New DevArt!

:KnGB: Gash's Emblem by ~Cardinal4 on deviantART

My first successful attempt at 3D modeling. =D Though I would have liked to have known how to spin the camera around, thus making a pretty cool rotating animation.

Blender 2.44 is quite cool to model it, but it sucks like hell if you're ever thinking to export from it.

Basically, perfect for modeling, difficult for game exporting.

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

DeviantArt! <Our King>

:KnGB: Our King by ~Cardinal4 on deviantART
It's the beginning of the end of Konjiki no Gash Bell. Kanchome got sent back. D=
It's really a pity the anime ended before the manga did. It would have looked awesome in sound and colour... Ikue Ohtani was a darn good VA, she did the voices for Tony Tony Chopper of One Piece and Pikachu [and others] for Pokemon. And certainly, Makoto Raiku's slightly not-so-good artwork would have looked much better on screen after modification by the on-board animators.

I saw the manga artwork exhibited in front of the RJ canteen and was completely OMG, it's so nice! Which further reminded me that, it's not the tool that draws, but the person. There was a particular pencil artwork that was so uberly CG/Airbrush feel. I'm so 自卑 now... =(

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

Chem sucks.

Chem sucks. I hate Chem. Especially portions where they make you memorise stuff and so on. I tot it's all about application not memorisation. Sure, some memorisation is expected. But if we have to memorise details for individual elements that's just ridiculous.

Like halogen. Or Alkaline metals. Or periodicity. There's just so much freaking different things to remember.... Product of disportionation of halogen, the reactivity of the metals with steam, the oxides... So much stuff..

Do real life Chemists remember these stuff?! Well, 'course they do to a certain extent, they deal with these stuff half the time of the day. But seriously, we should all just have a table of values, properties to reference. Saves memory work by A LOT. People who can't memorise can't score. What's this?! It's not fair at all!! If we all had nothing else in life but academia, then all right, we'll just all be insane muggers. But it's not that case. We still got a bunch of other subjects, and Chem is really just so damn difficult with all its properties.

I really hate Chem. I was joking once that Chemists must be really sad people back in the early 19th century. Just as Physicists had nothing qualitative to work on, Chemists as well. They only had observational data, nothign concrete. I think. Anyway, Physicists spent their time coming up with a table of every imaginable value that can ever be observed experimentally. Which i suppose kinda infringes in Chemistry. While, I suspect Chemists spend their time looking for observable patterns in those mountains of values. And they got really insane and silly and started naming their compounds with pet names. Like Edta and Danny Boy. And formaldehyde and ammine. Well they didn't have a sense of humour so Danny Boy was never a compound.
Then Physicists came along and saved Chemists from their sorry fate of giving monickers to every single compound in the world, by giving them Quantum Theory.

Now they have the Pauli exclusion principle, Aufbau building up principle and the Hund's rule. Kudos to physics. Chem became a much more meaningful subject especially with orbitals and being able to analyse compounds with the Electron Tunneling Microscope.

Of course, everything up there was fictional, but it might as well have been true, 'cause Chem still sucks. If they'd left out the last 4 topics of Chemistry, Chemistry might actually be a really enjoyable subject. But they didn't. So it sucks. Grr.


:Naruto: Rock Lee by ~Cardinal4 on deviantART

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

Doggy

I once had a doggy. It was a really cute doggy, when barking too much late at night, but really active. Scuttered around the house and it would slid sometimes, didn't clip it's nails too well.

Then it ran away while I was still in sch, during Pri 2. My mum was walking it along Tiong Bahru old estates, then it managed to struggle free of the leash, or rather, carried the lease with it and ran off. Didn't find it. Can't quite remember anything else much, other than life was pretty mild onwards and I got snails at Pri 4 and then got fishes at Pri 6. None were quite as cool as a dog.

Meh, then now I just had the curious urge to find out what breed my dog belonged to. I only knew it was kinda foxy, not much to work from there. Almost wanted to give up.... then had the idea to go look for a comprehensive dog gallery. A quick glance at the thumbnails for each dog album found it.

It's a Pomeranian!!! Some kind of Spitz dog [wolf ancestry], from cold parts of Germany, no wonder it was had a foxy snout and a really cool coat of fur.


Isn't it so cute?!?!?!! PS: It's not mine. My photos are locked somewhere safer.

Lolz, occasionally I'll meet a Pomeranian on Tiong Bahru, and I'll wonder if someone had picked it up. Actually I think there's only one guy with a Pomeranian on Tiong Bahru ard my block. But it's not reacting so i'm just dreaming things...

I wonder how cool would it be to still have that little doggy... I'll probably not have had fishes, nor have set up a fish website. But having a doggy beats that anytime, imho. Fishes are way harder to maintain, harder to keep alive. They have random illnesses, random behaviours like biting each other or refusing to eat, or just die like mysteriously, and even with your best shot, they can only last a year or so. Unless you're pro skill. 'cause an aquarium is like an entire ecosystem onto itself. It even has nitrifying bacteria to turn ammonia to nitrite to nitrate to nitrogen gas/nitrogen dioxide liberated to the atmosphere, or nitrates which are absorbed by plant-life or just spawn an algae outbreak due to high nitrate or phosphate content.

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

1. Konjiki no Gash Bell OP3 [Mienai Tsubasa] - Tanimoto Takayashi
2. Bad Day - David Powter
3. Bleach OP6 [Alones] - Aqua Timerz

Learning journey

Meh, I felt so bad at being a skeptic of the Zoo learning journey at first. It wasn't quite half as bad as i thought it would be after all. Pretty interesting and cool, a much better way to spend an afternoon. Or a learning journey, compared to going to some other locations which are completely choke full of National Education...

Learnt some stuff,
bonded more with the class (well, kinda selectively, but anyway),
Was actually interesting.

Animals are interesting. Of course, more so when you're on the other side of the barrier. But definitely more enchanting than on Animal Planet. I like the fishes. Pity they only had fishes in the newer exhibits (are they new?)

Too much monkeys/primates. Trams are not eco-friendly?!! They're running on diesel I think... But anyway, after like how many years of not going to the zoo (last was Pri Sch) it's pretty interesting. I like the new layout, quite cool, relative to previous ones. Merkats are pretty cute.. =D

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

1. Konjiki no Gash Bell OP3 [Mienai Tsubasa] - Tanimoto Takayashi
2. Bad Day - David Powter
3. Bleach OP6 [Alones] - Aqua Timerz

The in-between period

Right after CTs, debriefing.... Right after that, Prelims.... It's getting along pretty damn fast...

I hate H3 right now. Maybe that hate will go away soon, but right now it's completely filled with holes in the understanding.... Or so I believe? It's hard to do well in something when you're filled with so much negative energy against it.

In exact correlation to effort over results, my Econs scored the highest thus far, with Maths coming in, then Chem. I studied less for Maths than Chem, but then I pia-ed AP,GP, Induction, which I scored in. Most other stuff was flunk. Chem... I rushed then gave up. Then rushed a bit more on the day itself. I'm elated for Econs. My best result so far. Been S all the way till this year, where I gained an interest in Econs, then it climbed to E for CT1. Now it's a C! =D 2 grades jump! At least... I think.... I can't quite get the grading system down in my head. Meh, but it's still a giant improvement for me.

Need for Speed: Underground 2 is kinda fun... I love the entire GTA concept, run around city doing stuff. But .... it's kinda boring after a while. When your car pretty much sucks and you've unlocked pretty much everything there is to unlock in that city, and remaining races are super difficult... When's the next city and cars and races gonna be unlocked?! I'm getting frustrated.... It's taking up too much of my time playing that....

I still suck at drawing. I want to take some time to touch up but i'm never getting the time. Pfftt, I can't draw fore-shortened eyes... Or chins...

I'm trying to learn Blender 3D. And C++. I hope to master 3D, it could be pretty exciting... C++ is .... overly complex. I'm forcing myself to think of it in a positive light. But it's very hard not to be frustrated at its complete lack of controls. C++ just gives you complete power, and dumps it in your lap. I seriously don't know how half the C++ programmers in sch manage to learn all that. In fact I think they don't even know anything except algorithm programming, which is like using the most basic of C++ knowledge.
Pointers?
Copy Constructors, Destructors?
Assignment Operators, Overloading other [], ++, +, ->* operators?
Multiple Inheritance, virtual classes, the modifiers?
Friend functions?
Problem of returning from functions as the local obj is copied to a temporary obj as a return value, which then both the temporary copy and local obj is disposed of.
Templates?

And meanwhile, I'm coding the 3D engine... Right now I'm coding the base exception classes.... zzzzz

The pressure is killing me. D=

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

1. Konjiki no Gash Bell OP3 [Mienai Tsubasa] - Tanimoto Takayashi
2. Bad Day - David Powter
3. Bleach OP6 [Alones] - Aqua Timerz