Kalin Lyfe: February 2015

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Soul Quest - Part 2

Dear readers,

I would like to share the 2nd part of my story called 'Soul Quest':

After almost getting crushed by a a huge metal cylinder falling from a construction site, Amarra fell on the ground completely stunned by what was a happening before her. In front of her stood a boy whose back was facing her. The boy was surrounded by a blue sphere of light from which yellow, green and purple flames were emanating. With the help of that light barrier, the boy repelled the heavy metal cylinder with much ease. Amarra felt like she was watching a scene from a movie playing right in front of her eyes.

While Amarra was wondering who that mysterious boy could be; a large winged creature hovered above them, holding a red crystal ellipse between it's pincer shaped mouth. With a shocked expression on her face, Amarra gasped in horror: ''What the heck is that thing in the sky?! ''

Just then, the mysterious boy turns to Amarra and extends his hand to her, saying:

Even more surprised by the new revelation, Amarra exclaims:

Not giving Amarra the time to comprehend what was happening, Kai Shin took a rapid glance at the monster in the sky and with a frown on his face replied: 'They have found us, it's too dangerous to stay here...

Realizing that the flying monster has gathered enough power to shoot a laser beam at Amarra once again, Kai immediately grabs hold of Amarra's hand to pull her out of the way. Both Amarra and Kai start running for their lives. Feeling completely bewildered by what was happening to her, Amarra can't help but ask herself if this is all just a nightmare she is having right now.

Refusing to believe that what was happening was real, Amarra slowed down then closed her eyes and told herself that this was all a bad dream from which she will be waking up soon.

Just when Amarra opened her eyes again, the monster shot out another full laser blast directly at them. Eyes wide open, Amarra watched the laser beam as it was inevitably going to hit her in a split second. She felt like she saw her whole life flash by and even heard a soft female voice calling her name warmly. Amarra thought: 'Could this be my mother's voice... will I meet her now...'

With remarkable dexterity and speed, Kai Shin rushed in front of Amarra to block the laser beam which was only a few inches away. He summoned a barrier of blue light again to shield them from the monster's attack. Kai then told Amarra that she was not dreaming because all that was happening is real. His eyes full of determination, Kai maintained the light shield for as long as the intensity of the monster's laser beam persisted. He was prepared to resist and kept his defense stance, knowing that he could not afford to succumb until that ruthless monster ceased fire.

To be continued...

'Soul Quest' is a story written & illustrated by the creator of Alice Chronicle.

All rights reserved to Alice Chronicle.

P.S: You can read the Part 1 of Soul Quest again by clicking on the following link:

Soul Quest - Part 1

Thursday 19 February 2015

Taiwanese Drama - The pursuit of Happiness

Hi everyone

Happy Chinese New Year 2015 !!

It's the year of the Goat which is known for its creative, kind, calm and gentle nature.

I hope this year won't be too bad for those born in the year of the goat...as per the following predictions, that I've read on Latin Times (Chinese New Year 2015 Horoscope Predictions For 'Year Of The Sheep, Maria G. Valdez, Feb 2015, http://www.latintimes.com/chinese-new-year-2015-horoscope-predictions-year-sheep-296702)
“Contrary to common belief, it being the year of the zodiac itself doesn't necessarily warrant a good prediction. For the Sheep, you might meet with many obstacles, unhappiness or embarrassing episodes. Even with extra effort, things might not look as good as you have planned. However, don't give up! All these are only momentary, take it as a ‘training’ year and you will be able to prepare yourself for all the goodness next year.”

Me: Stay strong people who fall under the Chinese zodiac sign of the Sheep. This year might have already begun with tough challenges for you, but don't give up!! Hwaiting !! You will succeed in achieving your dreams !!

Now coming back to the title of this post, I've just finished watching a Taiwanese drama called ' The pursuit of happiness'. I really like the title because like most people, I am constantly in a pursuit for happiness. We as humans are continuously in search of happiness or for our own meaning of happiness.

Warning: Lots of spoilers await you if you continue to read.

^^ So beware.

This drama is about a cool & confident 35 year old Office lady called Ji An Lei who still hasn't found a life partner. She still believes in love and is unwilling to choose just anyone to be her match. However the one she has been in love with for almost 15 years now, has found another love and doesn't feel the same for her anymore.

Then there is that ordinary guy called Huang Yi Kang who moves in to live with Ji An Lei as her roommate. At first Ji An Lei and him don't get along very well because of their differing opinions but later on living together becomes a habit. Both of them start to grow feelings for each other but they mistake it for just the habit of being together and not love; especially Ji An Lei who refuses to believe that Huang Yi Kang can really be in love with her. Finally after their disagreement, both of them go separate ways with Huang Yi Kang moving out of the house. However, during their separation, both realize that they miss each other terribly, but is it because of love or because of habit?

After having a serious conversation with his father concerning love, Huang Yi Kang realizes that love can also grow into a habit; meaning that without love you could easily fallout of habit of being together, i.e. it wouldn't really matter much if they were separated.
Huang Yi Kang goes back to look for Ji An Lei and tells her how much he loves her. Ji An Lei also confesses that she missed him a lot.
(Side Note: I think I haven't heard Ji An Lei confess that she is in love with him. It was only Huang Yi Kang who told her that he loves her... Well I guess, Ji An Lei also loves him but she does not really express it in words...)

My Dislikes:
Well there is also another couple in this drama. There are like two love triangles which later on turn into two pairs of couple. I didn't really like the story of the 2nd couple because it is very draggy & cliche whereby the girl's father does not accept his daughter's boyfriend because he does not have a financially stable job. I think their story was just an unoriginal side story used to fill in the time slot of this drama.

Personally, I don't like the 2nd guy protagonist; I guess he's just not my type, you see the type who is irresponsible, acts rashly and selfishly. The way he dumped Ji An Lei itself was so selfish that I don't understand why the heck she could keep on loving him for 15 years. Does this make sense? The guy is a trouble maker...How can you like someone like that.

It took a bit too long for the main couple to realize and accept that they love each other, especially on Ji An Lei's side. I would have preferred that they get together earlier and we could have had more screen time of their future together such as a date, the wedding & their new born. (A bit like in the K-drama 'My lovely Samsoon')

My Likes:
I'm glad that Ji An Lei ended up with Huang Yi Kang. Yi Kang is a responsible, reliable and nice person, I really like this type of character. Now that I think about it, it's rare that this type of personality is used for the male lead; because this is usually the personality reserved for the 2nd lead who always ends up being dumped by the main girl.

There are some really romantic scenes which make you squeal or hold your breath; for example when Ji An Lei & Huang Yi Kang hug for the first time and when Huang Yi Kang makes the first move to kiss Ji An Lei (>_<) They have excellent on-screen chemistry with together. ^^

Ji An Lei has some formidable friends who are always there to support her during hard times and she is also there to advise them when they are having various love issues.

The Opening song of this drama is also really nice; after listening to it several times throughout the drama, I've grown to like it a lot. The lyrics and melody are just simple and catchy.

Here's the link for the song:

The pursuit of Happiness OST: By your side - William Wei

I hope you enjoy this drama as much as I did ^^

It's a good watch, the actors are good and the story line is entertaining.

Ciao

Alice

P.s: Look forward to my next post. Hopefully, it'll be the continuation of my self-written story.

Sunday 15 February 2015

I want to write a story...called 'Soul Quest'

The story I want to write is about magic, fantasy and adventure.

The name of the story is 'Soul Quest'.

The first episode / chapter is titled as 'Kai Shin's return' (In french it'll be 'Le retour de Kai Shin')

I've actually started working on this story for a while now but it's still in bits and pieces in my head...it's not concrete yet but I've started to draw the first few pages.

Honestly, I don't have much spare time to draw and write the story seriously so it turned out as little bits & pieces...the story might even look like there are images / parts missing...

The story might not be that interesting but it's a first for me so I just wanted to share my amateurish work ^^'' I'm sharing the first 10 pages of the story.

Note: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

Also, All Copyrights belong to Alice Chronicle © 2015 Alice Chronicle

Soul Quest - Page 6 © 2015 Alice Chronicle

Soul Quest - Page 7 © 2015 Alice Chronicle

Soul Quest - Page 8 © 2015 Alice Chronicle

Soul Quest - Page 9 © 2015 Alice Chronicle

Soul Quest - Page 10 © 2015 Alice Chronicle

I hope you liked the story so far...there isn't much happening but I'll try to make it more interesting.

The next part might have more text than drawings because of the lack of time I have to work on this, but I'll try to draw more illustrations as much as possible.

Bye & see u

Alice

P.S: Click on the following link for the 2nd Part of 'Soul Quest' & thank you for reading ^^

Soul Quest - Part 2

Saturday 14 February 2015

Pursuit of Happiness

'Happiness' is such a vague term but has vast meanings at the same time.

'Happiness' has so many different meanings for each of us.

What is Happiness?

Feeling like a fluffy cloud which is so light that you can float high up in the air like a balloon filled with helium and feeling like you don't have a care in the world (Note: I'm not saying that you have to take drugs to achieve this feeling. Please don't misunderstand.)

Or

Happiness can be felt after making a big achievement after working very hard on something extremely meaningful to you.

Or

Happiness is the feeling you have when you spend time with the one or the ones you love.

Some people find the most happiness in material things like money, luxury and all the tralala...etc

Happiness can be having a new member to your family.

Happiness can be eating your favorite dessert.

Happiness can be simply having a place to call home.

For the time being my definition of 'Happiness' is simply finding a job which I really like and which does not depress me every single day...

Hopefully I can find it soon.

I'm sure there are many people in the same situation as me so I wish you all the best in finding your dream job.

Hwaiting!! Fighting !!

I need lots of 'fighting' too, especially these days...

I seem to be running out of energy...

See you for another post.

Ciao

Alice

Friday 13 February 2015

Injustice / Unfairness

I'm really angry & frustrated today after the unfairness I've been put through.

To think that this type of mentality still exists in our developed world whereby some people of high ranking (supposedly) are selective about the persons who can speak to them.

If you are from a lower social class or if you are situated lower on the corporate ladder, you cannot address people who are at the top of the hierarchy because they look down on you like vulgar insects from where they stand. What's so different between them and us ?!! Aren't they made of flesh & blood as well just like any other humans...'I'm not necessarily asking them to treat everyone as equals but at least show some respect to someone who is an equal to you in species, right!!' I mean you are still human you know !? You're not a god !! Even God treats humans better than humans treat each other...for Pete's sake !!

You can even get severely scolded for even taking the initiative to speak to someone from that supposedly high level to request something. Is this really the 21st century?! Where is the freedom of speech!? Can't you even voice out your opinion when you're not even being insulting or sarcastic with your words?!

Is this some kind of K-drama in which the rich Chaebols look down on the middle class or lower class people. What's so great about them that they think so highly of themselves and even get you into troubles because you just spoke to them. A person victim to that type of treatment would feel greatly betrayed by that unfairness inflicted upon them by their own people.

No matter how hard you work to do your best, people always find ways to bring you down with their remarks and criticisms. People just don't realize how hard you have been working and what you have to put up with to achieve certain goals. On the other hand, you might also be inflicting the same unfairness to your peers but you have no choice due to the social pressure or work pressure. When you think about it, pressure & stress is just something created by humans and inflicted by humans on each other...

I guess all this brings us to think that people should just stop interacting with each other and just do their own thing & live their own life like Robinson Crusoe. But if you do that, you might just end up lonely and depressed as well. Either ways you'll end up hurt. Life is just so complicated. Even little insignificant things / happenings can be turned into such huge issues / scandals when they don't really matter much or cause any harm in the first place.

It is after all humans who created Apartheid (which reminds you of Nelson Mandela's sacrifice
for freedom).

It is humans who created racism.
It is humans who created social hierarchy.

For animals it's just the survival of the fittest.

All this brings us to the conclusion that unfairness / injustice will always exist in the world (even among animals).

You can never escape from unfairness unless you are that lucky person who never suffered any injustice in their whole life.

I guess it's enough now, I should stop venting out my annoyance in this blog because it can be seen as really gloomy and pessimist by my viewers.

Thank you for reading. This is just an insight on how bad my day was today.

Lets keep on living to find happiness.

I'm feeling really sleepy right now and I've ranted enough for today, so lets just take a break from this hell of a living day.

Ciao

Alice

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Blog Cartoon Part 2: Mixed Signals

Hi again

It's me once again with another one page illustration for the continuation of my short story.

I'm posting both part 1 and part 2 of my mini story here, in case you missed part 1 from my previous post.

Part 2 is about being confused when in love.

I hope you like it and don't find it too boring ^^''

Note: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Bye bye & come back again for the next part of this Blog cartoon ^^

Thank you

Alice

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Mini Story - Love Sick (Part 1)

Hi

This is the first issue of a mini story created by me, Alice ^^

Each issue is only 1 page long.

I just hope you like it and that I can find the time to continue it for you guys.

The story is about being 'Love Sick', a very common illness among humans which has not found a cure so far.

Note: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Thursday 5 February 2015

Story titled 'Aimless'

Let me tell you a story.

The story is about a young girl who had many dreams.

She dreamed about being a singer but her voice was not good enough to be one.

She dreamed about being a dancer but she could not dance well.

She dreamed about being an artist but could not draw well enough to be one.

She dreamed about being a doctor but her scores in science subject were not excellent enough for her to pursue a doctor's profession (P.S: She also lacked the funds to pursue the doctor's career).

She dreamed about being a nurse but she was not patient and caring enough to choose this path.

She dreamed of many other career paths as well but somehow non of them seemed to suit her.

Later, she decided to choose one path and started to study for it but she ended up giving up after a few months.

It's not that she was not hard working but she lacked resolve in choosing what she wanted to do exactly...and she got discouraged easily.

Finally she ended up studying for a degree for which she was not passionate about and landed in a job which she didn't necessarily like to do...

What will she do from now on...?

Only time will tell...

I think this is the story of many young people today who are confused, lost and without any directions as to what to do with their life. They just go with the flow and end up doing things which they do not really appreciate or feel enthusiastic about. Life is thus aimless and unhappy for those people.

If only life came with a compass which always directs you towards the best and wisest path.

A compass which knew you better than you know yourself. Wouldn't that be great?!

^_^

I'll let you know what happened to the young girl one day.

Ciao Ciao

Alice