New tools

It's tough maintaining two blogs at once, one here @ cardinlee.blogspot.com and another one @ cardinal4.byethost2.com.

Especially if most of the posts I have to post are about techno stuff and, obviously that goes into teh techno blog, but then again, maintaining formality is bloody suffocating, so maybe it should go in this one... It's hard to choose.

Then i go around regretting my decision to create a new blog. Then i immediately stop myself, 'cause it's still not too late to trash the new blog and merge it with this one here.

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It was fun going into a bookshop. And very headache also.

Everytime I enter a bookstore always feel like wanna buy something like that. NO not assessment books! Only someone muggerish will do that.

But always feel like buying stationary. (and manga of course) Especially the artist kinda pencils. Y'know, 2B, 6B, HB.

At first was normal lead pencils. After collecting a small set of 'em, in denominators of 4B, eg. I got HB, 2B, 4B, I wanted to get the entire set. They had these pencil sets of 4H all the way to 8B. Very cool.

I didn't buy that. Instead! I bought a 4B mechanical pencil lead! It's nicer, never gets blunt like a pencil, but still sharp and dark enough. But i don't know how to use it though. I keep changing in between 4B and 2B for sketching. Now I cant be bothered. Sure the texture and tone is different but that hardly makes a difference when all you're doing is a sketch. A v.bad anime sketch. Ah but i try to make an effort to use 4B, leaves a lighter mark on the paper: I draw quite hard sometimes, especially when frustrated.

Right, I wasn't stopping at mechanical pencils. Wanted to buy a nice pen for inking. At first I was sure I was gonna get a ballpoint. One of those cheap Pilot pens with no name. Or Uniball Laknock. Absolutely perfect for sketch work. Yep, ballpoints CAN do sketch work quite nicely. But most of the time you screw up on the pressure and that's it, the drawing is done for. And anyway, inking is meant to be hard, no? So i tot about getting those leaky type pens. Uniball Signo DX is like perfect. Comes in sizes .38 and .28, works brillantly. I have those right now on my table. But i nv use a pen so far for inking. Beats the purpose of inking later on the computer.

Well then, I decided to buy some color pencils. I can colour something on paper faster than on screen. I wanted Faber Castell Water Soluble Colour Pencils pack, the 36 colours one. But ran out of money. And again. And again. Then got lazy and decided not to take the long trip and walk to Popular. So till now, no colour pencils. But great thing that procrastination was, 'cause now I felt not like buying it anymore. IF I'd did that would be a waste of $$$.....

Yup, anyway, I kept thinking that having new tools, new pencils, new colour pencils would suddenly imbue me with magically manga abilities to produce clean and sexy artwork instantly. Took me a while to realize that, and how stupid that was.

'Cause I was like, at the Clementi book store today. The one close to the NTUC. The corridor of shops where you walk down got Bank, Dental, Four Leafs, PhotoGallery, then McDonalds, KTV one. They sell lotsa lotsa brand new computer books. And electronic circuitry and accounting books too. Pretty darn ex too. Just grab any one book from a NLB branch in the computing section, it's about USD 49.90 sometimes. 'Course, the books can go up to $500 since they're like Uni Textbooks anyways.

Anyway I was wanting to buy some books, like on CSS, PHP, C++ or C#. I wanted to improve those areas, see. Then I was like, why buy them, I could get the same info online with a bit of Googling for online tutorials. But still I wanted to buy them. Then I was like, why buy them still, not like I'm actually gonna read them, am I? I'll never have time, I never have. Then I realised, wth, I'm buying them 'cause i figured they'll make me a better programmer. WTH? Just because I buy some excellent books on C++ doesn't mean I'm gonna be a whiz on C++ instantly. If I'd never bothered to look for info on it to learn, I'll never bother to read it even if I bought it, but i wanted to buy it because i tot without reading much it'll make me smarter.

Rite, confusing, but anyway, I'm not buying any stuff. Or books. I'm an emotional spendthift, absolutely believing that I need a particular item on occasions of 'enlightenment' where I realised something was missing in my life.
But then, when i get a little bit more rational, I question every thing that I would be buying, and whether that was utmost neccessary or not. =) So flippant.

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