Yes, actually, I am trying to save the world

i have had one of the most inebriated weekends ever, and if you've read this blog enough, you might notice that that is quite a statement for me :P

friday was the last day of my surveying job, and it was a doozy. i spent the day wandering around valelevu asking people questions. twas quite the experience. the three moments that really stand out were pretty good ones.

there was the saleslady who asked me, after i told i her i didn't want a plastic bag, if i was trying to save the world. this surprised me. i mean, how did she know?

then there was the carrier driver, who proceeded to tell me his whole life story, including the part about his father losing a leg, and him having to start driving carriers at the age of 15. a carrier is basically a truck by the way, for those who came in late.

and finally, there was the little old lady in her small tailoring shop, which i had ducked into to get out of the rain. she sat at her sewing table while i asked her questions about mobile phones, and was just the sweetest old lady you'll ever meet. in the end of the interview, she asked me if i was related to my uncle. that is, she knew my uncle, and wanted to know if i was related to him.

then there was the barrel night...which i drank a silly amount of beer and then went to watch Hellboy 2. it was an amazing film, but this may have had to do with the beer.

and then came saturday. i went to see an old friend of mine, who's birthday is on the same day as me, to wish him...happy birthday. then i went to the surprise party at my house...which i knew nothing about. nuh uh. not me.

the party was awesome. i drank a silly amount of alcohol, and probably said some things that were silly. but i had an excuse at the time because it was fer my birthday, and Arjays birthday :P

what? examples of silly things?

albert: what, you guys are leaving? you're going to make me sleep alone on MY birthday!

everyone: laughs

albert: hey, i TRY ok, at least i TRY

ronna: giggle giggle

albert: oooh, she's laughing...that's a good sign!

EDIT: yesh, the conversation has been updated, i was drunk! i can't remember most of what i said! fanks sharky =_=

Also, the girlfriend wrote me a poem for my birthday. twas the sweetest thing anyones ever written for me. it also involved strippers :P

so what did i do on sunday? i mean, after the copious drinking on friday and saturday? why, go to John Michaels house to drink of course.

so all in all, it was a pretty good birthday weekend. lotsa booze, lotsa laughs, and lotsa fun.

also, because i am still taking a short break from drawing comicses, here is a pinup i prepared earlier.

hangovers and smiles

it's possible to have huge ones at the same time.

i have the best friends in the world, and the greatest girlfriend ever :)

there will be elaborations when my head stops throbbing :P

also, ding! 19!

I cannot see anything without my glasses

just bear this in mind :P

so, today i began my short term job as a survey marketing man-guy-person. today was mostly training and whatnot, which went well. experience in the radio industry doesn't hurt when you have to interview people. so, thankfully i have something to do this coming week, and will have some monies in my pocket for my awesome birthday weekeeeend! ( woot!)

i had trouble getting to sleep, which was weird. lotsa stuff was on my mind...about the new job, and where i see myself in the future and all. i have that worry a lot lately, but never fear! i shall do my best to work it out. also, the girlfriend made me smile like a goof last night, she has impeccable timing that girl does.

this is a semi-short post, due to the fact that i require sleep to perform at optimum surveying power tomorra!

Of Wolves and Kings

just an illustrated version of the plan the girlfriend and i decided on a few weeks back. you gotta be prepared!

so, Suva is having a music festival, which is quite awesome. i say this mainly because i got to sing a little bit in said festival. Friends Griff, Wilson and Lawrence sorta kinda let me sing a couple of songs with em at a gig at Esquires. It was lotsa fun ^_^. The band is called The Three Kings, (yes, like the movie) and yesh...it's awesome :P

it's kinda addictive, singing is. once you get over the nervousness, also, people have said that i don't sing half bad, so it's not too bad at all. all i did though, is belt out "I'm yours" by Jason Mraz (who is alright, i'm not a huuuge fan, but the ladies seem to love him. well, Ronron, Sharky and the sister do anyway =_=) and sing backup on a couple of songs. but! it's a start :)

i am a happy chappy :)

Flamingos of Darkness - Part Two

it's funny how things happen really quickly sometimes, without any warning whatsoever. it's also funny how really fun things and really suck things can happy at the same time...or within two minutes of each other. The weekend...was great, and also suck. weird aye?

the suckness, most of it was down to me. i got my hopes up really really high, and had them dashed. which sucks, but there are positive sides to what happened as well. i mean, so what if the girlfriend isn't coming back to fiji? i wasn't going to be here at the end of the year anyway ( heres hoping, to all major deities! someone help me out up there!) and it doesn't make me love her any less. i just need a little time to get over the disappointment i think. also, Ronron had some awful news this weekend, which kinda made me sad too...it's weird, but when really bubbly and happy people are sad...they're usually sad infectiously. also, i wasn't in a happy mood anyways.

i think, that the whole silver lining thing is important sometimes. at least, for sanity's sake.

also, i hate being semi-employed. i am broke as a joke, and cannot exercise any retail therapy.

i need a fucking job =_=

A Flamingo of Darkness

Some chibi's i drew of my mage and his mates. who are also my mates. cool aye?

i have been...feeling kinda...i dunno, like i've been hit repeatedly in the stomach. very emo, yes. but first! we must talk about the Dark Flamingos and the awesomeness that they are. On Friday, y'see, we went to a quiz. I was on a team and everything, also, i had the honor (or maybe the forceline'ness of naming our team the Dark Flamingos)

our team consisted of our very own Wilson, Sharky, Brother of Sharky, The Griff, and Moira, sister of The Griff. It was an awesome team. Don't just take my word for it, we won the damn quiz, so we must have been pretty awesome. Prizes were an awesome Alcatel 701 each ( i gots the orange one), a carton of coke and two bottles of wine. which i presume are expensive, lord knows the phones must have been.

i haveta thank the Ronron and Sharky especially, since they kinda forceline'd us into doing it anyway :P

so after that, we went out to celebrate! which of course involved copious amounts of alcohol, dancing (in moira's case, with a small woman who likes...other women) and much yelling of "Dark Flamingos!". people must have thought we were crazy...i doubt it though, since they were also probably drunk as well.

then i got some...kinda bad news. i'm trying my hardest to look on the bright side of life, like Brian tells ya to. it's tough, but i think i'll survive. The girlfriend makes me super happy and super sad sometimes.

the next day, i spent mostly at Ronron's bosses house, whom she is housesitting for. i doan know why someone asked her to sit on their house, but she's doin it nonetheless. the whole gang was there, some left, some stayed, and basically took over the house. it was lotsa fun, we played wii, cooked dinner and watched movies. made me feel happier, which is good, coz feeling happy is...good? i guess.

spent the night there, since it was pretty late, also Griff wasnt feeling too stellar, so i doan think he wanted to move around that much. Heres to hoping the rest of the long weekend is great, i think it just might be :)

We would be warm, below the storm

so, it was the girlfriends birthday today (unless i have taken too long to type this out, then it was yesterday). she is officially two years older than me for the next month and a half. i doan think she had the best birthday ever, but at least there was cake. and whiskey. admittedly she did not get to drink said whiskey, but it was there.

we (the girlfriend and i) had a nice talk about what to do in case of wolf attacks though. apparently, the plan is for me to toss her hiiiigh into the air (using my manly strength of course) and then proceed to punch the wolves. there have been nay-sayers who say, what if there are too many wolves, albert? what if they bite you with their sharp teeth and fangs? to this i say, there are never enough wolves.

the girlriend, though, says that she is prone to getting attacked by giant birds while airborne. therefore, an auxiliary course of action, where i throw a wolf at said bird, was agreed upon.

it's these conversations that remind me why i love that girl.

i need more Beatles music. i got my hands on the Octopuses Garden track in order to prove a point to someone, and realized that my collection of music is sorely lacking in the Beatles department. my dad used to sing the song to my sister and i as a lullaby when i was a wee babe, so it brought back some warm fuzzies listening to it again. this track also inspired the piece of art you see at the top of the post. i doan think that the octopus in the song had psychic powers though.

i have also rolled the most depressing looking undead warrior i could make, and named him Hiraedd. yes, i doan know if it will pass over me anytime soon.

and finally, i wish my skills were as awesome as this lady here: [link]

Postin' fer the sake of it?

well, i was going to post sommat, then i realised that i'd spent a bit of time updating the look of the blog ( new banner, some new art on the side panel), so consider it an update!

art at the top is kinda a new style approach i have been working on. i remember not being able to draw breasts very well when i was younger. i think it was because i was shy to study them properly, and basically guised them a lot when forced to draw women.

ironically, the fact that my masterpiece in primary school had a female protaganist didn't improve my mammary drawing abilities.

also, been missing the girlfriend a lot lately (and not just the sex!), and the disasters in China have not been helping my nerves.

That not-so-fresh feeling

So i'm unemployed again. i kinda knew that it would happen...well...kinda. it's not a whole lotta fun to be right all the time about sucky things :P

anyways, being unemployed has its benefits, i mean, i'm way ahead of schedule on my comics for the Valekama gang, which is cool. but being unemployed is the suck, and i still haven't gotten paid by those guys for the stuff i've done for them. the media industry is a pain in the ass sometimes.

so, it's the usual, my mum is giving me the same crap about me not making monies, or helping out enough. which is alright, i guess, she has a right to be concerned. i just want to make comics though dammit. i'm not half bad at it >_<

the anniversary of my dad's death is coming up this week. its been a year now, i still miss him. and it's been an interesting year, and so much harder without him.

i'll prolly have to dedicate a whole post to my dad at some point.

one of the only things that's keeping me slightly sane at this point is my girlfriend...she makes me see things more clearly than i usually would. i don't exactly know if it's because shes a woman or because i'm just really bad at seeing the big picture. probably a combination of both.

and no, this isn't a post with no reason. i...wait...yeah it is.

stay spiffy!