Friday, January 26, 2007
I've had a miserable time at work this week (in fact over the last month really). It has been emotionally draining trying to sift through my thoughts about work, its shortcomings and the failure of unrealised expectations and aspirations. This, unfortunately, is the painful side of being an idealist. When you're an idealist and you have this vision that life, and the world in general, should be a certain way, and the reality is that it isn't, it can become very stressful. Stressful because of the jarring cognitive dissonance between what you want to believe in and fight for, and what the world throws at you. It's been very taxing having to deal with existentialist issues in life (why am I here, should I give into the curves ball our created reality throws at me and go with the flow, or fight the system even though it is an uphill struggle?), This is obviously compouned by the very very REAL real-life social expectations and the demands of a family man and a breadwinner. Like I said, it's been a miserable week. I am going to be 31 in the middle of this year, yet I somehow feel like my 30 is like the proverbial 40 for other people. Mid-Life crisis at 30 - affliction of the modern man. I should put myself on a couch and analyse myself considering I am half qualified to do it!However, on a lighter note, I was sitting in my office and a friend decided to MSN me on our internal server. He has finally found out that I am BORGKINGKONG. He referred me to his own blog, and I have to say, I have found his blog to be extremely interesting. This friend of mine, with a very Egyptian name, poses his superhero toys and takes very nifty looking pictures of it, and then proceed to use his Mac to do a comic book/storyboard style layout for his work. He draws his inspiration and stories from his own life, with each superhero representing someone who's part of his life. I had permission to use one of his comic strip to show you his work.
As you can see, his layout, framing and posing of each shot is superb. As we're both comic book fanatics in our younger days, I can see how it has influenced his current work. Go check out his other works at Marvel Less Talk.I hope the month of February will be brighter for me. After all a good friend of mine passed me his Feng Shui book and it does say the Year of the Fire Boar should be quite kind to a Fire Dragon. And February sounded like a pretty promising month in the book. Fingers crossed and prayers have been sent forth.
you need to slow down a bit man ... nobody's perfect and you got another 20 plus odd years to go .. enjoy, work, enjoy , enjoy ....
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