Sketchbook Scans

Ok, I’ve decided my sketchbook is complete, at least the “main storyline”. I still have 8-9 pages to fill and will think about what to do with them. So for those of you who are interested, here it is (password same as for protected entries). The colours actually look quite rubbish on the scans, so while my drawings & watercolours aren’t great, they’re not as crap as they look!

I’m not that happy with how it’s turned out, esp. the missing linearity, it’s kind of all over the place. It’s also annoyingly moralising & finger-wagging towards the end (and I think you can kind of tell I got fed up & wanted it to end). But it could be worse. And so I guess I’ll send it in. Well, except of course I will pour water (or Pepsi Max) over it on the very last day. *lol*

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Second attempt at updating this thing, I mean it’s been two weeks! If I made New Year’s resolutions, one of them would be to write in here more often, but I don’t, so it will just be a generic plan. More »

What I am not doing (random update)

I am not working on my Sketchbook, so I’ve decided to at least write an entry in this here thing, instead of just mindlessly surfing the Internet. More »

Protected: End of Year Survey 2010

Hong Kong travelogue

Helloooo, it’s time for a Hong Kong report to complete my archives, hehe. The pics are all over at Flickr if you haven’t seen them yet, and they mostly tell the story of where I went etc. So hopefully this won’t be too long. 😛 More »

The Happiness Bug a.k.a. I HAVE A NEW JOB!!!!

There, now it’s official I finally get to talk about it on here at great length. I am finally turning my back on my hideous employer and moving on to new, far more exciting pastures!!! Yes, I have a new job, and hopefully I’ll be starting there before the end of the year! How did it come about, you ask? Well, let me tell you the whole dirty story… More »

Are we safer now? My take on the twitter joke trial where I get a bit angry towards the end

Actually this should probably read “my questions about the Twitter Joke Trial”. I know there’ve been like hundreds of blog posts about this, most much more eloquent and pertinent than what will follow. I point you to Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C. More »

Bella Italia

I just got back from Rome. I have an extensive photo set over on Flickr, but my records demand a blog entry too. (yes they do! don’t question me lol) More »

Foodstuffs

I am making non-pizza dinner for the first time in.. probably months. It’s only some chicken and smiley faces out of the oven, and some veg out of the microwave, but it’s a vast improvement on what I’ve subsisted on in the recent past, which has been chocolate with the occasional pizza thrown in. I’m not exaggerating, I’ve been eating chocolate for lunch and dinner. I realise this is Very Bad, and my skin isn’t thanking me for it. Can’t even say I plan to change this, cuz generally I just can’t be bothered.

That is all. My short Tumblr experiment has left me feeling I should update more often, even if it’s short and insubstantial. So there, deal with it.

LOSS

Johann Friedrich Händel – Sarabande from Harpsichord Suite in D Minor.

We played this at my dad’s funeral and I’ve just had to listen to it again to remind myself of that time, what it was like to just have lost him. He’s been dead over eight years now and I’ve just realised that not having him in my life has become more familiar than having him. Which has made me sad all over again.

I don’t want this to be normality. I still want him back. This is a different sadness than the acute stabbing pain of the first years. I know this life now, and I know I can cope without him, I have done it for long enough. But that other life, the one before, all those memories… as they become more remote, they also seem to make me sadder. He’s moving further and further away from me and I try to grab him, to hold on, but there’s nothing I can do. It’s just the way things go in this goddamned life. And it’s still not fair.