Out of Oz

Back from Australia.  Here's what I've learned.

1.  If you order an ice coffee, you get a scoop of ice cream.
2.  If you're not sure if its a twig or a spider, it's a spider.
3.  If you're not sure if its a leaf blowing in the wind or a cockroach, its a cockroach.  Flying.

Beautiful country.  Only really had time to scratch out 2 sketches between the sights and sounds.

A quick avatar in profile

Old school Fem Paladin.

I'd say work in progress, but who are we kidding?

The rest of the time was a mix between catching some good movies, some bad movies and some Lightwave tutorials.  The bullet physics engine is actually... promising...

knock knock

*open door*

Dude "Hi, I'm Ian from FlowerPower Electric.  I just want to make sure you're getting a fair rate for your power.  Can you tell me how much you're paying for your bill?  I'll wait here"
Monkey King "Uh, oh, ok...Uh"

*close door*

Green Queen "Who was that?"
Monkey King "Oh, ok...Power.  Bill.  Check.  Uh"
Green Queen "We're not interested"
Monkey King "ok..."
Little Princess "Door!  Door!"

*open door*

Monkey King "Hey man, you got shut down"
Dude "Wha?"
Monkey King "Yeah, sorry.  Try to have a nice evening"
Dude "Huh?"  Looks at me all befuddled.
Little Princess "Daddy!"

*SLAM*

HAHAHA!  The look on his face was GOLD!  He was so confused and didn't know what to write on his clip board.  Imagine a Neanderthal trying to figure out...square peg, round hole???

===

Little Princess "Daddy!"
I love my little girl =)

XCOM, LoL

I did it!  I finished XCOM.  Checkout my unlocked achievement.

Humanity's saviour

I started playing over Christmas at my in-laws cause we were visiting and I had buckets of time.  I was power levelling at the end cause I thought the last level was going to be stupid hard.  That, and there would be 2 or 3 diffident squads assaulting select parts of the ship (as opposed to just 1).  After all that grinding, apparently for no good reason, my soldiers beat the game in a blow out.  A little anticlimactic, but I am satisfied.  Here's a snapshot of our heroes:

The team that accomplished the mission

vs.

Team Valkyrie that I wanted to end the game with.

Wait.  They're all...how come they all have the same colour...

ARMOUR!  Yes, good question.  I am too cheap to pay for the Elite Soldier Pack and did not expect enough of the game to pre-order it, which again, would have given me the same thing.  Um, as of writing, I just remembered my brother customizing his XCOM squad with flamboyant colours  You know what?  Never mind.  Moot point now.

So what's next?  I'm not going to play the Slingshot expansion pack right away.  I'm going to play the next StarCraft 2 episode.  But, seeing as how there are still a couple weeks before Heart of the Swarm, I'm jumping in and out of some sweet League of Legends.  Check out my primary and secondary champions:

Wukong and Lux

I really had no idea the Monkey King was going to be one of the champions, but I was scrolling sawhimERMAGHED!!INSTABUY!!so here he is.  Lux is little more of a different story.  It was a toss up between her and Fiora what with the fencing and the sword.  But really, when I considered it a little more carefully,  2 melee charters may get kinda old kinda quick.  Therefore, I elected to go with a ranged support glass mage.  Very low HP.  Very squishy.  =(

Breakfast

 

It's dawn.
Nightmare is over,

right?

Water Fell

Old words still follow me (haunting me forever)

When it rains it pours.
Wut... happened?

Break Up

I was thinking,

Even when you’ve been leveled, whats most important is to take what is good, clear the rubble and rebuild.  Rise, phoenix style.

Break down? no
Break up!

Break

I feel sick
I feel like throwing up

Must be the fumes from the jiffy markers

燒雞翼,我鍾意食

BBQ chicken wings, I love to eat!

Inspired from a little jingle from Hong Kong cinema's Stephen Chow.
It all started as a ridiculous musical number from The Flirting Scholar and some how ended up in A Chinese Odyssey Part 2.  Chow plays the role of an poet / calligrapher / artist and the Monkey King respectively.

OH!
The Flirting Scholar also stars Gong Li.  You may recognise her as the queen from Curse of the Golden Flower and the token cougar from Miamic Vice.

Two points

Updated www.rontang.com and www.waterfallcave.com to point to this blog.

I should never have had delusions of redesigning my website from scratch.  All that's left, actually, wait, no.  Yeah, all that was ever up was this splash page.  I had nothing going.