I think someone left a comment in one of my blog entries, and the person wanted me to make a review of fyroo.com. I don't have any idea to elaborate about the website. I just can say that the interface is good enough to my eyes. You can go and check it out yourself. It is really good to have Malaysian version of YouTube, at least it will be much more clean, I hope.

The website that I am really familiar with is DeviantART. I must warn you beforehand that this is not a totally clean website, but you have an option to filter the unnecessary contents of the site. It is up to you though. Internet consists of a very broad networking system, with wide variety of contents. You can go surf everywhere at anytime. It is all up to YOU.

So, about the DeviantART or in short DA. I have been active in this site for more than two years now. I joined the site as a member on my 20th birthday, 23rd of March, 2006. When I think about it, it was just coincidence. At first, my intention was just to download the wallpapers, skin and themes for my Windows.


Slowly, from time to time, I discovered that I can submit my own work there. You can submit almost everything there - photos, digital art, traditional art, sketches, stock photos, wallpapers, skin and themes for various OS, etc, as long as you are the authorized owner of the artwork - DO NOT ever submit other person's work, you'll be banned by the admin or worse, the community will 'bang' you .

What is so good about DeviantART compared to any other websites (Flickr, Fotopages, Photobucket, etc)?

1. You can submit almost everything - even literature (poems, short story, etc) if you're really good at that kind of work. You can even submit desktop screen shots if you like. I submitted quite a number of desktop screen shots when I first joined the community:

2. Your work can be commented and favourited by the others. You'll be notified for every comment and favourite that you get. Most of the time, if your work is good, it will be appreciated with good feedbacks and a lot of favourites. Even if your work is not good, sometimes you can get good critiques from experts to improve your work further.

3. If you think that your work is good enough that somebody would love to buy it, you can make your work available as print, in which you can sell them online, through DeviantArt itself. All the printing and shipping will be handled by DeviantArt staffs, in which they will get some commission from your sale. I think it is fair enough.

4. You can make new friends with people who like your art, or vice versa. You can dedicate your art or photos to them, and they can do the same to you. Fun, isn't it? For me, it is. =D

5. You can join various contests held by DeviantART staffs or members. I think the contests in DeviantART are endless. There will always be new contests every month, if not every week. You have the chance to win a lot of things - subsciption, prints, gifts, digital devices, etc. So far, I joined a lot of contest but never win. There are just too many great artists in DeviantART and I'm not one of them! Hahaha. =p

6. You can have your own blog there. It is called journal. Before I moved to Blogspot, I often express my emotional feelings in DeviantART journal. It was fun to receive support from unknown person from various countries back then. Don't worry though, I like the support from my real friends the most, that's why I moved to blogspot. =p


7. I like how my submitted photos and digital art (called deviations in the site) are arranged. In fact, you can arrange them the way you like. For free account itself, you can create as many folder as you want. It is like you have your own portfolio for your work. For subscribers, more options for customization are available.


I think that's enough. I never regret joining this site, what I really regret is I don't really know how much of my time has been wasted for this site alone. Hahaha.

There is one annoying thing about DeviantART, though. I just don't like this message that appears almost everyday!:

Stock photos are photos that can be used by the public to produce their own works, applying certain rules and restrictions made by the original photographers/artist. According to wikipedia, stock photography consists of existing photograph that can be licensed for specific uses.Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.

One of the most famous stock bank or stock providers is SXC.HU. The site provides stock photos for free with certain restriction according to the original photographers' rules. The same goes for the stock photos in DeviantART. The photos are available for FREE, but crediting the original photographers/artists is a MUST. Sometimes, you will find that there are some photographers who don't require any crediting. However, for me if you use other people's work, then credit is really necessary.

Some site provide stock photos for sell. You must pay certain currency values to get the photos. The values usually depending upon the quality of the stock photos. For larger file resolution, you have to pay more. These are some of the site that provides stock photos for sell, ShutterStock and iStockphoto.

I never know the world of stock photography until I eventually used them in my own work. Before knowing the digital art world (digital painting, photo-manipulation, etc), I never used stock photos except for desktop wallpapers purpose. It is not that I am so good at that particular area (digital art), but I would love to discover it a little bit more everytime I open the Adobe Photoshop programme.

I posted some stock photos in my DeviantART account. It is not something that really high in quality to sell, so I just provide it for free. I am trying my best not to spoil other high-quality stock photography, so I submitted some of my best photos. It is really fun to see what other people did with the stock photos. Some of them are really good with extraordinary ideas and artworks. You can see some of my stock photos here (some of them are already manipulated by me):

Any confusion regarding stock photos? Feel free to ask.

After watching the Devdas movie, I feel like doing a review of my favorite Hindi movies.

I do watch J-Drama sometimes, and some of them are far too great than the K-Drama, while some are crappy enough for the time that you have spent on it. So, here is the list of my personal favorite J-Drama (according to my own ranking). I haven't watch J-Drama as much as K-Drama, so forgive me if I'm not being fair enough for the short list:-

"To be able to smile and tell everyone this; i have, at least, cried one liter of tears.

"Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.."

"Even though I have been hurt before by those heartless glares this also helped me to understand that around me, there still exists some gentle glares. Therefore, I definitely won't run away. That's what I'll do. Definitely. Always."

"Reality is too cruel, too brutal. I don't even have the right to dream. As I think about the future, the tears will come out again."

You must have remember these sentences in this drama. It is a really sad drama. Why?

This drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed entitled One Litre of Tears has sold over 1.1 million copies in Japan alone. Aya Kitō proved her courage and positive attitude towards an uncertain future when suffering such an illness, spinocerebellar ataxia.

This drama really makes me appreciate my life even more than before. Recommended to anyone.


2. Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)

This is a really enjoyable drama. A lot of unexpected things occur among the high school students, and only a great teacher can solve their problems, in a way that you have never think about it.

This is a delightful series about a young female teacher who just happens to be in a yakuza family. Starred by one of the ex-Morning Musume, this is a very enjoyable drama. This drama is quite similar in concept with GTO but I put this after GTO because for me the level of fun in it is lesser than the latter. :p

I like this drama because the story is really good. It is about love and sacrifice. And love here does not have its limit to man-woman relationship, as in most of the dramas. What is so good about Takuya Kimura? I'm not really sure. My sister who happens to be so much of a fan of him said that he is so cool. Acting like cool, talking like cool. Whatever.

Sad thing about the real life; sometimes you just don't have so many choices. You can just do some things to help the person that you love, with your limited abilities, and limited time. And when the time comes, you have no more choice, but to let go.

A good movie from Marvel, in par with Ghost Rider. It reminds me of PC Game Marvel Ultimate Alliance. If compared to X-Men, I do think X-Men is better than this movie, but as a Marvel fan, I think this movie brouhgt the Marvel name into something marvellous.

This is my all time favourite korean drama list (according to my own ranking), recommended to any korean drama lover. Even if you're not, you can start to watch it now, maybe you will know why we like korean dramas.

1. Dae Jang Geum/Jewel In The Palace - the longest and maybe the best korean drama that I have watched so far. Consists of 70 episodes with total 54 hours of show. With a lot of moral values, great story of a great woman, great costumes, and totally great inspiration this drama is a must watch show.

6. Fantasy Couple - worth watching because the story is unique and one of its kind. It is totally different from other Korean dramas. What you will see in this drama? Expect the unexpected. Vengeance can turn into love and care, and vice versa. I simply love it. :D



7. Super Rookie - you're not excellent in study, doesn't mean that you will not be excellent in your career. It is a very funny and inspiring drama. :D


9. Winter Sonata - i think everyone knows about this drama. Once, it was very famous that I had the chance to watch it more than once. The theme of this drama is sadness, so you can expect that there will be tears from time to time in this drama.



11. Sweet 18 - What happens when you got married at a very young age in the modern world. 18 is considered young nowadays. It is an enjoyable drama. :D

12. Stairway to Heaven - the concept of this drama is quite similar to Winter Sonata. It is more or less in par with the latter. Sadness most of the time since life is not always about happiness. That's the truth.