Field hockey

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Big bad wolf

"I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down".
Something quite common here in Wellington but it was quite strong this weekend. You can see how the fence was blown away several meters. It used to be where that passerby is walking. A second piece of the fence lays closer to where it stood before (behind the bushes).

Pretty colors

I just came across an application for the iPhone which generates random lines which you can control by touching the screen. It may not be really useful but you can create nice wallpapers fro your iPhone. It's called Spawn.

Blast from the past

Imagine my surprise when I found out that you can now play Wolfenstein on the iPhone! I was first introduced to this game way back in the early 1990's... or was it late 1980's? This was one of the first shoot 'em up games that involved going through a maze whilst picking up things in a 3D environment. Secrets could be found that would give you extra health, extra ammo or better still... better weapons.

I'm not really into shoot 'em up games... at least not the ones were the sole purpose is to kill whatever comes past your way. I prefered araced games where you had to show other kind of skills. Yet, I would find myself waiting with great expectancy the next weekend so that my buddies and I could huddle in front of the monitor and take turns to finish the game. It was a bonding time really which involved cooking macaronee and cheese at 2 am, or having cold pizza at 4 am.

As time progressed, we started playing newer games. Doom, Duke Nukem, Tie Fighter, X Wing Fighter, Rebel Assault... etc. We could hook up 3 computers on the network and play all at the same time. Games were changing quickly and the possibilities of playing with or against unknown people over the net was becoming a reality. The memories!

Anyway, it won't be long until we can start playing more sophisticated games on the iPhone. Don't see myself huddling over the iPhone with my pals whilst the macaronee and cheese gets cooked.

Street art

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These are just a few things that were around the house that I decided to take a few pictures of. Rachel and I had a cookie bake off the other night and even though we came out even, we were both happy with our results! We should have a bake off more often. My chocolate chip fudge sandwich cookie didn't last long enough to make it to the photo shoot, hahaha.

Balance

Fireworks

"Remember, remember the 5th of November...", thus starts one of the best Graphic Novels of the 80's, I'm talking of course of "V for Vendetta". The first time I read it, I was impressed by the quality of the storytelling. The concept in itself was something new to me. This was no ordinary comic book, it had a deeper meaningful story that seldomly do we see in comic books. I guess that's why it's called a graphic novel after all. The movie was really well done I think as they made a smooth adaptation and the story unfolds at a good pace. Anyway, these pictures were taken from Guy Fawke's Day 2008 and I hadn't really gotten around to posting them. Enjoy!