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'Oops, my bad..'
2 min read
Heelu people
its definitely been a while.
well, whats happened?....erm, saw transformers, and what a pile of shash that was.
hmm, I've just had a glance at my previous journal entry and can see that the last time I wrote anything was...nearly a year ago. I would document the amazing things I've been doing in all that time, but there havent been really...apart from the fact I got a book published (I did the cover...not the whole book)..did the odd freelance job here and there and finally landed a job in a publishing company doing illustrations for children's books full time (woohoo!)...only took 2 years for it to come along...
just got the thundercats boxed set, havent seen these episodes in...we're getting close to almost 20 years (gawd I feel old)..bearing in mind I turn 25 next month..quarter of a century...not good.
I apologise forthwith for not replying to comments, I appreciate all of your comments...just...about 99% of them I never know what to write..so thanks for the ones you've given me and thanks for the ones you have yet to give me in the future.
I think I have written enough...
its definitely been a while.
well, whats happened?....erm, saw transformers, and what a pile of shash that was.
hmm, I've just had a glance at my previous journal entry and can see that the last time I wrote anything was...nearly a year ago. I would document the amazing things I've been doing in all that time, but there havent been really...apart from the fact I got a book published (I did the cover...not the whole book)..did the odd freelance job here and there and finally landed a job in a publishing company doing illustrations for children's books full time (woohoo!)...only took 2 years for it to come along...
just got the thundercats boxed set, havent seen these episodes in...we're getting close to almost 20 years (gawd I feel old)..bearing in mind I turn 25 next month..quarter of a century...not good.
I apologise forthwith for not replying to comments, I appreciate all of your comments...just...about 99% of them I never know what to write..so thanks for the ones you've given me and thanks for the ones you have yet to give me in the future.
I think I have written enough...
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Shamala
1 min read
Erm..just wanted to put something here that was a bit more recent. Kinda busy lately...so dont have a lot of time to update onto here.
but I will when I get the time.
er,...yeah
but I will when I get the time.
er,...yeah
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'Sekh sai the gaai!'
5 min read
Heelu people
well...its been a while I have to say, bit sorry for that. I've not exactly been busy but, sometimes you just dont feel like writing a journal. Right now I think I do.
Sooooo, now I'm in Hong Kong, been here for about 2 months now, its very, very, very different from the UK. All the food has bones in it...which I struggle to contain my patience with, and some of the smells of food cooking in the streets...well...I find it hard to believe someone would put something that smells like that in their mouth! It must taste like heaven on Earth!!
Safe to assume I havent tried it....
As you can see from my deviations I'm spending a lot of time jobless and in HK park, a lot of the time jobless and on the internet, and a lot of time...well...jobless. I have to admit I'd expected Hong Kong to be a bit more glamourous...instead it just feels like...well...another place. Other times it does feel like a completely different planet, especially where food is concerned...and music, bleh, thank god there's HMV here. Its very very crowded and people in the street are just robots going from one place to another with magic potion shops in the streets and adverts on tv screens on buses showing you how to make your baby a financial genius at 2 months old or grow all your hair back if your'e bald. And my god, the bathrooms dont have a separate shower tray, so the whole entire floor gets soaking wet so there's nowhere to put anything without it getting wet as well. You have to travel miles into posh areas to get something resembling good cheese and crisps.
and its just beginning to get hot...really hot...:0
apart from that...I like it here, no, I do really
what have I seen
V for Vendetta:
Well...I heard some stuff before this came out that one of the producers left halfway through or something, but from the trailers it looked to me to have the same vibe as the masterpiece Equilibrium. Well...it was...ok...bits of it. Spoiler here but why the hell do that to poor Natalie Portman?!?! Isnt that a bit bloody extreme?! The bit where the whole plan came together was good...but still...not satisfying, and the whole thing with the detective investigating the poisoning of the river felt so much like an episode of a Touch of Frost I expected to see David Jason appear at one point and solve everything.
Now that would've been good....
8 Below:
Haha, I saw the trailers for this and it seemed to me that there was a Basilosaurus in it, which is a monstrous whale from millions of years ago, wrongly named a 'saurus' because it was discovered when palaeontology was a very young science. Also the film had dogs in it, and I always wanted a dog since I saw one with my own eyes. Later I found out that the thing was in fact a leopard seal...a nasty creature, but not so 'jurassic park' as they'd made it out to be in the film. Nevertheless a really good film, with brilliant performances from the dogs, just wish there wasnt so much of Paul Walker struggling to get his life back in gear and the bad comedic efforts of Jason Biggs....the dogs story was way more interesting and really...it was what I had paid to see...
The Pink Panther:
SHIT!! I was desperate to see something, anything at the cinema and it was a toss-up between the pink panther and basic instinct 2. I did not in any want to see a nip-tucked Sharon Stone flashing her saggy bits around so I opted for the potentially sacreligious Pink Panther. What IS Steve Martin doing??! Is he trying to revive his comic heyday during the 80s? He really should stop! Nevertheless, I laughed a few times and it made me smile a bit...Kevin Kline gave up trying to do a french accent about 5 mins into the film and just switched to the pseudo english one he did for Wild Wild West and poor Jean Reno...there's one bit where Steve Martin and Jean Reno use these 'camouflage' bodysuits, which expertly match the decor of the concert hall they're infiltrating...seeing Jean Reno dancing in a leotard patterned with flock wallpaper slapping Steve Martins arse with a completely deadpan expression on his face is an image that will haunt me to my grave. Beyonce was...uurgh and cant act to save her life....Emily Mortimer was gorgeous though...forgot she was in it.
yumm.
anyway, I'm off to a 7/11 now...they're everywhere here, and very, very handy...
oh, and Sekh sai the gaai means eat all the chicken..although 'the' isnt a cantonese word
well...its been a while I have to say, bit sorry for that. I've not exactly been busy but, sometimes you just dont feel like writing a journal. Right now I think I do.
Sooooo, now I'm in Hong Kong, been here for about 2 months now, its very, very, very different from the UK. All the food has bones in it...which I struggle to contain my patience with, and some of the smells of food cooking in the streets...well...I find it hard to believe someone would put something that smells like that in their mouth! It must taste like heaven on Earth!!
Safe to assume I havent tried it....
As you can see from my deviations I'm spending a lot of time jobless and in HK park, a lot of the time jobless and on the internet, and a lot of time...well...jobless. I have to admit I'd expected Hong Kong to be a bit more glamourous...instead it just feels like...well...another place. Other times it does feel like a completely different planet, especially where food is concerned...and music, bleh, thank god there's HMV here. Its very very crowded and people in the street are just robots going from one place to another with magic potion shops in the streets and adverts on tv screens on buses showing you how to make your baby a financial genius at 2 months old or grow all your hair back if your'e bald. And my god, the bathrooms dont have a separate shower tray, so the whole entire floor gets soaking wet so there's nowhere to put anything without it getting wet as well. You have to travel miles into posh areas to get something resembling good cheese and crisps.
and its just beginning to get hot...really hot...:0
apart from that...I like it here, no, I do really
what have I seen
V for Vendetta:
Well...I heard some stuff before this came out that one of the producers left halfway through or something, but from the trailers it looked to me to have the same vibe as the masterpiece Equilibrium. Well...it was...ok...bits of it. Spoiler here but why the hell do that to poor Natalie Portman?!?! Isnt that a bit bloody extreme?! The bit where the whole plan came together was good...but still...not satisfying, and the whole thing with the detective investigating the poisoning of the river felt so much like an episode of a Touch of Frost I expected to see David Jason appear at one point and solve everything.
Now that would've been good....
8 Below:
Haha, I saw the trailers for this and it seemed to me that there was a Basilosaurus in it, which is a monstrous whale from millions of years ago, wrongly named a 'saurus' because it was discovered when palaeontology was a very young science. Also the film had dogs in it, and I always wanted a dog since I saw one with my own eyes. Later I found out that the thing was in fact a leopard seal...a nasty creature, but not so 'jurassic park' as they'd made it out to be in the film. Nevertheless a really good film, with brilliant performances from the dogs, just wish there wasnt so much of Paul Walker struggling to get his life back in gear and the bad comedic efforts of Jason Biggs....the dogs story was way more interesting and really...it was what I had paid to see...
The Pink Panther:
SHIT!! I was desperate to see something, anything at the cinema and it was a toss-up between the pink panther and basic instinct 2. I did not in any want to see a nip-tucked Sharon Stone flashing her saggy bits around so I opted for the potentially sacreligious Pink Panther. What IS Steve Martin doing??! Is he trying to revive his comic heyday during the 80s? He really should stop! Nevertheless, I laughed a few times and it made me smile a bit...Kevin Kline gave up trying to do a french accent about 5 mins into the film and just switched to the pseudo english one he did for Wild Wild West and poor Jean Reno...there's one bit where Steve Martin and Jean Reno use these 'camouflage' bodysuits, which expertly match the decor of the concert hall they're infiltrating...seeing Jean Reno dancing in a leotard patterned with flock wallpaper slapping Steve Martins arse with a completely deadpan expression on his face is an image that will haunt me to my grave. Beyonce was...uurgh and cant act to save her life....Emily Mortimer was gorgeous though...forgot she was in it.
yumm.
anyway, I'm off to a 7/11 now...they're everywhere here, and very, very handy...
oh, and Sekh sai the gaai means eat all the chicken..although 'the' isnt a cantonese word
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'Two by two, hands of blue.'
3 min read
Heelu people
Well..erm, its been nearly a month since the last journal entry..cant really think of much thats happened to me lately xmas was horrid, New Years was ok, I was gonna do a list of all the top 3 films and stuff of last year but there's not much point now. Still working, still earning money and keeping losing it and still waiting until I can go to HK, counting off the days on the calendar (oh yeah, a bit of luck, I needed to buy a calendar for the new year, and one night as I was walking home from a friends house I found one sitting on a wall, brand new!!). Still painting as well, the 3rd 'UG' book is being made as I type and should be done before I go..erm, what else have I done.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose:
I saw the trailer to this ages ago and really wanted to see it, it looked downright spooky. 'Bits' of it were spooky, those bits that weren't spooky were in a courtroom drama about the final results of the exorcism, would like to have seen more creepy stuff... and Laura Linney's getting old, not losing her looks, but getting old.
Firefly:
Well, I havent seen all the episodes of this yet, but the ones I have seen have been bloody fantastic, cant believe they took this off the air, same as bloody farscape!! The stories are really good. And I dont know who's the most scrumptious, Jewel Staite or Summer Glau...get back to me on that one.
the above quote is from firefly...eerie blue-handed men
Saw a stage version of the classic 80s film Labyrinth...of course it didnt have a smidgen of the buget and Jareth didnt have an enormous lion-like wig but darn funny it was, especially the goblins, who had a bigger part than in the film...and the guy playing sir didymus was taller than the guy playing ludo..I'm still struggling to come to terms with that.
The english teaching course grows ever harder...well, its not that hard really, but requires a lot of thought..havent thought that hard to answer questions for years now. The War of the Worlds animation is now 3 minutes long!! Yes! Its only taken us since august!!
err...thats it
Well..erm, its been nearly a month since the last journal entry..cant really think of much thats happened to me lately xmas was horrid, New Years was ok, I was gonna do a list of all the top 3 films and stuff of last year but there's not much point now. Still working, still earning money and keeping losing it and still waiting until I can go to HK, counting off the days on the calendar (oh yeah, a bit of luck, I needed to buy a calendar for the new year, and one night as I was walking home from a friends house I found one sitting on a wall, brand new!!). Still painting as well, the 3rd 'UG' book is being made as I type and should be done before I go..erm, what else have I done.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose:
I saw the trailer to this ages ago and really wanted to see it, it looked downright spooky. 'Bits' of it were spooky, those bits that weren't spooky were in a courtroom drama about the final results of the exorcism, would like to have seen more creepy stuff... and Laura Linney's getting old, not losing her looks, but getting old.
Firefly:
Well, I havent seen all the episodes of this yet, but the ones I have seen have been bloody fantastic, cant believe they took this off the air, same as bloody farscape!! The stories are really good. And I dont know who's the most scrumptious, Jewel Staite or Summer Glau...get back to me on that one.
the above quote is from firefly...eerie blue-handed men
Saw a stage version of the classic 80s film Labyrinth...of course it didnt have a smidgen of the buget and Jareth didnt have an enormous lion-like wig but darn funny it was, especially the goblins, who had a bigger part than in the film...and the guy playing sir didymus was taller than the guy playing ludo..I'm still struggling to come to terms with that.
The english teaching course grows ever harder...well, its not that hard really, but requires a lot of thought..havent thought that hard to answer questions for years now. The War of the Worlds animation is now 3 minutes long!! Yes! Its only taken us since august!!
err...thats it
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'Get the hell off my boat!'
2 min read
Heelu people
Well...what has been happening to me recently...not much.
I met Ray Harryhausen last saturday, which was amazing...I was getting a book signed, simply said my name and shuffled off...so many questions I wished I'd asked him. But just think, the hand that wrote the autograph I have animated the kraken from clash of the titans and the children of the hydra's teeth in jason and the argonauts...we'll never see films like that again.
I washed my mobile phone....yah, I put it in a pocket and forgot it was in there!! Unbelievable..its totally destroyed, it was in for the whole wash, only realised afterwards...I can imagine its little electronic life slowly ebbing away as the washing machine spun round.
I've seen the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was good, though had a few bits I didnt like...particularly the minotaurs, who looked so much like men in suits I was wondering if they werent meant to be men dressed up. I'm not a big fan of the whole kinda story, so I'm not really jumping up and down about the film...even when I was a kid I thought the whole thing a bit childish. Aslan has to be one of the most amazing cg characters I've seen..very lifelike, but they scripmed on all the other animals, espscially the beavers who looked odd...loved the gryphons though.
A few more months until I can go to Hong Kong...waiting hasnt got any better, but as you can see I'm filling up my time.
Well...what has been happening to me recently...not much.
I met Ray Harryhausen last saturday, which was amazing...I was getting a book signed, simply said my name and shuffled off...so many questions I wished I'd asked him. But just think, the hand that wrote the autograph I have animated the kraken from clash of the titans and the children of the hydra's teeth in jason and the argonauts...we'll never see films like that again.
I washed my mobile phone....yah, I put it in a pocket and forgot it was in there!! Unbelievable..its totally destroyed, it was in for the whole wash, only realised afterwards...I can imagine its little electronic life slowly ebbing away as the washing machine spun round.
I've seen the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was good, though had a few bits I didnt like...particularly the minotaurs, who looked so much like men in suits I was wondering if they werent meant to be men dressed up. I'm not a big fan of the whole kinda story, so I'm not really jumping up and down about the film...even when I was a kid I thought the whole thing a bit childish. Aslan has to be one of the most amazing cg characters I've seen..very lifelike, but they scripmed on all the other animals, espscially the beavers who looked odd...loved the gryphons though.
A few more months until I can go to Hong Kong...waiting hasnt got any better, but as you can see I'm filling up my time.
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