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

rome stitched and photoshopped

and this was at the colosseo.

introducing bloody mary

she's the cat i adopted 'from a distance' in rome. but well the $ goes to all the (200-300!) cats in the sanctuary. truly incredible place housed in the torre argentina ruins in rome, and a no-kill shelter!

bloody mary is so named because she remains wild, and unapproachable even though she has condescended to sleep in the shelter and be fed.

pics of torre argentina here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/maoedd/TorreArgentinaCatSanctuary#
because i'm too lazy to upload them again and anyway ALL the cats should be seen!

the magical recovery of basil

who was much neglected while i was away, since carol's not at home to take care of him too.










cheers to basil! i'm glad you're alive.