Some comments have “disappeared”, HAHAHA, coz my domain was in the process of being transferred to another registrar. Good gracious, luckily I started everything a few months before my hosting plan expired with the old hosting, or things would have been even worse if they’d all been done at the last minute.
Can’t really blog much. Well not that I can’t, it’s just that I’m still on the same book, still trying to get it all right…I will eventually…it’s just a bit tough sometimes coz this is quite a project.
Ooh but the other day I watched a bird (a juvenile yellowthroat…not too sure…but I wanted to be an ornithologist when I was 9 years old, LOL) die, just outside the house. Coz it kept burying its head in its chest…so I thought it was cold, so I put it in a small rattan basket, then it looked like it was literally drifting off. It went into a short, violent convulsion just before it died, and yeah it took me about 20s to realise “oh, gosh, it’s really dead.”
Its final resting place is beneath a tree. Sigh.
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may 16th - May 20, 2007 -
i thought today was may 16th, can you imagine.
i HATE formatting but it’s something i have to do with this version of the book now *laughs*.
yeah, yeah, then add a few more things here and there, and take a few little things out.
i’ve a new deadline for this newer version, and hope to hit it successfully.
that’s all.
OH and amazon is having a blowout cd-sale too so i got jimi hendrix nickelback vivaldi and nirvana at one go! 
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It’s really, really, hard to get something really, really right, but I’ll try.
I wish I had 3 clones of myself right now because that would be a big, big, help.
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So I’m biting the bullet, as I make further little changes to my already dozens-of-times-been-drafted-and-edited MANUSCRIPT.
HAHAHA.
It’s far from easy (in fact, anything but easy), but this is what I’ve chosen to do and all this is part of what’s to be done.
Hoping that my next step(s) will take me closer, yeah, til one does bring me eventually to, a “yeah”.
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#1 - May 13, 2007 -
Ok, so I finally got down to what I’ve been wanting to do for the past week: send out a query letter for my manuscript. Which I no longer have to term “manuscript-in-progress”, because it’s actually finished, BWAHAHA.
I thought it’d be more harrowing, to be honest. I was surprised I managed to get the query letter done in less time than I expected. Maybe because I subconsciously knew more or less what I wanted to say, and I dislike being wordy and all over the place UN-necessarily, so yeah, it’s quite alright (and nice, in a way): being to-the-point.
I await probable rejection slips and letters, but one just has to keep pushing with such matters.
This has been a dream for so, so, long, and some days, I am just so tired I’ve no idea where I’m going to get enough energy to see myself and my book through to publication. Yesterday I konked out for two hours in the afternoon (but woke up feeling good).
The thing about writing is that there are no rules…which is why I love it so god damn much. Also, I saw this awesome quote today online, said by an editor: “People think publishing is a business, but it’s a casino.”
True, true. Speaking about casinos/gambling, I did win a few coins from some slot machine when I went to Vegas once, which was fun. Whenever I next visit/go back/whatever to Singapore, I must check out the IRs. And the F1 thing is interesting. Speaking about cars/driving, I’m “instructing” my mum’s driving with me having no license as yet (shhhh). Yeah, yeah, I’ve to read that bloody handbook, then sit for the written, then practical.
My mum says I drive kamikaze.
She drives much too slowly.
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Dress - May 12, 2007 -
Boobs are easy to look at but harder to draw :P.
Over today and tomorrow, I’ll have to repeat a certain sentence in my journal coz I am procrastinating on something I really shouldn’t be dragging out. I think I’ve rested enough but yeah well come Monday hopefully I can get everything together.
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Ok this one is glitched and I wouldn’t mind re-working it if it was done in pencil; but this one was done in pen so too bad. I’m still tired, man I hope to feel better rested soon, bwahaha.
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Aarf - May 9, 2007 -
When I’m tired and/or stuck, I like to draw/doodle.
The dog looks sad because the article which accompanied the picture (or is it the other way around?) was on, depressed dogs.
My next CD purchase will I think be a Red Hot Chili Peppers from more than 10 years ago. Old school RHCP!
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Meeeeow - May 7, 2007 -
Everytime I want to get down to reading that Civilizations book, I get so tired. Maybe I should take a short rest then resume reading when my mind’s more refreshed, lol.
And this one was again done pretty quickly, but I like it a lot coz that cat was my good friend for many years. I was 13 at the time of this shot.
DAMNation, that digicams weren’t so prevalent/economically-priced then. I’ve so few pictures of this most alluring feline.
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Ok I know I said I wasn’t going to update, but the domain transferring thing still isn’t complete so, whatever. I was going to upload this to my dA account, which I use less often nowadays, but the system was under maintenance, so I’ll just upload the sketch here instead.
The face could be more detailed, but I was going for the overall figure.
These weren’t scanned in (taken on digicam).
At the rate I’m going, this blog is going to be messier than the previous, ARGH! But oh well, another time.
Tomorrow, I’ll see to my publishing stuff, oh yeah.
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