June 16, 2008

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  Here’s Hoping…

  
  

  …That my blogging mojo has returned. Perhaps the most contributing factor in my languorous hiatus from xanga has been my extensive workload. So much so that the departmental coordinator recently joked that although I am rarely sick, there is no need for me to die for the company. In addition, I haven’t even laid a finger on my camera either. Not since my last trip to New York and Costa Rica. But that will change come next week.

  
  

  Why?

  
  

  Because I am taking a much needed break and returning to my favourite city. It will be the first time I have been in New York during the summer since 1987. Memories are still vivid from that period. Times Square was a sharply and completely different environment in contrast to today. Sex shops, pimps, hookers and drug pushers routinely lined the streets in those pre-zero tolerance days. An unmistakeable air of sleaziness blended putridly with the oppressive humidity to unbalance your senses. Fear and danger lingered menacingly on broad the graffiti-stricken Subway trains. How I wish the photographs I’d took from that trip could be traced and found.    

  
  

  Although my camera remains unused, the camera function on my mobile phone has been fully utilised.  

  
  

  

  
  

  The newly renovated St. Pancras Station in London which is now the new transport hub for the Eurostar trains into Europe.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  “Is that bird poo raining down on me?”

  
  

  
  

  
  

  A huge statue of a couple reunited greet arrivals from Brussels and Paris.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  It was this close-up picture that convinced me that despite the advancement of technology of camera phones, it just doesn’t cut the mustard. Hence I will invest in a compact digital camera to compliment my DSLR.  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Phase one of Liverpool One, part of the regeneration triggered by being the European City of Culture 2008.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Phase Two

  
  

  
  

  
  

  The stairs will lead up to an open park which will open at the end of September.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  On the left is the construction of a Hilton Hotel with the walkway leading up to the Albert Docks. Almost completed in the background is a block of designer apartments.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Liverpool One is basically a giant shopping mall without the roof.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  The telectroscope in London. If you peer through the lens you will see the other side in New York. It is essentially just a huge webcam.  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  I’d had planned to take photographs of the opposite teletroscope located near Brooklyn Bridge next week. Unfortunately, the exhibition ended on 15th June.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  City Hall in the backdrop.
  

  
  

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  Women Are Like…

  
  

  …the stock market. They’re irrational and can bankrupt you if you’re not careful.

  
  

  …computers. They take too long to warm up and a better model always comes along once you’ve already got one.

  
  

  …Saran Wrap. Useful but clingy.

  
  

  …horses. Fun to pet and ride but a pain to feed and clean up after.

  
  

  …parking meters. If you don’t feed them with enough money you face serious consequences.

  
  

  …fax machines. useful for one very specific purpose but otherwise just high-maintenance paperweights.

  
  

  …political campaign contributors. If you let them talk about themselves long enough you wind up in bed with them.

  
  

  …refrigerators. They’re always cold and never seem to have a beer when you need one.

  
  

  …blue jeans. They look good for a while but eventually they fade and have to be replaced.

  
  

  …country and western songs. They’re annoying, they all sound alike, but if you really listen to them you’ll get depressed and drink a lot.

  
  

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  Peeing On The Enemy

  
  

  

  
  

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