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The search for the uncle continues..

I will get around to reprinting this little book of two stories later this year (only made about 30 copies on the first run because they were kinda expensive to print). While waiting here is the story I like more of the two.

It is a story about a gently depressed bartender who makes a wish and then thinks about it (instead of the other way around as is generally recommended)

( Dear Wonderful World... )

Let me know if you'd like a copy when I get.. around.. to it. Happy Monday

I was going to post an explanation but that became too long. In summary this is not even a Senbasa doujin any more, just a story about how not to survive a relationship consisting mostly of long absences and telephone silences. I was drawing something for my friends' wedding while finishing this so if it is kind of sappy I apologize.. It is pretty long so let me break it into two posts

( click to read part 1 )

link to part 2

After months of putting it off here it is at last: post-con sales post for the ~50 copies of Drops in the Ocean I had reprinted recently. I'm sorry it took so long to get this up! Here is some information about the book.

• It is a rather ambiguous* story about a wish made in an aquarium, and how it was granted (or not?), and features a grumpy talking rabbit
• It is 28 pages long (22 pages of actual story, of which 8 are in colour and the rest greyscale)
• The colour pages are not as bright as in the previews (after CMYK conversion)
• It is 7" x 10", quite flat, with laminated covers, the paper used for the pages is kind of thin (Sorry to be anal, I felt I should mention all this because this is not CF and you can't flip through it before buying)

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LJ ate my long Comic Fiesta post that I had been surreptitiously typing up for the past two weeks so I will wing it and say thank you so much to the lovely lovely people I spent CF with. KC amei wratty sou and zeiva you were so much fun to room and eat pork knuckle with! and I am so sorry for being a raging alcoholic food-obsessed roommate. Pea I'm so sorry for being directionally useless in KL.. THANK YOU for saving us and being the gracious host. Thank you to the lovely lovely people who came to CF (some of you from so far away!) and stopped by our booth, and bought our books, and stayed to chat, and fangirled together over Basara.. And finally thank you so much to the artists whose beautiful books and prints and badges I had the privilege of buying before anyone else in the world / at all.

Next week (year!) I'll make a proper post about the book of fish I brought to CF and er how to get a copy shipped to you if you want since I'm going to make a second print run anyway :D; Still looking for proper stay-flat mailers which do not seem to exist in the Klang Valley. Really everyone's response to book of fish at CF was very kind ;_; thank you all so much. I'll never be able to figure out if I'm doing it right until someone else flips through it and looks up at the end with a smile. (And I sincerely apologize to the other 99999 people who looked up in confusion and/or despair)

Also we got amei and wratty to play SB3 sob BEST ACHIEVEMENT OF 2010


"IN A.D. 2011, A PARTY WAS BEGINNING"

Sadly Gyoubu's English dub doesn't spark the same feelings I had when watching the original w/ subs.. I never thought I'd be saying this about Madao's seiyuu sob but he did a great job of coming off as the world's most sinister mother hen who had these quiet yet overwhelming moments of tenderness towards Mitsunari. English Gyoubu is kind of just magnificently weird

( Maybe I should also talk about 2010.. or not )

Okay 2011 let's be best friends!!

( a surprisingly action-packed last few weeks )

So. I'm back in the tropics now and it is 8 days to Comic Fiesta and counting! My books will be ready next Friday night!! The printing company is full of angels!!! I will be sharing a booth with KC and Amei and Wrats!!!!! hopefully I will not pass out from excitement and not too many people will be scared away and I will get to meet new friends!!!!!! And I should go easy on the exclamation marks, and look up what number our booth is. Yes. I will make a proper information post after work. I came back to SO MUCH WORK it's not funny

The Basara story is still wip 6/12 :D; I will probably just print it myself last minute as a mini-comic or.. put it online... Also while I managed to explain the ocean book to the printing company with lots of vague handwaving, I do not know how to even begin explaining the concept of Basara, let alone "modern-day sengokujidai AU in which Ishida Mitsunari is an angry schoolgirl"

( on that note here is a basara fanart dump from the past few months. sorry tumblr folks who have seen all of this already )

Ok back to work. It is my first week back and I am already feeling like someone who defuses bombs for a living. A KANCHEONG SPIDER

1) Actually this was a good strategy; the avalanche of guilt I got off this splurge prevented me from spending any more money for the rest of the trip

2) So surreally WKW-ish it is deserving of its own post, although the fact that I immediately thought to write about it as a story right after it went down is very illustrative of how "people who write about their friends may end up with no friends"

Y's mates visited last weekend. This resulted in an eating tour in the general vicinity of KL, following which I decided to document a template of said tour for future guests. This assumes arrival on Friday evening and departure late Sunday afternoon.

FRIDAY NIGHT
* 8PM: Garlic/cheese naan & best tandoori chicken (roadside stall opposite Ampang Point)
* OR the above + curries, masala, satay, Heartstopper(1) if late enough (Naan Corner, Ampang)
* 10PM: Wine & siew yoke (Vintry, Kota Damansara)
* 2AM: Indomie burger (Darussalam mamak, Sri Hartamas)

SATURDAY
* 11AM: Eggs/toast, belacan fried rice, hainanese chicken chop, roti babi, roast pork, coffee, butter cake (Yut Kee, Jalan Dang Wangi)
* 4PM: Pasembur & cendol (Jalan Ampang/MRR intersection)
* 8PM: Salted egg / chili crab and other Chinese stirfries (Mei Keng Fatt)
* 10PM: Booze (Brussels Beer House)

SUNDAY
* 10AM: Nasi lemak (Kampung Baru)
* OR roti canai (Risda Corner, Jalan Ampang)
* Or both
* 3PM: Nasi ganja(2) (Kudus, Jalan Tunku Ab Rahman)

1) Share this with a friend. It is a regular sized Ramli burger with two heart attacks worth of grease jus and sos
2) Well no it's nasi kandar actually. But he puts three types of curries on your rice by default so tis so good you might as well be eating ganja

The only thing you might have to line up for is Yut Kee so try to time that right (11AM is just my guess at that lull between breakfast and lunch crowds). The other places are not so bad on weekends. I will make a map soonish since getting anywhere in KL is more murder than fun.

CF kakis / partners in crime: We might not have time for everything that weekend but I will tweak this to accomodate schedule / eating on weekdays! Also since CF is in Berjaya other places might make more sense like pork noodle and that notorious tai chow off Imbi. Also also there are other things that are kind of far away that I haven't found a decent KL-ish place for like dry bak kut teh, char kuey teow, dim sum, you tiao..

Now you all know why I never update this thing, we're always GONE EATING

Y: "Do the things you don't want to do the most, first. That way you don't have to think so much about not wanting to do them"

M: "Don't allow yourself to eat until after you have finished your work"

B: "Everything is choice. You're only as useless as you choose to feel and choose to be. Now go get me a juice"

I have a lot of trouble sucking it up and clearing my to-do list without falling into a headless chicken state of despair and panic. Fortunately a few good kicks in the ass usually do the trick and there are always reliable, beloved, somewhat okra-like volunteers

BRB PUTTING MY GUNS ON, BY THE POWER OF THE SUN, etc