airline food
love the accidental lighting -- seems staged... and surprise! it's jook. yay for no egg brekkie! (nothing against eggs, but they do seem to be extra pukey when flying...)
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taiwan airport goatse?
on the monorail in the airport (we had a five hour layover...). warning...do not google goatse unless you are strong and over 21.
Labels: malaysia, random

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escape sling
fun and education at the taiwan airport...
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first kedai kopi
there were tons of these -- every block, sometimes more than one or two on a block. this one is near ky's place, and we sleepily walked here after arriving that day...
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kedai kopi
our first kedai kopi meal -- and this is for only two of us...and i think we got the non-muslim special -- tons of pork and alcohol in the dishes.
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kopi susu
i think kopi o meant black coffee, and susu meant with milk (usu condensed, so it was nice and sweet). tarik meant it was poured back and forth making it frothy. and similar variations existed with tea. however i had it, it was good and strong.
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kedai kopi
kedai kopi became one of my favorite things. food all around, what's not to like?
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delish rice thingie
this came in a little waxed paper cone. it cost RM 1 (about US $0.25)
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dinner at klcc -- chicken rice!
this mall food court chicken rice was gooood! possibly my favorite chicken rice this trip. (tho it was my first, so mebbe that has something to do with it)
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street vendor
one of the few things i didn't eat -- looked good, but raw intestines sitting out in the heat seemed like a bad idea...

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girly!
ah, the sweet squirrelly pointy-eared love dog...
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girly!
sweet, very shy doggie...
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ginger
the latest of the strays ky's dad picked up.
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bobby
the little old man of the house...
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bobby!
the sweet old man o' the house...
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alt-f4?...whaddabout mac folks?
random bit of funniness on our mini-road-trip...
Labels: malaysia, random

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melaka
this was the touristy bit of our trip. we spent a couple days tooling around and enjoying the sites in melaka. the girls spent a fair amount of time wandering and looking at stuff, but i was happy as a clam to sit and draw for hours...
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pottery studio
this studio was tucked away behind their shop. i wish for a studio like this... the couple seemed to be both making the pottery, and they had a kid running back and forth from the temple across the way. (there was some kid activity going on there, with food.)
Labels: art, malaysia

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picture
i sat and drew this view for an hour or so. the local folks were quite funny and curious. the tourists were oddly all european men in short-shorts.
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view of mosque
his is the view from our lovely room where we stayed in melaka (mahtoka hotel, i think). it's all on reclaimed land, but i tried not to worry about it. unforch the water wasn't really clean enough to swim in, but it made for nice views...
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veggie food!
yep, this is all veggie. and it tasted great. there were a number of veggie places in melaka (malacca?) and every time we passed one, the resident veggie folks would jump up and down and do a veggie dance...
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tree monkey
the helpful bee museum guy explained to me that there are tree monkeys and trash monkeys. these evidently come to these trees for the leaves that are rich in flavinoids. i have no idea what that means. but guess it's a good thing.

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trash monkey - at the bee museum
the helpful bee museum guy made me eat some of the wax around one of the bee containers (chewy, not much flavor, but evidently rich in flavinoids?). and then he explained that these were trash monkeys, and you could see them all over. i missed the shot of them having sex. oh well, serves me right.
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melaka zoo - flying foxes!
they were so amazing and cool despite being in a zoo. i was thrilled to get to see them...and one peed for us! (just as we were wondering how they did it -- they hang on by their "hands" and just let 'er rip! -- i was too excited to catch the moment...)
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postcard - KL
(my large-letter postcard attempt...)
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postcard - chinese food stalls in KL
i think i was starting to get a little sick, or at least run-down, so we sat in a little bar across the way (with a very sweet and friendly bartender) and ate chips, drank beer (me) and tea (sy), and wrote postcards. it was a very nice air-conditioned break from wandering KL...
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postcard - waiting for the train
the public transit system was pretty easy and very cheap -- we were able to get ourselves in and out of KL from subang jaya with relative ease.
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ky's house
i sat and did this drawing over a coupla mornings. it was funny how much attention i got from the neighbors and stuff. but ky's mom liked it, which is all i was really worried about, as it's our thank you card...
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wedding cake!
(there's a tiger and a rooster/chicken for them...)

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thai water blessing
(according to nars, every thai person comes equipped to perform thai water blessings at any time if needed).
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wedding bed
the thai family setup the wedding suite so romantically... (isn't it cute?)
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view from mi casa, KL
we had very nice digs at mi casa in KL... where we stayed for wedding dinner and such. it was the place of much over-tired hilarity, and lots of good instant coffee...
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:: Friday, February 02, 2007 ::

22222!: it's 2:22pm 2/2. (i know. today is a day of odd postings...)
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naples yellow
let me tell you a story about naples yellow.

at some point, i thought very little of naples yellow. and to be fair, tending to purchase pigments on the cheap, i doubt that the pigment i've got is the real deal. but in any case, the naples yellow i've been using seemed to get swallowed up by any color i mix with it. it took a painting class that forced me to mix all the colors i own together (in a big grid) for me to learn the power of naples yellow.

and now, i'm finding that any pigment that i scorn (and trust me, on my budget, there's lotsa flimsy colors in my palette), are the ones that stun me when i mix them with other scorned colors.

take prussian blue, for example.
(ahem. as an aside, free the color! don't link to the hateful band by the same name. link to the color! up with the color in google! dismiss hate to lower page rankings on google! push it to page 3 and beyond! ok, i'll link to different articles now, i promise...)
but yes, prussian blue was the least favorite of all the blues in my palette. unlike naples yellow it aroused my ire for exactly the opposite reason, but with the end same effect. pb overpowers most of the other colors in my palette. and where ny is opaque (irritating at times), pb is translucent/transparent (also irritating at times). and mixing it with reds, depending on the red, would result in greenish brownish purples that only further irritated me.

now, and especially when mixing pb with ny, i find that these colors are simply sublime. i can't imagine shadows without pb, and i've found that white is often much too garish next to ny. it's gotten to the point where i'll start painting (ok, rarely, but it happens) with an idea in mind, but then --WHAM!-- suddenly, it's all about the colors. how they mix, how they don't mix, how they feel.

and in case you missed the links above, lookit -- pb's good for treating internal contamination with radiation and for data storage! just goes to show what i know...

(did you really just read all that...?)
Labels: art, colors, naples yellow, oil painting, prussian blue

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links and wanting

wanting...

dare i want?

bright shiny

work led me to these! and you thought i didn't get anything done at work, didntcha?

sugarcodes - command line interface for web surfing!

get human - bypass the automated menus, gedda (gasp!) live person...

and finally, this from luckyduck...i thought this was an onion article at first, but alas, it's not...
"Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study"

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