Projects

Three primary things i’ve been working on other than school stuff (well 4 sort of):

1.Writing/transcribing my novel into Visual Novel Format. I want to at least turn the first arc into a visual novel to see how that compares to just reading it normally. After all, visual novels give us visuals, sound… and essentially the ability to further create an atmosphere.

2.Doodling a short draft of a Power Rangers Comic. Well it’s probably going to be closer to a Power Rangers Doujin Manga in it’s style, but who’se complaining. In the end it’s just going to be a strange new manga that only shares the theme of power rangers… and not much else.

3.A comic of Hamlet! Which is actually a complete retelling of Hamlet with the inclusion of Zombies. The comic will be a short 5 or 6 page piece with our wonderous prince of denmark and his escapades in zombie invaded Denmark! Horrah!

I’m working on them as we speak… so look forward to em…

A part of me.

It’s currently 11:38pm.

In approximately 15 hours, I’ll be on a plane bound for the other side of the world, where I hope my world will be turned completely upside down. And while I’ve been treating this as just another trip, but if I’m truly honest with myself: it’s much more than that.

It’s not just the cheap stuff, relatives, interesting environment and the people I’m looking forward to seeing that I want to get out of this trip; It’s the hope that I’ll rediscover something i’ve lost that makes me eager to go. Hell, I’ll even enjoy being quarantined for swine flu (though I don’t have it).

The fact of the matter is… I noticed that I’ve become quite lax and frankly uninterested in everything. As school ended a few days ago, I found that I immediately reverted into a late night sleep in- and do nothing state of being. And that frightened me.

Part of it is the fear of becoming a vegetable, but the other part of it is the sudden loss of meaning. The question of “Where to now?” was overbearingly present, and in a state much larger than before.

You see,when I was living in the puberty state of adolescence, the question was coupled with a drive to discover who I was and where I should go. But sometime in the years between then and now, I feel like I’ve lost a bit of it-it’s like i’ve gone through a midlife crisis at the age of 20.

So this trip will hopefully drag me out of my comfortable place into the outside world. I know a part of me feels at home in that kind of world, and I will seek it out.

If that part of me is lost, I’ll find it again. And if it’s gone for good, I’ll create it anew.