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Chiharu: HIROMI!! (scream)
Hiromi: Chiharu?
Chiharu: HIROMI!! (scream)
Hiromi: Chiharu!!
Chiharu: HIROMI!! (scream)
Hiromi: CHIHARU!!
Chiharu: HIROMI!! (scream)
Hiromi: CHIIIIHARU!!!!
Chiharu: HIROMI!! (scream)
Hiromi: For fucks sake.. Just unlatch the chain on the door, you stupid dipshit!
Chiharu: .............-___-

]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/11956108/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/11956108/ Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:11:23 PST
]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/10540195/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/10540195/ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:47:11 PDT
Such a thing happened last night and I'm writing this down to record it.

I had an odd, slightly disturbing dream last night. In it, I was kneeling down on the grass of our top orchard. In front of me were something like ten possums. Three large, obviously mature ones were sitting on their haunches about 5 metres in front of me while the remainder were running in erratic circles around these three, as if in a frenzy, and were making panicky noises. The three sitting on their haunches were all facing myself, staring at me with those enormous possum eyes. They looked for all the world like they were pleading for something. I had the distinct impression they were the possum group's elders. The circling possums seemed to get even more panicky and moved in increasingly erratic ways. Then from somewhere came an agonizing.. shreik, I guess would be the word. At that, the dream faded. I remembered the dream quite clearly when I woke and when I saw my father this morning I told
him about it.

My father looked quite surprised after I mentioned the dream to him and admitted that he had had a nightmare last night. He had woken up in the early hours of the morning still grunting and groaning as though he had been using a lot of effort. I laughed and asked why. What had he been dreaming? He said that he had dreamt he had been fighting a possum, trying to beat it to death with a stick.

How odd I thought. We both dreamed of possums on the same night.

What really freaked me out was when I went up to the orchard just before (out of curiosity) and found a newly dead possum lying among the plum trees, in the longish grass. It was the same place as I had dreamed about. It appears to have been struck around the head.

Here, we normally dispose of dead possums by throwing them unceremoniously on a fire. This possum, however, I think I will bury..

I kid you not. This just happened last night/this morning.

Maybe Halloween decided to came a couple of days early.. O_o;;

]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/10523757/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/10523757/ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:39:54 PDT
'Oh! You're still here..'
'Well, yeah.. Why?'
'Everyone else has left.'
'WTF?'

One good thing though. I'm now employed part time at a graphic design company that designs and makes wide format posters. At least its a start towards what I want to do.

I have no social life now. It's official.

]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/10233286/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/10233286/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:47:02 PDT
I guess I must have been tired.

I wasn't too impressed last week when my classful of cackling female co-students were going on in class about their male-based injustices regarding their respective love-lives (tutor included -_-). I coughed and made a few strident comments valiantly trying to keep my genders rep up but they just laughed. Kim, the girl opposite me leaned around her computer, chuckled and said 'You don't count. You're an honorary girl.'

Farking great.. I protested vehemently. Mass laughter ensued. (I should mention that theres only two guys in my class.. and the other guy was away >< )

I have a plan though. At lunchtime on the day I leave, I'm going to stay in and pretend I'm still working. I will then copy a nasty hentai pic to everones computers with a big happy 'see ya! overlaid, and make it their desktop background. Then I will run. Fast. And hope I still get my qualifications. Haha.

Bah.. Back to work, I guess.

]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/9984569/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/9984569/ Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:23:14 PDT
Just not today.

Today/this week has just been nasty. I hate jury duty. I'm sick of looking at photos of pools of blood. -____-





btw, sorry for the misleading title. It was a bad attempt at cynicism. >< ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/9601581/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/9601581/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:33:26 PDT
It went into major meltdown mode. Got it going again now after replacing a few things. I didn't even lose data this time, thank the gods. Most horrible though was that I had to get a quick replacement keyboard. I wish I'd looked around more as this 2nd hand one I'm using is just NASTY. The spacebar rattles and the keys feel naff. Its funny how you get attached to the feel of your keyboard.

I've decided to go back to working on games so my art stuff may play second fiddle for a while. I'm getting lots of art practice making scene backdrops and textures anyway, haha. I'm so rusty with my script coding though -_-

Practice will make perfect I guess.



God, I wish summer would hurry up.. I'm tired of having frozen (insert bodypart name here) all the time.





Ok Dave, you can stop complaining now O_O ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/9508589/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/9508589/ Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:09:45 PDT
What the hell?

Our country sent a rather bitter reprimand to the Israelis . How dare they assume we want them to keep up their insane actions. How dare Hezbollah assume that they have the right to to bring Lebanon to its knees.

I feel like going there and bashing both the Israelis and Hezbollahs heads together. Way to ruin a country guys.

Fuck sake.

BTW Middle East countries, two wrongs do not make a right.

I'm so angry and depressed. I'm out of here. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/7040049/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/7040049/ Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:55:38 PST
'Pologies for the lack of new stuff. Coursework, two jobs and h/w is eating all my time. That and my comps OS imploded, forcing a format and reinstall. Lost a lot of stuff, damn it all.

Once I get everything reinstalled, I'll try to get some free time to actually do something.


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"Never play leap-frog with a unicorn." ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/6138117/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/6138117/ Fri, 05 Aug 2005 01:56:07 PDT
I heard on the news that the space shuttle was going overhead tonite, so yes, I stood outside in the dark at the said time and gazed to the heavens to catch a glimpse. Guess who has a sore neck! Mission accomplished though. I watched it cruise lazily from the west, heading east. They need to put the pedal to the metal a bit though seeing as they arrived later than the advertised time. Hey! Standing round in the dark, outside, in the middle of winter for 1/2 an hour or so gets pretty damned cold.. lol.

I really need to do something about my cat. It used to be that every now and then it would catch a bird and bring it to me. Lately this has accelerated incredibly to about 2-3 a day. I'm getting sick of going to climb into bed and finding a dead bird in the middle of it. Still it could be worse. It could be a bloody horse head o_o!! Nah... I don't know any Mafia types thank goodness..

I've been working on my pic for the 7th. It's taken a hella long time for something that looks so basic, but everything has been made from the ground up. Must have been through about 20-25 test renders so far. 3am bedtimes have been pretty common lately..

I can't do anything TOO strenuous on my poor compy though. The fan on my vid card up and died on me. I'm nursing it along and hoping it doesn't blow before I can afford a new one in a couple of weeks! Thank God it is so cold here that overheating isn't too much of a factor. I'd be screwed if it was summer.

You know, having worked pretty hard in Cinema4d for the last week, the more impressed with it I am. I know a lot of 3d'ers look on it as being a bit of a toy compared with the likes of 3dsmax and Maya but for what I use it for, it is head and shoulders above them. Way more user friendly and logical. And the plugins.. Don't get me started. Wondrous shit.

That brings me to a gripe. Why do propeller-heads think that everything made with Vue, Bryce, Poser, Terragen, Daz Studio et al is all total crap? They are all capable of some astoundingly good work. Sure, you get the lazy or clueless people who come up with the usual overdone themes i.e. the featureless island in the middle of an ocean (of which even I am guilty of when I first found Bryce >< but PEOPLE! It's not the software to blame. How about instead of flaming someone for having bad art, you actually try to help them and encourage them? It won't hurt you at all and the poor artist will be forever grateful. Think on it.

Of course I've done the obligatory research into the whole Jark-sacking thing but I have to admit the tinfoil-hat wearing brigade have started to worry me somewhat. Abuse is not tolerated on this site, even if your target is one of the 'evil' admins or whatever. People always love a good protest, myself included, but some people need to keep their eyes on the ball. Yellow day should be quite interesting though.

Wow.. Longest journal for a long time. I must be sick. LOL.

Kia Kaha, everyone! (Be strong) ^____^




p.s. If you are wondering about the journals odd title, its the name of an old 60's song. I saw it on an old record in a second-hand shop the other day. The name impressed the hell out of me, but has nothing at all to do with this journal. I just hate thinking titles up.. >< ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5810175/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5810175/ Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:25:12 PDT
A/ Cos he wants to be KFC.

Stupid bird. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5602363/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5602363/ Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:27:23 PDT
Mood: Happy happy, joy joy
Reading: 'The Iron Hand Of Mars - Lindsey Davis
Watching: Futurama DVD's! xD

Okay, this has never happened before. I loaded up deviantART today, only to find a congratulations page. The nice people at dA have given me a weeks free subscription! Dunno if thats happening to everyone, but at least it gives me a chance to mess around with a few more things xD. I think I could get used to this...

The busy season is almost over, thank goodness. I should have a lot more free time soon. Lately I've been looking up info on Beijing and Hong Kong so I know what I'm talking about when me and a friend RP. I never though I'd have to study geography again, especially on my own instigation! o_o

Anyways...back to work before I get busted for sneaking off. Haha.

]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5574016/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5574016/ Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:10:35 PDT Maybe it will come back someday xD.

I am sooooo out of decent 3D ideas. Everything I've attempted lately has turned out fairly substandard and not worth posting.

I need a muse.

I need a coffee. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5360348/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/5360348/ Sat, 14 May 2005 23:11:12 PDT .< ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4343573/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4343573/ Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:11:38 PST
I've recently spent quite a lot of time rediscovering the fun of RPG games thanks to the budget releases of several well known RPGs. Now I have a decent comp, I can actually play them at more than 1fps. My favourite would have to be Bethesdas' Morrowind which you can pick up for 10 lousy bucks from any DSE. Neverwinter Nights doesn't seem to be too bad although you can tend to get a little lost in the single player game, if you miss doing certain trigger actions. Great fun, nonetheless. I keep staring hard at Dungeon Siege every time I enter a store that has game software.

Thanks to I'm spending a lot of time playing ConquerOnline ([link]). I'm trying hard to level up my character so I can deal with those sodding pk'ers. My char at the moment is a lvl24 Trojan (hence the journal title), which isn't really much advanced compared to some people who are level 120 plus and can kill you with one withering look. Man, I still have such a looong way to go.. -_-

I can tell you, it's not doing much for my online presence or my accumulation of sleeptime, but damn, I'm having fun...

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten dA though.

p.s. Last night I watched the Doctor Who movie (which I hadn't even realised had been released. It wasn't bad. The Master (token bad guy) reminded me a lot of Ming the Merciless without his pointy beard. One part that cracked me up was when a motorbike drove straight through the doors of the Tardis (roughly the size of a telephone box), the rider screaming 'No Brakes!!' Quietness, then a few seconds later he rode back out like the devil was after him, hehe. I love old SciFi... ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4233694/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4233694/ Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:24:56 PST
However, it is giving me lots of time to lie in bed and think of stuff I can do.

Sorry if this journal sounds kinda moany, but being crook is not my pick of the ways to start the new year.

Oh yeah, the new year. 2005. Hope you had a good new years' everyone. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4145601/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4145601/ Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:27:35 PST
I'd love to hang around and add more to this but everyones heading up to do the big family present opening thing..

Better run...Adios! ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4066095/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/4066095/ Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:48:36 PST
No bandwork=severely limited money :/ Sad. Plus factor, I have picked up a second-hand copy of Cinema4D. It looks cool so far, I just have to scour the helpfiles to figure out how to use it properly. It does awesome renders and it seems to excel in radiosity.

Been spending most of my time on linux, so I haven't gotten much art stuff done. Linux has a serious shortage of usable 3d modelling/terrain software. I keep scouring the net, but nothing decent has come up yet. I keep hoping though. Suggestions, anyone?

I wish Planetside would hurry up and release Terragen for linux.. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/3944445/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/3944445/ Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:16:34 PST
But there is a reason. Ineptitude and bad luck. Oops, that's two reasons.

As you may recall from my last journal, I was just about to get myself a new computer, which I did. Due to recommendations, I went with a P4 prescott. Everything seemed ok after I built it, with the exception of the mobos' firewire setup. Now, things that don't work really irk me no end, so it was out with the board and back to the shop to get them to check it.

'Sure,' they said. 'We'll have a look and let you know when it's ready.' I was happy. It was covered by guarantee, no problem. After 3 odd weeks of not hearing anything, I contacted them, only for them to deny that they actually had possession of the board. To say I was flabbergasted was an understatement. They tried to say that they had never recieved it in the first place. After some severe fist-shaking and threats of action from the small claims tribunal, they 'suddenly' remembered where it was. In Singapore. They had sent it on, to be checked by the manufacturer. They would get back to me, when it was returned.

More weeks later, I still hadn't heard from them and by this time I was more than a little upset, to say the least. I did what I had to and went to the store and ranted and roared. After a heated exchange from both sides (by now they were annoyed by my so-called bad attitude), they 'suddenly' discovered my board stuffed away in the back of the shop somewhere, where it had apparently lain for a couple of weeks, after arriving back in the country. Having possession of said article, I was out of there faster than a greased owl shit.

Back home, I reassembled the box and reloaded Win XP, only to find the system crashing intermittently or not starting at all. Fine. Stuff you, Microsoft, I'll change to Linux. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 10 from DSE. Things seemed to go well for the first few days, barring the fact that my winmodem was driverless. To get it to go meant compiling the driver myself. Being a relative n00b as far as Linux goes, and seeing what was involved, I just left it and went net-less.

It was almost inevitable that something else would happen, which it duly did. Mandrake started falling over, which is something that I've been assured almost never happens. After leaving the thing for a few days to cool off (myself that is, not the comp ), I disassembled the beast and reassembled it, working through things one item at a time. It turned out that the IDE cable to my hard disk had the smallest of nicks in it, but enough to render it near-useless. Great! Problem solved! A new cable this arvo, another re-install of XP and bud-a-bing, one working computer. w00t! Back in business!

Except...

My Firewire is still not working.

Sorry for the long, boring journal, but I feel better now...




ps. What a shitload of messages, deviations and journals to catch up with. I'll have to check them out properly tomorrow. It's late and I still have stuff to install. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/3478187/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/3478187/ Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:32:35 PDT
Now all I need is some free time to use it.

I've been feeling kind of frustrated, and, unusual for me, lonely. Man...I really need to get a change of scene. I feel like I'm in a rut. Bah.

Enough bitching. Computer nirvana awaits.

Adios, all! (waves at friends and watchers) ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2991295/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2991295/ Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:48:43 PDT
I'm trying to resist, really hard, from doing a fanpic. Theres so many cartoon/anime characters out there that are just screaming for a 3d version. I must stay strong though.

Hellos to my friends, specially and
Go check them out.

P.S. Sometimes I really hate work. It gets in the way of art. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2876883/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2876883/ Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:48:02 PDT ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2738985/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2738985/ Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:40:07 PDT
-Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
de Architectura - Liber IX

It seems like the jocks and the geeks of the world have been in conflict for a lot longer than I'd ever imagined. That was written around 2000 years ago and it was describing the problems of a culture far older, just in case you didn't know who the ancient Greeks were ....

I went to see J. in her school production. Theres something a little strange about watching kids frollicking round the stage dressed as kiwifruit...

I put up a couple of pics just to show that I'm still alive. Actually, I'm not sure about that. I don't feel very alive. I have the hella flu at the moment. Pisses me off. I have so much I have to get done and my traitorous body is letting me down. bah.

I should be thankful. At least no ones trying to lop my head off like that poor South Korean guy on the telly a few days back. 'I don't want to die!!...' Poor bastard. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2672153/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2672153/ Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:39:37 PDT
Man...

Those things used to give me nightmares, with their one-eyed dedication to wiping out any life form they come across. Seriously. I used to peek out from behind the couch when I was young, watching the umpteenth re-run on tv. Many a night was spent tossing and turning because of those despicable machine/creatures. (Along with the brain-eating watchamacallits on the 'Tomorrow People')

But no more.

It just occurred to me. The way those daleks get around, is on some sort of track/wheel mechanism. Aha. A potential weakness. Actually, quite a bad oversight on the original designers part. All you'd have to do to fuck one of them up is to go and climb a few stairs. Lets see you get up there, tinass. Theres no way it could follow. Suddenly all those terror-ridden nights seem to disappear in a vague puff of smoke and hot air.

Damn logic.

(To anyone who doesn't have a damn clue what I'm on about, too bad. I'm not explaining.) ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2618208/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2618208/ Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:05:24 PDT ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2554882/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2554882/ Tue, 01 Jun 2004 01:13:30 PDT
That devID of mine blows chunks. (Note to self: make a new ID) ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2484755/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2484755/ Sat, 22 May 2004 15:31:03 PDT
Like an old song I know of goes:
'Art takes time and time is money, moneys scarce and that ain't funny...'

But don't worry, I am getting a few things done...^____^

I've been looking around a lot of other peoples dA's. I can't believe how much good art there is around. It makes me feel nicely incompetent. Ah well...One can but try. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2394977/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2394977/ Sun, 09 May 2004 20:03:00 PDT
I hope this is just a temporary thing, or I'm in deep trouble. I need an injection of enthusiasm.

Pfff...

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Damn the cold and rain, it's freezing... Begone, winter. ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2389998/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2389998/ Sun, 09 May 2004 04:36:34 PDT ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2046339/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/2046339/ Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:38:05 PST
I'm working on a few digital art pics using Bryce and Terragen. I hope to post them here if I'm happy with them. We'll see... ]]> ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/1936747/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/1936747/ Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:17:42 PST ~Malthus http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/1922160/ http://Malthus.deviantart.com/journal/1922160/ Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:56:40 PST ~Malthus