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        Hello, everyone my name is Hans Hershel,  and this is my first anime illustration which I have just  created. It took almost a week to coloring this picture, but I managed to finish it.
       Well, 'cause this is my first picture, so it contain lots of lack in the coloring process. If you have any recommendation or coloring tutorial please post here. Hope you enjoy it

Quotes of the day #57 -- HK-47

"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees
of a target 120 kilometers away using an
Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love
is knowing your target, putting them in your
targeting reticule, and together, achieving a
singular purpose against statistically long odds."
HK-47, KotOR

Quotes of The Day #56 - Naruto -- Rock Lee

"A genius, huh? What does that mean? "Genius"? So I was not born with a whole lot of natural talent, not gifted like Neji… but I work hard and I never give up! That is my gift; that is my ninja way!"

Quotes of The Day #55 - The Men Who Stare at Goats

"Your life is like a river. If you’re aiming for a goal that isn’t your destiny, you will always be swimming against the current. Young Gandhi wants to be a stock car racer? Not gonna happen.  Little Anne Frank wants to be a high school teacher? Tough Anne. That’s not your destiny. But you will go on to move the hearts and minds of millions.  Find out what your destiny is and the river will carry you. Sometimes events in life give an individual clues as to where their destiny lies.”

Quotes of The Day #54 - The Adjustment Bureau

“Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift you’ll never know how to use until you fight for it. I think that’s The Chairman’s real plan. And maybe, one day, we won’t write the plan. You will.”

Quotes of the Day #54 - Assassin's Creed Revelations -- Ezio Auditore da Firenze #2

"We don't need anyone to tell us what to do. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose ... that makes us human. There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else."

Quotes of The Day #53 -- Assassin's Creed Revelations -- Ezio Auditore da Firenze #1

" 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted', it is an observation of the nature of reality. To say, 'nothing is true', is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say, 'everything is permitted', is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic."

How Can Syrian Bloody Conflict be Solved Peacefully?

The Syrian Uprising is the ongoing internal violent conflict in Syria, starting from early 2011 to this day. It occurred as a part of Arab Spring, a series of revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in Middle East countries toward the monarch type rules (actually in tends heavily to tyranny) who has dominant control over the country, asking for a revolution toward democracy. It all started in Tunisia, when a fruit merchant named Mohammed Bouazizi self-immolated himself as an act of protest toward police corruption and ill treatment who confiscated his goods, causing a movement of raged protesters that manage to overthrown the current reigning regime. Soon, it spreads all over the Middle East such as in Egypt Uprising where President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown from his presidential seat and Libya Uprising which forced Muammar Gaddafi to resigned from his ruler seat. As such, the Syrian Uprising is the latest conflict in conjunction with the domino effect caused by Arab Spring.

      Public demonstration initially began on 26 January 2011 when Hasan Ali Akleh pured gasoline on himself in similar manner to Bouazizi which sparks massive movement of protests against the reigning government on various social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter on 3 February which is also known as the "Day of Rage". Protesters demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad from Ba'ath Party which has ruled for nearly five decades following the rise of the previous ruler, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, who led the 8 March Revolution in 1963 to overthrow the government then and managed to gain the ruler seat, signing the establishment of Ba'ath Party government. Since then, he has become the ruler of Syria for more than 30 years till his death in 2000, in which he is succeeded by his son, Bashar. Following the failure of peaceful and cooperative protests, the protesters begin a series of fill-fledged demonstration. However, instead of listening to protesters demand, the government started to take counter-measure actions using violence. The soldiers were given order to put down the protest waves at any cost, even it means firing to the middle of unarmed protesters while they were doing a demonstration. Furthermore, according to United Nations report, soldiers who refused to shoot down the protesters will be labelled as defectors and be shot down by their own comrades in place. This, in turn develop the events to a bloody conflict between the government and the protesters which formed their own armed groups called Free Syrian Army, consisting army deserters and civilians alike.

      In response to this prolonged bloody conflict which seriously violated human rights, United Nations has taken several actions to tone down the conflict and try to take it to peaceful solution. On 18 March, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described the use of deadly force against protesters by the Syrian authorities as "unacceptable". In a presidential statement on 3 August, the United Nations Security Council condemned "the widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the Syrian authorities". The Western sides of United Nations Security Council (US, British , and France) suggest a resolution steps needs to be taken to resolve the conflict. However, this was vetoed twice by Russia and China which apparently supported Syrian government. Speculation arises that they have invested quite heavy in Syrian oil reserves and companies which brings them to take precaution against the effort from Western sides to take the control of Syrians oils.

      I think what UN should do is first getting their voices united as one, which is to prevent this bloody war from going any longer that caused more blood to be shed. The value of people's life should be the primary concern before the independent interest of each country. Both the parties (the government and the armed protesters) should be pressed by international countries to stop the conflict and opt for more peaceful solutions, facilitated by third party such as United Nations. For this to happened, each sides must be willing to trust other parties to not take the advantage from temporary ceasefire (permanent if possible) until a resolution is made. This is in conjunction with Kofi Annan's recent effort to facilitate a Syrian-led political transition to a democratic, plural political system, in which citizens are equal regardless of their affiliations or ethnics and beliefs.

      So, do you have an idea about how to solve this matter? Care to share it with us?

   

Quotes of The Day #52 - Assassin's Creed -- Altair Ibn-La' Ahad

"Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree!"

7 Steps to Make Yourself Popular or "Known" Using the Internet

Do you want to be known throughout your country? Or even throughout the world?  In the past, these dreams may be very hard to be achieved. But it's not so nowadays.

       Right now, we are living in an age where information has become the main stream of technology development. Since the foundation of web by Tim Berners-Lee and other researchers from CERN (European Particle Physics Lab), internet has been the main source of information in the world. You can access vast amount of information just by sitting down in your room and turn on your computer using your internet browser. Following the development of internet as the world biggest library and information storage, various features were released starting with the creation of search engine such as Google and Yahoo. It was followed by other developments such as social networking websites like Facebook and Friendster, file sharing sites like 4shared and Mediafire, and even Video Calling site such as Skype. The developments of the internet brings forth the endless possibility for us to make ourselves popular through it.

So what are the ways to make ourselves popular? Here are some of them. Enjoy!

#1 : Popularize yourself using Facebook

 

Social networking sites such as Facebook were created specifically for us to meet people across the world and make friends with them. The sites provides many features that will help you in getting know many people through various events such as when people are interested on the posts in your wall and decided to hold a conversation with you, ending up as friends, or you get to be in the same team when you're playing some of the games available in the sites, and other various occassions.

       The availability of this sites is really helpful. You have a much higher chance to get to know new people especially from other countries rather than doing it offline since it will cost you much to travel abroad and the possibility of meeting foreign people in reality sometimes can be quite hard. You can even use the search feature to find people with same hobbies or characteristics as you even if you don't even know them and gain more friends. To put it simply, the more friends you can find through this sites, the more people will get to know you, and in a way, the more popular you are.
     

 

            Recognized the person who is featured in this picture?

        Well, most of people will say "who doesn't know him this day and age?". Yes you're right, he is Eminem. A famous rapper and song writer. He currently hold the honor to have the largest followers and fans on Facebook. His Facebook page has been followed by 32,196,373 peoples!! Look at that number! As such, no wonder he has become the most popular person on the renowned social networking site (A.K.A Facebook). 

       You might say "Well, he is a celebrity from the start, so its natural for him to be famous in Facebook. Even without using it he is already famous, you know!"  Yeah, you're right. That's why we will see another famous person with different background. Now, do you know who is featured on this picture?

Now who is this person?   

         I bet most of you don't even know who he is. I'll tell you then, he is Robert Scoble.   He, like most people is normal in every way. He has navigated his way through the murky waters of the blogging world to become the original internet ‘spokesblogger’. While he was working for Microsoft he used his popular personal blog, scobleizer.com, to post favorable comments about his employers. After leaving Microsoft in 2006, Robert immersed himself to improve the value of blogging as an interactive platform and raise awareness for it as a tool aiding customer relationships. Currently pushing the art of video blogging, he may well find himself at the cutting edge of the next evolution of social media. You might not have heard of him, but 11,506 Facebook users think he is the man.

       You see? Even a completely normal person like us may have the chance to make ourselves popular using Facebook. Popularity is not belong only to the celebrities anymore. We too can obtain it!
So, start your own Facebook page and see yourself become more popular!

#2 : Start Tweeting now!

Twitter like Facebook is one of the social networking sites available on the net nowadays. Beside that, it also provide microblogging service. However, different than its counterpart, Twitter provide a service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Since its initial launch in July 2006, Twitter has rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011.

       One of the aspect that makes it so popular is because of the simplicity it offers. When you're using sites like Facebook which offers features such as posting unlimited texts and pictures, it become tedious to keep following it everytime. However, with Twitter, the limitation forced you to limit your message, thus making it simple and easy to understand. Another advantage is Twitter is much more light in terms of memory usage when activated than Facebook since it contains mainly short messages.That's why its far more easier to keep following everytime even using your cellphones just like when you're sending and receiving SMS.

So then, how do this little blue chirping bird helps me in any way to make myself popular? Take a look at this photo.

       Who is he? His name is Justin Halpern. A 29-years old man who lives with his 74-years old dad. He has a Twitter page which is dedicated to posts ridiculous things his father said throughout the day. Using his Twitter name "@shitmydadsays", he managed to attract many followers because his tweets are extremely funny. Just so you know, his Twitter page currently has about 1.797.321 followers!! That's an unbelievable amount of followers someone who isn't a famous person or a celebrity can gather. His tweets even has inspired a book called Sh*t My Dad Says and a television series $#*! My Dad Says on CBS. Who says we can't be a star out of our daily life?

Here is another example. Take a look at this photo. Anyone can guess who he is?

       Behold, he is Pete Cashmore. Umm, who is he you say? Are you sure you don't know him? Well, duh, he is the founder and CEO of mashable.com. A famous site that focuses on news on social network and new websites. Did that give you any light about him? He is currently the holder of title of the most followed person on Twitter with approximately 2.104.773 followers!! Take a look at that number! So why are there so many people followed him? Of course its because of the latest news on networks and websites which is far more easier and quicker to followed using Twitter.

So, are you ready to TWEET yet?


#3 : Create a blog which attracts much visitors

Blog  is a personal journal published in world wide web consisting of discrete entries called "posts". Different than web sites which usually required some payment to buy the domain for the site, blog is free for all service. Therefore, everybody can create it without having to pay. To use a blog, first you have to create it using blog publishing tool such as Blogger.com from Google or Wordpress.com. It's easy to set up a blog. After signing in using either of the site shown above or other site of your choices, you have to design the blog display according to your taste and likeness. Then you got write an article or two the post it. Make sure to found a specific theme to your blog so your reader may not get confused when entering your blog. And don't forget to post regularly so your blog readers become urged to visit your blog every now and then. That's how you make your blog popular.

       Maybe some of you think that creating a blog alone won't make you really popular compared to the creators of some famous websites out there. Well, I don't think so! Take a look at this picture...

       Do you know who he is? Maybe many of you don't recognized him. But he's quite well known even as far as very famous in the line of blogging. His name is Yaro Starak. He is one of popular people whom solely rely on his skill in blogging.If you ever try to plunge in to the depth of blogging, this guy surely must be your role model. Starting as a normal college boy, in 1998 he developed a blog fan site for a game called Magic The Gathering. It wasn't successful at first, as with other guys who tried to make a blog of the same kind. At some point, at the start of dotcom era, he started to built his blog in another approach which gain him around $500 a month, which wasn't a huge money, but it's quite amazing for an university student. Many years after, he became one of the most successful blogger with his monthly income reaching around million of dollars. The amount of people who are looking up to him and hoping to follow his steps are unbelieveably enormous.

       But, how could we start to do such a thing? There are many other people who also started blogs but to no avail. They didn't manage to get famous from it. Where should I start? Well, you can try to join blog competitions which are held by various sites or companies. If you try to search it through the net, you can find many of them. For example, this article is made specifically to follow the Blog Writing Competition 2012 held by AXIS corporation with the theme "Eksis dengan internet" or "Popular through Internet" as seen in the banner below.

       By joining competition such as this, you can be urged to write good quality articles that can attract many readers despite you succeed in winning the competition or not. It can also be a way for you to building links with other bloggers and helps you to advertise your blog through the competition.

So, if you got the talent in writing, design, and a hardworker, blog may be your path to stardom!

# 4 :  Make an Interesting and Creative Video of Yourself then Put It on YouTube

 
Have you ever wonder how to make yourself popular without having to constantly texting, messaging, or posting pictures and others? What about if you make a very interesting video, sharing it online, and get famous from it? You don't have to update it everytime or create a new video every hour for that. That's exactly what YouTube offers to us.

       Founded in 2005 by three former employess of PayPal who at the time are having difficulties in sharing a video of a dinner party at one of the founder's house online, YouTube has become the biggest video sharing website in the net containing millions of videos nowadays. More than 65.000 new videos were being uploaded every day including homemade videos, professional short movies, and others with about 100 million video views per day. Amazing! Sounds like an opportunity for me for people who wanted to get popular easily.

       Basically, you just need to create a video using handycam, webcam, or other instruments. Than edited it with video editing software such as Ulead to add some modification aor just upload it raw. Then sign in on YouTube and upload the alrady made video. Voila! Now your video is ready to be viewed by people across the world.

Take a look at this cute short scene between two children


Charlie bit my finger -- again! -- 424.805.061 views (!!?..yeah..you heard me right)



       Oooh! It's so cute!! Look how the innocent look of the baby is in front of the camera. And would you look at the view stats this video has obtained! It has been viewed by almost half billion people!! The baby and his brother is already on their w ay to stardom even before they understand how to change theie own diaper. They have been very popular despite most possibly then still don't understand that themselves. It's a really short scene, about 56 seconds (not even 1 minutes!). But the importance here is the uniqueness the video offers, not the length. It's so cute when the baby bites his brother's finger who scream painfully with innocent face and then laughing (also innocently) after that. Once again, they are so adorable!

       Now here's another example of someone who wanted to be famous by using YouTube. He is a common police officer from Gorontalo (a city in Indonesia) who try to stage his own performance while on duty. He lipsynch a famous Indian song called 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' by Shahrukh Khan while dancing around. His name is Officer Norman Kamaru. Take a look at this video.

Video Lucu Brimob Gorontalo - Briptu Norman Kamaru -- 3.001.798 views
----(Funny Video of Gorontalo Police Officer - Officer Norman Kamaru)----



       Now that's funny. Because of this video, Officer Norman has become known across the country. Popularity comes with it. He was asked to perform in various entertainment show. His name is known to many people. Especially as an inspiration for other 'normal' people who also wanted to get famous. His steps has been followed by many people.If not for this video, he may still be a common police officer that many people don't know about. Even an usually calm and serious police officer may become famous in entertainment! So, why can't you!?

#5 : Create Your Own Photoblog

Photoblog a new phenomenon in the world of blogging. Actually its not really that new you know. Just recently it had appeared in quite a number that we can be sure to separate this from normal blog.
To create this kind of blog, people mainly use online photo sharing apps like Flickr. 

       Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. It is usually used to upload pictures which are used in blog created in Blogger or Wordpress. Nowadays, a new type of blog has been introduced and started to be used by many people. That is photoblog.

       A photoblog is a blog which mainly features photos with little or no words at all. All the messages you want to say are expressed through the photo or picture featured. Now, this is more convenient than common blog for you who wanted to get famous quickly. You can put much unique pictures of yourselves, making people know you more because you often appear in pictures. This way, you can be popular much faster without having to make a good quality article regularly as with the normal blog.

Here is an example to a Photoblog. Basically it contains mainly photos or pictures

                                                                                              What a nice cake!             
                                                                       
       Of course, compared to the other ways above, Photoblog is still fairly new and the people who follow this kind of blog is still kinda few. So, it's up to you, whether you wanted to try making it (in case it will become a trend in near future) or opt for the ways above.


#6 : deviantART

We're getting to the last part of this article. Now I'm going to tell you another ways to popularize yourselves using the internet which requires some specific skills (especially this last two ways). The first is utilizing your skill in making illustrations and arts.

Behold, the deviantART

       deviantART is an online community where you can share and showcasing your self-made artworks including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash animation, filmmaking, skins for applications, utilities, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials. If you are good and like to make artworks and crafts, this is a perfect place for you to showcase your works. With this, you can ask for advice from other members and use it to improve yourself. Other than that, people get to see you works and become amaze with it. Making you more popular within the community. You can also create some tutorials which people will download and ask advices from you. Again, you can be popular by doing this.

                                                 An example of a deviantART showcase gallery

       However, do note that creating works that could make you famous is not an instant process. It needs extensive training in perfecting your skill. It takes quite sometime too to make an artwork or craft. Remember that you got to let your passion in arts to get prioritized rather than instant popularity in the realm of arts.

#7 : Become the Champion in Online Gaming

Whew, we're finally arrived on the last part of this article. Another way you can get famous is through playing online gaming. What's that? That would be really fun you know especially for a video game lover since you can get famous while doing the thing you like that is playing games. Of course, to become famous you can't just play normally as you like. You needed to have skill in the game you wanted to play and become famous in. To have that, you have to practice regularly. So, many other players who are playing the same game would looking up to you as an expert and your name would rise up. Beside popularity, you can also obtained much money from online gaming.

Are you kidding me? Would that kind of dream be true in reality? Well then, check out this picture.

       If you're a fans of a real time strategy game called StarCraft from Blizzard Entertainment (the same company who made Warcraft and inspired a game which derive from it called DOTA), most likely you know this person. His name is Lim Yo-Hwan. In game, he is more known with the pseudonym SlayerS_'BoxeR'. He is one of the most successful players of StarCraft to date. Dubbed The Emperor by his fans, most likely a reference to his preference in using Terran force in the game (which is led by the Emperor), he is the most popular Starcraft player with a fan club of more than 1,000,000 members and a DVD compilation of his greatest games released in South Korea.

       Currently, Lim has a record with 548 wins and 416 losses (56.80%) during his professional career. His game is always full of excitement as he always plays with different tactics that even sometimes seems impossible. He also like to stay on the game even though he had a large disadvantage in the game and succeed in winning it, making hundreds of viewer amazed by his tenacity to win. He is one of the highest-paid professional gamers. His annual earning exceed $400.000!!! Not to mention endorsement contracts that gives him around $90.000 a year! What a large sum of money for playing video games! Even I wanted to do it.

       He received an honor to be voted as the greatest gamer of all time by ESReality in 2004. Also, he is included in "The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers of All Time" by MTV. Simply Amazing!!

So, are you ready to compete?

       Well, that's all the steps I can give to you about how to make yourself popular using the internet. You can find more steps in other articles featured in this site

Dunia Axis - Helps you to become "Exist" through internet

       Keep your chin up. And have the courage to try the things I have mentioned above. Be prepared to struggle for sometime for we can't receive or achieve anything in this world without effort. And the seeds of effort you have planted will soon grow and bloomed.  Believe in yourself and keep moving forward!!

Quotes of The Day #51 - Final Fantasy XIII -- Oerba Dia Vanille

"It's easy to lose sight of things in a world as wide as this one, but if you keep going you are sure to find what you are looking for sooner or later."

Quotes of The Day #50 - Final Fantasy XIII -- Hope Estheim

"Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn't what matters, it's what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough you can make it true."

Quotes of The Day #49 - Final Fantasy X -- Lulu

"No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew."

Quotes of The Day #48 - Final Fantasy X -- Auron

"Outside the dream world, life can be harsh, even cruel, but it is life."

Quotes of The Day #47 - Final Fantasy VIII -- Squall Leonheart

"Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views."

Quotes of The Day #46 - Naruto - Pain #2

"You think you're the only ones who matter. You think you can put off death. But that peace made you foolish and thoughtless. If you kill someone, someone else will kill you... this hatred binds us together."

Quotes of The Day #45 - Naruto - Pain

"We are but men, drawn to act in the name of revenge we deem to be "justice". But when we call our vengeance "justice", it only breeds more revenge ... forging the first link in the chains of hatred."

Quotes of The Day #44 - Naruto - Uchiha Itachi

  "People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define "Reality." But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts- their "Reality" may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?"

Quotes of The Day #43 - Halo3 -- Lord Hood

"For us, the storm has passed. The war is over. And let us never forget those who journeyed into the howling dark, and did not return. For their decision required courage beyond measure. Sacrifice, an unshakable conviction that their fight, our fight, was elsewhere. As we start to rebuild, this hillside will remain barren, a memorial to heroes fallen. They enabled all of us, and they shall not be forgotten."