whatever.

My ode to complete and utter boredom.

Lovey Dovey feeling icky.

I was fiddling around and did a couple of wallpapers for mungent and jj(jj seemed pleased:)) anyhow i did the one above then thought it would all look better without my feeble attempt at an arty bird. You need to click on them to read the words but the second one is a line i stole from Corintians..you know love is this that and the other? The last one is one of my lame lines.Lame but i believe true.
I really got to go out and take some pics.

Sidebar-Did anyone notice my two little turtles! you can feed them just click on the small window. Yes in case you haven't already noticed it i am going insane.

Rehash

Most of the feedback i get on my wallpapers are negative, aside from the loyalist who post positive comments. Mucho Thanks to you. My primary hobby is photography, it relaxes me and excites me at the same time but although i carry my camera with me almost everywhere its not always practice to take pictures so at night when the family is fast asleep(normally around 10) i start fooling around with adobe and make these wallpapers. IF you go to sites that host wallpapers you will see that i am not even in the beginners class! but i enjoy it and it relaxes me.And on the very rare occasion that someone actually likes one of my wallpapers enough to use it as their wallpaper i do backflips. SO here is a rehash of most of my wallpapers to date.
The Music is by Zero 7 ---Polaris By the way this is my first upload onto youtube.
Special thanks to all the brush makers who provide great brushes for free online!

Amber(as suggested by TLOML)

A Series of Amber tinted wallpapers. You might notice when i like something i like it ALOT lol.

Put a little vid clip just for the heck of it, i should have done it for all 3 wallpapers so it would not have just been 24 secs long and would not end so abruptly ...maybe for the next series...

Theme Song

If music is the background noise to life this is my current theme song.

"Hand In My Pocket"
Alanis Morissette.
I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette
And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign
I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly baby
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chickenshit
I'm sick but I'm pretty baby

And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the piano
And what it all comes down to my friends
Is that everything's just fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket

And the other one is hailing a taxi cab

Rejects.

From my pile of rejects(though i still like them). Havent taken any pics so your stuck with my nonsense.

Drafts

Got some new brushes last night so i decided to take them for a test drive. These are incomplete ...for now. I left the left hand side blank so that when i use it as a wallpaper i can see all the icons.

untitled

The first one i did after looking at someones msn pic. The second one with the massive bee i did to kill time.

This for now will probably be the last of this series...for now(that might mean today hehe)

bah.

Wallpapers part ..er who knows

I was actually going to post the second tier of hanoi pics but i shall spare you all. Instead here are 4 wallpapers i did. Yes more wallpapers.

Hanoi

So i went to Hanoi, traveling alone to a country i know nothing about , not their culture, their language nothing. Just a very biased and basic idea of they recent history. I still know nothing of their culture, language and history but i do know that Hanoi was as welcoming to me as any other place i have been. IT is a living city that is there to serve its residents, not tourist or people who come in for a splash and dash. The lakes(a big draw to the few tourist it seems)are used by the locals for everyday activities, cycling, jogging, reading and a host of other things. The majority of stalls are geared to selling things that locals can buy, this is not bangkok by any means. Though from what i understand slowly but surely Hanoi is changing, so i am glad i went now before things go to far and Hanoi becomes just another hot spot for tourist activity. I have nothing against tourism mind you, being an avid tourist even in my own country its the dreaded sameness of it all, row after row after row selling knocked off clothing and what not. At least for now Hanoi has been spared that fate. The people- I found them for the most part very welcoming and always willing to make an effort to give directions or just to smile. It seems to me that a lot of Hanoi people have not seen many dark skinned folk i had kids come up to touch me and giggle away, no malice intended just pure curiosity. In my long walks in and around the old quarter i went to places that i reckon most tourist don't go, much to the surprise of the locals in one little area about an 1hours walk out of the old quarter, i scooted round to the back roads to the shock of the residents, some of whom stopped what they were doing and call out to other family members to come and have a look at the strange guy walking in their neighborhood. I had many offers of tea i have to say.(not being a tea drinker myself it was a struggle and i soon declined more often then not). Another thing i noticed was that everyone seemed to doing something, i encountered 1 begger, in a city with a high poverty rate i was impressed, even if it was selling cigges or vegetables, they would rather do something then just sit there and beg. 1 other thing that impressed me was that in the mornings everyone would come outside and sweep the path and road in front of their shop/home and leave a little pile of refuse for the municipal road sweeper to clear up.

So did i enjoy myself? yes would i do it again yes, though i did miss my lil family tons especially when i got back in the evenings...an empty hotel room is a lonely place. Would i recommend Hanoi? yes but its not for everyone, if your looking to relax by the beach, the nearest one is 3 hours away(though i hear its beautiful) if your looking for shopping? hit Bangkok or Saigon, but if you want to see a living breathing active city that is at the crossroads of development and history i say Hanoi is the place.

I have broken up my post into 5 sections this is because i have posted a ton of pics. Click on the pics for an enlarged version though i have shrunk them all down for the purpose of blogging. The pictures didn't turn out as i had hopped. They are not going to show you what life in Hanoi is like there is no way a picture is goign to be able to encapsulate that there is just to much going on. The pictures are of things, people and places i encountered nothing more nothing less. in the coming days i am sure i will post more pictures out of the many hundreds that i took. :)

Hanoi 2

Above a typical scene, this one at breakfast but around 10 people drift out for tea at these roadside cafes and at lunch time as well.

The guy drawing was actually sketching me while i was photographing him.
Came across a little wee wee.

The lady on the left is selling bread, while the lady on the right is selling pork.
I really like this one of the guy in the hat with the bike passing him by.

Above is the charcoal delivery man.

One of my favorite pics is of this lady smiling while i shoot. When i walked up to her to show her the picture she could not stop giggling away.