But we’ve been doing that for ages…
Posted by Ray @ 8:34 pmBritish soldiers-in-training are being subjected to the “undignified prospect” of shouting “BANG! BANG!” [link via Boing Boing] as they participate in military training exercises. This, because their Government ran out of money to purchase blanks to fire.
In the UK, this kind of thing is a big deal.
But hor, the SAF has been doing it for ages!
We should reassure our former colonial masters that shouting “BANG! BANG!” is actually a very effective form of training. Hell, I’ve killed plenty of “enemy soldiers” with my “stimulated fire” (thank you, 1WO Lim). My officer even enforced the kills (”Oi! C***bye! You die already la, shuddup!”).
So you see, it’s perfectly acceptable to be short on blanks.
(Just FYI, SAF soldiers don’t need to shout “BANG! BANG!” because our gahmen got no money to give us blanks. No, SAF soldiers shout “BANG! BANG!” because we’re damn trigger-happy and fire all our blanks before the exercise is done.
And then, we like to complain about cleaning the resulting carbon-scored weapons ^_^.)
BANG! BANG!
Ray down under
Posted by Zeng @ 1:16 am
Wassssup people. Updates! updates for the comic strips!? coming pretty soon.
Things have pretty much slow down recently, due to events happening in our lives.
1.Ray is getting lost in down under Australia.
2.I’m pretty much tied up in work…. and BattleField 2 *grins*
Theres going to be a logo for squarebrain soon >: ) ill be posting designs of it later.
Squarebrain is also going to have a new section out called the “Blackhole”
its a place where u can see a few of my sketches in black and white, just random craziness inside there. ( not for the faint hearted )
Thats all for now, comments and feedback much appreciated.
Fare thee well
Posted by Ray @ 3:58 pm
Wacom Graphire 3 + Corel Painter. Touch-ups in Photoshop.
I’m not sure how long I took, because I stopped counting at 10 hours.
Liked how the skin tones on the face came out. Proportioning could use a little work, though - especially around the jawline and the mouth/lips. Ah well.
It’s my last day in Singapore! Come midnight, I leave for a year to go to Brisbane on exchange. Strips’ve been stagnant ‘cos I’ve been so busy with all my farewells - we’ll get back to updates as soon as I’m settled down.
See you on the other side, folks.
[NB: The owner of the face may request a hi-res version. Just so you know =).]
Trippy MSN Conversations
Posted by Ray @ 11:56 pmExcerpts of a trippy MSN conversation. The topic: flying in an airplane…
[Ray]: But I’m afraid of flying.
[Name withheld]: You are??? But you drive!
I try to wrap my head around the concept. I fail miserably.
[Name withheld]: Okay
[Name withheld]: Maybe I skipped a few stages of explanation in between
[Name withheld]: But it makes sense okay
[Ray]: Explain, then
[Name withheld]: Wait. My foot is numb.
…
From this, I gather that driving is like flying, and [Name withheld] types with her feet.
Heh.
Dream Dangerously
Posted by Ray @ 11:07 pmNeil Gaiman is in Singapore for a few days, and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet with him in person.
For those of you not in the know - shame on you! - he’s the author of some of my favourite books, including Stardust, Coraline, and the monumental Sandman series. He blogs regularly and actually answers his reader’s e-mails. At book signings, like the one I went to, he makes an effort to make every fan’s signing different, or unique, in some way. Yesterday, at Comix Connection at Orchard Cineleisure, I heard he stayed until midnight so that all the people who came to get stuff signed would leave… with their stuff signed.
This, despite being jet-lagged and brain-dead from what must have been an exhausting flight from wherever it was he was coming.
So I brought along my copy of Endless Nights (along with Zeng’s), and queued up in Kinokuniya Orchard to meet one of the few people I truly admire and respect.
Met some interesting people in the line (A & C, I’m talking ’bout you!), all of them Gaiman fans. One other person produced a personal notebook of his own poems, and he was going to get the cover page of that notebook signed.
That got me thinking… what personal item of mine could I get Mr. Gaiman to sign?
My iBook, of course!
In concert with the “ooh!”s and “aah!”s of the crowd, Mr. Gaiman sat down to draw none other than Dream of the Endless… on my iBook!
[Right click here and select “Save as” for a 1600×1200 wallpaper]
I was so excited I was at a loss for words. You see, while in the queue I was thinking to myself: what should I say to this man? What can a humble fan like me say to a man who’s work and work ethic I admire so much? After much deliberation, I had it down to “Thank you for writing, Mr. Gaiman.”
But in the heat of the moment, all I could stammer out was: “I’m never washing that laptop again!”
Which prompted the bemused (or bewildered) author to respond, “Well, how often does anyone wash their laptops, anyway?”
And that would’ve been fine, except that I had to blurt-mumble out that the iBook is white, and actually does require me to keep it clean with alcohol and soft erasers, so that I never lose that pristine white shine… mumble… mumble.
So for the record, I’d like to say to Mr. Gaiman: thank you for writing. Never stop, for then the rest of us will have nothing to dream about.
And then… and then… he took out a silver pen, and on my copy of Endless Nights, he wrote the nicest thing that anyone’s ever written to me. So maybe he pulled it out of his ass bum, maybe he wrote the same thing for thousands of other fans, maybe his mind was so blank that that was all he could think of… but I liked it lots.
He wrote:
Ray,
Dream Dangerously
-Neil Gaiman
Mmmmm, beeeeeeeer…
Posted by Ray @ 3:09 pmInstead of drinking beer from the tap, you can now get them via fake breasts [link via fark].
The site is suffering from horrible lag after being farked, so I’ll just show you guys a screenshot of the thing:
I wouldn’t be surprised if 50 years down the line women have genetically enhanced breasts that’ll do the same. Imagine beer companies vying to put their brand of beer inside some hot chick! Maybe they’ll have champagne spew from… uh… other orifices.
…
…No?
Did I go… a little too far with that one?
*Sheepish grin*