I actually forgot to put a title in here >_<

So i've been a little lazy when it comes to drawing things lately, so i thought i'd do some simple design work stuff. Basically i just doodled half of the design out and then cheaped out and flipped and copied it for the other side. But symmetry is cool! and lazy...but cool! 

I've also been wanting to do more comics and stuff lately, i've got a few ideas swimming around up there in the old noggin, and after i buy i new eraser today i'll sit down and draw something that will blow your fricking mind! Seriously though, if your mind has already been blown today, don't look at it. There's only a certain amount of times that someones mind can be blown in a day. 

Party time! Excellent!

so, i had another farewell party. there was one a month or two back, when i decided to tell everyone i was going, and my aunt was all, "you have to come as soon as possible!" so all my friends freaked out and organised this huge party thing. it was quite spectacular, but obviously nothing for ms. organize-it ronna. It was huge i tell you, i didn't know half the gang there, but that was because it was kind of a combo party thing. She seems to like organizing those. 

Yesterday was smaller than the last farewell party, but i kinda liked it better. just a whole bunch of close friends getting together to wish Lawrence a happeh birfadeh and say bye to me. we sang the songs, were hypnotised by Wilsons winamp visualiser thing, and stuffed ourselves with food and birthday cake. Cake is good :) 

when the party was over, Arjay showed up with his company rental and dropped a whole bunch of us off at home. Now John lives out in the middle of nowhere. I mean, Lami. So of course, i had to go with Arjay all the way to Lami and back to keep him company. This is because its boring driving back by yourself, and i assume its harder to jack some foo's car when there are two people in it. 

On the way back into Suva, we get stopped by the cops. It was just a random licence stop though, so we got through pretty quick and were soon cruising off to town. Now, what do two people who have just been stopped by the cops decide to do? We go to Traps of course. 

So yeah, i've got a couple of days left in Fiji. I was sitting on the verandah this morning thinking about how long i've been here, and how i can't really picture myself anywhere else in the future. Heck, i was born here, despite the fact that i have a maroon instead of blue passport Fiji is in my blood. Who knows if this will change, or what the  heck will happen in the next few years, but right now, i really love this country. The people i've met, the things i've seen have all made me who i am. And i'm not that bad a person for it :P 

And speaking of Ms. Organize-it Ronna, she's also helping the Griff with his ventures of getting the heck outta dodge, and asked me to do a sketch of the Griffster. I look forward to seeing what she does with it. 

Poison? I only drink poison!

so i have just recovered from a long weekend of much merry making and alcohol. Needless to say, there were good times. except on thursday. now, the drunkest i have ever been was that one time i drank some tequila and passed out outside my house, within crawling distance of the door. i remember thinking, i can make it, it's just a few more feet. let me get some rest first though, just to get my strength back. and then i fell asleep. 

on thursday though, i was so far gone i thought i could see the future. honestly, thats how messed up my time perception was. then at the end of it all i reached home on sunday at 7 in the morning. all this is necessary though. in my opinion you're only allowed to get regularly messed up if either someone has died or you're leaving your friends for a new country. 

the latter is a better reason. 

We need more ska-punk bands on the teevee

So i was watching The Groove Thang on the telly-box, mainly because they were playing old oooold songs. The video clip for Bus Stops Kung Fu-Fighting was particularly awesome. But then they played some Save Ferris! On Fiji One! Whoever was picking the songs tonight was either stoned or completely out of their mind. I mean, Come on Eileen :) 

The bear-hat thing on one of the guitarists was particularly cool. God bless the 80's, 90's? (just checked the wiki-wiki-pedia, 90's :D )

Anyway, i'm going to be very lazy this year and just make up resolutions as i go along. For example, if i need to get a particularly difficult job done, i will say "one of my new year's resolutions is to finish this particularly difficult job." and then i will do it, it makes sense to me. 

anyways, this is a lazy post by someone who is feeling particularly lazy this 2009. 

Insomnia makes you not sleep? Who woulda thunk it

For some reason i couldn't sleep last night. I guess my head was just full of stuff. Stuff i want to do, things i'd like to get done. I tried to make a coherant list, but despite the fact that i couldn't sleep i was sleepy. Weird eh? 

Of course, the phone call at half past two in the morning made it all worth it :) 

One of the things in my head was about art, and drawing. The other was that i blog a lot about WoW and maybe i should make something out of that. Another was that picture at the top of the post. I mean, lots of people carry around bananas and guns in their pockets. Women shouldn't just assume. Especially if your friend is a monkey or an officer of the law. 

Ho ho ho, and all that

So it's christmas time again. You eat too much, and you drink a little bit too much, stay out until 2 in the morning on Christmas eve and then show up for church at 9. Good times. I personally love the holiday season, except for the commercial bits, but you have to take the good with the annoying i suppose. This is the first year in a long while where i'm not in the advertising business during Christmas, and i tell you what, some of my cynicism has been worn away. 

Also, presents are nice. 

To escape the heat today, my mum, sister and i went to see Valkyrie. I honestly wasn't very interested in it, but it was the only thing that was on at the right time. It's basically a historical thriller, and some of it is very very slow. And i mean sloooow, i can't say much without spoiling the plot, but bear with it. It was also interesting to see the German Resistance to the Nazi movement, as opposed to the American and British perspectives that we see a lot in world war 2 movies ( and admittedly, videogames). 

Tom Cruise was alright in it, he seemed very American though, which i thought detracted a bit from the film. Half the cast is also British, and their German accents were sometimes pretty laughable. But all in all, i was a little choked up at the end. After all, the film is based on the true story of the German resistance and all that. Real people gave their lives to fight evil, and paid the ultimate price for it. 

I also really don't like Nazis. I'm part Gypsy, and yeah, the Nazis didn't like them much. All in all, if i were to rate Valkyrie, i'd give it 3 slices out of 5. Which is a lot of slices of cake to eat. 

Not photoshopped at all

I mean, why would i photoshop something like that?