Nerves ~

I've been staying at home staring at my computers for so many days. My illustration pages is blank, my mind is blank. I don't know where to start and I don't know how. Every time the clock ticking, I feel the blood rush through my nerves. It freak me out. I runs out of idea. Due date is near and I couldn't afford fail myself again. I just want to finish my work and get the life out of this miserable place.

Alone sitting at the balcony outside my room, I suck in the smoke from the cigarette into my lungs. It pollute me but it is the only way to calm down my waving mind. Remind me of the time when I work in the clubs. I used to stand in the cold, taking cigarettes after another, waiting for peoples. When I look more deep into the past, I still regret that I didn't appreciate my chance and I'm totally lost that time. My life totally fucked up since she entered my life and took away my soul. Those lies she told me..still deeply haunted my mind. I'm 16 that time. I'm just too weak and too naive to understand that time.. but now that is all my past.

I've been watching a lot movies lately. A lot I've watched for too many times but I still watching them, to keep my mind awake so I might get inspired. My page is still empty. I'm too tired to think now.. all I can do is have another good sleep and tomorrow might be another nightmares or something different. Whos know?

Got iPhone?

Yeap, everyone around me own an iPhone. What so great about it? I mean like, why everyone so keen to own it. This is my personal experience. When I first own an iPhone, I feel like this is a piece of crap. After that I sold it to my buddy cos he like it so much. That's what happen to my first generation iPhone. After a while I start to miss my iPhone. Its like an addict. Then my bro told me he bought a blackberry and left his iPhone 3G aside. That is how I got my 2nd iPhone and I'm still using it right now. To tell you the truth, first generation iPhone is really a piece of crap (sorry huat, I sold my crap to u).

With my iPhone 3G, I can online anywhere I like (when I'm at Melbourne ofcause). I got this Optus as my service line with its Turbo Charged plan. This plan is just perfectly pair with my iPhone. Everytime I recharge it gave me a lot of free data that I can use to online. Up until now, I got like 2.48Gb free data in my current credit. I mean like, how to gonna finish 2.48Gb with your phone. Everytime before the data finish, it is my time to reload again that's why I feel like I got unlimited data. iPhone got all sort of apps that you can use to online. Skype, facebook, youtube, msn, twitter, google, and a lot more I can use. First generation don't have 3G, so its crap phone for me cos I barely can online with it unless I got a wifi nearby.

Some people ask me, why I don't want to get the new iPhone 3Gs. I would tell them, hell no. iPhone 3G is enough for me unless they got the video call thing and the dual camera. I won't pay for another Au$ 850 just to get an iPhone with just a better speed and better camera. My current iPhone 3G barely lag so why I need to pay so much just for better speed and I will not take photo with my phone. Its crap camera and I got my Olympus Tough-8000 12mega pixel camera most of the time with me. Yet, I own Nikon D80 as well.

Another reason why my iPhone is so fun. Its because of the games. iPhone got so much fun game in it especially this one, my favourite "geoDefense" and now they released a new one "geoDefense Swamp". If anyone out there own an iPhone and you are tower defense fans, you definitely want to buy this apps. I can say, no phone out there in the market can match with iPhone in terms of application. Some phone might have better camera, better gps, better interface, better usability, but iPhone totally own every phone out there with the apps. If you own an iPhone, it is just like you own a "Mini" computer.

The person who suggest Apple to release this "iPhone Application Developer Kits" is a genius. This software enable everyone out there, in both os window or mac, they can get this software and start design and build an apps for iPhone. I mean like anyone with the basic knowledge of programming. If you are very good with Adobe Flash Action Scripts 3.0, I dare to say, it will only took a while to figure out how to make an apps for iPhone. I consider myself not a pro in Action Scripts 3.0 but belong to the stage between rookie and pro. I played with iPhone Apps Developer Kits before and it is not that hard to use.

After I graduated from uni, I will want to make some apps for iPhone. It is the easiest way to earn money. I mean like, there are million of people owning iPhone, if your apps can sell just for US$1, and 1k user bought it, you already earn US$1k. That if only 0.1% buying your apps. If you make a really good apps, don't say 0.1%, there might be 10 or even 50% people will buy your apps. The good thing about it, you can work on it anytime, anywhere you want and you don't have due date.

and that's it. That's is all for my review on Apple iPhone.

Last, I would like to wish my buddy UNG NGEE HUAT, Happy Birthday and wishing you earn more money (I know money is the only thing that drive u now). Cheers!

My Presentation - big mess but overall it turn out quite good

After lunching the Not A Tomato "Alternate Reality Game" for several weeks, it is finally ended. If you enter the website now, it will only show the Hall of Fame page that display those artwork created by our fans :)

So the final presentation to conclude everything. I think I really mess up the whole presentation cos I forgotten what I had to say. Its really shame. I'm gonna show u my part

I never get a rehearsal and I only got my script on the day of presentation which mean I need to memorise the whole script in few hours time. I manage to memorise them all but when I got up there.. I forget everything lol. Well that's all I'm gonna show you about the presentation. Its 1 hour presentation but I just took my part out to show it here enjoy and laugh all you want =.="

Last week I bought a toy "Remote Control Car". I bought this toy cos I wanted to use it as my references for my 3D works. The words on the package "Drift" attracted me so I bought it lol but most important is that this is a RX-7 ^^ and yea I ordered it from Japan Ebay and its not that expensive.

This toy car actually remind me of the "Tamiya" that I used to play during my primary school or during form 1 and form 2 I think. I wasted a lot of money into it but last last I sell everything also. This RX-7 come with the parts only. I assemble the whole thing myself including the body, side mirror, the GT-Wings etc etc. Inside the motors, rims the tiny parts, gear.. everything I have to assemble it myself. It is actually not well fitted and some of the part I have to cut it and sand it before I can put it together and here is the final look of the car.



I think the paint is not nice enough so I think I will do some paint job on it some other time. This car actually drift and I found this video on youtube and its exactly what I am owning now lol

Friday once again! ~Power of Photoshop~

Its been a great week even though I'm busy to hell. Done a lot of thing lately that make myself proud of it. Hopefully everything will be this smooth till the rest of my life haha..how naive.

Here I'm gonna show you the power tools that i've been using a lot lately, from digital painting to photo editing. My digital painting (for my animation background) haven't quite finish yet so I'm not going to show it here but soon. Below I will show you the photo of myself that I photoshop it.

Before

and After

Even though I used some spot light here but you can see the photo is pale and yellow cos of the light. Even my look also pale before the photo was edited. Forget about the words now, look on the colour of my skin and also my rough face and dimmed light. I can say, you can almost do anything with photoshop. That's the power of it. Before and after editing really a lot of different. That's why nowaday if you see beautiful model in magazine or poster or any print media, u minus 30-40% of the look in the print that's is the true look of them. Even if you have fat arms and legs, I can use photoshop help u become skinny and sexy. Imagine what Ngee Huat will look like if he is skinny. I will definitely try that when I'm free..someday haha.

Alright story with photoshop end here. I'll tell you the story of me and my face here. When I'm in high school, for some reason I got whole face full of pimples. I went to see doctor and they said its because of my gene and my blood that's why my skin is terrible. Then slowly it heals cos I eat those medi the doctor gave me plus a product name "Clean & Clear" helped me a lot. After few years my face heals but the scars all over my face. There's a lot of people told me that I can heal those scar on my face. I was thinking why should I do that. I know the scar will make me look terrible but I still don't wish to heal my scar. I just don't know why. May be I'm more man this way haha..look at my father, the scar on his face is much much greater than mine but he is one of the greatest businessman I ever seen in my life. I swear! From zero to millionaire and to zero again and now here he is again. Sometimes I feel like if I compare to my dad I'm only 30% of him. He is smarter than me, he is hardworking than me, and he is so tough. You can see, I'm born into a very tough family. Few of you here might have the experience like I do but both of my parents also so good in making money. They have their own path, have their own business, have their own income, but we are one family. That's the greatest thing. My mum used to be really professional businesswoman but she is retire now. My dad not same, he told me he want to work till 70s. OMG! That's why I told myself I got to learn everything about business from my dad..from the scratch. Enough of the crap here.

If anyone out there reading my blog, I know you all love me! So do love my work as well. Support me by going to www.notatomato.com

If you guys want more entertaining one, go to youtube and search for notatomato videos. There are heaps out there! Also many artwork posted on devian art. Thank You!

[Layout] Top header

I got this idea like 2 months ago where I do a flash banner to put on the top of my blog. Until now I haven't start anything yet cos I'm too busy with uni stuff and I've been lazy around haha. Hopefully withing this month I can finish it. My own dot com is also half way already. I haven't register the domain name yet but I think I'm going to use www.mingyew.com. I don't want something that is too fancy and I don't want my first name on it as well cos Jeffery can be anyone. I know there are plenty of people with the name mingyew as well but for some reason I feel more comfortable using mingyew this name.

I found few web hosting and I still don't know which one shud I use. I might just register a domain then use my father company website hosting. So I can save heeps :). Speaking of my father company, he asked me to design a webpage for him up until now I still haven't come out with anything. What a bad son lol. Basically I only know like 10% or 20% of his business. I have requested a company profile from him he asked me to make one for him as well. I'm like, I'm not the kind of people for company profile. First, my english always come out with a lot of grammar mistake. My brother decide to ask someone which is more proffessional to do it. So until now I haven't heard of anything. I still struggling with my own work here that is why up until now everything is still on the scratch.

May be after I graduate, the first project I'm going to do is to finish up my dad company website. I know I don't have chances to go out and explore my own career. My dad is waiting for me to help him in his business (**envy envy ppl out there**). Nothing to envy here as you don't know what is in my mind.

Anyway, the project that me and my team member working on is almost up. Please visit www.notatomato.com

Transformers Inspired

Transformers! Yes one of my favorite cartoon when I was a child. Now it has come to live and they make movie out of it. I'm gonna admit it is really well directed and creative. Big hand to Michael Bay - the director of Transformers movie. I was inspired by this movie so much that I wanna make a memes out of it for the Alternate Reality Game that I'm doing right now with 13 others Multimedia & Digital Arts students. Our topic is"NOT A TOMATO" which people will play the game and search the clue out of many different kind of media including pictures, posters, videos and so on.

I downloaded the wallpapers of Transformers through google then start doing some photoshop. It come out pretty well I think for a memes. Here are some of the process I gone through.

First the protect wallapaper

Then the destroy wallpaper

and the fonts...

and ofcause the tomato cos our topic related to the tomato

and here.. the 2 memes I made. I'm not sure if its better with the tomato or not so I let my group member choose it. I also made a matrix poster as well haha

This one I made the background myself and just use the tomato before and the fonts I downloaded from internet.

This project is quite fun actually and this coming Monday the game officially start. Check out at www.notatomato.com. I won't expose all the details here not cos the game is yet to discover by our player. Until the game end, I think I will post everything up to my blog. For now just stay tune!

There also some cool video I found in youtube. It was about the voice over for the Transformers character. When I first watch the movie on Transformers, I was thinking who's behind the voice of Optimus Prime. I think it is the best voice over I ever heard. Then I found the video of the guy who is doing Optimus Prime voice over. Check out this video.

Bravo~

Give myself a big hand after a big week and I manage to survive. Did so much work and also some silly thing that I never done in my life. I wear a mascot suit and run into a lecture theater. I was planning to dance around the lecture theater when everyone else was having their lecture but I too shy to do that. I've been really busy ever since this semester started. I'm quite happy with my progress now. Hopefully everything run smoothly till the end of this semester. I've sleep for total of 10 hours in 3 days 3 night. I think tomorrow I will made myself rest for a day then continue busy again. Sometime I just need a second or two to breath. Well.. I'm gonna back to sleep now.