Another Quick Lazy Pop up Card…

Seeing that I am still in the mood and the tools and papers still lying around, I decided to make another card but still using the same principal.

I printed out the letters I needed to make the words I wanted on the card. I used few different fonts for different letters.

Then I used my circles templates to draw circles for each letters. Some circles cover the letters completely, some are smaller than the letters and some partially let the letter burst through.

Stick them together with my glue stick, arranging them nicely so they could tuck into the card nicely…

This can be done rather quickly. Just randomly stick them together.

There you go, instant pop up card with customized greeting!

Then I just make a simple cover for the card and viola!

The card is done!

I made this card in less than 2 hours!

Pop up cards…

My last long weekend was the best so far. It was very relaxing and I

get to do a lot of stuff that I had not been doing for a long time.

I used to make lots of pop up cards before I enter University. I am not really keen with the normal cards because these cards are… normal… plain… boring…

Well to me that is…

So I am more into the pop up cards.

I was inspired by this pop up card design I stumble upon from here.

Since it will be a long weekend, I was itching to make pop up cards again.

Because the design is too plain for me, I decided to use other design but still follow the original layout. Since I loved Megaman Zero art work so much, I had incorporated one of the designs from the art book that I have into my card. I used the Cyber Elf design to replace the angel. Here is the little Cyber Elf drawn in pencil...

These were the tools used to make the card. I forgot to put in my glue stick and

scissors. I used embossing tool to make the card fold nicely.

At first, I wanted to just draw the Cyber Elf onto the white card and cut it out just like the original design. It looks to plain, plus the color painted was not striking enough for me.

So I chose to break the design into smaller parts using different colored cards. Now I do not have to the coloring and the color is nicer. Just that I have to cut small pieces...

Half way making the card, I remember someone who is heartbroken. I changed the heart design into broken heart. Now I am going to make the Cyber Elf fix the broken heart by putting the broken pieces together.

Gluing the parts together and they are ready to be stick inside the card.

I used white ink pen to outline the Cyber Elves so the details will stand out. Use black marker for the eyes and crayon for their blushes...

I used a piece of card, as shown in the yellow circle below, to connect the two hearts together, so that they would pop up and stand up nicely.

Actually I want to leave out the wings for the Cyber Elf. Seeing that the Elves look plain and boring without their wings, I added the wings too. Now the elves look better.

My first pop up card for the year 2011…

Took me one day to finish it…

Always Never…

ALWAYS and NEVER are the two words I hate to hear. This is probably because people around me always misused those words. Especially the adult…

Somehow, the adult loved to use them. Like for instance, say you had been doing all the housework and stuff for few days during Eid. You know, preparing the food, cleaning up the house and kitchen, serving the guests and entertaining relatives. Then, there this one day where you can get out for few hours, you know, taking a break after doing all that. Then when you get back, guess what the adult will say?

Why you ALWAYS go out when we need you here?

Why you ALWAYS leave the kitchen in such a mess?

You NEVER clean up after you.

You NEVER help in the house.

That should be enough… Anyway, how do you feel after working hard to please the adult and just because of few hours of getaway, you get bombard with all of that? That is one reason why I used to rebel and get really angry with them.

If they said that, then do not expect me to do all that because you said ALWAYS and NEVER. It meant, in my whole life, I had NEVER done all the work that the adult said. It meant, in my whole life, I ALWAYS do all that (in this case, all the stuff that they do not like us to do, such as going out and have fun, going to cinema, not cleaning up the house and etc.).

There are times I noticed, like what just happened recently, even if you just did it once, you will still get the ALWAYS and NEVER word. Is not that not fair?

I wish and how I wish the adult can be a bit more considerate when they talk. Look at past event, count how many time such event occur before you use ALWAYS and NEVER.

If you use ALWAYS, you are saying that I do it every day and every time. I ALWAYS breathe, I ALWAYS look at girls, I ALWAYS go online etc…

If you use NEVER, you are saying that I never do such thing in my whole life. I NEVER kill a person, I NEVER been to USA, I NEVER get married yet etc…

And the funny thing is, when the adult themselves use those two words among themselves; they do not like it either. My my my, I just wonder why…

New socks…

You know it is time to ditch your current socks and get a new pair when it is not doing this anymore…

Sticking to your ankle.

I somewhat do not like to have my socks slipping down my ankle all the time. I really need to get new socks because it keeps on slipping down my ankle every few minutes. That mean I had been wasting few minutes of my precious time while wearing the socks to pull it up. Say if I wear the socks for like 8 hours per day and it keep on slipping down like every minute, and it takes me like 5 seconds to pull it up…

8 hours is 480 minutes. That mean I pulled up my socks for 5 seconds x 480 times which is 2400 seconds. Thus I wasted 40 minutes during my whole 8 hours working in the office just pulling up my socks. Don’t you just love math…

Anyway, to avoid wasting that precious minutes so that I can surf the net, write for my blogs, laugh at people blogs, search for Gundams or look for stuff to buy at Amazon be an efficient worker, I need to buy myself new socks. So there you go.

I don’t like to have my socks sliding down my ankle and rest underneath my feet sandwich between my shoes and my feet. The most uncomfortable feeling for my feet…

I BOUGHT LOTS AND LOTS OF GUNDAMS!

When my cute petit sister came back for semester break, I asked her to buy me these three Gundams, 00 Gundam Seven Swords (which if you count properly, is actually eight swords), Gundam Throne Zwei and Gundam Throne Drei (I had wanted the Thrones badly for so long…).

I started to buy the HG plamo because of XN Raiser unit i had received from my friend in Japan. Thanks Reikochan! The XN Raiser was given together with the magazine as customizable parts. Anyway I was curious with how good HG is nowadays…

Near Christmas, the magazine gave out this Mobile Suit Hangar as prop for the Gundams. I am tempted to get myself an RG RX-78-2 now…

Then this huge one day sale came… And I bought these… 3x 0 Raisers, Gadessa, 0 Gundam, Astraea Gundam and Gundam Exia Avalanche Dash. I just looooove 0 Gundam!

Just last week, there was another sale! WHOAH! Some of the Gundams were sold for 50% off! That is why I have this new pile of mobile suits… Gundam 00 QanT and 3x Tierens Ground type. Thus my Exia linage is now complete and I have Tierens for the Gundams to bash up now!

All the Gundams that I had not build yet… A lots of them…

I have not even touched my MGs yet…

My Astrays are sitting on the board games. Do not worry, all completed years ago. Yes, I like Monopoly… My PG Astray still waiting there patiently…

So, I have a mountain of Gundams waiting to be built… I had completed like only 10% out of the whole thing…

Balls Juggling...

One of my goals in life is to master juggling. I had started to train when one of my Pilipino friend taught me to juggle. I did try before that but doing it just from reading books was not really a good idea. I still need a teacher.

Don’t ask me why I like juggling. It is just like asking why the sky is blue. I am not really sure why… but I just like to see those balls bouncing from the juggler’s hands without falling. Maybe I grew up in the time where circus was still rampant and I read a lot of books on circus.

So now I am still trying to be a better juggler. Hopefully I can juggle three balls for one hour straight soon… Well, I still need to work on juggling those balls for at least a minute for now…

My Office...

Lately my boss is getting to hype up with people getting into the office on time. Maybe he wants to get his money worth… Also maybe it is because he just gave us a raise, he regret that action and this is a way to get that money back…

Anyway, he is so obsess with it that our punch-in system is going to evolve with few rules and regulations. Before, we just have to punch our card into the errrrr… punch machine.

After that we have this security system, where every worker has to have a card each for them to enter the premise and punch our card into the punch machine.

Whoever comes in late will get a red punch card. Which mean certain amount of your salary will be deducted. He does not want us to do banking, sending mails or other stuff during working hours. Understandable… but even if there are no other stuff to do in the office. With that he provided an answer: Get half day leave if you need to do all that stuff. Just another way to finish up your precious leaves and if you have none, another saving for the company! Nice one boss!

Seeing that we can still get away with the punch card system by asking a good colleague

To punch-in instead (a good colleague who come early that is), he then devises another plan. Get a watch dog! He gets another worker to take up part time job as a guard, guarding so that a person can only punch-in once and not more than that.

It is good to come in on time. It is your responsibility as a worker. It is also not every day we come in late. There are these everyday things that you cannot control. Like the traffic, weather and other unplanned, random events (such as the need to go to toilet, driving people to other destination, fill up the car petrol, etc). So at times, it is nice if he can be a bit understanding and tolerate. After all we are not very late, just few minutes late (by few minutes, it range between 5 to 10 minutes). And to make thing worse, we do not really have lots of stuff to do.

So I heard, he will have fingerprint scanner installed in the future. How soon it will be implemented, hard to say. But he is very keen to have that. Then he will not only foil the-ask-your-buddy-to-punch-for-you-in-the-morning technique but also will be able to catch those who came in late after morning break and lunch break. With that, he will also be able to monitor each and every person movement in the office. Sneaky…

In the future, I will not be surprise if he even gets us implanted with chip so that he can track us using GPS. Or to make it better, he get a helicopter for the company and get a guy to hover around the city where I live. Then, if we come in late because of the traffic jam, he will be able to show the photos of every route taken until 8am and confirm that we are stuck in the jam or lying.

It is time to look for another company then.

This is really fun!