Dilios goes home alone.

The end result! I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. Will be looking around for more inspiration. And will definitely have to stock up on more supplies; kinda getting low on ink and all.

Commitment.

In order to stay true to my resolutions for 2012 of being spontaneous and willing to try new things, I've gotten myself into some pretty exciting stuff;

i) CER

Wasn't so sure about this one actually, but after quite a bit of encouragement and some amount of positive feedback(although somewhat sketchy and vague), I finally decided to see what this baby's all about. I don't know what it's about at all; the only thing I know about it is its name. Oh, and I am going alone. How's that for "willing to try new things"?

ii) Real art that I hope will get me some money

Will be praying for lots of grace and courage for this one though. Anyway, I've been thinking about going serious with this whole "art" business. Had a crazy idea to start a birthday card "business/company" awhile ago but nothing's really come out of it yet. And then recently, an old friend landed his first official commission(congrats Brian!), so now I might move beyond birthday cards! Will need more practice, more materials and will definitely have to read/research more. Started the new year with a piece entitled(for now) "And Dilios goes home alone". Really hope this piece will help to get things moving!

iii) Vietnam in April

Not sure what the plan is yet; not even sure who's going besides Marcus and I. Kinda planning to travel the whole of Vietnam by the Reunification Express. Will iron out all the details and plan the itinerary once we confirm out total strength.

Alrighty then, back to work!

Thinking about, well, stuff.

Been thinking about quite a lot of things lately and I guess I'll write about the more important ones;

For starters, I think at 21(or 20 years and 8 months), one has to learn to prioritise; to put all the proper things, people and events into their proper places and arranged them according to their importance and merit. As of late, I've been struggling with that because I'm not too sure about what's really important to me; I've lived my whole life thinking that everything that I'm part of is important to me; I have never sat down and weighed them out to decide which was more important, or less important. The idea just never crossed my mind before. But there are only seven days a week, 24 hours a day and that doesn't give me a lot of time to work with; hence the whole mumbo jumbo about setting my priorities straight and all.

Now with that being said and all, this beings me to my second point about being spontaneous and trying new things. I know that I've said this quite a lot at the end of 2011, that 2012 is a year of opportunities and a year for trying and getting out of that comfort zone. Thing is, I don't really know what and when to try. And there're so many things coming my way and I have to decide quickly before 2012 becomes just "another year" gone by and wasted.

Ohkay, I think that's enough worrying for now. Back to work!

Nothing much really.

Apparently, MS Paint's not good enough for the job, so I downloaded Paint.net instead. It doesn't seem very user-friendly but I've seen it at work and I think it's pretty awesome. Well, once you get the hang of it, of course. Will probably be spending the next few weeks trying to figure out how it works and all.