I finished E.D.A.H this morning at 12:30 and took a look at the calender. 9 months ago at almost the same time, I was having a crisis. Photoshop crashed and I lost my work file of the two might kings.

Scary how fast time flies. It's been close to 9 months since the finishing of the kings. Recently the two mighty kings got into character modeling 3, one of the ballistic series that I always dreamed to get in. I'm happy, yet not proud. I've been feeding on the glory of that piece for too long.

One should never be too pround of his/her past. One should always proceed the present. And One should always work for the future. Time to take a step forward.

应火星时代之邀点评封神榜人物设定.

夏鹏昊的雷震子是前三名中的三维作品.三维人物能做到这种水平并且获得季军是相当不容易的.在此向夏先生表示祝贺。

我很欣赏夏先生对雷震子形象设计大胆的推陈出新。雷震子体型的改变标志着国人有能力也有胆魄对中国传统文化进行加工和包装。从建模，材质以及贴图的角度来看，雷震子这幅作品都是不可多得的创作，技术含量相当高。虽然夏先生仅获了的大赛季军，然而我个人认为夏先生是三维组当之无愧的冠军。

5 minutes before I decide to stop and go to bed,.psd file corrupted. half of layers lost 90% of the diffuse information and the other half's masks are lost. Latest backup that works was 15 days ago (don't ask me why). I don't know how i sounded like when I told donglu what happened and I definitely don't want to know the color of my face at that moment.

It was 11:52 pm. It was two days before I finish my best-work-of-all-these-years with a 98% completion. Jan 6th 2009, 11:52 pm is one of the darkest time in my life.

I had the choice of giving up, or die trying.
I chose the second one.

5:30 am, with some miracle, I recreated all of what I lost. Don't ask me how I did it. It must be the coffee Donglu brewed for me before she went to bed.

I faced the CHALLENGE, and I went through it. I think I am a winner.

p.s. recovering a-month-and-half-work in 5 hours might make you think that the damage wasn't critical. Well, wait till you see how that .psd file looks like.

I'm surprised that I didn't write anything for Uplifted Universe Challenge. Oh well, nothing to write on that one except irresponsible and disappointing results.

Would the same thing happen again to Steampunk? I don't know, and at this point, I really don't care anymore. As long as I am clear with what my goal is, which is to make another good image, I should be happy. I should rather put my focus on what color should I use for my background than hoping the result of the current won't screw up as bad as the previous one.

P.S. Emm, clearly I haven't gone through the whole UU challenge thing yet. Interesting...

“如果公司提供机票让你飞回中国帮助赈灾，你愿意么？”
5月15日，忍了三天的泪水，终于在人事部同事的一句问话之后崩溃了。我抱着她失声痛哭。

自5月12日起，每天中午边吃饭看新浪，边看边深呼吸。不让泪水掉下来。
今天中午看到温家宝总理冒雨亲临现场哭喊着让埋在废墟里的学生们坚持住的时候，我颤抖了。
6．5级以上地震每一百年才会有一次，却在短短32年里在中国发生了两次！
身不在中国。但我心永远属于她！
我要尽我的一份力。

我把汶州灾情向公司相关人士说了一下，不求别的，只希望吐露心声。
半小时以后负责人找到我，告诉我公司准备明天开始正式宣布内部捐款，同时在周五餐饮会之前全体默哀一分钟。

我眼睛顿时模糊。
泪花中仿佛看到灾区的废墟，
看到掩埋在废墟下等待救援的面孔，
看到拼死救助民众的子弟兵和医护工作者，
看到冒雨站在救灾第一线不顾自己安危的总理。

我又看到全国上下众志成城抗震救灾的同胞们，
看到了海外一颗颗沉重急切又热情赤诚的华侨们的心，
看到不同国家不同肤色不同种族连成救助的中国的世界长城。

难过的眼泪变成了激动的眼泪，骄傲地流着。

公司内部华裔同事，我的父母以及女友的父母，还有身边熟识的朋友们都已经通过各种途径捐献了赈灾资金。
子夜，阳台上向西远望。汶川，坚持住，我们的援助在路上。