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Here's a design i came up with. I intended it to be a tattoo for my back. But apparently i liked it so much that i decided that it should be the logo for secfive.org as well. And maybe for my own company in the future - whatever i might be doing.

Its not complete yet, there are still some stuff that i want to tweak and play around with before i finally decide to let it be. Whats left to be done is some simple shading/hatching to the effect that it is as if is a building viewed from above with the sun inbetween it casting shadow effects and what not. And maybe some color adjustments and fills.

The motive behind this was that it was supposed to go behind on my back, perhaps even with the 'secfive.org since 1985'. I wonder what kind of publicity i would get if the media knew. mmmm....

Now that i think of it i do realize that the phrase 'since 1985' does not correctly reflect the age of the site, which currently is only a year and a month old. But I'd like to think of secfive.org as a part of the holy trinity of 'me'. Now for those less inclined with biblical mythology, let me rant on abit about the holy trinity. The holy trinity is a divine composition of 3 identities which is the holy spirit, jesus christ the son and his father, god. All these 3 identities exist as the one entity known as god, spelt with a capital g. Yes thats very correct, a Capital g.

Now i'd hate to imagine that you are feeling as though I am comparing myself to god. But let me reassure you that it is only but an analogy. I might have an egoistical view of my concious self - which given the context of the day and age and upbringing we live in and i went through - is justified, but that is another topic for another day.. Anyways, so there is the birthname loochernyang me, the online identity known as sec5 and there is his web known as secfive.org - all of which are manifestations of me. Especially so with secfive, since it is literally a collection of my thoughts and conciousness. Regardless of which side of 'me' you see. It is me nonetheless and regardless. Therefore with that in mind, the 'since 1985' tag is related to 'me' - the one being and entity collectively known as loochernyang, sec5 and secfive. Therefore what 'secfive.org since 1985' effectively translates to is that "I - the supreme being and controller of 'me' has been in existence since 1985"

Alright, now abit about the ideas behind this. I went through several designs and this was either the 3rd of 4th. Its not too clear in here, but there are 3 colours, obviously black and blue, but there are also purple coloured angular forms as well. The image is roughly split into two main areas, the obvious black bold lines which is concerned with the sun, and the faint purple and blue lines, which correlates with the causality of the sun.The core of the sign is a ceaseless sun with a good sense of symmetry in 2 axes, though it doesnt fully mirror in the x axis. There are 17 points of flame and this is a randomly generated number by virtue of the shape i was working with. I'am thinking to change it to a multiple of 7, 7 being related to sunday. The sun as a motif is an allusion to my first name which literally in chinese characters means the sun. Fire is also my element according to my fortune teller. In the centre there are 3 interlocking patterns, which invokes the strength, unity and timelessness of the sun. The outer black ring with offwardly set shark fins represents the aura and presenece of the sun which manifests itself in random and interesting ways, circles inscribed in the fins represents emptyness and fullness - duality being a consistent theme in the entire design. Finally the faint blue and purple lines represents the causality (not to be confused with casualty) of the sun. And its impact-result on the worlds around it - being a source of light that gives the ability to make sense of environments, being a source of food for plants without which earth would be barren. This is represented by a cross titled at 25 degrees - which is the rounded value of the tilt of earths axis and the 4 ends representing logic and rationality as well as the cardinal points of the earth, I might change this to make it resemble a plus sign ( + ) more. The purple angular shapes are a sharp contrast to the nice rectangular block shapes and serve as a form of counterbalance (in duality).

The shape induces the viewer to subconciously believe that the object is symmetrical and rational though complex. Indeed it looks like a very consistent and coherent pattern that can be easily dissected by a line through the center at certain angles, and we are tempted to try. However no line dissects the shape. And this is a form of duality, of both being and not being, of fullness and emptyness at the same time. A paradox which mimics life and nature. A state of falling and being stable. An actuality that borders between intelligence and divinity. And this appeals greatly to me, how something which appears to be either this or that but is actually neither or both. It eludes us ever so sublimely. Feels like playing poker with god. Mmm. god... (tempted to look in the mirror)

The object also looks like an architectural plan, which would look even more so when i add the shades. It also looks like looking at planets aligned together and we feel as though we see an entire chain of events and causality.

Mmmm. I love my logo.

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I've been handling several odd jobs in january. Which is really good because otherwise i'd be totally clueluess and have nothing better to do in a period of time when i should be doing something. Mmm. Heres a simple summary of what i've been up to in the money making world.

Greenpeace
I was a Greenpeace frontliner for like 5 days. This job i did during the day. So in the day i would be campaigning for the wellbeing and welfare of creatures all big and small. But i had a disagreement with this seemingly innocent charity organization i was working for, either that, or they had a disagreement with me. Eitherways i quit afterwards. The work was just too tough and i wasnt ready for something so hardcore. Everyone in the team had like facial hair, were hulking huge people with the persona and build of a bouncer who have been roughed out by life and what not. Being a small statured asian in an environment of bikers is abit too awkward for me.

So what we roughly did was, we would set up a stall somewhere in a place where there would be alot of people, and then we would approach people and convince them that the environment is something worth caring and fighting for and that it was urgent to do something about it. After that, i would convince them to signup and chip in 25 dollars a month. Mmmm... and i get paid 16 dollars/hour. Interesting if you do the maths about how much we get paid from the support people are supposed to be giving into the environment. To be honest i felt like it was a bit of a con, but well whatever works.

A little more on this actually. What happens is greenpeace outsources their fundraising work to independent commercial companies like the ones i work for. So these serve as an intermediarie between the people and the charity. So the one whose running this is a commercial entity and not literally greenpeace themselves. _This_ company runs it by borrowing the name greenpeace from greenpeace. So greenpeace is still a good organization and charity nonetheless, and if you ever feel concerned about the environment - which you should be - greenpeace is still a good organization to go through : )

You also have to put up with alot of arses from the streets. Krishna devotees, jehovah witnesses, scientologists, norwegians, farmers, fishermen and firefighters. Who all seem to be interested in giving me a share of what they feel the environment should be as well as their own SOB life stories. Ask me in person and i'd tell you all about it : > I guarrentee : ( my vocab has been horrible recently) : it would be entertaining.

Soccer commentator for a betting company
And at night after i've been working for Greenpeace, i'd be the superstar vigilante wannabe and crawler of pubs where i would watch soccermatches and report the position of the ball to my employers in the Philippines, and for this i get paid about a hundred dollars a match. Quite lucrative if i may say so.

So yeah what i would do is get my self comfy inside a pub, get a nice cold beer to go with it, and have earphones over my phone and a dude will call me from the Philippines and i will tell him how the players are doing and the position of the ball and other miscelleneous (i can never spell this word) soccer information from which they would use to make intelligent and calculated bets with other companies. A rather shady work, but i earn my money legally and ethically and not under the premise of some charity and the environment, which is just a little bit too morally hypocritical for me.

I also get paid to watch live soccermatches from stadiums. I'll put a video of it someday : )

Essay writer
I write essays for those who cant be bothered writing it themselves or feel as though they would prefer someone whose language of instruction is english to write for them. I charge 10c/word, and i usually get either 600 worded essays or 3000 worded essays written for people who are not in the country or are not used to be in this country.

Its not easy work, but somehow i enjoy it.

Painter
I paint the walls for my university, and i get paid 25 dollars/hour for it. Onetime job.

Tradesman
I buy and sell all sorts of interesting things : )

American Express Promoter
This is apparently my next job after the greenpeace one. I'd be donning a suit and tie and trying to sell credit cards to rich 40 something men who already have enough credit cards, or credit card colelctors. I'am interested in seeing how this turns out.

Tada and thats it : )
My first attempt at working in the real world in the real world to raise funds to keep myself fed instead of having my parents to feed me.

So mummy and daddy, especially mummy, if your reading this. I hope you feel a certain sense of pride about what your son is doing and see the awesome messianic potential i have : P : P : P

One day, i'd be able to stop bullets like Neo. just you wait.

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Heres what i talk about online when i'am totally out of it.

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Alright so heres waht i did for new years eve. This french-indian girl called Devika called me out to meet her at her place at 8pm. So i got off and got some JDs and chips, as well as B52 quickfuck shooters. Got over there. Met her english friend Max, and then we smoked some ciggies and had a chat about architecture and engineering over beers. After that we went down to check out the fireworks at 9.

And yea the usual stuff, fireworks over Central Pier next to Telstra dome, i'am sure the lovely girls must have loved the lovely vibrations. After the fireworks were done we were cruising the promenade with beer in hand. Max took videos of the firework and Dev talked to her security guard friends at the club known as Watergate. We had like B52 shooters and we were walking around.

And then OMFG, these two cops on a bike came over and they were totally playing out the good cop bad cop deal. So the male cop looks at us behind sharp Oakley sunglasses with tight puckered pissed off lips on a solid emotionless porcelain face whereas his female sidekick plays this 'hey dont fuck with my bro, he's completely robocop' character. The girl advises us to throw the beer bottles in the thrash immediately. I noticed here they use 'chuck' instead of 'throw' and the thrash can or the rubbish bin is colloquailly called 'the bin' so she goes 'chuck it in the bin right now' in a friendly manner with her partner staring at us with laser guided eyes.

Anyways after the drama, we went to a restaurant below her condo, and we were made to wait like 1 hour for the food. The waitress screwed up the bill and so i had to tell her that shes undercharging us 10 bucks. Good ol honest me. After that, we were made to wait an hour before food came and during then, we were all impatient and hungry and pissed off for being made to wait so long. So the lovely waitress who must have had lovely vibrations during the lovely fireworks comes and offers us free beer on the house. Which we cordially accept after which the food comes much to our satisfaction. This was also followed by some belly dancing action with a girl on wings and stuff like that i cant be bothered remembering. I had a corona and an asahi after that.

After that we went back up to the apartment for another round of beers with Dev rolling up this huggge joint that contains the most potent shit ever. We have that and i had to take the duty of showing to Max on behalf of me and dev how to properly smoke it which totally gets me rather fucked up. After that Max decides to go to the toilet and ends up hugging the floor. We move him into the living room and i chilled at the couch. After a while i went to the toilet for a puke fest. it was nuts, never eat too much on a night out : (

The story gets more puky..

After that i went back to the couch and Dev drags me outside for 'fresh air' and for the new years count down. Man this was the worst possible idea. All the lights and fireworks and people made my nausea go through the roof. And i started puking in like 2 or 3 other locations. When they finally finished the countdown and everyone was hugging everyone else and wishing everyone else a new year. I was like puking. Puky new year indeed. Poor Devika have to put up with me puking everywhere. Everything was like a puky purplish black haze with all sorts of colours and sounds jumbled together.

Glorious Synthaesia.

After that Devika got me a cab and i passed out in it giving vague directions to the cab driver to get myself home. I got home and everything was still spinning around and in and out. Took a nap and woke up at 4am. Sent and reply a few messages then i went back to sleep. And i had a massssive hangover after that. But it wasnt so bad seeing as to how all the alcohol ended up being puke instead of in my bloodstream.

Thanks to that, i miss out all my entire nights program which included clubbing and watching the sunset and going to the beach : (

So my advice to everyone is to never smoke a large joint after a large round of drinks or food if you still want to have some semblence of conciousness to go clubbing.

..and just for the record, I passed out after:

2 Jack Daniels with coke.
1 B-52 shooter
1 Corona
1 Asahi

1 large Hawaian pizza &

1 HUGE Joint
.. after recovering from my sorethroat.

at about 12.00AM January 1, 2007.

Kudos to Devika for helping me out and being there and getting me a cab for my Puky new year. I'am soooooo sorry i couldnt accompany you for the rest of the night. *takes a bow* i'll make it up to you some how : ) Also kudos to Max for being a great buddy and to everyone else who reads secfive.org and what not. I hope you enjoyed the first few hours of 2007 as wild as i did.

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