a tribute to my converses (endnote part2)

heartlessly abandoned in milan. i miss the irresponsible days when i still wore them..








and my slippers too...

not there anymore.. endnote(part one)

dpobby pics! thanks to my incredible skill there are a grand total of 8 pics without any fingers in them (yay for cropping), and 18pics (out of 24) where some view is actually visible :]

flying home!

finally. but not yet, tonight. still i'm going to go to the airport soon and wander round since i don't want to drag my luggage around milan.. unfortunately the limit for baggage deposit in stazione centrale is 20kg and i have a grand 27. o.o and 12kg handcarry..

ready to go home! really. i am already looking forward to my bed and shower (and yes to some people too) even though they're more than 24hrs away.. gosh. long trip back.

back from paris, in bari. off to greece!

the very last trip before heading home! paris was great, it felt more like an immersion really? the french students were extremely hospitable and the food was.. :]

had a day back in milan - literally about 24hrs, from 3am to 3am because of late/early flights. and big news! there was a huge storm (complete with hailstones) that flooded the room where all the routers were kept to a depth of 2m. so no internet. just the incredible heat and lots of mosquitoes.

at an internet point in bari now, no plans to travel very far today before catching the ferry to greece since kim and i are both sleep deprived. then 13 days of greece greece greece and home to milan for a day and some then really home. finally :)

here ends the short update. since it feels like i haven't been updating anyone much lately.

submission season

random

using my colour pencils today, i suddenly realised that the colours were very familiar...

sometimes you just need to look at the sky

to get a nice surprise :)

so glad you're back.

san gimignano

before i get round to stitching allll the stitch shots i took while i was there...



part of the passiegatta della mura, all the tuscan countryside visible beyond the trees!

a river full of sky

view from ponte santa trinita in florence where i later sat eating gelato :}

a firenze!

hahaa yeah i know i said it was submission period.
but well so little time left, so many places to see! and it's the weekend! time to relax.

my mac is off for some well-deserved rest

i confess i haven't been treating it as well as i should.. it blacked out yesterday and i sent it to the service centre today, where it will be convalescing for 7 - 8 working days. i promise to treat it better when it gets back, so here's hoping it gets well soon!

typing this in school (where i will be hogging the com lab for some time i think.. it is the beginning of submission period after all) and this means a blog break! and email break? and picasa break. relaxed evenings...

still amazed by this simple photoshop effect

so i keep trying it on different textures...

chicken curry linguini

made with the leftovers of our friday cookout which consisted of

prawn mee (with linguini)
chicken masala (with fresh baguettes)
prosecco (dry sparkling wine, the same one we had in rome!)
vino bianco (white wine)

how i spent this weekend

following the example of the cats i've seen in rome!

what do you do on a 6hour train with seats in the corridor

draw.

obviously kim got the worse end of the deal, because i'm very very bad at this.. especially with a given time limit.. and he actually made me look nice!

repubblica

italy's independence day. we were in the capital to catch the parade.. as were many others

view from the top of basilica s.pietro

unfortunately someone kind of got cut in half..

vatican city

rome - the sights

things we did in rome...

after sleeping all weekend.. i finally have enough energy for an extended post on rome.. haha..

watched angels and demons - in english! and almost immediately saw a scene filmed in the square right outside the theatre