Block Rocking

Yummets,

It’s time for some block rocking beats, ie: driving home and jamming out double hard on some late 80’s beats.

Bat Fastards

20th Century Man,

Kitty and I are still laying in bed.. I should probably get dressed and go to the doctor’s appointment soon. I’m assuming right now you’re trying to find a signal, and cursing the Indian wilderness. I hope you’re still having a lot of fun anyway.

Random stuffz

B-face,

This post will be a succession of rather random stuff I came across on my errands.

Apart from shopping we went to a sweet restaurant today. The food tasted awesome but with the spices and all, I always feel full very quickly and never finishes my plate.

I got this delicious indian yoghurt, the " lassi". This one was looking especially delightful ( and maybe the best i ve tasted)

a very sweet design of salt...

... and pepper !

In eletronic shops they sell the most old shit you can imagine. Do you remember this at the beginning of internet ?

A cheap indian remake of GTA ?

the noisy traffic in the town center

a huge statue shop. The pillar at the center was crazy sculpted ( i have no idea how they could sculpt crazy details on the inside... ) and was worth 7 millions rupees :D ( 150 000 dollars )

some tables at the statue shop. I had to stop taking photos after because a guard told me it was baaaad

So... If france was scooter land...

...then this is scooter world o_o DUH. They're really everywhere.

Indian are good at reusing anything anyhow.

There they are ! Waiting for you to "ooooh pigeon" them.

zhee brand

That’s all ! I’m all packed for the camping. We re all gonna leave in that school like bus. I guess we ll sing stupid songs, enjoy team activities, talk of sweet memories around the campfire and become incredible friends-colleagues :V

Once again, take care of your little delicous you that I’ll see soon on skype :B

Heyo

Dance Party That I Don’t Dance At,

Woke up this morning with some lumpy feelings in my throat. I’m pretty sure I’m getting sick. I’ll have to take some vitamin stuff and load up, I have too much to do at work and too many appointments to get sick now.

Anyway, this is going to be my boring entry, where I just post some pixelated iPhone photos from yesterday.

From the top of the rope tower, Sunday

I have a pretty amazing zombie eye in this tower picture. Climbing this giant thing in the middle of Golden Gate Park was awesome, and I didn’t feel weird at all playing on the stuff. There were just as many adults climbing it as kids. You’ll have to check it out.

Keychain from Japan

Evan came back yesterday, and brought some delightful little keychains. I took the smallest, weirdest, most confusing one that he had, its some little wooden round slipper that makes “clackety” noises. I figured it most appropriate to adorn Totoro with it.

Necklace and a bunch of desk stuff

Birthdayguy was very appreciative of the hat I crocheted him so many months ago, and still has it. It was cool to see something I made sitting in someone’s room. In exchange he gave me an Ethiopian cross necklace. I barely wear jewelry so I’ll have to find someplace nice to put it. Maybe Totoro would enjoy it as well.

Totally refreshed

As I was telling you, in the afternoon, I went to the gym to go take a shower. I felt so gross and headachey and needed to sit under the hot water for a bit. This is me, approving the shower cure. I was totally ready to go back and do some more work.

sadsville

The train is nice to zone out in, but it was a bit sad to take the train and the shuttle without you around. It turned into “the place I’ll see Fred”. Walking from the train to the work shuttle is when I would feel the presence of a tall person walking a little bit behind me. Sadly, not anymore. I did enjoy the free time though, I tried out the Beatmaker software, it was a little confusing but if I had more time to spend with it (train time) I could probably make something acceptable to write music over.

Ah ha! I've found you!

My mom and Noele came to pick me up from the train station, and ran to San Francisco to do errands. Noele had to drop off some film, which is where I almost bought a tripod and the Olympus little camera. I let the impulsive feelings subside, and didn’t buy anything. Then we went to rainbow market where they have an amazing array of pickles and olives, and I found those damn mini pickles you guys have! I didn’t get any, because I wouldn’t know what to put them in. But score 1 for america!

It’s almost 9am, I’m going to get ready for work. See? Pretty useless entry. Nothing interesting has happened. Blagh.

be kind rewind

Delicious snack,

I had to post about the new stuff  about the appartment first but here’s some random stuff about my arrival in India.

that was a part of the meal. Apparently the cook was drunk

Our travel itinerary. Apparently the pilot was drunk too

A giant luggage at the airport. Amazing. Typical.

The day after we spoke of this shower with clothes thing , i saw that in a magazine :D

Apparently firemen have buckets with earth to deal with fires.

And a little video to show my street !

: )

: )

ma mamia,

I’ll start with the not good news: There was another bomb event in India but not in Bangalore. A group said they were responsible for the act, I dont know who they are yet. However, they re probably going to strike fear in different place in the country so I dont think they ll blast bangalore again.

Now about this morning and my very short night…Incredibly , I was able to wake up from my 40 minutes sleep and get down in time. The drivers were not in time though so I took an additionnal 40 minutes of rest in the hall of the hotel.

The hotel’s cool elevator.

Buh I seem to have weird proportions on this picture. However those are the infinite mirrors. YAY

Now to my appartment !

And my first videophone !

This place is just awesomely great… Its perfect.

Facts about my appartment:
I got my air conditioning for my computer
I have a phone here. The number is the 4O91O592 but im not sure if its functionning yet.
The wifi works perfectly
The fridge can be locked with keys to protect stuff from the servants. I kinda want to store my computer in it.
There’s buttons everywhere. I havent counted them yet but when i will it’s probably going to be very boring.
There’s a bath tub.
I like the design of my fridge and of my chairs.
There’s an emergency button that looks like a stupid smiley.

They bought us a ton of sweet european food for our arrival ! I WILL SURVIVE !

I’M SO STOKED !

Also I asked If I could take monday 18 august , i ll get the answer tomorrow but they didnt seem to think it was a problem :)

I feel mentally exhausted. My moral Keeps going up and down like a freaking roller coaster from one day to another. But it seems things are getting more stable ? I’m feeling well here, Drauktrubuluworks® is taking well care of us as usual and the beginning at work should be cool and slow, giving me the time to get back in the working mood .
And it seems like you re doing great use of your free time. I know how good it feels to be in creative mood, so I hope you feel as well as I do when I am in that kind of condition. From the ” i almost dont want to go to sleep” it seems quite close to me :)

About your previous post:
Baby, the same happened to me when you came to Paris. You actually made me enjoy my city and realize it’s beautiful… I had never really looked at it before.

Yesterday’s chat was really intense. I always think time flies away incredibly fast, but when I chat with you it’s just radiculous. When I think about it, those 6-7 hours felt like 2 to me…
It’s still so tough to be limitated by words, not to be able to express what I feel.
You cant imagine how happy I was when I saw your post today. Your new rythm of life seems to feel better. Now just kick your headache in the ass of the head !

Also, are you gonna get the french lessons soon ? :B
I wonder when im gonna hear some cute franch language…

And Into the Moon

Tripodopus,

Again with the migraine. Second time I’ll take painkillers for the day. My liver is going to hate me when I’m older.

The intense skype session was almost draining. It was like marathon “staring at the screen and feeling emotional” time. I felt like I should have taken a nap afterwards. Hopefully you weren’t sick of my internet representation by the end of it, you seemed pretty out of it. Well, if those 40 minutes of sleep did you any good, your day should be going well maybe? Checking out your sweet new digs? (Ahem, your apartment.)

I wrote an entry in my other blog (traitor!) about how productive I’ve been feeling lately because I don’t have a boyfriend around. “Yes it is sad at times”, but it really does leave me with a lot of free time (when I’m not skyping for 6 hours). I thought of a song I want to write, and I almost don’t want to go to sleep so I can work on it. I want to make the beats on my iPhone and either make the music on keyboard or glockenspiel. If I go to sleep now, I won’t have time tomorrow. I’m going to be out walking with Jordan in the morning, then at night I’ll be at the birthday dinner. Oh shit, I need to get a present – and I was thinking to make him a hat. I don’t think I’ll have time. When I was riding the train and would see the birthday man every day, I made him a hat, but I think he lost it. I don’t know if that means he deserves another, or he doesn’t.

I was just thinking how living at home has greatly decreased my spending. My mom always has food made so I don’t go out and eat. I’ve spent $50 on groceries, and then my mom cooked them. Amazing. It’s like a vending machine. I put the money in, and the delicious treats fall out ..gracefully and metaphorically.. with little to no effort on my part. I guess I was thinking about this because I haven’t gone out to eat except the pizza night Thursday. It’s a huge change from us going out to eat every single night and trying a million different restaurants. I do miss the exploring we did though. I knew my own home town better when you were here.

The headache is moving into my jaw, so I’m going to take some painkillers and fall asleep. I’m still trying to think how I should dress for my superhero photoshoot tomorrow.. Hmmm..

From My Calculations..

Fled,

Your plane touched down over 3 and a half hours ago. I hope you landed safely, and you’re not too exhausted. Hope you get a connection somewhere soon so I can make sure you’re alive. After all, Bangalore was the first city in India to get wi-fi, right? HOOK IT UPZZ!

And on and on.

Derf,

Last night I couldn’t sleep and kept waking up because of Margot running back and forth outside and whining. At 4am or so is when I couldn’t get back to sleep and woke up and wrote that entry. I went on a flickr adding frenzy, doing image searches for things like “photoshop illustration” and “character design”, and adding people with cool stuff as friends to inspire me. Around 4:30 or so I fell back asleep, but off and on again.

I dreamt I was online, and I dreamt you came on gchat and I asked you what you were doing online. Of course, in dreams, reading words and screens is always hard and obscured, but you wrote something about how your Father was worried and something something..
It was strange.

It’s been a long week, I’m soo glad it’s Friday.

Welcome to India, FRED!

So like,

I covered all the windows with sheets, because I’m too broke to buy curtains or shades. I feel like I’m in a little japanese girls room, so I took the appropriate picture.

Just got back from dinner (and talking to you on the phone during dinner), it was nice to be outside of work with work people, even though it’s not like we’re ever in business mode. It was pretty much like any regular day at lunch, except their husbands and wives were there. Then of course there were the sad singles, Greg, Andrei, and me. Oh so sad. Much pizza was eaten, and much stuffed was.. I was. (My english does not help you at ALL, does it.) Pretty much the entire dinner I yelled at Greg to shutup and get me things.. since, y’know, we were totally on a date. At one point he “accidentally” kicked me under the table, and said that most likely I’m now pregnant, and “that little T shaped thing ain’t gunna stop it.” What’s amazing is that he says ridiculous shit like that at work as well.

Somehow Julia’s husband ended up playing with my iPhone twice and was transfixed. When Andrei left, he tried to shake Julia’s husband’s hand, and his one hand slowly lifted while his eyes were still glued to the iPhone. When Andrei let go of his hand and walked away, Julia’s husband’s hand was still in the air and didn’t notice nobody was shaking it anymore. THAT is how amazing the iPhone is.

Well right now you’re on your way to the airport with all your luggage, and maybe running into some other Frenchies from your team. I hope you draw another awesome cartoon involving you being squished between two Hindustanis or in an AirIndia tin can. Not enough drawings from you! Meh!

When you read this, I hope that your flight/journey wasn’t too insane, and that all your luggage is intact, as well as your sanity.

Woo hoo!

HOLY SHIT, INDIA!