Random Stuffage

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Sorry to anyone who comes here (all two of you!) and hasn't seen anything interesting lately, once again I've been a slack updater. Deja vu yes?

Feeling good about things lately. I've decided to quit my desk monkey job at the end of August to pursue something far more meaningful to me. If I'm gonna waste away at a job for the better part of my days, fingers crossed I can find something reasonably creative and possibly animate-y.

I have some crafty ideas with old smelly books I bought at a booksale hosted by the Victorian Historical Society (near our flat incidentally). Before the year is out I want to open an Etsy shop to see if I can sell some art for kicks.

Currently I am working on my first proper illustration EVER for the Out of Controller exhibition. Past high school I don't think I've ever worked on a single image for more than a day (I'm discounting all the graphic-y type move-y stuff for my bachelor's degree!). I'm more of a doodler. But this time I planned, traced, collected visual references, organised digital files. Mmmm ... satisfying. Even more so as I get to play Super Smash Bros Brawl in the name of 'research'.

The video for "Cuando Ries" is within a tiptoe of the finish line. Updates and images over at Juan's blog here and here :D

I don't like posting without photos so here's some niceness:

My new coat! It arrived about a month ago so it's not that new but it is getting a LOT of wear I can assure you. The cat belongs to one of our neighbours. It is pooping in our back patio. >:(

I have won all the cups in Mario Kart Wii :D But I haven't got the big group photo on my laptop so this one will do ...

Not so recently but at least within the last month, I made possibly the BEST cake in my reportoire thus far: chocolate brownie cake topped with mixed berries. It was from the Donna Hay "Chocolate" book and since I didn't have a slice tin or plain flour, I used a round cake tin and self-raising flour thus transforming a recipe for 'brownies' into a recipe for 'cake' (moist, rich, dense cake!).
On the right is our small effort on Colombia's Independence day (July 20): hardcore hot chocolate (dark chocolate vs milk ratio was somewhere around 2:3), pandebonos (a VAST improvement from our previous effort as we used the right cheese this time) and extra mozzarella to stuff into the chocolate. Tastilicious!!!


In nerd news, I FINALLY figured out how to use RSS feeds in Thunderbird so now I can stop checking on my favourite blogs and other fun filled sites everyday since they will come to me!