AsenDURE @ Corner of 11th & 20th

Having trouble contacting the sogster, so will just post my concept art here at my blog. It’s for his project with empy. Not sure if it will fit the major charcter description but let’s bounce the ball around first…won’t wanna include any spoilers here so I’ll try to keep this brief.

Empy’s character is pretty straight forward coz it’s the type of things I’ve been drawing all along…but having a little difficulty in soggie’s character. I reckon I’d have to divert from my usual mavel style to a more gritty frank miller (dc) or mcfarlane (image) style.

Lastly, to soggie (when he reads this) further info that I require would be:
Age range of the character?
Grey hairs?
Facial hairs or clean shaven?
Smoking? - despite the “tak nak” campaign I normally always portray gritty characters smoking.
Dress style underneath the prerequisites in attire?

IM me on msn…I just added you courtesy of chewyx.

I recently got the question on “wingman” while chatting with chewyx, emp23 and jas today. Well here’s the dig on a wingman:

The Wingman was originally a term referring to the plane flying beside and slightly behind the lead plane in an aircraft formation. This formation serves the dual purpose of reducing drag and turbulence thus conserving fuel and to position the aircrafts in such a way as to enhance mutual survival in a hostile military environment – dog fight. (no brainer here). The term like all military terms have been since been adopted and evolved to mean a companion who supports the “pilot” by engaging his “target” as well as defending him against possible intruders in a hostile social environment.

Purpose of the Wingman
The purpose of the wingman is to boost his or her companion’s confidence. Wingmen must back up their pilots on picking up a member of the opposite sex. Sometimes he’s just there to kick the pilot’s butt, push him forward (literally) or analyze the failure over “teh tarik” debriefing. While not the most glorious of positions, it is certainly more fun than Friday nights at home. Wingman techniques are continuously being honed and developed. Being a tried and tested successful system, wingmen/pilot techniques have expanded from the clubs to coffee shops, bookstores and malls.

Wingman rules of engagement: (RoE)

1. Isolation
The primary purpose of the wingman is to isolate the target so that the pilot can make the kill. This is normally done by chatting up her friends or asking her to accompany him somewhere else. Sometimes this means taking the bullet for the team effort (go figure it out yourself :P).

2. Initiation
The normal practice if the wingman is gutsy and the pilot shy. In most cases this is the preferred method used by girls I’ve seen so far. This tactic involves Initializing encounter with the target by approaching her first in order to break the ice(recon or fly over target sweep).The wingman will also have to bravely face the risk of being shot down. A good wingman will successfully deflect any rejection and spare his pilot’s self-esteem.

3. Backup
In case things start to go sour, the wingman is suppose to bail the pilot out.

Well this post is dedicated to my wingman, stevie - bless you dude for going with me through all the crash-and-burn attempts. I think is so far the most political incorrect and chauvinistic filled entry I’ve made. Oh well, that’s just a glimpse into a guys world…

In this day and age ruled by empirical, logical and scientific criticism one tends to find oneself adopting two important notion in one’s world view (Weltanschauung) or epistemological beliefs, namely:

(1) To refrain from believing unproven assertions is always an act of intellectual honesty;

or

(2) To believe unproven assertions is to throw oneself wide open to the suspicion of obscurantism.

In short, we demand that any intellectual quest be totally objective. The rationalism of modernity honors objective fact, and disvalues subjective feeling. Modernism is the epistemology that thrusts exclusively the scientific facts.

One of the strongest impact of modernity on modern theology was dividing theology into two camps: liberal and conservative.

The Impact of Modernity on Liberal Theology
Liberals see theological statements as symbolic expressions of religious experiences that are essentially inward and personal and nothing whatsoever to do with factual statements about the world and about history. The bible is to be read not as factual history but as the record of religious experience. Thus subjectivity of faith is emphasized in liberal theology and marginalizes the christian faith and theology into the realm of subjective experience which means abandoning the possibility of knowing anything of an objective, transcendent god. This is something that I see most in those who are less dogmatic and emphasize that christianity is a more a personal experience with god than anything. The danger is that faith now becomes anthropocentric or a manifestation of secular humanism. The problem is that Man’s inner experience did not provide a firm enough ground for proof on a phenomena. Deprived of a guiding principle man could turn anywhere.

The Impact of Modernity on Conservative Theology
In fundamental theology on the other hand, fundamentalists do a disservice to the gospel when they adopt a style of certainty more in the tradition of Descartes than in the truly evangelical spirit. Manifested in several familiar ways that are rooted in the anxiety about the threat that new discoveries in science may pose to faith. Fundamentalism seeks to affirm the factual, objective truth of every statement in the bible, assert the factual inerrancy of Scripture and regard statements of christian doctrine as factually correct propositions of the same kind as physics.

The middle path - liberal conservative?
I think the ideal path to thread is to adopt the scientific-centric worldview of liberal theology to defend the foundations and fundamentals of conservative theology. This is where the beauty and challenge of theology lies, whereby we give meaning and reasons to our beliefs rather than stick to them unquestioningly or mystify them to the degree beyond the grasp of man to avoid conflict with popular culture. The danger though is that human judgment might replace the word of god, but I see this as merely the anxiety that betrays a lack of total confidence in the central truth of the gospel that Jesus is the “word made flesh”. Let us then take the examples of the truly liberal spirit of Jews of Berea, for when confronted by the revolutionary message of the apostle, they did not simply reject it but “examined the Scripture every day to see if what Paul said was true” (Acts 17:11).

We’ve all come to be familiar with, and experienced to a certain degree, Shakespeare’s “green-eye’d monster” - jealousy. Recent terms of events has got me thinking about this very nature of human emotion, reflecting and rationalize, it’s very nature and impact on our lives. This feeling seems universal and both man and gods have been plagued by jealousy.

To oversimplify I think that jealousy stems from insecurity. It does not imply that the insecure person is bad or good nor this insecurity warranted or unwarranted. It simply means that the person is not secure, either in themselves, their relationship or what they have.

While insecurity is necessarily pejorative, it is not so when there is an actual basis for the feeling, but if insecurity is not founded on realistic dangers and most of the time, is really the case, it becomes a real danger. Solving those sorts of insecurities isn’t easy, but until one does one will continue to face those nagging feelings at the back of the mind

Some distinguish between jealousy and envy on the ground that jealousy involves the wish to keep what one has, and envy the wish to get what one does not have.

finally here’s an old adage to a friend of mine who’s currently at the receiving end of this unfortunate turn of events…

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”

Software piracy is a major concern for Microsoft. It has taken a great many steps to combat this plague, but to the point of user inconvenience is where the line should be drawn. It’s already bad enough that one needs to activate ones windoze when installing or re-activate it by calling Thailand when adding new hardware but that’s not the cause of what irks me right now cause there are walk-around.

What’s unpitching my tent is the piracy lock on two of its MS download Web sites, requiring all Windoze XP and Windoze 2000 users to validate their copy of Windoze as genuine before downloading softwares.The lock is placed on the Microsoft’s Download Center and Windows Update Web sites, which offer applications such as Windows Media Player and the new Windows AntiSpyware product as well as security updates for Microsoft products.

Now I don’t give a crap about my pc at home, which is as unsecured as hell, for P2P programs to run. (plus I’ve put it in a DMZ anyway) Linux boxes is what I prefer to work on, but while at work where my company enterprise license 6.0 agreement with MS and thus we maintain our own XP/2K image, it’s pretty annoying to validate my or my user’s to download applications.

Anyhow what’s really silly is that “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” was cracked within 24 hours of implementation by a simple method of pasting the following text to the address bar:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’)

and pressing enter before pressing the “custom” or “express” button.

There’s a chain link (it that even a proper term? chain as in chain letter but link because it’s URL) going around blogtown this week and I got it via Soggie’s blog. So here’s my contribution to the chain link with a twist….

Question: what are the things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play?

Answer:
I’m a loner and prefer to stay at home most of the time, so most of the things I do and enjoy is when no one is around me and wants to go out and play. What I enjoy and do is listed in my preference.

When I do go out though, I prefer the outdoors (enjoying nature) in my hometown or the nightlife when I’m in the city with close friends.

Question: what lowers your stress/anxiety/blood pressure level?

Answer:
I go to that happy place in my head.

Well that’s about all. Its not a full list, but then, for now it’ll do. So next 3 person to be pinged by me are:

asenDURE
nbtd
michelle

The three of you - copy and paste the two questions onto your blog, then attempt to answer it!

….the spam stops here! Oh well, it was fun while it lasted and I got to know some of the cool stuff/talents my net friends have *winks*
- end-

As promised to Joey…here’s him on paper Just to let him know that he’s not outta the loop and partly to appease Sekhmet and Bast. Wanted to put him in a cat costume ala catwoman but decided that it would cover most of his features…so decided to morph him into a huminal (human+animal). Unfortuantely gals look better as cats than guys.

Who’s Joey? well on LYN we know him as Joey-Kun…and he can be found here but be mindful that he suffering from clinical depression, something I only have textbook knowledge of, so his blog can be a little dark and morbid.

In other unrelated events, congratulations are in order for Syafiq (Empire23) for making moderator in Hardware section. While he’s quest to eradicated idiocy is still of upmost importance, I’ve noticed his post are more watered down nowadays due to the probationary period.

Was doodling and then suddenly looked up, and lo-and-behold,…Reuben’s blog on my monitor screen so decided to do a portrait of him. Didn’t think this piece did him any justice though…so instead of saying it’s a pic of him..should i say it was inspired by him?

Don’t really know how syafiq and chewyx looks like, so decided to leave it to my imagination and perception of them. for empie…lets say, mean looking deathblow/punisher gung ho-ness and for chewyx, the enigmatic fu manchu/silversurfer look (heck, i only saw the top of his shiny head).

uploaded a couple more artwork and changed the look of the entire blog to a more minimalist feel.

Edited:
Snowball effect going through the 3 blogs…here’s their hilarious replies: (in alphabetical order of appearance, drum roll pls)….
Chewyx’s reply
Soggie’s Reply
Empire23’s reply