Road Trip

About 20 km across the border, highway roads and then, off into the the dirt tracks. A relatively huge harvest of the coveted King of Fruits, consumed against the distinct smells of a poultry farm - it's a pretty welcome departure from the trappings of the usual city life on a weekend. Top that off with some freshly prepared local cuisine, and I'd say the weekend got off to a good start.

Training Day: Final Episode

Training Day: Part II

Training Day

Rush Easy

So what became of Captain Jack Sparrow? 

Hasty

One could pretty much sum the weekend up in that one word - Hasty. Saturday turned out to be a full working day. Sunday was a birthday pre-celebration, and Monday's event almost knocked me out as I hit the ground running. A couple of snaps from a weekend visit to the residence of The Rabbit.

Busy

That's +K-Mini working up a storm with IKEA stools...he's got engineering in his blood...

Way before "so-many" megapixels, the "ancients" had their analogous forms of pictorial representation of things around them...



...and modelling subjects of two rather different periods in history close to half a century apart.

Cafe Talk Illustrated

Scent, Delicate.

A few days back, the air was simply heavy with humidity, and that translates to a VERY uncomfortable time in this part of the tropics. And whilst Mondays are known for the blues they bring, this morning's torrential rains did bring about the sweet, delicate scents of the morning chill. With that comes a different perspective on things around you that appear normally...quite ordinary.

Post WM2006

And so it is finally over. The WM2006. Zizou "headed" his way out of the last few minutes of extra time, Italy went on to hammer in the penalties to bring home that coveted Golden Cup, and I practically dozed off before half time...and dragged myself to the office to take my first cup of real coffee in 3 weeks...what a start to the new week.

20 minuten vor Finale der WM2006

It's an odd day. The WM2006 begins in just about 20 minutes, and the day in review flashes by...

Poolside

Temporary Distractions

I really should be completing the model for Project Panther G. But during a group build session with Dr. Penguin, this Incredible Funk Machine idea just HAD to be photographed. The result was the abomination you see above... I quite like it really...

Heat Nocturnal

There isn't a real difference when they say it's summer in the city, as far as this part of the world is concerned. It's either rainy, or scorching hot. These days, it's scorching hot. And where the heat doesn't kill, it sure takes the mickey out of you indoors, causing you to take either a ridiculous number of baths, or just makes it plain uncomfortable for you (for those of us who don't have the benefits of a not so modern invention - the air conditioner. So the tendency is that, you stay indoors most of the time, and turn to some plastic addiction hoping to weather this searing madness.
To make matters worse, you run into a fruit, hailed as the "King" of fruits, that proves irresistable, especially if it is the wild sort...

...and so I juxtapose a tank (ok, a representation of one) and a durian (ok, a section of it), and realise that they are related in more ways than one...in principle...well, albeit remotely.

Enter July