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                <title>Staying up is Not a good way to do homework</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:04:55 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ But that is what we do when we have imminent deadlines. Or is that just me?<br />Currently playing with acrylics, dry pastels, pencils and print making.<br /><br />For my celebrity project: Jackie Chan (he's awesome. anyone who disagrees is merely ignorant of his awesomeness) and incidentally, I didn't wan't to do David Bowie or Johnny Depp because their faces are too pretty for me to attack with my skillz. (I like pencils, fineliners, ballpoints, white out and sometimes wacom. haven't ventured into the realms of "other media" much. It doesn't like me.<br /><br />Paint brushes are snobs. hmph.<br /><br />and for my collaborative project I managed to end up doing it solo (go me!) (well honestly, working with other people, playing nicely with the other kids...Must I? I swear I can do it when motivated by monetary carrots, but for university why bother?<br /><br />No. Bad Jacinta. You should learn how cooperate with others and function within units of humans...<br /><br />Maybe next time.. <img src="http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br /><br />For now I decided I'll just write up how I collaborated with photographers and how I'm organising to combine my illustrations with their images.<br /><br />one I'm doing nowish (when I have a respite from uni) involved me being painted white torso up and covered with blue lines in paint applied in a ballpoint pen kinda way. You know, a pen sketch on a iwhite piece of paper. Dyed hair reddish for an interest contrast.<br /><br />It's great, photo's aren't up yet but I look like an undead freak.<br /><br />I'm going to illustrate some wings (sketched in pen) to add on somehow.<br /><br /><a href="http://jacinta_lee.deviantart.com">[link]</a> when it gets there<br />NB 18+ viewing kids, no tweens to this site m'kay?<br /><br />apart from uni n work. life is sleep and consuming things...<br />and books. and sudoku now ^^'<br /><br />oh, and final fantasy x-10 i've just re-discovered. lalala<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>sPORATIC uPDATE!</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:14:30 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Good Morning class, it's show and tell time^^      *yay*<br /><br />Now, who wants to go first?<br /><br />Okay...yes Jacinta, up you come.<br /><br />         *pause*<br /><br />Hello everyone! During my holidays I did nothing much, looked after my uncle's house, played with his kitty. And now I'm back at uni. Hmm, what else? Oh, I've entered a competition (actually, not sure if you win anything, think it just gets put on display) to design a comic book cover. Ideas anyone?<br /><br />One girl I know is doing a sailormoon spoof.<br />I'm thinking...actually I haven't thunk yet ^^'<br /><br />Also right now I am wishing a friend of mine lots of love and energy, she's going to get better soon (Itold her to do so and she nodded so she can't backtrack now!)<br /><br />hospitals are weird places, very disturbing. Not that I don't have great respect for doctors, just the environment they work in is...hospital-like. you know?<br /><br />Umm, nothing much else. Popping over to brissie briefly next weekend for a shoot. (bang bang) and then back here for more work and uni. hohum.<br /><br /><br />thabkyou for your attention class! Sorry I don't have much to show, I'll put up some of the drawings I have lying around soon okie?<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>life just flyin' on by...wheee, there it goes!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:16:51 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I mean, just thinking. been on this lil ol' planet for nearly a quater of a century now. (23 is nearly 25, kinda).<br />I feel I should have acheived something...I mean, I guess I could've popped out a kid by now (which is a miraculously wonderful thing if you do a decent job of it, but I'm not getting into that cup of tea until later down the track) And you probably need to chose some sorts of a partner/ sperm doner too hey. And I'd want really good quality of course, good genes. Maybe if they were endowed with supernatural powers they'd fit the bill. hmm. <br /><br />Anyway, I'm sure I should've done *something* by now. as to what, why, I haven't the faintest. Finished FFX? (working on it, got sidetracked for about 8 months but back at it now) build a nifty monument to my god (wait, I don't have one of those...and if I did I don't think my deity would want a monument....maybe a blood offering...) <br /><br />what was my point? <br /><br />oh, I'm turning 23 on july 12th. (it's just not as exciting as when I was six dammit)<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Uni holidays</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:02:21 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Yay! Uni holidays! well, that doesn't mean much to me as I'm only doing the one subject, oh well. But I have my joyful job at the supermarket to keep me entertained anyway (JOYFUL i say!) <br /><br />I'm wondering if I should start seperating my art into different groups. That's the problem with having no particular style, everything's all over the place. But I could do groups like<br />"cute creature things"<br />"manga style art"<br />"abstract......oh man, actually I have no idea.<br /><br />think I'll just stick to uploading things randomly, yay!<br /><br />thankyou for watching or looking through my art, I love sharing it with you <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />(sorry, was that too sappy? but I do mean it otherwise all my sketchies would just be floating around in my room or binned)<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />Anyone out there a fan of Dr Who? Check out what my younger brother put together (he edited in the music) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxTcue68QQ">[link]</a> <br /><br />It's to the music of a David Bowie song <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> I love bowie....(particularly le labyrinth, heh)<br /><br />And if anyone noticed, I deleted my modelling account, didn't want it anymore. heh<br />will put up more ARTNESS soon<br /><br />have a good day earthlings <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br /><br />***<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>About a Pen</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:23:27 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I wrote this epic story for a friend of mine <a href="http://lloy0103.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/l/l/lloy0103.gif" width="50" height="50" alt=":iconlloy0103:" title="lloy0103"/></a><br />but I hope you enjoy it as well<br /><br />Once there was a Pen; it had no Nib. It went on a quest to find a Nib that would truly fit. On the way the Pen met a Stapler and its little Staple minions, and then a Mobile Phone who thought it was the very height of haute couture, but wasn't.<br /><br />The Pen and its entourage quested until their quest was at an end. <br /><br />And lo and behold, there was the Nib that fitted the Pen truly. <br /><br />But alas to say that the Pen was not to enjoy its new Nib. For you see, on that arduous quest, it had been dripping ink along the way. <br /><br />splotch splotch splotch. <br /><br />So then, by the time the Pen obtained the Nib it was all for nothing. <br /><br />For the Pen had dried up.<br /><br />the End.<br /><br />NB unless, of course, the Pen was to be re-inked...but that's another story.<br /><br />by Jacinta Lee<br /><br />****back at uni FIRST YEAR graphics, going to actually do it this time and not go back to industrial design again! I don't know what they're teaching me at uni, something. doing a third year subject even though I'm in first which is slightly odd. not sure how I'm suppose to have the skills to match ppl who are in their final year but meh..........<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>It's 2008, mates.</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:48:50 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the new year! ooh, it's so fresh and shiny and unsoiled <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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i'm looking forward to a lot of artness and creativity this year *nods*<br />
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you will definately be seeing the emergance of various characters that will turn into little comicies maybe? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
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might start off with some one page cartoons, just to get the feel for it again, instead of launching into an epic manga series or anything, lol. (as if i could be THAT productive!...would be nice tho^^)<br />
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and remembers, i love feedback, and if you spot anything i particularly need to improve on, or see any good tutorials you think I might like, don't be afraid to yell out.<br />
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as for things like art swaps and comissions, just ask and I'll see what my time is like!<br />
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but you'll NEVER know unless you ask <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
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LOTS OF LOVE<br />
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j<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>It's My Birthday!</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:28:41 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Hi cyber world, guess what? I'm 22 today!<br />
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yay for me, cocktails on saturday to celebrate! (in adelaide, hehe)<br />
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oooh, i want lots of stuff for my birthday (that i won't get) like...hmm...singstar! hehe<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>CREATE</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:58:00 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Ok what's on my agenda<br />
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1) <a href="http://tangkat.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/t/a/tangkat.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="tangkat" /></a>'s kiwi king (she won the kiriban, so i draw her Kiwi King dude)<br />
2)<a href="http://mellowstrawberry.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/e/mellowstrawberry.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="mellowstrawberry" /></a>'s clara and olliver (just doing an art trade for the fun of it)<br />
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3) i think i want to enter meisans comp. re a couple. hmm<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Pagview Prettiness ~20,000th Prize</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:05:43 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ** <a href="http://tangkat.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/t/a/tangkat.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="tangkat" /></a> won my kiriban prize, yay! **<br />
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Hi peoples!<br />
<br />
I just had a look at those stat thingies in the corner of my page and saw:<br />
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** 19,834 Pageviews **<br />
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which seemed pretty specky. (okay, so my photos page has over twice as many views, but that's because people are perverts, lol)<br />
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and I love my art account twice as much as my modelling stuff, so it counts for more^^<br />
<br />
anyway, who's up for a little KIRIBAN?<br />
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**** person who get's my 20,000th page view gets a picture prize, saavy? ****<br />
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and if nobody notices then closest to 20,000 will do. just do an image capture or something and lemme know. <br />
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WORKING ON:<br />
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*angel pic  for competition by <a href="http://lloy0103.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/l/l/lloy0103.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="lloy0103" /></a> (go enter, see her journal)<br />
*my friggin' comic. i drew a thumbnail of the first page, yay me!<br />
* possibly mei-san's couple comp.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Saint Valentine's Day- awwwww</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:50:26 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Eh, turned into kind of a commercial thing methinks, but hey, whatever makes you happy.<br />
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and to all you guys out there with no valentine I give a *BIG HUG* to becuase I've usually got none.<br />
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(first valentine i had was when i was 18 ^^' wasn't very good with boys, hehe)<br />
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Jaicnta needs a job, Jacinta needs money, jacinta shouldn't have gone to NIDA because now Jacinta owes money. Jacinta should stop referring to Jacinta in third person <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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LOVE YOU ALL (except for you. you know who you are) lol<br />
***<br />
I'd love for people to comission me. sketches, inks or colour, on computer or traditionally. whatever you like.<br />
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i have a paypal account at firestorm@otakumail.com<br />
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so if you msg me and describe what you want, we can figure out a fair price for it, ok? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Can't choose a drawing style &gt;.&lt;</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:20:49 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I've got a couple of different ideas for new comics in my head, but I just CAN'T settle on a drawing style.<br />
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I like doing stylised, cartooniness, because it's faster to draw. but it just looks so WRONG these days when I draw manga eyes <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /><br />
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so then i try a bit more realistic style, but you can't have realistic eyes, and still draw a manga nose and mouth, so then they have to change too. but then, I'm not good enough at drawing realistically to have a comic drawn in that style.<br />
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I want to somehow have stylised, but realistic, but still PRETTY drawing style, Oh, and it can't take millions of years to draw or I'll end up giving up after 2 pages take me three months ><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /><br />
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dilema!!<br />
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sigh, and looking at other artists work doesn't help, because then I just end up mimicing their style, which looks good, sure. But it's noot my friggin style!<br />
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That undine I just drew (see recents in gallery) is KINDA what I'm going for...but not really, too cartoony, but, but.... aah.<br />
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so yeah, my floor is littered with half draw pages in diff styles. <br />
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and I can't even go back to my original simplistic manga style 'cause it just bugs the hell outta me now.<br />
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I know, I know, I should just bite the bullet and start drawing and let the style slowly evolve. But I'm PEDANTIC okay?? I want comic to have a cohesive storyline and the main character/s have to look the same from page to page <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /><br />
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*end rant*<br />
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ps back in adelaide<br />
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pps starting uni again (from 1st year! lol) doing VISUAL communication (that used to be graphic design folks) <br />
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but in second year I can just concentrate on illustration if I want^^<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>NIDA</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:15:22 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ...is funfun^^<br />
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today i literally ran around. all day.<br />
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morningwas movement class. ie MOVING, stretching, moving more. then vocal class. i'm like "yay, sitting and using voices time" <br />
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but nooo. <br />
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voice is BREATH, which is BODY, which MOVES. so we played numerous games involving, wait for it.....running around madly!! yes, more running.<br />
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THEN we had acting, scenework, we had to be in two teams acting out the thing/person on a piece of paper...eh, whatever, can't be stuffed explaining. but guess what it involved? RUNNING AROUND MADLY!<br />
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o.o<br />
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aaaaaaaaahhh, physical exertion!<br />
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i'm having fun though. but i think my voice is pretty shit, which is a very bad thing 'cause its kinda a vital tool for actors....<br />
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one of my tutors said i've got like a...crack in my voice when i speak. nobody else in the class, just me. i suck <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /><br />
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so i think she's going to get the voice instructor to give me extra homework vocal exercises <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" />  i'm in the remedial class already?!? lol<br />
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staying in a place called artarmon, i catch a train into syd, then a bus up to nida. nida's got bloody great facilities EXCEPT: one piddly canteen thingy. tomorrow i'm running across to the uni to eat at their unibar <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> (I'll just ACT like I belong there, yeah?)<br />
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anyhoo...kinda bored when not in class tho. watch tv. read. :/<br />
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meh.<br />
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i might draw lotsa stuff while up here...but u all have to wait til like....FEB til you see anything.  then i'll be back home to my computer <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
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xox<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>workworkwork</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:14:37 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ toooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch woooooooooooooooooork<br /><br />Ok, now I have tooo many jobs...<br />
hmm<br />
I'm working at foodland during the week. And now I have to chose between the london tavern or earth the nicghtclub.....<br />
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hmmmmm<br />
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damn decisions! I told earth that I just had a trial shift at the tavern and they're going to phone me back re more work and all...<br />
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being behind a bar again is actually pretty fun^^<br />
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but as staff....have to stay til 7am bleh.<br />
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on another note: i got accepted into NIDA's summer 4 week program!!!<br />
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yay!!<br />
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but boooooooooooo<br />
because on the phone they said "we tried to take out the $2200 from your account, but it was declined"<br />
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well obviously!!<br />
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I DID stipulate on my application form that I wouldn't have the money until,...umm asap!<br />
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ergo why I'm working 2 (or is it three now??) jobs. o.o<br />
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PLUS i have a comission!!!<br />
yay, logo design. Phillip from my acting classes needs a logo, and he saw my drawings (which i think are so much more impressive in person!) and wants me to design the company logo <br />
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cool beans.<br />
and yes have been drawing a lot, have a new comic underway^^ characters are developing. meanwhile, I've prob lost whatever fanbase I had. But oh well.<br /><br />neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed moooooooooooooooooooneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>life is weird and you have to go with it :)</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:28:19 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <!-- Copied from MySpace.com --><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/jacintamailee">Find me on MySpace and be my friend!</a><br />
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Hi all,<br />
I've been doing so much that I have neglected my beloved drawing!!<br />
oh no!<br />
a thousand apologies.<br />
Life is so hectic.<br />
I've taken up acting. I want to be a thespian!<br />
I've also taken up martial arts jeet-kun, kickboxing and kali, a brazilian martial art thats very good. and i may try capoerera (?) don't remember how to spell it at the moment, too exhausted <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
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and i'm doing singing lessons, which are pretty fun. and i'm kinda having a go at the drums (i'm good with the hitting stuff, and rhythm is really just maths, which i love) I've written a few songs too, I like writing lyrics,<br />
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and yes, I still want to be a writer AND an actor now AND a model, fashion and art nude! because you only live once you know <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/wink.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=";)" title=";) (Wink)" /><br />
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BUT i have no money! which is a disaster. would anybody like to comission me to do some art?<br />
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I think I'm pretty decent now, I can do other things apart from manga with my wacom <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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and i REALLY need money so i can go to NIDA summer school this year!! (in sydney)<br />
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anyway, i think i have a paypal account at firestorm@otakumail.com so i can have HELP JACINTA BE AN ACTOR fund lol, oh man, i'm just going to have to work more....somehow...argh!!<br />
please help? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> <br />
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oh, did i mention i've taken up rockclimbing too? its so much fun! but expensive damn hobby! aargh<br />
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haven't modelled much lately. working at foodland <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /><br />
but money is money.<br />
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i think i'm doing too much maybe....<br />
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went to the U2 concert the other night. MIND BLOWING.<br />
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i was sitting with the network ten representatives <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> great seat! but i stood the entire time and sang along to all the songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow. 60,000 people. sheesh. it was amazing.<br />
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and yay for him using his position as a public idol to spread the anti war message!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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our government needs a kick up the bum, as i keep stipulating!!!! aaargh<br />
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or i could just assassinate all the imbicilic members of our government and start a new regieme of my own. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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ok ok. I jest....kinda.....but i do want a revolution in australia, and i do want to be a part of it and.........ah that's enough for one journal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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ps kitten is doing well! and I think i have a harem of male suitors <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /> grrr<br />
boys!!!<br />
aaaaaaaaargh!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Off to NSW</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:48:04 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Just a 4 day stint to sydney to visit my dad and eat mangoes as of tonight....<br />
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how are you guys liking my lil critter artworks of late?<br />
they're just fun doodles. but you'll be seeing some more character drawings for my new comic soon<br />
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Now, lets see, what am i up to? oh yeah. while I've applied for graphic design at uni next year, i'm also really renjoying the acting lessons.<br />
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that's right, "I wannabe an actor"<br />
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nah, scratch that. I want to be a THESPIAN <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
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!!<br />
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i have no acting background whatsoever. but hey, i turned out to be a decent enough model without any serious credentials either <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> (not that i can call myself a model anymore, seeing as i don't actually DO any modelling in adelaide, lol)<br />
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anyway, yes. i like the acting. which is odd because I used to be very introverted and self conscious <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /> <br />
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going to go to NIDA open summer course!!<br />
you know NIDA? its the national institute of dramatic arts in australia. all the "elite" people graduate there, I think.<br />
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of course, as a novice, I'm just doing the 4 week course ^^'<br />
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but still!<br />
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and I'll be living in an apartment 15mins outta sydney, oh yeah <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> bondi here i come <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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anyone want to be my friend in sydney during Jan?? I don't know that many people from NSW <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /><br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Wannabe</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:37:17 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ sigh, at the age of 21 I'm sure I should know what I'm doing with life <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
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oh well! I will continue to muddle my way through it.<br />
Just did my first lesson of acting today (been a long time since year eight drama!)<br />
I very much liked it, in my group of 4 we put on a short skit, I ended up being the one who kinda told people what to do.<br />
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i hate that! I always wait for someone else to take the initiative and suggest ideas....but they never do! so then just to stop the whole silence and clueless thing I start verbalising whatever ideas drift into my head. Then I end up looking like a bossyboots I'm sure.<br />
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But I'd be much happier to be a sheep (baaaaaaaa) and follow someone else's ideas if they'd only come up with some! le sigh.<br />
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On another note, I've set myself in with these martial arts lessons, love them, and i can bring in my own sticks from home to spar with! (hehehe, cool, I have nifty black ones and everyone else has brown <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> feeling special) pity I don't have awesome abilities to compliment my shiny sticks, but eh.<br />
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Twas funny though, the guy I paired up with knew I was just starting and sized me up as a weakling <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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so he was holding the pads for me to kick and he was somewhat surprised when I actually belted it. Got a bit more respect after that <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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oh! and a friend of mine's cat has just had kittens! last night! I was there, and we heard squeaking in the kitchen, and we opened the door where all the plates etc are, and there was Miss Charlie with FIVE KITTENS!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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sooooooo cute. they're all orange and white^^<br />
I named one luna, one Jali and one shere-khan, and the other two I guess I better let other people choose.<br />
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I also called their pet lizaerd Hercules >.<<br />
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oooooooh, kittens!! and the mum's so trusting. when I opened the door to see her, after a bit she got up and dumped the babies (who had been suckling) looked at me as if to say "watch them for a sec, will ya?"<br />
and then pranced off to the foodvowl to gourge herself!<br />
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she the spent a 15 minute timeout outside while i had the kittens all in my lap. SO CUTE!<br />
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ah, will have to find homes for them when they're weaned. <br />
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anyone in Adelaide fancy a kitty?<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Slave to the Wage</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:11:19 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Hi all.<br />
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I've decided to take up a new degree. Bugger the industrial design...I just couldn't picture myself designing new kettles or somesuch for the rest of my life.<br />
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So I'm going to do a degree in visual communication o.o<br />
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The idea being, that as a graphic designer I'll actually be able to put to use my "skills" of scribbling little characters and designs.<br />
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Meanwhile, I want to keep going with my webmanga, but it's being a bastard and I can't upload anything!!! arrgh. the angst.<br />
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maybe I should just put the comic up here, should I? That could work<br />
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and sorry, but I'm going to be writing random things to match each picture now. Like, a story with each picture that you can read, hows that?<br />
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hehe<br />
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xox<br />
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Jacinta<br />
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PS still slightly pissed off that here in Adelaide, Australia some jerks have decided that they can talk about me on public forums. It's not so much that I mind people at the cumby saying i wish i could f**k Jacinta Lee on their forums that bothers me. The thing that pisses me off is that they assume I am not intelligent, because of course anybody who models has an IQ of 10. yes? <br />
Damn, I guess I better get rid of all those big words I know and dumb myself down a little....o.O<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>On the art of Travel</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:01:45 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ....for a three and a half gallavant around some five countries must surely be perceived as an artform in some circles...<br />
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it's actually a very hectic, haphazard glimpse of the world I got as I rushed through parts of it. <br />
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   * please be fore-warned that this essay is of no actual importance to any other than me.*<br />
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Shanghai was exquisite, I love their ambiance. It's just so ...(hunting furiously for wordy here)hah, its very something that cannot be expressed with words. Go read the I Ching maybe. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
I guess it's slightly ludicrous to say that a part of me felt at home in china, I mean, i'm aussie through and through. <br />
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If I didn't see my dad every six months as a reminder I feel I may just forget my oriental roots and just let myself be swept up in australia's multiculturalism. Blend in with the crowd.<br />
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No such luck in Shanghai.<br />
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Even though I had dyed my hair black prior to leaving australia (incidentally, not intentionly) I was often looked at with curious eyes. The blending in thing wasn't happening, dammit!<br />
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Curses. I know I'm about as chinese as a koala, and i felt horribly embarassed that I could not converse in chinese at all. I felt like some kind of sham. Guess I better dig up my roots, learn the language and easternise myself....hmm. Or I could do the "yay australia" thing. land of miscreants, half-castes, refugees and opportunists...oh, and a couple of "the natives" too. Aboriginal people....yeps, they're still here, but don't seem to be neatly fitting in with the other children. Not that its our government's fault or anything. nope..<br />
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I will NOT go on a diatribe now about the evils (or rather; stupidities) of the world.<br />
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It would take too lomg and leave me in tears.<br />
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At any rate: in china everyone gave me that second-glance thing you do when you see something out of the ordinary.<br />
When I actually had to interact with humanity to get food, find out where the loo was, or how to get to <insert xyz here> everyone would take that opportunity to ask about my bloodlines.<br />
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But its not really so rare is it?? half chinese, half western stuff? surely there are inter-racial marriages going on in the world all the time now. Being as we are all connected by the world wide web and all. It's surprising that we haven't intermeshed more. Or are we raised to believe that our partners must be a kin to us. An ancient train of thinking that more recently fostered the likes of hitler. pure streams of blood and all that.<br />
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Damn chinese women are beautiful! and so are the boys at that. It was astonishing then, for them to proclaim me beautiful. Weird.<br />
I had so much fun looking at everyones faces and seeing familiarity in them. and pure Otherness.<br />
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Hmm, it really does quite discomfort me: having too many bloodlines<br />
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I do not know if I have an actual point to make here or not. I may just be verbalising.....in london's hyde park there is a place that you can go to every saturday, I think. It's a place where you can get up on your pedastal and proclaim things that you feel to br true.<br />
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I Love that concept. Freedom of speech!!<br />
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I honestly pondered taking one of the days from london and putting it to use as a day to literally stand up on a soap box and speak.....  you are warned that the audience that gathers at these places are supposed to be merciless hecklers and will tear threads through your speech and laugh at you....<br />
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I didn't do it. I'm either a coward, as I really hate a crowd of people looking at me (inane, considering that I have modelled) and judging me; or I really did want to get up on that damn soapbox but decided I was way too dumb for the job.<br />
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Ergo I have been reading up on theories and fun essays and bought the "concise history of the modern world"<br />
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i never learnt history - aside from aboriginal studies and classical studies. Think its about time I hurried up and learnt the world's past.<br />
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For self interest if nothing else.<br />
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now, I'm going to plunge into a new degree next year, so in the interim I must to study something or I will lose brain cells.....any suggestions?<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Random</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:02:16 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ i decided I didn't like that last entry. too...unpolished, and I come across as an uninformed idiot. heh, i should really think things out before i type them and submit them into cyber space.<br />
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on sat i'm off to london! i have 60 pounds to last 5 days!!  sigh. <br />
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thats 12 ponds a day (the aussie dollar equals like .30 of a pond. PATHETIC)<br />
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so if i spend 5 on lunch...that leaves 7 for dinner....i won't be able to affort postcards even!! that is so sad.<br />
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what about bus money?? and ice cream money???  grrrreeaatt.........<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>I´m in Helsinki öåä§</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:34:52 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ciao a tutti!<br />
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i arrived yesterday to finland, helsinki. after the 10 hour...grr....trip from shanghai, CHINA.<br />
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ooh. i have until the 19th here, then on to berlin, i think, then london then tokyo for the last few days!<br />
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travelling with my granny rocks. she has short red and purple spikey hair and always wears clothes with multiple bright colours on them so she's good to find in a crowd. i run around solo a lot 'cause i like hitting the shops and the markets...as well as the museums and art galleries, naturally.<br />
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it's sooo bizarre being in finland. it's like the whole airian race thing, you jnow, blonde hair bue eyes white skin. hitler would love it.<br />
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if i lived here i'd be one of the punk kids flitting around with cool black clothes and chains, haha. cute lil rebels. (if i told them they were cute they'd prob be unhappy, yah?<br />
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finally got net access for a few mins. damn expensive but.<br />
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china was great, at least i sorta fit in, except every damn person i spoke to asked me if i was half chinese. they seemed fascinated by that öö<br />
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i've bought so many damn bits and pieces for stupid FRIENDS mostly. and i hate the euro, everything is 2X as expensive. waaah. in china the yuan is one 6th of the aussie dollar, much better.<br />
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someone say hi to roxie for me, although there are many pretty boys around this world. i THINK i'm getting hit on, but i can't understand a bloody word any guy says so i'm free to ignore them! heehe<br />
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ok, this is costing like 10bucks so i'm gonna scoot.<br />
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byeee!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~shianra</author>
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                <title>Going OS</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:25:19 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ 10th of august I'm jetting off to visit a few countries I've never been too before, accompanied by my super-cool Granny <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
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yep yep, shall be fun. only three weeks and a bit, but hell, that's MUCH better than nothing <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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mmm, shanghai, berlin, hellsinki, estonia, london and bestest of all: JIPPONE!!<br />
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oh yeah. must buy nothing except food so the few $$ I have can be spent on manga. sw33t^^<br />
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oh, i wish i had spending money, curses :/ eh. i'll just take lotsa photos of everything instead of buying memorabilia...<br />
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everyone go to my webmanga <a href="http://shianra.keenspace.com">[link]</a> please. its changes somewhat from what it used to be...think i'm rehauling the storyline somewhat into...something^^'<br />
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basically, i just want to do cool artwork and the storuline will be ablibbed as i go along. but i'm GOOD at ablibing, so it should be fine ^^'<br />
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i need to figure out how to set up prints, seeing as i have a prints account. <br />
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**QUESTION: are there any existing works in my gallery you'd like to see as a print? if something older I could re-do it better before I submit it. maybe my flying fishie would make a good print? or some of the pretty girls? hmm.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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