Tee Yen. I received a SMS from your brother this Wednesday. He said that you have left us and your wake will be till this Saturday, today. It is not something people would usually joke about, but honestly, I was suspecting and hoping it was when I first read the message, I was thinking, "It's not funny man" but didn't dared to call back. Like I mean, I just saw you online a couple of days ago.
I went to confirm it somehow, and saw quite some comments left for you in friendster, some from our old classmates too, guess we were all thinking alike. Then I found another message, dated just awhile before Wednesday, also from your brother, about your critical condition due to the accident.
So, Andrew Teo Tee Yen, I do not know the you after we left secondary school, though it seems you have become quite the reliable fellow. And I'm guessing except for "Hi", and "how you doing?", we really don't have much to talk about. But I do remember you as the guy with the dream of owning a monster size CPU packed with circuit boards and armed with an array of cooling fans that fills up the whole of the back of the CPU. And the first guy I know who can remember all the different chips and components and their reliabilities and uses found in those leaflets and price lists given at Sim Lim Square.
Be safe man, see you around.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
New Semester
May Day! Holiday! A bit late, but, it's a new semester at school! Being a graduate, the lessons no longer concerns me, but the activities there do! In the first place, NYP was my training location since a year before I met my classmates in year 1. So, basically I guess everything is just going back to how it was. Having set my scehdule for wushu on Wednesdays for 4 years, it's abit difficult to change it like that, infact, it has become easy for me to make especially my Wednesdays free out of habit.
Had a 3 day camp from March 19th to the 21st to prepare for the Club Crawl. Had plenty of time to prepare I guess, so no rush there in general, pretty much go with the flow there. A working photo on the left there. Oh yeah! We even have a cute couple happening thanks to the Club Crawl preparations! How sweet is that!
This year they improved again! There was a time not too long ago, we just put a tablecloth, a few weapons, trophies, and leaflets, then we went on and added more colour to the booths the following years, and last year, we had a roof ontop our heads! This year, there was a whole door frame and 2 weapon stands!
Top darker picture was during 2006, the brighter one bellow is this year's. That's them, the current NYP wushu members! Plus minus a few due to FYPJ and Attachments... drat. Well, like I said before, it's their era now. Wonder how it's like from their perspective......
Anyway, club crawl was on the 18th and 19th of April, the performance schedule for zhong hua wu shu like every other year was allocated at a lonely time. 11am on a Thursday. Exately how many people are without lessons at that time? But like I told them, we are what I call, performing for the organisers and participants, not the freshmen, which is alot more enjoyable if you ask me. It's got MORE sense of closure. The performance went on smoothly, the current captain even put on his drunken fan style as an added treat, but due to the music that was put on during his turn and the amount of people that was even in the hall then, the whole atmosphere felt while watching him was like watching him acting out a dance drama about saddness and loneliness......
Next, it's time for the freshmen! We did have 1 freshman who stayed on the 18th of April, the first day of Club Crawl itself to check out our training. The dude's pretty much an excat copy of another teammate of ours'. The majority came the following week.
Only met them like last week, so nothing much to write about.
Same old, people who are totally new to martial arts, people who have been practicing since 5 or even earlier, people who are here to be characters we seen in stories. There's as much reasons for people to join us as there are in the amount of bugs I have in my programming.
But on a usual scale, the ones that do stay on, a huge percentage of them never even saw our performances or anything. Like in most cases with other martial arts clubs and assosications, they walk into the hall, walk straight to the booth, sign their names, maybe take a walk around the whole hall to have a look, and then leave.
Would be nice if the number that stay on exceeds 20.
Hope this year will be a peaceful year as well.
Had a 3 day camp from March 19th to the 21st to prepare for the Club Crawl. Had plenty of time to prepare I guess, so no rush there in general, pretty much go with the flow there. A working photo on the left there. Oh yeah! We even have a cute couple happening thanks to the Club Crawl preparations! How sweet is that!
This year they improved again! There was a time not too long ago, we just put a tablecloth, a few weapons, trophies, and leaflets, then we went on and added more colour to the booths the following years, and last year, we had a roof ontop our heads! This year, there was a whole door frame and 2 weapon stands!
Top darker picture was during 2006, the brighter one bellow is this year's. That's them, the current NYP wushu members! Plus minus a few due to FYPJ and Attachments... drat. Well, like I said before, it's their era now. Wonder how it's like from their perspective......
Anyway, club crawl was on the 18th and 19th of April, the performance schedule for zhong hua wu shu like every other year was allocated at a lonely time. 11am on a Thursday. Exately how many people are without lessons at that time? But like I told them, we are what I call, performing for the organisers and participants, not the freshmen, which is alot more enjoyable if you ask me. It's got MORE sense of closure. The performance went on smoothly, the current captain even put on his drunken fan style as an added treat, but due to the music that was put on during his turn and the amount of people that was even in the hall then, the whole atmosphere felt while watching him was like watching him acting out a dance drama about saddness and loneliness......
Next, it's time for the freshmen! We did have 1 freshman who stayed on the 18th of April, the first day of Club Crawl itself to check out our training. The dude's pretty much an excat copy of another teammate of ours'. The majority came the following week.
Only met them like last week, so nothing much to write about.Same old, people who are totally new to martial arts, people who have been practicing since 5 or even earlier, people who are here to be characters we seen in stories. There's as much reasons for people to join us as there are in the amount of bugs I have in my programming.
But on a usual scale, the ones that do stay on, a huge percentage of them never even saw our performances or anything. Like in most cases with other martial arts clubs and assosications, they walk into the hall, walk straight to the booth, sign their names, maybe take a walk around the whole hall to have a look, and then leave.
Would be nice if the number that stay on exceeds 20.
Hope this year will be a peaceful year as well.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Props ( Rebellion And Ebony & Ivory - DMC 2)
These here are the Rebellion sword and the Ebony and Ivory guns from Devil May Cry 2. The Rebellion sword is made entirely out of wood except for those spider web like stuffs on it. Those are a combination of strings, super glue, and think there was glue gun glue too on it. The handle, the hand guards, the sculls and rib cages on both sides were all carved out, filed out, and sand from your regular wood planks. Takes awhile, and hope I don't have to make those rib cages ever again. They were all squarish to begin with, and with the small size and spacing in between, you had to put your fingers there and let them get filed along as well in order to get a good angle. But the end product though small, is quite satisfying.
The Ebony & Ivory guns, are made with wood, wood fillers, and hard foam as base, and then plastic and wood again for the various accessories. The two pictures, yeah, they're just printed, and we stuck them there.
We made a gun hoster for the guns too with some left over material for Elrond (Elmo) the client. Though it wasn't how we planned it at first, but he did use them in the end. Nice guy.
The Ebony & Ivory guns, are made with wood, wood fillers, and hard foam as base, and then plastic and wood again for the various accessories. The two pictures, yeah, they're just printed, and we stuck them there.
We made a gun hoster for the guns too with some left over material for Elrond (Elmo) the client. Though it wasn't how we planned it at first, but he did use them in the end. Nice guy.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Props ( The Wierd Ones )
This one is an example of one of the wierd orders we had before. Well, not excatly weird, just wish they stop doing that some times. This mask is the one from V for Vandetta. It's much more surprisingly difficult to make since they don't really sell masks with the excat features in Singapore, well, not where we looked anyway. Heard the people over at the Singapore Movie Club had to import the mask over, much like all the other costumes of theirs. Theirs' was made of rubber, and greenish in colour. This one here however was done with wet newspaper and Epoxy Putty, which was why it was freaking heavy, 3.5 kg to be excat......for a mask... Surprisingly and luckily, that client said that was what he wanted. Weight. Which was actually what had to be put in for some of the props every now and then. Apparently some people needed to feel the weight of the prop they hold in their hands. As such ever so often request would come in to use specific materials, like thick metal plates and whole chunks of acrylic. Bad idea;
1) Heavy means structure might just break, and plus the fact that some people likes to swing their prop around. Safety is a concern.
2) Acrylic. We used them in school, as in how many QUALITY stuffs did you get from schools in the first place? Acrylics are Strong, Meliable, and BRITTLE remember?
3) Full thick metal plates and bars...... you're kidding.
1) Heavy means structure might just break, and plus the fact that some people likes to swing their prop around. Safety is a concern.
2) Acrylic. We used them in school, as in how many QUALITY stuffs did you get from schools in the first place? Acrylics are Strong, Meliable, and BRITTLE remember?
3) Full thick metal plates and bars...... you're kidding.
Props (The Little Things)
Thought I post some pictures of the little things. These are props that take very little time from just a day to 20 minutes, not counting the paint dry time. For some of them like the Lacus clips and Halos, they are so easy to make, we usually had spare laying around incase anybody wants, of course the price is alot cheaper than other props, cept for those like the medelion there BaoShin made due to the material costs. Heard from him its from a Korean comic. For others, these little things actually act as testing base for various experiments on materials we never used before. Like the Faith badge was a test with rasin. You can make lots of custom shape jewlry with those things! They are also quite good for starters or warmups.
Custom hair clips and jewelry, you guys might want to try it out and make them for any love ones.
Same deal, for hair clips, 2mm to 3mm thick plastic, cut out the shapes, and stick them tightly to those base clips that they sell outside. For jewerly, get rasin, hardner, moulding materials like Epox Putty or Liquid Latex, and follow the instructions on their packagings. But be really careful with the rasin, those things are really messy and can really cut like shattered glass....... heck they are kinda like glass in the first place, and you are going to cry if they got into your nails, eyes, or ears. So gloves, googles and masks, PLEASE!
Custom hair clips and jewelry, you guys might want to try it out and make them for any love ones.
Same deal, for hair clips, 2mm to 3mm thick plastic, cut out the shapes, and stick them tightly to those base clips that they sell outside. For jewerly, get rasin, hardner, moulding materials like Epox Putty or Liquid Latex, and follow the instructions on their packagings. But be really careful with the rasin, those things are really messy and can really cut like shattered glass....... heck they are kinda like glass in the first place, and you are going to cry if they got into your nails, eyes, or ears. So gloves, googles and masks, PLEASE!
Monday, April 9, 2007
Props (Cerberus - Dirge of Cerberus)
Cerberus, acquired by Vincent from Dirge of Cerberus of Final Fantasy VII, and most likely the same gun he had in Advent Children. For this one, we went all out;
Included springs in there so the trigger is actually triggerable. The barrels were clockable, so you could actually remove those three tubes you see above the trigger, and the whole thing weighs about 3 kg. Actually, for this, we took apart those BB guns you can buy in China that is capable of chipping cement off the walls and we made replicas of the different parts. Material used were, wood, cardboard, metal pipes, epoxy putty, and plastic. The whole set sold for $450 including the gold armor parts that Vincent wears. But that armor was the easier part. Clive made that in a day. Damn, this gun took weeks!
See that chain at the handle of the gun? That was bought at Comics Connections. $10 in a box including a pin size replica of the lion head on Clouds' left shoulder armor. Lucky!
On a side note, we were the first people on this planet to have made this gun out. Not something to go parading about, but hey, it's good for keeping the records.
Which reminds me, Hasswan decided what the heck, and drew a to-scale plan for an actual firing mechanisim, never got to see that though; There was a potential client that wanted that kind of mechanisim and willing to pay quite high for that. Anyway, the dude drew the plans on blue-print paper, brought it over to the police station to check just incase, and according to him, the policman at the counter had the stun look, called his college, who had the same stun look, then brought him over to a room where they acked for his IC, asked a couple of question, and made him shred the plans then and there......Hmm.
Anyway, due to the many features, the prop's structure isn't strong at all. Actually it broke. And as it turned out, the client didn't need all those functions, the fact the trigger can move is more than good enough. Based on what I could gather, Clive got so excited discussing about the prop with her that she decided to let him go ahead with those features...... Lesson learnt in confirming things.
Included springs in there so the trigger is actually triggerable. The barrels were clockable, so you could actually remove those three tubes you see above the trigger, and the whole thing weighs about 3 kg. Actually, for this, we took apart those BB guns you can buy in China that is capable of chipping cement off the walls and we made replicas of the different parts. Material used were, wood, cardboard, metal pipes, epoxy putty, and plastic. The whole set sold for $450 including the gold armor parts that Vincent wears. But that armor was the easier part. Clive made that in a day. Damn, this gun took weeks!
See that chain at the handle of the gun? That was bought at Comics Connections. $10 in a box including a pin size replica of the lion head on Clouds' left shoulder armor. Lucky!
On a side note, we were the first people on this planet to have made this gun out. Not something to go parading about, but hey, it's good for keeping the records.
Which reminds me, Hasswan decided what the heck, and drew a to-scale plan for an actual firing mechanisim, never got to see that though; There was a potential client that wanted that kind of mechanisim and willing to pay quite high for that. Anyway, the dude drew the plans on blue-print paper, brought it over to the police station to check just incase, and according to him, the policman at the counter had the stun look, called his college, who had the same stun look, then brought him over to a room where they acked for his IC, asked a couple of question, and made him shred the plans then and there......Hmm.
Anyway, due to the many features, the prop's structure isn't strong at all. Actually it broke. And as it turned out, the client didn't need all those functions, the fact the trigger can move is more than good enough. Based on what I could gather, Clive got so excited discussing about the prop with her that she decided to let him go ahead with those features...... Lesson learnt in confirming things.
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