Hear yee.. Hearrr Yee..

I am sad to announce that restnrileks will be on leave for few days (probably for a week)

This goes to all blogging related stuffs such as blog-hoping, twittering, EC dropping, social net-working and commenting.

Hopefully, restnrileks will be on its usual self much later than expected.

So, happy blogging and happy smiling and have a great day ya.

To all Rizallian, thanks so much for stopping by and supporting restnrileks.



Rizal.

This is going to be a long post with lots of pics. Thanks for being patient with restnrileks : )


AWARDS


It has been a busy week for restnrileks, at least as a blogger.
First, i received this awesome award from Mariuca, awesomely named as the Uber award.

Thank you Marzie. So, in keeping up with the spirit, i like to pass this award to these uber bloggers too :) (Oh, Marzie, I am passing this uber award back to you too : )

Pak bOno - for his amazing support to restnrileks, and consistently produces great thoughtful posts

Kak Emila - for her amazing inspiring creatilicious works

Manggo - for her persistence, inspiring artsy crafty thoughts

Antown - for his tremendous efforts on arts and ideas

Ida - for being my great friend and keep supporting each other

Blue - for his witty, fun, pleasant and great posts

Shinade - for her wonderful, warm, welcoming feelings that i get from her comments and visiting too.

Fliffy - for her amazing digital scrapping works : )

Debbie - for her restless craft pursue and funny ramblings.

Oh, please inform me should i miss anyone here too.




Second, i also received these two awards from Debbie, the owner of Phat Ramblings and Craft Swap. Thank you debbie for being thoughtful. I like to pass these two awards to all my readers too, especially if you are addicted to coffee. Hehe.

On another point, i would like to say thanks to all who had wished me "Happy Birthday" - Thank you and much appreciated. It was a blast receiving all these birthday and well wishes. Great thanks to Pak bOno who came up with a special dedication to me, on his post. I would like to say thanks too to Shinade for having a special birthday wish on her blog. Terima Kasih Shinade. Marzie, thanks to you and your great awesome mariucans who had taken some time to send me wishes. At the end, i think i ve made myself some new blogger friends in the midst of this on-going birthday wishes that were flying here and there during that time.

I really had a great time and still am having. : ) Whoaho!!


DESIGN SKETCH





In addition to Mango's request, somebody was asking to see some of my design sketches. I had a second thought about this, since I am sure there are lots of other great designers out there. Frankly, i dont see myself as designers or am not much comfortable with the title itself. I just like to see myself as someone who likes to create - and of course, at the end, the products created might not be as expected, but that is a great learning experience.

Thru the advent of technology, designing has become somewhat easy. But, the importance of making drawings, as a mean of communication, is still required - my 2 cents. I believe that designers should be able to draw and convey the ideas and concepts intended. The degree of sketches in designing varies, depending on which level and to whom are you presenting them. Preliminary ideas, Idea Development, and Refining would still require you to draw. At the end, 3D softwares would make your design looks cool, but ahhh.. you can always find somebody else to do this for you. But to come up with a concept and communicate it on paper thru drawings, you must have that skill. Though i ve seen some people ( designers) who draw poorly, but manage to execute the ideas well, I just like it better if they can draw well.

Well, sketches do come in various styles - the quirk and murky, the jagged, the rough and quick or the clean cut rigid - still with one thing shared similiar - should be able to communicate to the intended readers.

So, pics above are my sketches - the clean cut rigid style.
While below, are sketches that fall on the rough and quick, with a sense of final design in my preliminary sketches - hence, no development of ideas. I just post few sketches and the final products.





Happy browsing : )


RATTAN CRAFT - Rattan Swing




I did this last saturday but having a second thought of submitting it to IF. I ve been postponing it up to this post. Like design sketch, this is just a rough outline work, so I am hesitating to submit. Well, at least i manage to do at least an illo for this week. : )

String - have you ver come across something that says "No Strings Attached?" Poor My Imaginary Rizallians, being caught up and hung as prizes. Hihi.

Alrighty then, I just like to wish Happy Friday. Whoaho!! Happy Blogging and Have a great day.

p/s : i ll put a linky love at the end of this post for my 1st commentator :)

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And the lucky commentator is Mariuca. Do check her awesome blog ya. Please Click the Pix. : )
Congrats Mariuca.

Point 1.
I ve been awarded by Shinade (she's an awesome great blogger). Thanks. Aaaooouuuwwwww - such a unique award i must say. According to her : "Now an award I designed for some very fine male bloggers out there." Oh! that is so sweet fo you. I am blushing here because of this - "Fine Male Bloggers" : ) Apparently, she hands out two awards : The Butterfly and the Wolf Award. It is always great to visit her's and i ensure you that you will always feel welcome there. So, i am passing this award to my awesome male blogger friends, who, for the past few months, have been such great supporters to restnrileks and run awesome blogs too. I am honored to pass this to :

Pak Bono of Bonoriau

BlueCrystalDude of Hot-Shit-From-Here

Si Pelukis of MegatEusofe

Creatif antown and his illos

Point 2.
For the past few days too, i ve made myself busy by doing some light sketches, trying to fill up my Sketch-Doodlelado-Design 2008 book . It is just a book which i pour my design ideas and illos into it. Normally, i would spent around 15-25 minutes per page generating ideas. Later on would i go into more details developing the ideas. On the left is a quick sketch(preliminary idea) of rattan floor lamp - taking cue from Helicornia. On the right is another quick idea of rattan basketry - coiling method - going for assymetrical form using four colours ( memang sengaja pilih warna yang bagi nampak aidilfitri sket, hehe). Well, here are previous posts of rattan basktery - coiling method - in case you miss them.
1st Coling Method.

2nd Coling Method.

3rd Coling Method.

Hope i would be able to take this project as intended. : )


Point 3.

We need friends for many reasons,all throughout the season.
We need friends to comfort us when we are sad,and to have fun with us when we are glad.
We need friends to give us good advice.
We need someone we can count on,and treat us nice.
We need friends to remember us
one we have passed sharing memories that will always last.

Pak Bono of Bonoriau has tagged me with this friendship poem. Thanks to Pak Bono for tagging me with this meaningful friendship poem. Spread the poem of friendship. So, i am spreading this great act of gesture to all my dedicated readers. It is my pleasure to pass this to these awesome people :

It feels like ages since I last did illo - even feels like decades when it comes to IF (Illustration Friday). My last submition was this and that was in July. Oh my! I am truly missing lots of themes. hehe. New theme is up (string), and hopefully, i ll pick up back my groove to do this theme. So, earlier today i had my illo done ( in conjunction to Hari Raya and that friendly poem)

The whole group is just happy to be celebrating Hari Raya; and being faithful to that poem friendship, they are just happy as the poem happily states. Well, look who are here. Front row - Miss Jhaleen - spotting a longer and new hair do : Che Dandan - Miss Jha'leen little sister : Miss Sureem - looking on a bright side these days ya : Abang Mat Pelas and Abang Mat Layur : Adik Sega and Adik Bucuk. The rest aren't able to come by. They just say "hi" to you people. Hehe.

Below are two illos previously done - A picture group and Miss Jha'leen (here and here). To see more of my illos or rattan crafts - do check them out by clicking my rotating labels on the right side bar. Thank you.

Till then, Happy reading, much thanks and Have a great day everyday.

p/s : My links are missing - I am not sure what has happened to rpc blogrolling - But i am going to give it some time, hoping that rpc site will be back up on the net. In the meantime, hope you can bear for a while. I ll set them back up again, manually, if things go terribly wrong.

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Hoorah! Congrats Pak bOno for being the 1st commentator. :D clap2x!

Since, i am sure most muslim bloggers would be updating their blogs with glorious joyful Hari Raya Celebration pics and stos (stories), i ve decided to update my blog with something... err.. typical. :)

I ve to admit. It is not my habit to drink 8 glasses of plain water. But then, I am taking back control (whoaho!!). I must, should, or at least could try to drink the required minimum of 8 glasses. Indulging myself with these last few days with all the sinfully yumilicious food and cookies, has somewhat made me feel.... err bloated . Hey, it was Hari Raya.. : ) and I am sure, the celebration will run up to a month. The last few days, I have been occupying myself gulping (gulp! gulp! gulp!) just about as much plain water as I can. I can see some benefits - One thing for sure is my skin completion (yes my face skin, mind you) is somehow more radiant, though not even close to the extent of those beautiful looking women modeling for Total Olay Effects. Sigh. The benefits of drinking plain water among them are, Healthy Skin, Fluch Toxins (yeah, i need this), Cushion and Lubricate your joints and muscles, Be Energized and Be Alert, Regulate Body Temperature and Burn More Fat & Build More Muscles (Whoaho!!). I am a smoker and coffee lover too, and thus, these habits explain such dull face complexion. So, thanks to that awesome glass (which i bought a year ago), i am now more motivated to keep on gulping plain water, as a cheap and easy way of maintaining my health. I like there are printed words to remind me to take my daily intake. So, do you keep up with the suggested requirement? Water Anyone? (gulping...)


Point 2. Watching movie is one of my idea of restnrileksing. And the type of movies I watch - Almost everything from Sci-Fi, Horror to Drama, as long the storyline is good. And i believe, it has been ages since i last stepped foot in a cinema. My practice nowadays would be grabbing movies from err... You-Know-Where-Places or simply drop by to my favourite Speedy Video at Kg. Pandan. It does offer rented movies, though mostly VCD titles (occassionaly DVD on some titles). Good enough for me. My ideal time of watching, would be 11pm onwards. Huhu. And when i watch, i really watch, oblivious to anything that happens around me. On the 1st day of Hari Raya, I ended up watching Dr.Seus Horton Hears Who (at 1 am - that would make it on the 2nd day of Raya right!) and 2nd day of Hari Raya, Ayat-ayat Cinta (at 11.45pm). The verdict? Both are good movies. As for Dr. Seus - I hate the first one - The Grinch, but love the Cat in the Hat and the animated Horton. Ayat-ayat Cinta? I think it is a refreshing take on the subject, and thus that would explain why i fall in love with the movie (err not fall in love with the whole love situation thing.) I love movies that challenge and stimulate my mind. Pak Bono recommends me to get and read the book, and i think i will. But, i am having a second thought, i hope the language barrier would not deter me from doing so. So, what kind of movies invoke you?


Point 3. These are blakie kids, born in middle of Ramadhan. Initally, there were four, but four has become three. One died. Mom was eating and chewing it when my bro took notice, (oh! cannabalism). I guess, that's pretty normal in animal kingdom (thanks to Astro Animal Planet!). So far, those three kids are healthy and fluffy. Mom gets good food too, so, in return, kids are healthy. I havent named any of them yet. Right now, they don't venture much. But, I am sure, in few weeks time, everything will be Kaput. I just hope that they wont venture too far - falling down the stairs. Oh! Tidak! Pasti Haru. Last but not least, I did my own name card by having my own illo on one side and My restnrileks dolly on the other side. Whoaho! Now, I have 10 different illos on the front side. And, i can start giving them together with my official name card. Glad that i asked Kak Emila to create a dolly for restnrileks.

Well, i am still on a holiday mood. Wont be back in the office till next monday. So in the meantime, i am just going to savour every sweet moment of just restnrileksing. ahhhhhhhh..syioknya,

Happy blogging and have a great day everyday ya.