Thinking Under Bizarre Reasonings

Meet my two little friends Pess and Opti.

Pess is a pessimistic devil and when he isn’t out causing misery to others around him, he lives as a moderately high class Duke. His motto includes “Pess owns you!” and “DON’T TOUCH ME” when it comes to Opti.

Opti is the perfect opposite of Pess. He is an optimistic angel who goes around spreading cheer and joy to anyone he meet. Part time, he lives amongst humans as a lower class peasant. He tends to use cute phrases and gets reprimanded on a daily basis by Pess.

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This is a spinoff from LIBE. I didn’t have time to make a new LIBE strip so I am putting up the one I drew while dawdling at work last Wednesday.

Pess & Opti © Me

Medium: Mechanical Pencil, 2B Pencil and paper
Editting: Photoshop CS 2

This isn’t the end of this series just yet. It’s just a prologue actually. Watch out in the next week or so for the following episode!

Was working by myself today, WL had to go to her boyfriend’s sister’s wedding so I had my mom take me to work today. Spent alot just buying food today hahaha.

McDonald’s Big Breakfast : RM 8.10
King’s Confectionery : RM 3.80

Total : RM 11.90

After that as usual, I went to work with the kids, thank goodness they weren’t a handful today. In fact, it was rather boring. Until of course, when 2 of the little kids had to go back to their home. It was an experience indeed.

I was on stakeout to sniff out the funny business if there was one. A stakeout is the coordinated hidden surveillance of a location or person for the purpose of gathering evidence, especially in regard to criminal activity.

But luckily, nobody got hurt and I hope the kids are fine as soon as they return home. I’ll update this post more as soon as I go home. I just wanted to make a reminder post to remember to do a full update tonight. But no full details of course since its all P & C.

The holidays have since come and gone. And to tell you the truth, I’m damn glad about it. I was getting bored of being cooped up at home doing absolutely nothing actually >.>

I’ve just begun my industrial training as an intern at the Womens Aid Organization. And boy, it was the right choice after all.

In the beginning, it was just plain anxiety about meeting the people already working there, the women, and the children. But so far, it’s been all good. My seniors were all rather nice to us, even sympathized with us when they handed work to us (seriously, the statistic work was a horror. Unorganized, had to read through doctors handwriting to be able to finish it). We finished it all ahead of time too.

The women living there are more or less in their own world, and it was hard for me to just go up and start interacting with them. I myself have been living in a complete family where my mom and dad are more or less in love with each other and never was there abuse in the family. So it’s a challenge when it comes to these women. I know their situation but do not understand it.

To know is not to understand.

So this week at least, I’ll be trying to read up on past cases (P & C, so I can’t mention them here. Very unethical) and see what they have been though and try to put myself in their shoes.

The children are all lovely kids. So very nice to us (WL is working with me there) and they have very keen eyes when noticing things. Very eager to learn and to communicate with us. Of course, some of them have very sad looking eyes, when looking at them eyes, it’s as if I was drowning in their sorrow, their souls pulling me into those sad pools of eyes asking for some love. All of them are more matured than they looked which kind of pulled at my heartstrings at what they have gone through.

It’s just weird, for me that is, to say that, I like it there. Just being with the kids and playing with them. Trying to comprehend what these women and children have had to have gone through to be there…it’s so sad yet feels like a warm place. Especially when they form their own community and trying to help each other out.

This internship is an experience that I’ll never forget as I continue to work there day by day.