Not Dead...

Big colorful seashells, and the picture wall goes up.

I got some shells this weekend, and no, I didn't go to the beach, that's still a ways off. They're beautiful though so I took some pictures to share.






I also went down to the book store and got some cork board and pushpins so I could start putting up my wall of pictures.

Aww, would you look at all those faces!



This is what the wall looks like from afar, there'll be loads more pictures up when I'm done though. Also notice my newly installed wind chimes on the door frame.

My next post will have some drawings, I promise.

Today, I went shopping...

... again. I got some hand made mats and bowls and stuff for the apartment, and a pair of nice warm lamps that offset the sterile white of the fluorescent bulbs. I felt so good about the way things looked I took some piccies... and of course a video.









Happy Birthday daddy, Happy Birthday Shof! Miss you guys so much, can't wait till we're all together again on the beach, eating suya!

Love,

Shobo.

My Articulated Sculpted Miniatures

And I've got plants now! Although I mostly just took pictures of my toys.

I suppose we should get this one out of the way first, it's not a toy, rather it's a life size replica I sculpted of myself from a local wax called mooshoo. It looks eerily lifelike in the right light.

'Kay so that's obviously me fibbing. What happened was I struck a pose, and the lady across the street opened her window and stared into my open window and saw me standing like that. Naturally I didn't want her to think I was an idiot so I figured the best thing to do was just not move for a while. I stood there for five minutes before she went back into her apartment, staring the whole time.

Look, I've got plants now! I can pretend my action figures are traipsing through a jungle! My favorite one is the big fellow by the window (Brock) there's a close up below.

That's not Brock, that's Tom and Jerry.

Thing Ring, DO YOUR THING!

That's Brock in the middle, and Dean and Hank above and below him respectively. It's nice to have living things in the space. I expect them to be withered and brown within a week.

That's Rusty, and the cheapest bottle of red wine I could find at the local super. It's almost empty now. I got some dried mango strips that go really well with the wine. I figure it's better than candy and soda... maybe.

Asterix and Obelix guard the Man of Steel.

Almost too much awesomeness to be contained in one image.

Crom demanded I leave the best for last.

I think the video says all that needs to be said.

Really though, I hope to get the internet set up at my condo sometime soon to alleviate the intense boredom I currently suffer while at home.

I LIVE here now.

Now that I'm not just in a hotel room it finally feels like I live here now. I figured I'd make a short video showing what the apartment looks like right now. Tomorrow I shall head to the mall and buy some stuff to fill it with. I hope I don't come back with tons of junk I don't need... who am I kidding!?

Found a place to live

After much searching and walking around Makati with Cindy, the kind lady from HR, I think I've finally found a place to live. It's about a 15-20 minute walk to work, and is located near the Greenbelt malls and park, which is good. It's on the 16th floor of a building called Greenbelt Park Place and is a small, brand new, one bedroom unit. My only problem with the place is that it's got no balcony, and the view isn't as great as I'd have hoped. Oh yea, and there's construction going on next door, but then it seems there's construction going on everywhere in Makati.

The building is only 3 years old and there are lots of nice amenities, including a swimming pool, game room with a billiards table, two new saunas, a well equipped gym, some restaurants on the bottom floor of the building, and cable tv and telephone service. But enough talk, on to the pictures!

The front entrance, lobby and pool respectively. The pool also has three hokey looking dolphin sculptures on the other side.

Well that's that. The accounting department at QJ I believe is taking care of things so I should probably be moved in by tomorrow or the next day. I still have one more place to look at but I doubt my mind will be changed.