sweater

so sarah made me a sweater. the pattern that she followed was called hackey sack sweater. i decided to model it with my hackey sack. In this picture, you can see the strategic design in how the browns allow the player to focus more closly on the bright colours of the sac itself while still maintaining a strong sense of sheik. i also think it looks good from the back. mostly i am proud of sarah's knitting abilities. and this is when i go back to my former modeling where i build model buildings. in my travels i also came across this decrepit buiding. the tiles from the eves have slid off to show the round roof rafters underneath. a similar way of building to the bhudist temples, but more cheeply done. no pretty painting on this peasants dwelling

so sarah came back. and with her she brought a card from all the hackey sackers. it made me sad. i was glad for the card, but after reading it, i took my hackey sac from under the bed, dusted it off, and cried a little. i need to start a seoul devision of the club. except noone really seems to know what it is.

well, since my girlfriend got deported, i have not been doing much sightseeing. I've been reading a bunch, playing video games with friends, and modeling.

anyrate i thought i would show you guys where i live.

i live in this building. above a hiking store. i bought a hiking backpack there once. i went in again for a compass, but they had none.

this is my kitchen. my appartment has a kitchen, bedroom and computerroom. they happen to be all the same room. i also have a bathroom.

here is my bed. it is unmade. i put my new bike in the picture because i like it.

this is the view from my house. into the neighborhood of bangi. koreans are good urban planners. what they do is they have a large square of houses and appartments and put all the shops around the neighborhood. there are a couple shops inside the neighborhood, but for the most part, the stores, or markets are a quick walk from your house, all around you. it also makes the city seem smaller too. most of the buildings around the markets are 3 or four stories, yet if you are on the roof of one of these buildings, you can see the tall appartment buildings behind them. from the ground, things seem small, but up high, you notice that it is way bigger than you think.

i found this table on the side of the road. i put my models on it. as well as my bamboo. it is really growing. it would be taller, but sometimes i find pandas eating it when i get back from work.

from the roof, you can see what is in front of my building.

this is behind. these are all appartment buildings. there are also a lot of parks like this one. the leaves are changing colours

down the street is the entrance to bangi. all the markets have these blue metal archways that say the market.

hey guys. i came back from japan the other day. back to korea that is. i was there for 15 hours. so i didn't do much sight seeing. i walked around the city for a bit, but no real touring. lots of interesting people to sit and look at. i tried some sake, but was not a big fan. it was my only goal, and a slight disapointment. anyrate, some pictures.

this picture seems like korea, but a lot of the shops are indoor, not sprawling outdoors like the markets are in korea.

i like this sign. an octopus defending his candy apple.

i found a grave yard. there are places in front of each one to place inscence. i am not sure if it is for ancestrial worship, since the gate and surrounding wall had pictures of bhudah with incence holders as well.

the amount of bikes in this place is like nothing i have ever seen. in the first picture you can see the two bikes parked behind those girls on the bench. this is bike parking in the center. later that night there were so many bikes in this place you could barely cross from one side to the other. this place has bike attendants and bike parking spaces, but most times they are just crammed together where it is hard to pull just one out. once in a while you see someone knock over a whole bunch of bikes by accident and then sheepishly race off.

i kept taking pictures of the greatest amount of bikes i had seen so far, but i gave up. it is hard to see how many bikes are in this place on the pictures, but they go on forever. this lady in orange was having trouble finding hers. a lot of these bikes are not locked.

sculpture art says a lot. this piece says, "don't eat here."
this piece says " i am a dragon with a lazy eye."
i see a lot more lamberguini's in asia than at home. i don't care much about cars. i'll take their picture, but i won't look up how to spell their name right.
look at this. this building is so skinny it is the width of the stairs. it was the same on the front too. there were a lot of skinny buildings, but this one made me laugh the most.
i saw a few bhudist shrines. they were scattered around and packed in with the other buildings around. and thats the story of the time i went to japan.