Teotihuacan

These pyramids are located just outside Mexico City. It is believed that they were built way before the aztecs had their empire. This is the highest one in Teotihuacan and it's known as the pyramid of the sun.


This is a random flower and unfortunately I don't know the name of it. :(


Painting of a puma (mountain lion /cougar) on one of the facades of the temples. Most of its head is gone but you can still appreciate the original colors of th body.


View of Teotihuacan looking down from the pyramid of the moon. The main street is called the Street of the Dead and it's 4 km long.

Taking off

Great day to start the trip. It was a classic beautiful Wellington day.
Jenny finds herself a bit lost in the airport. I told her that she had to pay attention to things and not rely on me completely. So I asked her if she knew what gate we were supposed to leave from and where that gate was. Her reply... "I'm confused".

After some minutes of her panicking I told her to look behind her. You can see gate 21 and our plane just in the background.


That red suitcase is Jenny's. Hope it doesn't get lost, hehe.

A sea of clouds! Underneath that, we could see Kapiti Island.

In Auckland we started getting hungry. Time to chow down!! Squid was on the menu and it was sooooooo good.

Jenny started having a reaction to the squid, it seemed like there was some fish somewhere on the dish but it was ok in the end. Her throat closed and I had 5 minutes of quiet, hahahaha.... just kidding!

I'll keep posting. Bye bye NZ!!

Settled in

Here are the pictures of my new place. Most of the things are in their place now although the walls are still a bit bare. Once I come back from my trip, I'll take care of this situation.

Moving in

ATB has been silent these past weeks because he's been relocating into new living quarters. These are some shots of the new setup. The place used to be an old church (dunno how old though) and has been completely redone. There are six apartments in total and they're only 2 years old.

With two bikes parked at the side, you never know what ATB will be up to.



This is the lounge viewed from the entrance. Nice hard wood floors and an open living area. The kitchen and dining room are in the background.

Viewed from different angle. The door in the background is the entrance door. The set of doors next to the sofa in the foreground is the actual washing room, needless to say, you can find the washing machine and the dryer in there. There's also some extra space for storing other bits and pieces.


This is the view of the kitchen from both angles. You can appreciate how the old exterior of the church is now part of the interior. By connecting the old church ground to the living quarters via window panes as a roof, there's an amazing amount of light that floods in. Giving the area a sensation of wide open spaces. Preserving the actual brick structure and combining it with the modern fixtures creates a nice visual balance. The door in the second image, used to separate the public church grounds with the more private garden, today, the door remains but only leads to a coat closet about 30 cm deep.

ATB's lair has one of the church's beam running right through the middle of it. An interesting feature which helps to divide the area of the bed and that of the study. With a massive closet, he won't have trouble stashing all his trinkets.

ATB and iPod

Rainy days

iPod iWant now

Ahoy!

AngryTeddyBear in Te Papa

Gone fishing

This weekend was awesome because of its great weather, it seemed like everybody was down by the waterfront enjoying themselves. People were in-line skating, having an ice cream, diving into the cold water, skateboarding, you name it... people were just having fun in general. ATB was not to be found indoors either. He was spotted fishing close to Te Papa although he was annoyed because he wasn't able to catch any fish. He blames it on the fact that he can't put the bait on properly due to the lack of fingers. Despite his ability as a fisherman, he certainly knows how to go fishing in style. Sporting an Akubra hat and a brand new pair of waders, he was able to snatch our attention.

iWant an iPhone!

I guess there isn't anything else to do except to wait until the iPhone arrives to NZ. When exactly will this happen? Nobody knows for sure, there are rumors that it might be vodafone or telecom. Whoever it may be, they better hurry up.

I've heard of some people who have bought them and are using them here in NZ although the phone feature is nonoperational. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind doing the same. It has so many features that the phone part doesn't become so important. Ok, that might sound really dumb, after all, why would somebody buy a phone if it's useless? And the reason is very simple, the iPhone is much more than just a phone. The fact that you can get them with 8 Gb of memory, will be enough to store your favourite music, take as many pictures you like with its integrated camera, check your email, browse the internet, have your address book sorted, browse google maps... and the list just goes on and on and on!

The simplicity of its use is absolutely amazing. You don't need more than five minutes to find the way you can access every single item within your phone. Some features that really stand out are the touch screen, the fact that you can zoom in and out of of a picture by just "pinching" the screen, and that you can browse images and internet horizontally. It's a real gem. The new iPods will have the touch screen features integrated into them rest assured. Makes you wonder if they'll start making computers with touch screens too. I'm sure they will.

Apple really scored big with the iPod and now they'll do it again with the iPhone. It is no wonder that people were lining up to get the first iPhones on the market. People camping out of the movie theaters to get the first tickets will know why people were doing the same for the iPhone. "Get a life!" you say? My answer to that would be to remember those occasions as a kid when you couldn't sleep because something big was happening the next day. That is the kind of adrenaline the iPhone is able to muster in all Apple fans. And by the way, I do have an iLife!

sorry... couldn't help it, hahaha.

First in a series

This is the first image of the appearance of AngryTeddyBear. He'll be popping all over the place so stay tuned. You never know where he might appear. This snapshot was taken when ATB was spotted near the diving plank in Wellington. Even though it was a beautiful sunny day, it's too early in spring to go swimming in the harbour. Needless to say, ATB did not have that much fun.

Second post

So it's been nearly 2 years since I last posted something here. I'll be playing around with this until I get it right, I hope no one gets to read this stuff cause it's pretty embarrassing and it's only an example.



Hmmmm... I wanted to post that image between these two paragraphs. Must keep on experimenting. Unless it's not designed to post more than one picture. We shall see in the next trial.

Ok, so it's pretty easy if you drag and drop.