• How To Get Optimal Photo Print Quality with Lulu.com

    How To Get Optimal Photo Print Quality With Lulu.com
    By Chongchen Saelee

    Lulu.com is a book self-publishing service. You can print your own novel, comic book, photography book, calendar, etc. But each type of book will require a decent amount of technical skill to physically create a presentable product. When dealing with color printing, you will definitely encounter some road bumps. So I’ll share with you what I did to get optimal results for your printed photo book when using Lulu.com. (more…)

  • A Day In Paradise: Establishing Proper Tone in Comics

    A Day In Paradise: A Retro Comic by Chongchen Saelee
    A Day In Paradise: A Retro Comic by Chongchen Saelee

    A test to see if my tone is correct. The art isn’t exactly like retro comics, but I wanted to test if my understanding of the comics of the time is correct.

  • Stories From 2525: Eating At Simm’s Burgers

    Stories From 2525: Eating At Simm’s Burgers
    By Chongchen Saelee

    Promptly at 3:34pm each workday, I take my 30 minute break for lunch. I take a brisk stroll through the empty metropolitan streets just a couple of blocks away from The Cube, where I work. The streets are empty because most citizens are locked in their cages at home piloting their drones. And those personal drones scatter throughout the city like giant pests. I’m headed for Simm’s Burgers for lunch. Thank god Simm’s doesn’t allow drones.

    Simm’s is an old-fashion food vendor. Back in the day, they called their type of service “fast food”. I don’t know why, the automation food preparation system behind the kitchen viewing glass seems to move quite slow. On average, I receive my meal in an agonizing 30 seconds or longer. It irks me to have to come up with some kind of conversation in those 30 seconds to spare with the zit-faced kid at the front counter. (more…)

  • Pocky Strawberry Cream Flavor Asian Biscuit Stick Snack Review

    And the last one of my Asian snacks and drinks review series: Pock Strawberry Cream flavor biscuit sticks review. Check it out!

  • The Robot And The Cat

    The Robot And The Cat
    By Chongchen Saelee

    In a dank alley, a sanitation robot made its routine cycle tracking stray cats, containing them, and if the pound was overpopulated to exterminate them on site. This particular evening, it was extra cold, and a male cat had scavenged a half-eaten Whopper to eat. The crackling sound of dry leaves, paper, and plastic garbage bags did little to comfort or remind the alley’s inhabitants of the sound of warm burning kindle.

    The sanitation robot’s sensors detected a heat signature hidden behind a collapsed cardboard box. The robot uses automatic homing system to lock onto the heat signature and fires 2 tranquilizer darts at the target. There is a shrieking meow and then silence, only rustling of cold wind and paper.

    Clank, clank, clank. The male cat wakes inside to dark metal box. It starts clawing for a way out. (more…)

  • Pocky Chocolate Flavor Asian Snack Review

    It’s coming to a wrap, folks. My Asian snacks and drinks review series is finishing up. Here’s my review of Pocky Chocolate flavor Asian snack.

  • Robins, Two

    Robins, Two
    By Chongchen Saelee

    Robins, two, they soar!
    Over glade they freely glide
    Red dawn sun burning down
    Flowing red blood hearts ignite

    Robins, two, triumphant wings!
    Majestic crimson blur in wind
    Shades in bursts of color fade the sky
    To reveal silver violent violet gray within

    Robins, two, lose flight to fight!
    As tears pour down from heaven’s gate
    Cutting through royal blue cold clouds
    And strike of Zeus, robins, one, make

  • Cold Feet

    Cold Feet
    By Chongchen Saelee

    In the white frost covered earth
    A budding light of sun emerged
    Reaching for life in new warm air

    It stretched its fingers and petals
    Yellow and golden with red specks shimmering
    Dancing with the dry blue despair

    The wind swirled down and scooped it up
    Cold, no, warm, no, ice, no heat
    And hand turned pale next to cold feet

  • Nongshim Shrimp Cracker Asian Snack Review

    Nongshim is known for their instant noodles, but they also make snacks like this Shrimp Crackers. Find out what it tastes like!

  • The Robin And The Frozen Nest

    The Robin And The Frozen Nest
    By Chongchen Saelee

    Miles Longman found joy bathing in golden yellow sunlight early in the morning overlooking his many acres of wooded land covered in snow. He particularly enjoyed the friendly robins chirping even in freezing temperatures, as though there wasn’t a care in the world. Miles would dress in heavy winter clothing and trek up the snowy hills to visit some local robin nests. The robins had grown familiar with him in their habitat that they expected him every morning. Miles had watched generations of robins grow in his backyard for over 20 years.

    This particular morning, Miles found a frozen robin’s nest dangling off a branch. It seemed as though a snowball fell into it, melted and refroze as ice. The nest was pretty much an ice cube with tiny frozen blue robin eggs inside. However, Miles witnessed a strange phenomenon. The mother robin would continue to nurse her frozen nest. She would return with twigs or leaves and continue to build the nest. Miles heart would sink as he watched. He wondered if the robin knew her eggs were dead. (more…)