Looking slim and tall with breaking a sweat!

OK, the title sounded like some advertisement for slimming pills or exercises. But I'm not gotta talk about that.

Sometimes, when I said I really need to go on a diet, some people would tell me that I already look slim enough. But the true is, what they are seeing are just illusion!

Basically, you can do the same illusion as well, just follow the suggestions below.

1. One very important yet logical (but commonly looked over) suggestion is to stand straight. Besides, standing straight would helps prevent getting hunchback.
   
2. When choosing what to wear, make sure you get a fitting clothing.
   (Clothing that's too big would make you look wider and shorter and clothing that's too tight would make you look bigger than you originally are.)
3. V-neck shirt gives the illusion of a longer torso. (Thus, making you look taller.)
4. Wear a single color outfit (especially with a darker color) as it would makes you look taller and slimmer.
   
5. Wear vertical striped suits and shirts as it make people appear taller
6. Lastly, you would really think that I'm a cheat. Put an extra sole in the shoes that you're wearing!

Yup, just these 6 suggestions for you to cheat look slimmer and taller!

Creating lightning in 8 steps!

Here's a tutorial on creating your very own lightning effect in Photoshop CS3, unsure whether you can do it in the older versions.

Step 1 - Create your document (any size) with a white background

Step 2 - Make sure that you have your foreground color as white and background color as black (a faster way is to tap D then X on your keyboard)

Step 3 - Go to FILTER > RENDER > CLOUDS

Step 4 - Go to FILTER > RENDER > DIFFERENCE CLOUDS.

Step 5 - Invert the image. Either go to IMAGE > ADJUST > INVERT or CMD/CTRL + i.

Step 6 - Go to IMAGE > ADJUST > LEVELS

Step 7 - Move the center arrow all the way to the right.

Step 8 - Give your lightning some color. Simply go to IMAGE > ADJUST > COLOR BALANCE and move the sliders until you get the color you want.

Just 8 steps, easy and cool!

Sony just sent me an email... And finally, something about S.E. C905. It would be out in October... But dunno when... Here's the link to the website.

Gotten the name!

Minutes ago, I was surfing the net and looking for some hairstyle so that I might be able to follow in the future. In the mid of doing so, a particular hairstyle genre caught my attention and that's Emo Hairstyle.

It's not the genre name that caught my attention, but it's the thumbnail that's attached to the side of it. It's the hair style that I have been yearning for!!!

Some example of Emo Hairstyle:


Yup, that's the sort of hairstyle I want.
Oh ya, wanting an emo hairstyle doesn't make me an emo boy!

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Images gathered from Datz Me, ashion-emo-hairstyles.blogspot.com & emo-hair-cuts-styles.blogspot.com.
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INNOV8!

Flipped through the newspaper to find out that Samsung INNOV8 is now in Singapore! Too bad that my mobile line contract has yet to expire... The pricing is about S$668 (with the cheaper mobile contract), cheaper than I thought it would be. Maybe by Christmas, the price would fall even lower.

Samsung INNOV8 is here, but where's Sony Ericsson C905!? I heard it would be out in the late September and it's already 27 Sept...

Went over to Asia Cnet to look out at INNOV8 again and was pleasing surprise that it's ranked second (beating iPhone, ranking 3rd). I personally think that Apple should do a major revamp on their iPhone, there's no way you can blind the market for too long.

Walking with pain

Every night, since the previous Monday, I had been going to my new house to do some tidying up before doing any renovation. Felt bored as day passed and most of the time there, I would tend to be short-tempered. Guess it's because of the temperature and being tired after doing the cleaning (and plus, the cleaning was usually carried out after 8 p.m.).

Everyday was almost the same after 7 pm, but how I wished it remains the same for yesterday. On the way back to my old house, I missed a step and sprained my left ankle. The first thing that came to my mind was "how unfortunate can I be?". The pain was bearable at first and I can still walk without any obvious limping. But as time passed, the pain gotten worse and that causes me difficulties to carry out my usual activities and it also affected my sleep.

Guess the next time, I would pay more attention on where I'm walking...

Oh ya, before I end this post, here's something I added at the header:

Refresh for another character.
Might generate the same one as there's only 2 different character.
Stay tune for more!

OMH - OH My House...

Visited our new house yesterday and managed to get the keys for it. For the subsequent days, including today, I would be returning there to do some cleaning and maybe, some painting. As the house wasn't occupied for months, you would be able to find dust at almost every area of the house. Guess lots of work to be done to get the house in clean and great condition again. Some of the problems are the cracks on the wall, making painting job difficult and a big mirror in the dinning area that looks really out of place. Hopefully, in a month time (when I officially move in), the house would be completely different from what I'm seeing yesterday (in the positive way).

Later going out to Bugis with Edmund. Long time since I been there... My target is to get a V-neck shirt (cos V-neck shirt makes you looked slimmer)...

Tadaa! The Grnic Wallpaper!

For a greener world!

No particular theme for this character that I just did, just being random... This time, I used some gradient. So, how is it?© 2008 Samuel Lim Yi Jie
All rights reserved.

Grnic's wallpaper coming up soon!

Today is Saturday

OK... Who doesn't know that today is Saturday. I'm just being random.

Currently at home doing what I do most such as finding new music albums to listen, checking my MSN contact list for people to chat with (although I don't really chat with everyone, only few lucky ones), bloghopping and blogging.

Ya, I know, life for me suck...

Today, manage to get things straight and because of that, I finally saw the light, I believe this would be the end to the endless questions I used to have. All I need to do now is to aim for a GPA of 4 the next semester. Although it's kinda hard to do so (for my case), I would like to set 4 as my target so that I wouldn't start lazing around.

Later, some guest would be coming over to my house. Actually, not considered guest, they're the buyer of the current house I'm living in. Guess during their visit, I would stay in my room and do some cartoon character design.

Oh ya, speaking of character design, I did some improvement to the previous character I designed.

Here it is:

Special thanks to Edmund and JiaRong for the suggestions on improving this character!

Another thing is, I had placed some of the wallpaper that I created at the sidebar. Feel free to download them!

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Two Years Back

The animation below was created 2 years ago for a competition "StrITWise" at NP (which is my current school).

Not really a good one. But considered that I didn't have much knowledge about animation then, its kinda good already...

Animation might take a long time to load

The heartache

Most of the drama I watched (such as Korea and Singapore drama), there would be a scene that has either the leading actor or actress crying and clutching on their heart. People call this "heartbreak" or "heartache".

I guess the causing of such symptom is because of the lack of breathing. Mostly, you could feel this at its climax while you're crying. When you're crying, I doubt you hardly breathe. In the process, you're causing your heart to pump faster. Therefore, less breathing and more work from heart could be the reason for the heartache.

Although saying that, I still think that our emotion has its part to play on the heartache. From personal recount, I could feel a tremendous heartache even before crying and when you start crying, the climax would come.

OK, why am I talking about all this... I guess is out of random...

Second Baby!

Isn't this baby beautiful? (At least that's what I think)

My first character that combines hand and digital drawing.


To Zac:
Image from worldzac.blogspot.com

The bottom-right logo is the image above.

--- Edited Content ---

V.S.

Which is better?

Purple Evolution

The final evolution!

Hey!!! Where's the pencil...?

If you're interested in the wallpaper I created with it, you can click here.

Morning Illustration

Every morning, I seem to have plenty of passion for things. Today, I'm exploring the world of drawing vector character. I think it's kinda interesting, maybe I should hit the library and borrow books of relation. Why suddenly so interested? Actually, my passion for this burn from about 5 days ago, but not knowing where to start, I didn't start and I was sorta inspired by some of the year 2 students works during the last DOT meeting.

At last, I finally received some resources. I should be having their earlier, but Nik (the year 2 student) got my email address wrong. BTW, my email add. is egosam[at]gmail.com and NOT egosam@hotmail.com!

Oh, forgotten to introduce to your my first character I designed. Erm, no name given yet, sorta like a test sample. I know... it's not good, but consider it as my first attempt, I'm quite contented. The improvements need are a more irregular-shaped head and some shadow.

Samsung INNOV8 (i8510)

Behold the UPCOMING phone from Samsung, Samsung INNOV8. When I first knew the existence of this phone, I immediately realized that the war (in my brain) between Samsung and SOny Ericsson would begin. The Sony Ericsson phone is the one that I mentioned about a month ago, S.E. C905.

Difference (that I look out for) between the two phones:

• INNOV8 got a better design than C905
• C905 got a better camera solution of 0.1 MP compared to INNOV8
• INNOV8 uses Symbial OS while S.E. uses its own OS
  

Similarity (that I look out for) between them:

• WiFi
• Great Camera

Both phone coming out in Singapore at the end of September. I guess the pricing would still remain quite high till Christmas. Hope that M1 would have some X'Mas promotion.

Links:

• Bring me to Samsung INNOV8
• Bring me to S.E. C905
• What I write about S.E. C905
  
  

My first GPA!

Part of the eMail from Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Click for a larger view

OK, I shall declare that I'm super-de-dober happy!

SIMS 2 V.S. Jay Chou

Kinda fascinated by the endless amount of creativity people have.

Another morning of fuss

Why in the world bedbug is created, it's nothing but a mean-black-drinking-bug! OK... Without it, some food chain would be affected and we, humans, would feel the ripple effect and so on... Sounded like some movie.

I knew that I didn't fully rid the problem yesterday, but wasn't sure what I should do to attain that. There's lesser "attacks" of the bedbug last night, most likely because half of the population is dead and I wore a jacket to sleep. I guess most of the attacks started after lights out, so... are they afraid of light?

Anyway, my parents and I decided that the bed frame should go as that's the best way to stop the "occupation". Therefore, I guessed the "occupation" is over this morning, or is it?

Here's a software I just came across and would like to share with all Macintosh user. It's called "AppDelete". The name of the software should have explained itself, basically it's an application for Macs that will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application. - info from its official website

Take me to the Official Site

Sucking me for nights

"Goodnight, sleep tight, don't let the BEDBUG bites!!!"

You should have guessed it correctly (but no prize for guessing anyway), I had become the source of food for many bedbug for about a week. Ain't I generous or what...?

At first, everything starts with some itch here and there and soon, it became everywhere. The following day, rashes could be seen on the itchy area (due to my scratching... I guess). If it's not for my father, I guess I would continue to supply them with some highly nutritious and "holy" blood of mine. OK, ignore the previous sentence, trying to boast my ego...

It's kinda tiring to rid the bedbugs, even so, I'm still unsure regarding the termination of the entire population (at least at my bed) of the bedbug. Guess I wouldn't sleep at ease today...

OK, beside having the "bedbug incident" as highlight of the day, I also went to Toa Payoh HDB Hub with my parents to do the first appointment of selling and buying of house. Maybe within a month or so, I would be at my new home.

Is angry appropriate?

Remember my previous post, the one regarding the part whereby I mentioned I'm going to stop teaching? I was rather pissed off, I shall repeat, I'M PISSED OFF.

Pissed off? Pissed off by who. I'm pissed off by the one that gave birth to me. Without prior discussion, she called my student parents and @Pissed off? Pissed off by who. I'm pissed off by the one that gave birth to me. Without prior discussion, she called my student parents and @$&@*^$#*^%#@... I sometime wonder whether do they think with their head or butt, wouldn't they know that whatever they did would have undesirable strain on our relationship. I'm already 17 and yet, the treatment they given me today is completely unacceptable. *CURSES*

There you go

Got an idea early this morning regarding the design of the tagboard. I thought of doing something similar to what I did to the blog. After much effort (erm... 5 minutes perhaps?), it's finally done!

The newly "clothed" tagboard is located at the sidebar of this blog!

After a year of teaching, I decided to stop as I needed more time. There are other factors too, such as the coming semester 2, shifting house and so on... Wrote a letter to my students parents regarding the canceling of tuition. Yet to give her...

NO GIVING TUITION == NO INCOME (Got your equation right?)

Meetings like that SUCK

Until now, the dry and boring meeting is still going on. In the mid of it, there's so much "departure" from the main theme resulting in the extension on the duration of the meeting. You can imagine how free I'm when I can even do a post now. I just being normal, friends that attend to the meeting were either playing with anything they can get hold off, looking into empty space and folding paper.

Wonder what to do now... NO CCA POINTS AT ALL SOMEMORE!!!

The DOT COMM sure make me DOTZ...

Tomorrow would be the "long-waited" meeting for the Dot Committee. The last meeting, only 3 of us (Christina, Edmund and me) turned out. I think that the committee should announce itself from being officially dead. Although only 3 of us turned up, I got the feeling that I prefer it that way. Peaceful and no bossy seniors that stubbornly insisting on every details had to be their way.

Completed the "boarding pass" for the "Red Camp" and "Open House", hopefully mine got selected. But dream and reality seem so far apart, just hope that my design is not to the extent of being "tragic".

Here's the beta of my boarding pass, if they not going to use it, I will!

Morning Exercise - Burned Out

I was so determined to lose some fats that I woke up earlier (pls note, I stated earlier, not early) to meet up with Zac to do some morning jogging. As my upper body strength is like... shit... I decided to do some Chin-Up before running. Like usual, I can't even do one. *haha, laugh all you want*

Maybe that's me, before doing an activity, I would have lots of energy. When the thing really started, all the passion and energy would just vanished. Called it lazy if you want, come on, someone motivates me pls!!!

Hitting back to the track and did the jog, this is because that I didn't run for ages, just less than 2 rounds and I began to feel breathless. Hey! I can do 6 rounds without stopping! But that was all in the past.

Guess I would need to do more of running, pumping, pulling, kicking and shouting. Ignore the kicking and shouting.

We did a little chatting after the exercise and a particular topic interest me. It's the designing of our own shirt. That got my attention and I even googled for "Printing Shop for Tees" to located the nearest store in Singapore. I even start to think of the design and everything. I guess I was going crazy about it. Thank goodness, Zac brought me back from space as he made me realized that it's not financially wise. OK, the passion had eased...

Numb Neck, what's that?

Woken up by the usual Tuesday morning noise that's coming from the kitchen. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, mum would be having her tuition at home. Is not that I got any problem with that and plus, for the sake of the family income, she's willing to spend her time to work. But sometime, I would like to wake up normally, as in, no alarm ringing, no noisy neighbor chatting, and of course, no noise from the kitchen. Hm, to think of that, ever since the start of my holiday, I have been waking up late. I guess I would need to redevelop the habit of waking up early.

OK, back to my morning. Didn’t wanna go to the kitchen and therefore, I didn’t have my breakfast. I was quite hungry then and that’s why I went to the nearby hawker center to buy some food back. So, I didn’t have breakfast or lunch today, I got a Brunch. OK, a typical cold joke…

Arrange to meet up with Zac for a game of badminton at 2 this afternoon, and before that, I got this urge… the urge to buy clothes. I know, I know, hours ago, I had been typing about how my wardrobe has been occupied. But an urge is an urge, who can resist URGE? At least I know that I can’t. That’s why I always screwed up all my diet plans. OK, I was trapped at home and no shopping mall was opened then. The only thing for me to do is to look online. Kinda sad that most online shops solely sell ladies stuff. Why can’t the demand for guys’ fashion be larger?

As I was browsing the web for the different blogshop, I didn’t realize that the time had been ticking away. If it’s not for my mum, I would be seriously late.

Take me to the online shop with men collections!

Nothing much happen while enjoying a game of badminton except for the last half-an-hour. Two guys (much older, I guess) joined us in our game. The last half-an-hour was quite fun, and tiring as well.

Guess everything interesting ends from then, returning home and doing the usual stuff. Did my own dinner as I wouldn’t wanna eat at my grams’ house. I give their taste of the food a perfect 10 “YUCK!”.

The reflection of the evening sun on the glass window panel just stabbed my sight...

Maybe because of the badminton, I started to feel some numbness under my head. Erm… I mean my neck. Hopefully nothing is wrong.


Didn't lose any weight after the badminton!!! I shall officially claimed that my weighing scale spoiled, even if it's working fine!

Stop! Stop staring at my wardrobe!

Mum was complaining about my wardrobe again as it's packed with a thousand and one clothes alr. OK... Not really 1001 of clothes, but it's just a lot that I wouldn't bother counting. So... I took out all of them and do a "spring cleaning" for my wardrobe (is it spring now? But never mind, that's not the point). When I took out everything and placed it on my bed, my bed was hardly visible. Imagine the amount of clothes I have!!!

Managed to sort things out and threw/gave quite a few away and my wardrobe now looks... the same... Still packed with clothes...

Here's some photos taken after the "spring cleaning":

Top level (Shopping/Going Out/Formal/Sport clothes)

Middle level (Home wear - Shirts, Socks, Handkerchiefs & Underwear)

Bottom level (Outing & Home Wear Shorts/Bermudas)

Maybe would try to sell some of them through online advertising sites (then can earn money at the same time!)

More than a month alr?

A moment ago, I still have the impression that there's a long way before my holiday ended until I used a countdown widget on my Dashboard (some cool feature in my MacBook). I realized that more than a month had passed.

~ ~ ~ This is just a picture!!! ~ ~ ~

In this one month, I played computer games, went for shopping, playing badminton, working as part-time tutor and... sleeping. Sounded kinda "slack-y"?

Although I didn't do much during this period of time, I don't feel that I had wasted any time. Anyway, it's a holiday, I'm supposedly to have a good long break before all the "hellish-torments" start again (erm... I mean all the learning starts again).

Last but not least (delicate to all Primary, Secondary & Junior College students) wish you guys a happy back to school!

Currently listening to Jessica Simpson's "Do You Know".
... Do you know how much i love you...

What's blogging?

Because different person has a different writing style and therefore, there would be all kinds of blogger with different way of expressing themselves. My opinion, none is perfect and none is poor.

I hear people commenting on my blogging method before and tried changing it. In the end, my blog seemed so... strange. Not really know how to explain it, but my blog had somehow become the blog of someone else as the way of writing was completely different.

Anyway, I'm not really interested in commercializing my blog. Therefore, no need to write a blog like writing a report. Most importantly, the contents must be understandable.

Yup, that's all on my opinion of blogging.

* Thanks to all that wishes me a Happy Birthday. You wouldn't be forgotten! *

Yesterday a Day At KBOX

Sorry for the poor quality (from the scanner)

OK, only one photo for the entire session (and it's taken by the staff there). I would like to thank KBOX for the birthday package for their member as we're treated to free birthday cake (1kg), balloons and (if I'm not wrong) a discount of 20%.

What we do: Sing, sang, sung and a occasional dance.

The 17th My Day

This year, a fast year. Before I even start to request for an early birthday, my big day is here. Maybe because of that, I feel no excitement even when the birthday song was sang. The only feeling was "OK, now they're singing a birthday song to me and *haha* I would smile."

I celebrated my birthday twice with a different set of family. So, does that mean that I'm 18 now?

Took some photos and a video, if you're interested, just scroll down.
(The video and most photos were taken by my mum)

* I'm the one with the white vest *