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Holiday photos... part one

Just got back from 3 days on Bintan to celebrate my birthday (which is tomorrow). Have so far only uploaded the photos from Kat's camera, will add more as I get them from everyone else.

Bintan Album

Strange Deserts...

Kat and I had these strange deserts at the Shin Kushiya (Japanese Grill place in Vivo city). The left one is green tea ice cream with caramelised sweet potato and red beans (ice cream good, potato
and beans strange). Mine was black sesame ice cream with black sesame cream and a strawberry. Looks like chemical biproduct, tasted great.

Amazing kids things....

Saw these great horses at Vivo City shopping mall. They are in a courtyard on the second floor. Basically kids sit on them and bounce up and down, there must be some sort of spring in the horses which allows the front and back legs to open a bit, then come back together, propelling the horse forward. Looks like great fun for kids... also a great idea...s

light latenight laughs

cleaning frenzy....

Aaargh.... Kat arrives in 7 hours, my apartment is now messier that it was yesterday...

I finally collected my boxes of crap from Minna's place, now my living room is filled with half unpacked boxes and piles of stuff.... not a great improvement.

Have also discovered that cleaning is a pain when it's so damn hot. Hopefully my neighbours didn't spot me wandering around scrubbing like a madman in just my underwear and rubber gloves (they probably think I'm a strange fetishist if they did)

must stop blogging and rearrange my piles some more...c

How Google used to work....

here's to the future...

happiness through electro-stimulation....

for the true coffee addicts...

This is a great piece of design, which will be used by illy at the next Venice Biennale.

Daywatch [Dnevnoy dozor]

Wasn't feeling very sociable (for a change) so decided to go to the movies on my own. Went to see Daywatch, a pretty cool Russian film which is the sequel to Nightwatch. Its pretty much a fantasy action film set in Russia in the 90s (which is part of what makes it so great), at times it has the feel of The Matrix, but cos its Russia, no one is dressed nicely and everything is much more creepy. Strangely one of my favorite parts was the subtitles (it's filmed in Russian). Instead of the usual 'done by the trainee the night before the release' efforts most movies have, someone clearly spent some time on them, so they fade in/out, pulse and rattle or some words are turn blood red (like the word blood). The whole effect adds quite a bit to the illusion and actually added quite a bit to the mood of some of the scenes... Overall quite fun (if a bit geeky)