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Odd Japanese English: Demo

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So if you say "demo" to a Japanese, he/she will think of the protest...

Why LINE rejected my stickers 3 times before it can be sold on Creators Market

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Work began in April after persistent requests from fans to do LINE stickers. I first did a focus group on  Patreon  to gather feedback and Kurone Shizuhi, a very hardcore LINE user, suggested the most changes (Thank you Shizuhi, Reventon and Jerome!) After finalising the chosen 40 stickers, I inked it and sent it to my assistant to colour. Then it was returned to me a week later and I continued to clean up the lines and tweak the colours for another week or so (on and off). I finally submitted on 18th May excitedly and announced on my Instagram:

Illustration demo with Chameleon Marker Pens

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I posted this video last week on my Facebook wishing all my Muslim friends Happy Hari Raya and many asked me what materials I used and how long I took to make it. Actually the concept was thought of a week beforehand and the drawing took slightly more than an hour to complete. However learning how to use iMovie on my smartphone, selecting free music from YouTube music library and then figuring out how to transfer the music took like a whole day...

Japanese way of asking for payment

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Do you prefer your bill to face up or down while eating?

The Japanese Secret To Inside-Out Beauty Workshop at Ikeda Spa

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Besides offering spa packages and selling skin care products, Ikeda Spa also occasionally  organises workshops to impart beauty tips or things Japanese to customers. Today, we got to try making our own masks from ingredients that you can easily get from supermarkets!

Way of eating noodles in Japan

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I think Singapore is in between? P.S. Patreon Ewww-san is inside eating with Kelvin! Special thanks to all lovely patrons and http://www.patreon.com/evacomics !

Monday Yoga comics

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And this is my new mat (Eko mat) from Manduka! It's made of rubber so I had to use a mat restore to effectively clean and maintain it :) My first yoga mat!!! Can't wait to practice on it! (After I reply tons of work emails first....) #yogamat #manduka A photo posted by Evangeline Neo (@evacomics) on Jun 29, 2015 at 3:24am PDT When the instructor is very flexible, I do feel as if I am attending an acrobat class, it's challenging but fun :P Luckily I exercise, otherwise I think I will be pretty fat now... A photo posted by Evangeline Neo (@evacomics) on Jul 3, 2015 at 12:37am PDT

How to eat Sushi

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I tried to eat the proper way but the ingredient (neta) always fall off! Also it's very common in Singapore that we mix our wasabi with soysauce and then dip the sushi inside.... I think that is not the "proper Japanese way" to eat it, but it's so normal here nobody cares!

Japanese charms omamori from temples and shrines

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This comic was a special request from my friend who recently discovered that all her charms that she bought in Japan "doesn't work" anymore.  Of course, I was the one who broke the "secret"... Japanese shrines and temples practice this way in order to get continuous funding to maintain their facilities. On the other hand, Chinese temples gather funds by accepting freewill donation (also called incense money) from devotees and visitors praying for good luck, health or wealth. The charms bought from Chinese temples will also last a life time, as long as you maintain a good heart and do good deeds. Extra money from collection will also be donated to related charities annually to continue benefitting the community. On a side note, priests and monks are also very different in Japan, it is more like a job there. They go to work at the temple/shrine during the day, and go back home to their families (yes, they can marry!) at night. Some even go drinking or visit

Car crash Accidents and lottery number

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In Singapore, people will try to take not of the car number to buy lottery... I'm not sure if it happens in other countries too... HMMMM.... *I am not liable if you bought 1738 and did not strike lottery. UPDATE 17 June 2015: Oh my, my numbers did come out! So if you bought iBet, you won $6...