple of artworks, these may have to wait since I am in no mood to use Photoshop with all the things that are going on right now. It's just gonna be so lagged.

So I'm releasing the angel picture prematurely. Looking at it, I know at the moment it represents the creme-de-la-creme of my public portfolio, but I already know I can do better.

What I need is better bloody scans. The kind without a million rough edges that have to be either cropped manually or ignored. If ignored it will become an ungainly bold edge in some parts of the picture.

Anyone know how to sorta feather the lines using Photoshop? Or might it be time for me to go with Flash?

http://www.komala.org/

You might have seen it in the Star yesterday morning. Komala just got elected as president of MIC Wanita. Contribulations, Komala. You make us both proud and uneasy.

komala!

Speaking of the Star, Screw you Star! At least warn us that you're going to totally wreck the plot of the OC before you do it! You might have noticed that yesterday's Star Two section carried a picture of Marissa Cooper. There was an article about the finale of the OC's Season 3, something I do not want to spoil before I watch it. Unfortunately, I didn't even have a chance to save myself, cause the major spoiler was in the very first line.

Highlight only if you really wanna know. I'm giving you a choice. The Star never gave me one.

Marissa Cooper dies in the season three finale.

See, those of you who saw that know why it's the kind of thing you don't want to hear about one of your two favorite shows before you actually watch the damn episode. For those of you who didn't, here's a picture of Mischa Barton/Marissa Cooper:

Who can forget that it's always summer in the OC?

X3. The reviews said there wasn't enough time for character development. With forty years of Marvel history already behind the X-Men, who needs character development?

The movie was a showcase for some awesome displays of mutant power. I think it also shows how far our local censorship board has come

"Don't you know who I am? I'm the unstoppable Juggernaut, bitch!"

Click it. It links to an old X-Men cartoon with that line.


In any case, I won't be doing any serious Wishworld for awhile, mainly cause my computer can't handle the Photoshop anymore. Don't matter, there'll always be pretty stuff to look at here.

This might sound a bit PeakSheng-ish (or the complete opposite) but in all my years as a card-carrying Malaysian citizen, the one thing that ever made me feel any sort of patriotic pride is this:

Johor Disneyland?

Now that would be awesome.