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Supposing that the world could be saved by one person giving their life in exchange, I would be the man who waits until someone else has volunteered. All those dear to me have made me a coward. - Hero by Mr. Children I am so... what is this I don't even - you have to go see THIS. right now. I mean... what, how... how can you be so amazing WHY ARE YOU SO AMAZING. More importantly, why is this not published?! It's awesomeness level even exceeds the Sandman. I cannot believe the author is from malaysia. (not to say that all malaysian artists suck, but... you know what I mean.) This even made me forget about homework the whole time I was reading it... not the running away don't think about it kind of forget but the totally out of my mind, what is homework kind of forget. I will now be re-reading and checking for updates obsessively from now on. And I am going to get my hands on Drops in the Ocean no matter what it takes. It took three bloody pages to make me love it. The preview pages are here, btw. I am so overwhelmed that I... I'm just going to eat my luncheon meat now. EDIT: Now that I've calmed down a bit, let me update some. In New Zealand I bought Tales of Desperaux, The Blue Roan Child and the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Tales of Desperaux: Needless to say, this did not disappoint me one bit. I'm happy I got the version that's a little less wide and not the big one which would be a bit inconvenient to carry around and push into people's faces. I think I was a bit unsatisfied with the ending though, but heck, I loved it. I'm going to hunt down the rest of her books now. *back after unsuccessful search* I don't have the book right now, so I can't quote, but rest assured I will when I get back to singapore (which would be a little later than usual since my dad's car just effectively got a heart attack and died. gotta tell it to watch its diet, srsly.) The Blue Roan Child: This was a book I read in primary school from the library and loved and then forgot about until something completely unrelated sparked my memory the other day. Then I conveniently saw it in NZ Borders (which is humongous and really well-stocked, btw, sadly I only went there 30 mins before closing time D:) It's as nice as I remembered it to be, except I kinda thought there would be more about the ayrelings, but then there was nothing o.o did my childish mind just sub in everything by itself then... heh. And I was totally shocked at the end when the author said she knew nothing about horses before starting the book... Because halfway through the book I had assumed that one could only write such a book when one had lived and worked with horses all their lives. Some parts felt like she was just throwing information at us, but the rest... really, this just shows how smeyer absolutely fails at research and other writers are amazing at it. Vampire Chronicles: I just bought this because of Anne Rice, and something I heard about Lestat - that he was narcissistic. Don't ask me why I find that attractive, I have absolutely no idea as well. Currently where I am in the book he's being a jerk and all, I don't know, I have to take her long-winded writing in small chunks so I don't just give up and go to sleep. Louis is just really cute though pffft. About New Zealand... (which seems aeons ago) the only things I really enjoyed were the geysers (near-boiling water running all over golden-algae covered rocks and flying up thirty meters in the air and bubbling mud pools and bleached-white branches next to a freaking detergent-blue pond and steam everywhere... just how amazing is that?) and the parts about the Maori people. I actually did buy a book about their carvings lol. Oh and there was this zoo that was open 24/7 and when we went there there was ABSOLUTELY NO ONE THERE, we had it all to ourselves and it was totally awesome D: (I also learned that ducks are willing to eat fish food and raisins xD) If I lived in new zealand I would go there every single day and just... stare at the fishes. In any case, I have developed a new fondness for ducks and rainbow trout and lizards 8DDD There was also this really awesome possum who tried to kick my face through the glass of its enclosure when I was ogling at it. "Stop staring at me, you worthless imbecile. But due to my merciful and generous nature I shall permit you to look upon my butt instead." All in all, it wasn't too bad, but I would rather stay at home anyway, but I also want to go look at geysers, and it's a pretty mixed feeling here. I wish Singapore Zoo would be less crowded. I was also developing this character there, since, idk, it seemed suitable? Meet Haldwyn, also known as Hal. I found the name some time ago and it was so at odds with her personality I decided to use it. She is a water nymph, in a world where mythological creatures and demigods live alongside humans and technology and all that. She is absolutely untrustworthy, a coward, sarcastic and claustrophobic. She lives as a hobo in a canal and spends her life squabbling with boatmen trying to tell her to move on. She has a fondness for canned tuna/sardines and can eat almost any kind of rubbish. She has yet to master walking and finds it a chore. She has blue, luminescent markings over her cheeks reminiscent of the snapper fish (which I saw in nz, pffft) and can send an electric current over her skin like the electric eel (have yet to do research to support that one). She can hold her breath for... I don't know, how long can aquatic mammals hold their breath for? Again, lack of internet/research opportunities there. Anyway, is she interesting? (since I know only two or three people read my blog) I refuse to accept that I cannot use this idea just because Rick Riordan (and definitely other less famous writers) have used it before. I cannot abandon this character D: she accompanied me through all my shenanigans into the forest and her character is very useful for doing homework with. uh... I have abandoned the notion of doing homework until tomorrow, though. Have art block, math block, chemistry block and every other block imaginable. I am currently drinking coconut juice and eating refrigerated, milk flavoured pocky. Life is good, for now. On a side note, the name of my blog shall now correspond with the name of my sketchbook at the time. Last one was "deem me worthy". Now is, well, just look up, how lazy can you get? pffft. |