Kyoto it is

I recently got in touch with a nice gal who’s part Japanese, part American-Dutch and part Chinese. Her name is Euminl Estrella (cool name, huh) by the way, and she’s a member of the Screenplayer community and she was nice enough to share some information.

Since she used to spend a portion of her life in Japan, I gave it a shot and asked her whether Kyoto is a good place to promote my comic book ideas. I mean, I do intend to get outta this Tenth Level of Hell known with the seducing tagline of “Uniquely Singapore” and I’m thinking since those Japanese are more open to radical ideas and the premise of my comic book is close to what they usually have in their anime and manga, I figured I have a better chance at succeeding down there than here or even the US (my name just doesn’t fare well over there).

Anyway, Euminl replied that actually the best choice would be Tokyo, but that is one hell of an expensive place to live in so she said it’s not such a bad choice to try in Kyoto. She also mentioned that they’ve opened the International Manga Museum in Kyoto so I thought there’s probably a good chance that the people, even professionals from the industry flock over there and maybe and I’ll be able to meet’em. And besides, my brother told me it’s easier to find Muslim food over there and there’s even some mosques available, so that’s one less thing off my mind.

So I guess it’s gonna be Kyoto. Once I save enough money, I’ll head over there and, Insyallah, I’ll succeed in my quest to put Red Coast Comics on the map.

Oh, here’s the fourth pixel art of mine. It’s the villain called Novo.

The 11th Grade

Sulaiman Salamon to me – May 18, 2007/via Gmail

hey dude,

here are the links that i told you about:

MANGA: http://mangarun.com/

Enjoy

After 10 days…after hours

What a day!

I don’t think I can say that enough. Well, I’ve just returned from a trip to JB with Ali and boy, am I glad we planned this. Sure, it’s been a long time since I’ve been out of the country (about a year actually), but after my trip to the hospital earlier, man, it is official:

THIS IS THE DAMNDEST YEAR OF MY LIFE!

I thought I was just gonna get my half-cast removed after 10 days with it and they slap on my full-cast, but nooooo. Apparently, the Orthopaedist noticed something strange in my new X-ray slides and he casually told me that I need surgery on my hand or I will easily get arthritis, even at a young age. I mean, I’m not mad at him, but dammit…can it get any worse? I already have no job, which means no money and the surgery will cost me $1,462 and $623 is already deducted from my CPF-Medisave account which leaves my CPF with a mere $200+. That’s a retirement plan for ya’!

The surgery news hit me bad, man. This could mean I never could do push-ups or pull-ups or boxing again and I deliver a real stiff jab, lemme tell ya’. And I thought I could go thru life without being the Bionic Man one bit, but looks like they’re gonna implant a wire and screw the loose bone fragment in place. That’s gonna bite like a bitch when I’m old.

But hell, I forgot about all that later in the day when I went out with Ali and spent a nice old time with the cherry-flavored shisha at this place called Singgah Selalu (Visit Regularly). It’s a vibrant atmosphere and it’s way better than Al-Ameen. And Ali said S’poreans do frequent there on weekends, so it’s sorta a home away from home. Before the shisha, we had dinner at Kenny Rogers. It was my first time and it could’ve been better, but with my left hand being the only one able to feed me, I couldn’t get a taste of the tasty roast chicken. Instead, I ordered the bolognaise spagetti, which is still delicious for only RM14.90. It was filling.

Well, the whole night was laid back and just how the way we slackers like it. Ali and I plan to overnight at Singgah Selalu in two weeks’ time and it’ll be shisha galore on the next visit. Now, that’ll be something I haven’t done since my NS years. If only we both had tons of cash and we both could drive and had cars with high insurance (going to JB for God’s sake).

Anyway, I’m just gonna relax my mind on Thursday and come Friday, well, cut me open then. Seriously, this year has gone so bad that usually at this point, a person would think that it could either go extremely worse or something good will pop up when you least expect it and make all the bad go away.

I pray to Allah it’s the latter.