Sideline: All gaming freaks watch out. Playstation has released The EyeToy.
According to my copy of Newsweek,

"When you connect the EyeToy to your PS2 via a USB port, your image appears on screen. The camera lets PS2 track your movements, which means that you can now use your hands, knees, feet and other extremities to interact with games that take advantage of this new peripheral."

From the pic, it looks like a little webcam that sits on top of your tv, so when you move, it captures your image. How accurate it is, I'm not too sure, but it definitely takes gaming to a new level of cool. :) Unfortunately, according to the website, it's only available in the States, or from online. Funny thing is that there's not much info on the website about it. Why won't PS wanna promote a toy like that? It's pretty cool what....

I can imagine the local usage of it though. Para-para-ing.....

Unbeknownst to the rest of you, this is actually the 2nd time I'm writing this, the first draft having been erased when my browser hung. Sheesh.......

My Life As It Is
Er, boring? :p Well here are the highlights so far....

I have an interview!
Yes, remember those 2 resumes I sent out? I actually got a reply from one of them, the Retail Management Trainee. They called me up a few minutes ago and asked me to come down for an interview. [they wanted today, I stalled, and it's fixed for Tues]

So..... I have an interview and I'm scared stiff. I'm reconsidering whether I wanna become a monkey, whether I'm gonna get peanuts, I'm wondering what's gonna happen to my time, can I still persuade my graphic design, and I'm wondering why the heck I did this to myself. I also realised that I have no bag to carry, the majority of my bags being for casual use. Awl Gawd.............. [banging head on table, taking care I don't hit my laptop]

At least now I know that the 'French boutique' is actually that shop in Suntec city that's opposite to Polo Ralph, and not some dingy moulin-rouge-wannabe in Geylang........ yeesh........

watashi wa saru desu?

My [graphic design]
Freehand has been a bit easier to learn than I thought it would be. I can now do simple line drawings and add some colour with it. It's not photoshop, but it is a lot easier to draw with it, than Photoshop.

Your graphic design career's gonna take a while, huh?

Oh shut up.

The Books I've Read
One interesting one I've borrowed from the library is The Looks Book. It's created by the same people who did gURL.com. It's a very interesting look at beauty, what people have done for beauty, and goes through all the major female body parts. [sorry guys] For example:

Skin Care Through the Ages [or what people have put on their faces in the name of beauty]:

Ancient Egypt - hippopotamus fat, curhsed donkeys' teeth
Ancient Syria - camels' lungs
Ancient Greece - the urine and saliva of virginal female slaves [sickos]
Ancient Rome - crocodile dung
19th Century America - horseradish and sour milk
North and Central American folklore - the "warm urine of a little boy"
And during the late 14th century, the future French Queen Isabel of Bavaria washed her face with a concoction that included boar brains, wolf blood, and crocodile glands

eeeewwwwww..........

Ok, besides these, the book also talks about body decorations, modifications, and the different fashion styles today. It has a really funky wild design and the arrangement of the contents remind me of a website. Like, if you're reading about skin, they'll tell you to go to page XX to read more about skincare, something like that. Fun to read, even if the book is targeted at teens. ;)

The one way I know people are still reading my blog.... is when I see all the personality quizzes I did appearing on other people's blogs... hahaha....

Rabbles from a Job-hunter
Writing Resumes....... is a damn tedious process.......... I've barely scratched the surface of the job-hunting jungle in Singapore and I already feel like giving up on the whole damn thing. Gawds!

Anyway I've sent out a couple of resumes, and by a couple, I mean that. Exactly 2. [er.... talk about the picky graduate huh?] One is for a technical writing post, and the job scope is to review and write about the latest tech hardware in town for this website. [Gee, does that mean I get to use them first? Ooh... bring on the toys baby...] Another is for a Retail Management Trainee for a 'french boutique'. I have no idea why these companies don't ever wanna use their real names on application adverts. I mean, if you want people to work for you, you gotta let them know what they're getting into right? [Unless for course, they don't want people to know what they're getting into. Oh oh...] I also signed up for a couple of tuition agency websites as a cross-my-finger gesture. Hope somebody wants to hire me and give me money.

I also realised [again and again and again] that I seriously need to brush up on my graphic skills in order to even get into graphic design. [which means that I have to hit the software pirates to get bootleg copies of Illustrator and Fireworks and the lot and some books from the library. I'm broke, and I have no choice but to be cheap.] Really have to start practicing on this. I have an old CD with some of the software from my stint in BizadPub with Prof. Lye, but some of the passwords don't work, so need new CDs. It might be a good idea for me to update my portfolio, with the comics realm website for Internet marketing and maybe even this blog! Gawds, imagine a potential employer viewing all this! [No........................................] Most of the applications also list 'diploma'. Wondering whether I shld go for some kinda design course or just rely on a good portfolio. [then again... my dad did say the other time that he didn't mind paying for education. Hmm...... ($$)] Anyone needs simple n cheap website design? Hahaha.... I'll charge you a milk tea and large fries from mos burger........ that'll keep me happy......... :p

Hm, am I being too picky? I don't think so. I'm not holding out for the big bucks. [I go to 4D n Toto for that]. I'm pretty much just looking for some kinda experience and hoping to get a job in the field I want to do. Now I gotta really cross my fingers and hope that at least, I get some 'eat-rice' money once my dad cuts the apron strings, so that even when I fall, I don't bruise my butt too much. [Thank God I have a big, soft one....]

Various humour off the Net
Been surfing the Net, and checked out this blog by Margaret Cho that was recommended in the Sunday LIfe today. Her latest entry on homosexuality is an....... interesting.........read....... Everyone please please please take it with a pinch of salt, some open-mindedness, and don't carp on to me about the parts with God and sexual organs. As potentially-pagan as I am, that part made me go a bit, "er.........."

But it's a good rejoinder to all these people who think that the only version of God's love is the one they know. I mean, hallo, just because you've read the Bible umpteen times and go to church every Sunday, you think you know God better than everyone else? Like only Sunday catholics have a monopoly on God's love? Who died and made you God-Almighty? ( certainly not Jesus anyway..... )

In another article, I got the link for this off Dave Barry's blog. I know people get mad when their inbox gets spammed, but dude......... Spam Rage

Also, at Dave Barry's blog, check out the Ebay item of the day. And when the page opens, scream, "CON!!!" Cos this item has that word written all over it........

Incidentally, in this latest test, I have an "artistic" soul....... do i sense the invisible hand of destiny? Hee......

Name: Khelath
Status: Unemployed
Gawds, that sounds sad...

Anyway, my 2 tuition assignments have 'fired' me, so now I'm like, so totally free. In fact, I'm so free, I don't even know what to do with all the time I have. Amazing, because when you're so busy you feel guilty doing something work-unrelated, you think of all these things you'll do with your free time. Then when you actually get the free time, you donno what to do!

So I'm gonna do some self-reflection-NY-resolution style. What am I gonna do with this time?

1. Call some tuition agencies and try to get assignments. ( this is important, or I'm not gonna be able to eat rice come Jan )
2. Learn Freehand, or Adobe Illustrator
3. Read all those books stored away in my to-be-read cupboard. The ones I bought more than 6 months ago at a book fair at Expo and have stored away since then
4. Do more drawing. My art skills and creativity levels have plummeted after all those years in bizad. Time to get it back.
5. Do up SJ's website and teach HTML to all who's asked for it. ( anybody wants? Call me )
6. Get going doing some small biz of some kind. Maybe sell off the shirts from the last stint I did. ( this is gonna take a lotta effort....... )
7. Finally plan and draw my own comic story

Hopefully I have better luck with these than my previous New Year's Resolutions......... and that No. 2 also helps me get a foot in to the graphic industry in Singapore...... other than that, all I can hope for is that I'll always have $3 in my wallet for rice to eat........ :p