Words Origin: Villain.

So I came across a few words that is not that it means. What now and in the origin meaning is so way off different. I guess, I will post one word in a few days.

So the word today would be:

Villain:-

What it means now: “A person guilty or capable of a crime or wickedness.”
What it used to mean: A farm worker

Everybody, especially Batman, Superman, Iron man, etc... is familiar with the word villains. A big thanks to over half a century of movies, we all know that the word villain means bad guy. Back in the 14th century though, villains were the backbone of agriculture. That is to say, they were the people who worked on farms. The word villain is actually an old French word that pulls its roots from the word “villa” Latin for country house.Over time, the meaning of the word gradually changed: Farm workers were poor, practically peasants. Peasants, being poor, are untrustworthy. Untrustworthy people commit crimes. And eventually we ended up with the modern day definition of villain, which becomes a rich person who gets killed by James Bond.

Gruesome Disney's Fairy Tale Origins

So, yesterday. I was reading a few of disney fairy tale origin and google it's history.

5. Pinocchio

Original: Pinocchio Kills the Cricket, the Fairy is a Walking, Talking Corpse and Pinocchio Dies

In the very first version of Pinocchio, the marionette is punished by death for being such a naughty boy. Pinocchio teases Gepetto mercilessly and runs away, Gepetto chases him but is caught by a police officer who throws the old man in prison, believing he is abusing the puppet. When Pinocchio returns to Gepetto’s house he meets a hundred year old cricket who tells him naughty boys turn into donkeys. Pinocchio throws a hammer at the cricket and kills it. Pinocchio ends up also getting burned, he then bites off an evil cat’s paw and meets a beautiful blue haired fairy who tells him she is dead and waiting for people to take her body away. Pinocchio then gets hung from a tree by the cat with the mutilated paw and the cat’s companion the fox, and they watch as Pinocchio suffocates to death. The End.

The editors weren’t too happy with this ending, so the author added a second part to the story. Here, the beautiful dead fairy rescues Pinocchio and they start living together, but Pinocchio takes up his wicked ways again and eventually turns into a donkey. He is sold to the circus, where he goes lame. Pinocchio is then brought by a musician, who desires to kill him, skin him, and turn him into a drumhead. The musician ties rocks to the donkey’s neck and lowers him into the ocean to drown. As he drowns, fish eat the flesh off his bones, and the wooden marionette skeleton is left. Pinocchio swims away, but is swallowed by a giant shark, in whose stomach he finds Gepetto sitting at a table trying to eat live fish which keep wriggling out of his mouth. After they escape, Pinocchio busies himself with caring for Gepetto, and eventually as a reward for being a good lad, looking after his father and working hard, he is rewarded by being turned into a real boy.

4 Cinderella

Original: Cinderella Kills Her Step-Mother

The Grimm’s version of Cinderella, where the Prince spreads tar on the palace steps in the hopes that Cinderella will get stuck as she tries to run away. His plan fails, however only her shoe is left sticking in the tar. Her sisters, who are “beautiful but cruel” both attempt to fool the Prince into marrying one of them. One sister scut off her big toe so that she can fit into the slipper, and the other cut off her own heel. Their evil deeds got found out when Cinderella’s enchanted birds point out the blood on their stockings to the Prince. The sister’s eyes are pecked out as punishment for their cruelty and deeds. 

Though this is an excellent version of Cinderella,  but this is not the version Disney actually based their movie on. Disney’s Cinderella was based on a very tame story by Charles Perrault, published 1697. Perrault’s version plays out almost exactly like the Disney version. However, both Perrault’s and Grimm’s versions contain elements from The Cat Cinderella, published in 1634, by Giambattista Basile. Though tame for a Basile fairy tale, it is worth noting that in this version, Cinderella confides in her seemingly kind Governess about the cruelty of her step-mother. The Governess tells Cinderella that to fix her problem she will need to kill her step-mother by slamming the lid of a large wooden chest down on her step-mothers throat, which will break her neck. Cinderella must then convince her father to marry the Governess. Cinderella kills her step-mother and the marriage goes ahead. It turns out though that the Governess was hiding her own seven beautiful daughters out of sight, and when she produces them, Cinderella’s father loses interest in his own daughter. They all start to mistreat Cinderella, abusing her and calling her names, and she is sent to the kitchens to work as a servant (she is now given the name ‘Cat Cinderella’. previously her name was Zezolla). The rest of the story carries like a traditional Cinderella tale, and actually has a happy ending all round, but it’s nice to know that Cinderella wasn’t always so innocent.

3 Sleeping Beauty.

Original: Sleeping Beauty 

In the Brothers Grimm tale of Briar Rose, a wise woman curses the baby princess so that in her fifteenth year she will prick her finger on a spindle and fall down dead. Another wise woman weakens the curse so that, instead of dying, the princess will fall asleep for a hundred years. Surely enough, in her fifteenth year, the girl pricks her finger and falls into a deathlike sleep, which quickly spreads throughout the entire kingdom until even the flies on the wall slumber. A briar hedge grows up around the castle and, over the years, hundreds of young men from faraway lands try to make their way through the brambles to ‘gaze upon’ the sleeping princess. However the brambles are so thick that the young men get trapped in the thorns and die slow miserable deaths. On the hundredth year a prince rides by and the brambles turn into flowers and open for him because the curse has finally run out. The prince finds the Sleeping Beauty and kisses her as she awaken.

As mentioned the Brothers Grimm took inspiration for Briar Rose from Sun, Moon and Talia, written by Giambattista Basile. In this tale, a king rapes the princess as she sleeps. She is impregnated and gives birth to twins. One of the babies sucks the enchanted splinter from beneath her fingernail and she awakens. The queen attempts to have the babies slaughtered and fed to their father, and attempts to burn Talia alive, but the king saves the day just in time, the queen is burned in Talia’s place, and they all live happily ever after.

2 Little Mermaid

Original: The Little Mermaid Kills the Prince

In the Hans Christian Andersen story that Disney based their movie on, the little mermaids tongue is cut out. She has to live in horrific pain and her feet bleed all the time, but the prince marries another woman anyway. The little mermaid has a choice; she can kill the prince and turn back into a mermaid, or throw herself into the ocean and die. Unable to kill the prince, she commits suicide.

1 Pocahontas

Original: Pocahontas was Kidnaped, Raped and Murdered

The two Disney movies about the curvaceous, scantily-clad Native Indian beauty are based on sterilized and falsified English accounts of the early history of the Virginia Colony. Pocahontas was only around ten years old when Smith first made contact with the Powhetans. It is true that he was captured by the tribe, but in his original account of the event Smith relates that he was treated very kindly. It wasn’t until many years later, when Pocahontas’s name became known in England, that Smith fabricated the story about her rescuing him from execution.

When Pocahontas was seventeen, she was captured by the English and held for ransom. Her husband Kokoum was killed and Pocahontas was raped repeatedly and consequently impregnated. She was forcefully converted to Christianity, baptized Rebecca, and quickly married off to an English tobacco farmer named John Rolfe to make the pregnancy appear legitimate. In 1615 the Rolfe’s travelled to England and Pocahontas was laced into a corset and presented to the public as a ‘symbol of the tamed Virginia savage’.

After two years in England the Rolfe’s had begun their journey home to Virginia when Pocahontas suddenly started to vomit violently after dinner, she then began to convulse. Before they had even sailed off the river Thames Pocahontas had died, horribly and painfully. English historical accounts are ‘unsure of the cause of death’, speculating that she may have succumbed to pneumonia, tuberculosis, or even smallpox. However, in their book The True Story of Pocahontas; The Other Side of History Linwood Custalow and Angela L. Daniel postulate that during her time in England, Pocahontas learned of the English intentions to obliterate the Native Indian Tribes and forcefully take their lands. Afraid that Pocahontas might reveal their political strategies, her murder was swiftly plotted and she was poisoned before she could reach home and report what she had learned. Pocahontas was only twenty-two years old when she died.

*note*

I found about 15 of it. but I will post it up another time. That's all for tonight. Good night. 

Beijing 2008

 Today, I happened to cross this picture on Facebook, the erotic and the beautiful body caught my eyes and I just have to read it. This is a oil painting, titled "Beijing 2008", drawn by Liu Yi (劉湓), a Chinese living in Canada. This painting has been drawing a lot of attention and becoming controversial on the Internet. Being a curious person , I googled it both it. And it seems that it's very popular in China and Taiwan. The painting basically is showing 4 ladies playing MahJong (A kind of Chinese game) and a little girl serving fruits. 

So from what I have read and to my understanding. The lady facing her back with the tattoo is China. On the left, focused on the game, is Japan. The one with the shirt, opposite China is America. Lying provocatively on the floor is Russia. And the little girl standing to the side is Taiwan.

China’s visible set of tiles “East Wind” means that China has control most of the East side of the world. On another hand, China appears to be in a good position, but we cannot see the rest of her hand so we don't know if she is winning or losing. Additionally, she is also handling some hidden tiles below the table.

America looks confident, but is glancing at Taiwan, trying to find something off of Taiwan’s expression, and at the same time seems to be hinting something at Taiwan.

Russia appears to be disinterested in the game, but this is far from the truth. Being a communism country, it's understand able why she place one foot hooks coyly at America, while China being a communism country Russia is passing a hidden tile to China, this tells me that both countries can be said to be exchanging benefits in secret. But for Japan is all seriousness while staring at her own set of tiles, and is oblivious to the actions of the others in her self-focused state. This tells me that Japan doesn't know what is going around with the world. She is just too focus on her own states. 

Taiwan wears a traditional red slip, symbolizing that she is the true heir of Chinese culture and civilization. In one hand she has a bowl of fruit, and in the other, a paring knife. Her expression as she stares at China is full of anger, sadness, and hatred, but to no avail; unless she enters the game, no matter who ends up as the victor, she is doomed to a fate of serving fruit.

The four ladies' state of undress represent the situation in each country. China is naked on top, clothed with a skirt and underwear on the bottom. America wears a bra and a light jacket, but is naked on the bottom. Russia has only her underwear left. Japan has nothing left.

America appears to be most composed and seems to be the best position, as all the others are in various states of nakedness. However, while America may look radiant, her vulnerability has already been exposed. This tells me that America can offer a lot but she have showed all her secrets to the world. While China and Russia may look naked, yet their private parts remain hidden. It shows that they can't offer much to the world and they have hidden their secrets.

If the stakes of this game is that the loser strips off a piece of clothing, then if China loses, she will be in the same state as Russia (similar to when the USSR dissolved). If America loses, she also ends up in the same state as Russia. If Russia loses, she loses all. Japan has already lost everything.

America may look like she is in the best position, but in fact is in a lot of danger, if she loses this round, she will give up her position as a world power. Russia is the most sinister, playing along with both sides, much like when China was de-occupied, she leaned towards the USSR and then towards America; as she did not have the ability to survive on her own, she had to weave between both sides in order to survive and develop.

There are too many of China’s tiles that we cannot see. Perhaps it's showing that China has several hidden aces? Additionally China is also exchanging tiles with Russia, while America can only guess from Taiwan’s expression of what actions have transpired between Russia and China or America is being a busybody thinking why Taiwan is looking at China that way. Japan on the other hand is completely oblivious, still focused solely on her own set of tiles.

Taiwan stares coldly at the game from aside. She sees everything that the players at the table are doing, she understands everything that is going on. But she doesn't have the right or permission to join the game, she isn't even given the right to speak. Even if she has a dearth of complaints, she cannot voice it to anyone, all she can do is to be a good page girl, and bring fresh fruit to the victor. 

The final victor lies between China and America, this much is apparent. But look closely; while America is capable, they are playing Chinese Mahjong, not Western Poker. Playing by the rules of China, how much chance at victory does America really have?

Time.

I notice that lately, I have been wishing and hoping for more "time". I just feel that 24 hours isn't enough. There is just so many things I need to do. I know the saying goes "make time" but how can I make time when I don't even have time to be made? I bet a few of you will be saying "stop blogging and go do your stuff." Well, blogging is one of the things I need to do. But not matter how hard I wish for more time, it wouldn't be given to me. After all, time is priceless. But than again, I wish I could clone myself so I can multitask everything.

Kaamatan Party and Ambush mission.

On last Saturday, I was invited to my boss's kaamatan party. It was held at Larry & Vince’s Farmstay. It's located at somewhere around Inanam. It started at 8am but I went there around 10am. The organizer also organize some games to play. There were fishing, beer drinking competition, singing, etc... Met lots of people there. Was really fun and it's funny when you actually listen to drunk old uncle talking. It's like, they are talking about happy moment, then sad than to some random BS talking. I don't have much to say but maybe the picture will tell you?

LAMB 

A place for drinking and singing

He caught the fish less than a min

Fishing competition begins!

That's Larry, the owner of the farmstay.

The place you can stay.

An owl!

A path to go up the hill

Beer drinking Competition.

I went back home at about 5pm and yes, they're still drinking and singing. You can check out the Farmstay website <Click here>

After that, I went to Suria to meet up with the ClickStartPlay members for an ambush surprise B'day for fellow member of CSP and a committee of HC Max. He is a fan of Monster hunter so his girlfriend wanted to give him a Felyne cake. And tada~ Cake was made by Unique Bakez, can check out their FB for more awesome cakes <Click here>  

So that's all for now. Good night!

The attack of the Haze.

On 19th June, smoke from illegal open fire from Indonesia blowing toward southern Malaysia and Singapore, causing thick clouds of haze. The range of PSI are according
0 - 50 Good,
51 - 100 Moderate
101 - 200 Unhealthy
201 - 300 Very unhealthy
Above 300 Hazardous

 At 11 a.m. on 21 June 2013(today), Singapore got the worst out of it, with a PSI of 400 in the "Hazardous" range. While Johor Bahru gotten a PSI of 219 on 20 June 2013(yesterday)  And Today, Malaca City gotten  a PSI of 271 at 5pm.

For Kota Kinabalu the PSI of 75 which makes us in the Moderate state.

Lets just hope that it will rain soon, so the haze will somehow go away. But for the time being, remember to wear a mask and sun glasses to protect yourself like these fellow Sabahan.

The Original 3 

(Sotong, Pedo and Dark Vader)

You can check out their awesome facebook profile. 

Pedo <Click here>

Sotong <Click here>

Dark Vader <Click here>

While this me being random and shit. 

That's all for tonight. Good night!

HC Maid Search

Yes! you read that right. Hobbycon is having a Maid Search. So do you think you got what it takes to be a The perfect Maid?

Come and register here! <Click here>

WAIT there's more!

We are looking for 2 potential cute HobbyCon 2013: Fuwa Fuwa Time Maid Cafe "BUTLERS" to VOLUNTEER in taking care of the maids during HobbyCon 2013. Butlers will need to receive the patrons at the entrance/waiting area of the Maid Cafe. More instructions will be given IF you are cute, effective, humble and responsible enough to be selected. Please PM Aya Nina <Click here> your name, phone number and your photo in black coat and pants with white colared shirt inside. Meal will be provided :) Arigatou! ♥

HC2013 Countdown Art

Hobbycon 2013

Status: CONFIRMED

Date: 14 & 15 December 2013
Venue: Likas Sports Complex, Kota Kinabalu

This year would be bigger and better! We will have activities which will be held before the event, so if you're up for it come and join!
Here are the event that have been confirm.

 HC2013 Countdown Art


Inspired by Comic Fiesta 100 days countdown, HobbyCon 2013 will have its own 60 days art countdown and those who submitted and chosen will be featured in this forum, facebook as well as in website.

Top 12 artwork will be featured in HobbyCon 2013 Calender Merchandise with of course, Your name and your website / blog so that you are properly credited. You'll also get a copy of the calendar

Bookings of slots will only open in 1st June 2013 till August 31st. (So start planning)
Artwork submission deadline is on 31st September 2013.


Submission Guidelines:

1) Size: A4 (2480px X 3508px // 21cm X 29.7cm // landscape or portrait) , coloured, 300dpi resolution and in JPEG high quality format

2) Save your artwork according to this format: Day*SlotNumber*By*ArtistName* (e.g. Day30ByMagion)

3) Your ORIGINAL artwork must be related to HobbyCon and definitely must be done by you.

4) You can book maximum 1 slot from Day 60 to Day 1, which is based on first come, first-served basis  e.g. If you choose "Day 8", it will signify that there is 8 days left till HobbyCon. Once booked, you have to be committed and not allowed to change. All names/slots booked will be displayed here.

5) Bookings of slot should only be made in this forum and in this thread. If you want to book, type "Nickname_Day(#)" e.g. Magion_Day30 from 1st June - 31st July 2013.. Again, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.

6) Please be responsible. We will not remind you your deadline. If you don't submit in time (31st August 2013), your artwork will not be published in any of our online medias.

7) Email your submission to contact@hobbycon.my by 31st August 2013 and please include your following details when submitting your artwork. We will only display your Nickname and Personal Site for the public to see. The rest are strictly for contact purposes only.

    i) Full Name (Follow NRIC/Passport)
    ii) Nickname (Work will be credited with this name)
    iii) Age
    iv) Gender
    v) Email
    vi) Website or gallery, eg: Deviantart (If you don't have any, it's fine)
    vii) Mobile Contact Number

8 ) NO Foul Language, NO Hentai, Yaoi, and Yuri or whatever related to 18++. Keep in mind your artwork will be posted in a public website, so respect your art and yourself.

9) Submission Deadline is 31st August 2013.

10) Artworks not meeting the requirements above will be forfeited and our decision is final.

11) You give HobbyCon full, non-exclusive rights to use your submission on materials published by us. You still retain full ownership of the artwork.



Art work Guidelines:

1) Artwork must be based on HobbyCon Mascot, Adam & Eve. For your information, Adam and Eve will be HC permanent mascot starting 2012. Their personality details will be up soon.

2) You will need to put the DAY of your choice from Day 30 to Day 1 in your artwork. You can choose to put the word 'day' or not, as long as the number is clear AND at least ONE of these word(s): "HobbyCon 2013" / "HC2013" / "7th & 8th Dec". It's up to you if you want to put more or all.

3) Submit 2 artwork. One is with the word in instruction number 2, another is WITHOUT any words/dates/numbers (just in case you are selected to be in HC 2013 calendar)

4) You may include your artist signature on your artwork.


Note:

-Please Book your date in Hobbycon Forum. <Click here>
- HC Organisers deserves the right to amend any guidelines / rules at anytime.
- We may add more artwork/days to 60 days or even 100 days instead of 30 days if this project is well received from the crowd.
- Suggestions are welcome, but no spamming
(All by Aya Nina)

This is Eve

This is Adam

Both of the mascot are design by Magion.

You can check out his art work in his FB <Click here>

That's all for now, I got another post for HC but I will post it up in another post. Because I feel this post is getting a little too long. 

UPDATE (25/06/2013)


Characteristics / Traits:-

ADAM
-Adam's bloodline is meant serve and protect the king. The king has passed away now is serving the princess.
-A gamer.
-Brave, random & cares about his outlook all the time.
-Charges head first into anything he does.
-Loves a challenge and sometimes end up taking up task more then he can handle (and ends up getting saved by Eve) :P
-Kind hearted person.
-Loves big guns, big swords, big armor, big, big, BIG~!!!

EVE
-Comes from a royal family
-Tries to be lady-like but becomes tomboyish when annoyed.
-Witty, kind, smart & a master tactician.
-A great master of disguise (can be mistaken for other "characters")
-A great singer
-Loves high tech machines and gadgets.
-Knows a little magic but prefers not to use it.
-Loves to dance

And you can register it here <Click here>

Nothing more, nothing less. 

Joy~

Tears of joy is what I have now. For most of you who are my friends in FB you guys would know I was admitted to the hospital for having stomach ulcer. But, I'm well now. I should really remember to eat. Anyhow, the reason I am happy is I was able to finish a story I have been working on since form 4 (16 years  old) With the time off from work, I had some free time. Yay! Maybe, now I should draw a manga out from it? That be a very good challenge. Anyhow, I also took time to watch this movie called " The legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen."

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is set in the period before the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was held around WW1.

I won't post up my point of view towards this movie because it might offend someone people. But anyhow, if you hunger for knowledge you can pm me or watch the movie. Oh and one of the actress is my fav, Shu qi!

Believe it or not, Shu Qi should to be a porn star. And now? She is an actress, singer and model. I guess sometimes, you need to work some shitty job to get what you really want..
And last! A beautiful song by her.




Thats all for tonight.

お休みなさい！！

晚安！！
Good night!!

legacy

I wonder what people will say about me when I’m finally gone. How many people will reminisce about me? How many people will miss me? I wonder how people would remember me for the person I was. Heck, I even wonder how many people would even notice I was gone once that last breath is taken. Don’t you ever think about it?

I think we all hope that by the time death welcomes us, our life will of meant something….anything. That we will have impacted at least one person in this world or made some sort of difference that made us being here significant. That being on this earth was not useless - that we were not useless. I think that’s why most of us feel lost most of the time; Because we want to find greatness so we could mean something other than just a forgotten face in history. But I have this funny feeling that we will never know how much we impacted this world, that we don’t even realize how many people we have affected in our lifetime.

But it would be nice to have some sense of what our legacy would one day be. By how being part of one persons life, even for a second, changed the course of their life. How making someone smile meant something to them. How you inspired someone or how your friendships with people really did mean something. And I wonder, when the last time someone utters your name and you’re truly gone, if the difference we have made in this world will still matter.

にゃ～～

今晩は！私は変態です！！ｗｗｗｗ

そしてここでは、パンダの絵だ。〜(￣△￣〜) (〜￣△￣)〜

パンダはかわいいです！！

私のブログを読んでいただきありがとうございます！ (≧∇≦)/

お休みなさい！ (。･д･)ﾉﾞ

夢が叶うん

 ♥