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Hello boys and girls.

I'm married.
With some anime character.
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I fell in love all over again. With Hinata :heart:

This episode alone is worth than all Shippuuden's episodes collected together.

I expect some surge of Naruhina's fanarts soon :) Maybe I'll do some, too. Spin-off doujin of their childhood sounds good?

And don't forget to visit :iconso-over-you: for my collaborative Naruhina doujin with chyama, though haven't update it like eternity >_>

Naruhina all the way!!! :#1:
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Tagged by :iconzend: (still busy, dude?)

10 things about my art...

RULES: You have to answer that questions and to put it into your journal. Then you choose 6 other deviants to answer that. Put them into the journal and inform them that they've been tagged.

1. Every kids love to draw. Including me.
2. start drawing anime style after dragonball.... great impacto.
4. Started to draw seriously at the age of 12.. or at least i think so..
5. My drawing style evolves like this...
-Stickman
-weird creature / human / animal
-doraemon
-dragonball
-hongkong
-realistic/realism
-more stroke copy -> Ah! My Goddess, yuyu hakusho (maybe), evangelion
-now, maybe my own style? it sucks, though ^^;
6. dun want to draw something I'm not interested with.
7. lots of idea, and even for doujin. but lazy. and busy. maybe?
8. Started CG since joined DA. No, actually much earlier, some dragonball oekaki - over 9000 hours on MS Paint.
9. ermmm.... love to draw girls. Reluctant to draw guys. I'm not gay, so rest assured. And yeah, recently I really love little girls. Protect your loli.
10. want to make game. but not enough skills. Erh, out of topic.


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Tagged by :iconlavendra: (beware, she bites!)

Rules:

- Write eight things about yourself.
- At the end, post the icons of eight people you wish to tag.
- Go to each person's page and tell them they've been tagged.

8 things about myself?

- I'm lazy. Gimme money so I don't have to work, and can laze around.
- I like to draw female than male, very yes.
- I'm not gay.
- Iriya is my wife. Hinata is second. and lots more.
- I don't like to talk... unless the topic/person interests me (animemanga etc). Hate to talk to hypocrites and 2-faced people.
- I love cats. But cats hate me.
- Did I mention that I'm lazy?
- I like blue and purple. Blue is harmony. Purple is mystic/mystery. Maybe?

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Updates:
None. Life is boring. Work is s**t. Someone enlighten me pls.

Currently working on my comic "Kasturi" (title not finalized). My aim is to create as many lolicon and shotacon out of this comic. Save me from UNICEF pls.

The comic will cover the traditional aspect of Malaysia using manga-style drawing. Will feature:-
-"kampung"/village house (love the wooden house)
-the "bendang" or rice field
-some local attire
-the small community
-the Jawi
-some silat action (maybe)
-and to wrap it all, a famous "local folklore".

My plan is, if the 2-shot is popular enough, I'll make a series out of it. Local adventure series is not a bad thing, right? And I think I need someone who's a pesilat to provide me general info... didn't have enough information. :D

Well, back to the reality :)

KTHXBYE.


Oh, did I mention that work is s**t?
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Shock and awe!

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Original link here www.counterpunch.org/fernandez…

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The Trauma Vortex:
By BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ

Based on the tallies currently being produced by Israeli towns located in the haphazard line of Qassam rocket fire, it appears that the bulk of Israel's civilian casualties in its war on Gaza will once again be shock related.

This was the case in the July 2006 war on Lebanon, during which the Israeli Health Ministry reported that 4,262 wounded Israeli civilians were treated in hospitals; this total was broken down into 33 seriously wounded patients, 68 moderately wounded, and 1,388 lightly wounded, with the remaining 2,773 treated for "shock and anxiety." The UN Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon, meanwhile, cited the Lebanese authorities' claim of 4,409 wounded Lebanese civilians—the only attempt at classification of casualties being a chart listing 56 different "collective massacres" conducted by Israeli forces during the war, with identifying labels such as: "Air raids struck heavily on the funeral procession of the victims of the previous day['s] air raids."

BBC News reported different figures in its August 2006 civilian casualty scorecard for the war, according to which there were 32 seriously wounded Israelis, 44 moderately wounded Israelis, 614 lightly wounded Israelis, 1,985 Israelis treated for shock, and 3,697 wounded Lebanese. Israeli casualties were thus still overwhelmingly shock related, while the Lebanese were still:

   1. a lump sum.
   2. not affected by acute stress disorders.

The same trend will most likely hold for Gaza—and not only because it is difficult for hospitals to accommodate people with heightened norepinephrine levels when they cannot accommodate people with missing limbs.

I awoke this past Sunday morning to find that 1 Israeli in Sderot had been lightly wounded, 4 Israelis had been treated for shock, and 23 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza since midnight. After performing a Google search of the terms "Palestinians treated for shock"—which mainly produced articles about Israelis being treated for shock due to Palestinian behavior—I phoned a Palestinian friend in Lebanon in an attempt to determine why enemies of Israel did not enjoy the luxury of psychological conditions. The investigation was conducted in modified English, the idiomatic form on which Hassan and I relied for all of our communications:

ME: Do Arabs ever go to hospital for problem with head?
HASSAN: Arab he don't have head.

This hypothesis would undoubtedly have been endorsed by ex-Israeli premier Golda Meir, who might have used it to back up her argument that Palestinians were not real people. Other possible excuses for the traditional embargo on Palestinian shock included the following:

   1. The Palestinians were used to having bombs fall on their heads.
   2. It was the Palestinians' own fault that bombs were falling on their heads.
   3. Shock had become the exclusive property of Israel's international sympathy campaign, as had the words "hail," "shower," and "barrage."

The Health section of Sunday's online edition of the Jerusalem Post offered some insight into the unique phenomenon of Israeli shock. The main article was entitled "Escaping the trauma vortex," which—although it sounded more like instructions for breaking down the Rafah border crossing—turned out to be the goal of Somatic Experiencing (SE), a self-healing philosophy that had recently been advertised in Sderot.

The article begins on a Friday morning at the "bomb-proofed Sderot Resiliency Center," where visiting SE guru Gina Ross of Los Angeles is presiding in front of a rapt audience of health care professionals and social workers. According to the author of the article, the meeting has been auspiciously timed given the fragility currently felt by Israelis in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, most of whom are nonetheless described as "sleeping in on the first day of the weekend." A corresponding estimate of how many Gazans sleep in on Friday mornings is not provided.

The "upbeat" Ms. Ross describes the purpose of SE as replacing the "trauma vortex" with a "healing vortex." The trauma vortex is the result of "an uncompleted biological response to threat, which leaves the system in an excessively high level of arousal, with thwarted movements of defense frozen in time"; the healing vortex occurs when victims learn how to "thaw the freeze and release the sensory motor expressions of trauma-based emotions." Ross enthusiastically contends that the replacement process is sometimes possible in only a few sessions, even with years of buildup.

The SE method was developed by Dr. Peter Levine, who is described in the article as being the author of the book Taming the Tiger; it turns out that the book is in fact called Waking the Tiger, which is perhaps more appropriate in the Israeli context given apparent preferences for unleashing beasts rather than deterring them. In addition to a host of other titles, Ross is the Middle East senior trainer for Levine's Foundation for Human Enrichment, as well as a self-proclaimed expert in overcoming "the insecurity and difficulties of exile"—her family having fled their home in Syria and later their home in Lebanon. Familiarity with exile might prove useful in the event that Gaza is one day deemed to be deserving of human enrichment, or somatic experience in general.

Ms. Ross has determined that Israelis, Palestinians, and Israeli-Arabs all suffer from collective trauma vortices—especially the second group, whose vortex "has been spiraling out of control for a while." Thus, although the Gazans are permitted in this case to suffer psychologically, they are doomed to fail even at their own suffering, as it is not possible to implement a collective healing vortex while an army financed by the global superpower is overhead and underfoot.

The SE method does, however, provide innovative opportunities for such international notables as:

   1. Barack Obama, who is in danger of developing a trauma vortex due to repeated reliance on the "flight" option in fight or flight situations—namely AIPAC addresses and opinions on the war on Gaza.
   2. MK Shai Hermesh, resident of a kibbutz close to the Gazan border, who—Tzipi Livni explained to a meeting of foreign diplomats in Sderot on 28 December—"has had to almost live in a shelter for weeks now." Livni declared the situation "unbearable," although this description most likely did not apply to the situation of Palestinian MPs held indefinitely in Israeli administrative detention.

Gina Ross' assertion that "peace can only come from balanced collective nervous systems" might also prove revelatory for other members of the international community, such as those under the impression that peace can only come from preventing Israel's disassembly of Palestine into noncontiguous enclaves. Instead of fretting over what percentage of remaining Palestinian territories should be permitted on the Israeli side of soaring cement walls, Middle East envoy Tony Blair might thus focus on more concrete issues like building emotional resilience into the roadmap for peace. Blair has already demonstrated a strong commitment to resilience, by choking back tears while discussing letters received from parents whose sons have died in Iraq but who nonetheless retain their conviction in the rightness of war.

(In keeping with the global distribution of power, Iraqis—like Gazans—have been judged unworthy of psychological victimhood, which is reserved for coalition troops, their families, and people who duct tape their windows to guard against WMD attack. Incidentally, the fourth item in the list of results returned by a Google search of the terms "Iraqis treated for shock" was a Haaretz article from 2007, entitled "Qassam fired from Gaza hits Sderot; man treated for shock.")

Near the end of the Jerusalem Post article on escaping the trauma vortex, an Israeli SE practitioner at the Sderot meeting declares her intention to host an emotional first-aid workshop for citizens of Jerusalem experiencing secondary—i.e. vicarious—trauma.

Moving on to the second headline in the Health section of JPost.com, I was informed that: "Emotional hot lines see sharp rise in callers from the South," most of whom were experiencing repercussions of the imbalance of the Gazan collective nervous system. According to the spokeswoman for the hotline run by Natal—Israel's Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War—a number of parents were concerned that their children were not eating or drinking; such behavior would have been less of a concern in Gaza, given the lack of food and drink.

Natal's advice to those battling the trauma vortex included:

   1. moderately abstaining from news reports.
   2. finding "light entertainment to ease them through the stress." (The word "entertainment" was underlined; when I clicked on it I was transported to a website in Spanish where I was invited to download popular tunes to my cellular phone.)
   3. encouraging small children to spend time in their bomb shelters even when there were not air raid sirens, such that the shelters would become associated with things other than fear of death.

A visit to the Natal website itself revealed that many of the hotline callers were from northern Israel and were "experiencing flashbacks from the Second Lebanon War." Condoleezza Rice, meanwhile, was also experiencing flashbacks to this particular war, and repeated that a ceasefire should never allow a return to the status quo ante, i.e. Gaza.

The Natal website describes the residents of southern Israel as "living in an abnormal reality" and provides them with coping tools, including a list of exercises entitled "Muscle Relaxation For Children." In one of the exercises listed, parents are advised to have their children pretend that: "A little elephant is coming closer; in a moment it's going to step on your stomach! Tighten your stomach; make your muscles as tight as you can. The elephant is gone; now your stomach can relax again."

Alternate therapeutic activities are explored on SderotMedia.com, which features a video of a small boy in a black yarmulke intently decorating a Qassam rocket he has fashioned out of a plastic bottle, paper, and masking tape. A more complex juxtaposition of innocence and war can of course be found in the photos of Israeli children decorating missiles en route to Lebanon in 2006, but the director of the SderotMedia video does cover additional symbolic ground in the final scene, in which the decorated Qassam is placed in the middle of the floor with a baby in a purple sweater seated a short distance away. The baby eyes the Qassam for a few seconds, then crawls over to it and knocks the rocket over.

Further navigation of the website produced an article to accompany the video, entitled "Environmental Friendly Kassams." In the article, the mother of the Qassam decorator explains that "the encounter with threat through creation" provides a sense of security to the children of Sderot (or at least to the 70-94% of them that SderotMedia diagnoses with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The author of the piece supplies more relevant background information, such as that the "Color Red" alert is as familiar a concept to these children as the word "Dad," and that the kids "don't really care if the IDF is the one who began with the response"—an example that the rest of the world might follow.

After viewing another video of Sderot—this one starring a woman in a nightgown trembling in her house—I returned one last time to the Health section of the Jerusalem Post's website to find an article entitled "Psychologically Speaking: Feeling sad." This piece explored other potential reasons aside from rocket hail that Israelis might feel down, such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), brought on by winter, and reverse seasonal affective disorder, brought on by summer.

Most Palestinians in Gaza at the moment presumably do not have enough spare time to be affected by seasonal changes, nor are the melatonin supplements recommended to combat SAD likely to be available on humanitarian aid trucks. Regular explosions, however, might offer Gazans access to some of the other suggested treatments, such as bright light therapy. The Israeli government, meanwhile, might consider ceasing the exploitation of its citizens' genuine psychological torment in order to justify existential battles against its neighbors.

Belén Fernández is currently completing a book entitled Coffee with Hezbollah, which chronicles the 2-month hitchhiking journey through Lebanon that she and Amelia Opali?ska conducted in the aftermath of the July 2006 war. She can be reached at belengarciabernal@gmail.com.
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Remember Hokuto no Ken series? Now I'm imagining that left side is "You are shock", and the right side is "You are already dead".

And we here? Enjoyed watching our beloved anime with ecchi and harem settings, while complaining that the temperature is too low, feel like shitting in pants. Or maybe angry coz someone drove too slow in front of me today, fuck him. And his cat.

I pray for the safety of people in the world. But, shock is too normal situation for me to even look, since its normal.

Now, how many of you have guts to stop, and think, and act? How many of you, will be sane, and investigate the situation before siding extremely to one side? How many of you, even care? (well they are on other side, awwwright with the world)

And how long before this journal deleted, and I'm banned? :love:
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Finally, CF'07 is over! Congratulations for all the workers, artists, and every single souls (including the Shinigamis) that coming to CF this year! :D

Ehem, so... I managed to go into Comic Fiesta at the 2nd day (Sun). Going there with :iconshojikun: (who brought his imouto with him). After (being forced) to join Comic Factory club, losing the direction in the CF. Too.... sesak. And didn't find the starting point of booth.

After pusing2 around like stupid trio, we managed to get hold of the situation. 1st stop is :iconfazuu: booth (no.1&2). Met :iconayez:, and  :iconmechafrog: for the first time. :iconkitsune-sin: goes breakfast (apsal lama sgt? Breakfast ke buat breakfast?). Browse, chat, and buy. Voila~ :D

Cool mechaFROG, cool. Nasib baik ko lelaki. Kalo tak aku dah glomp ko macam crazy fangirl. :giggle:

The next booth, :icongraveyardstudio:. Met :iconkelzero: there, the only one left to entertain the guest. Yang lain dah lari kot, heheh. Their doujin has running-out, only left the browsing copy. :iconjiwo: is fighting the fate to get their printed doujin stapled. Good thing is that kelzero being nice enough to sell me the one and only last copy of eXDee doujin of theirs (thx kelzero!).

The other doujin I bought is Collateral Damage x Tera compilation books. Have to buy, since they provide original OST with it. Very unique concept, the first I've seen in the CF's history of mine. Tapi mahal betul :shakefist:

Get to meet Hellboy :iconzend:, heheh. His cosplay of Hellboy really great, I bet people who seen him didn't know that he's into loli and maid. :evillaugh: Wa caya sama lu, zend!! :thumbsup:

BTW, zend, did you manage to catch any loli with that hellish hand of yours?   

Get the copy of Ju Lah doujin #1 & #2 book from zend, which I have provide some of my works there. But, since the printing quality isn't good enough, some of the tone effects are missing. Oh well, we just started, not enough experience yet :)

The cosplay competition. Cannot unsee it. Too many tall people, standing at the front. Ciss~ But the Hare Hare Yukai dance really bring the mood up. ^^

And then for some reason the cosplayer having a fighting event among themselves (not real fight, though). In the end, a "Death" cosplayer pwned all. Even the "Shinigami" Zaraki Kenpachi died ^^;

Hmm, so in conclusion, this year CF isn't as great as the previous (small space is smalllll~), but I get to make nice memories out of it. I'll try to draw more pages for the next Ju Lah compilation books.

Waiting for the next year Comic Fiesta, 2008! :#1:

nasrul-ds3, ending the report of Comic Fiesta 2007. :salute:
  
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Above is a link to a sample page of my newest works, a 12-page doujin/fancomic based on the anime OVA of the same name. The comic will be sold at ComicFiesta 2007 event, that will take place at Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Below is the details:

Comic Fiesta 2007 / CF07
Date: 15-16 December 2007 (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 11am - 7pm (both days)
Venue: 6th Floor, Times Square.
Admission: RM10 per day (kind of stupid to pay just for entering, but whatever)

You can buy it from Ju Lah! doujin's booth, which will only open at 1st day(Sat). On the other hand, I'll be coming there at 2nd day(Sun) only, soooooooooo you won't see me at the booth for the 1st day. Working maa.

This is kind of late, but I'm joining Ju Lah!'s doujin circle for now. Need a stable group here.
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