Scattered Seeds

“I got excited to work on a 2D project, period.”

That’s Andreas Deja’s reaction to Disney’s new and upcoming animated short, “How To Hook Up Your Home Theater.”

There’s a great interview with animators Andreas Deja and Mark Henn on the new short at Animated Views. I may not be too huge a fan of Goofy as I am of Donald Duck, but I’m looking forward to catching the animated short when it hits the cinema (whenever that is). It marks the return to traditional 2D animation, and I hope in the long run, the return on 2D animated features.

To sum up: my reaction when I read it was “I got excited knowing that Disney has new 2D animated projects.”

Early Morning Mists Over Klang Gates

I’ve been licking wounds and that has kept me away from the jungles for far too long. But some future plans insist that I wake up early at 5am to hike even when I still have the irritating pain in my heels and fear of aggravating the old injury on my knee. I didn’t call anyone other that Leon because of my 11th hour plan. Thank God he was crazy enough to follow me on the hike to catch sunrise over the Klang Gates dam. We all know he’s crazy because he’d rather walk in the dark than get back into his home (even when he’s just at the doorstep) to pick up a torchlight. We started walking at about 6am in the dark with the aid of only my mini Maglite (I too was too lazy to get into my home to pick up the usual Cateye lamp I use on treks).

Our aim was the sunrise but we missed it.

We have good excuses. But here are 7 good reasons:
• we stumbled in the dark a bit because he didn’t bring a torchlight
• he agreed to hike up the eastern side of the ridge.
• he wasn’t prepared for the difficulty that came with the eastern ridge
• he had been going to the gym but doing the wrong exercises(?)
• he hadn’t trekking in nearly a month because I didn’t trek.
• he didn’t get enough sleep the night before. I was reading until about 1am.
•he didn’t have breakfast. Neither did I, actually.

OK. I exaggerate almost all the “he” parts, but I had fun writing them. And I sure did enjoy the hike.