Author: pizzaman

Lately I’ve been playing with the camera, basically that. Well, I’ve been keeping Meraii company too, cleaning around, cooking. Did an awesome pork roast, very nice burgers with Dukkah pesto and a couple other things I’m too tired/unmotivated to write about.

I’ve been struggling with photography, I’m discovering how difficult is to be creative, it has never been my forté and it’s a side of me I’ve always thought that is undeveloped.

I chose photography because of several reasons like, it’s learning curve is not as steep as painting for example. It’ll push me to go outdoors. It’ll hopefully help me with my shyness. It’ll help me to look things with a different perspective.

Oh god this ain’t working.. going pretty random here..

I’ve been a little depressed lately, probably has to do with a couple reasons like being by myself lately.

okay .. I’ll leave this here..
cya later

ohh wait.. went to the movies with Emilio today, and checked the front of Pandemic Studios.

Soo.. the other day Paul invited me to Jakarta, an Indonesian restaurant in New Farm, QLD. After waiting for like 10 minutes, because I arrived too early, he got there. I had bought a bottle of some riestling wine that the clerk at a liquor store, right next door, suggested me.

So we sat down and he mentioned he was going to call Greg to come over. It was interesting to see him again. I let Paul order, food was nothing too surprising, but interesting nonetheless.

Gado-gado from the photo, is the veggie salad with peanut sauce and prawn crackers on top. Since I’m not partial to sweet flavours and most of the Indonesian food has plenty of sweetness to it, or so it seems, I’m not the best one to talk about this dish, but it was okay. I wouldn’t order it again though, maybe because it’s just so simple. Veggies and what not tossed together and some sauce on top. The rest of the dishes were as or more simple than this one.

Paul had to go and left me with Greg. We ended up walking around New Farm area, going to the Story Bridge so I could take a few photos. I ended up going to his apartment, had a couple glasses of water and then he drove me to my car. *shrugs* Wow.. this post is so boring.. I think I wanna puke

I guess the time came when I finally got a camera bag. After reading some reviews and debating on Kata’s or Crumpler’s my creative side prevailed and I opted for a Crumpler’s 5 Million Dollar Home.

I drove to Brisbane’s CBD shortly after noon and after spending like 2 hours trying all bags and also insulting the Crumpler’s brand manager for Queensland (I tried to tell her that some reviews online that i read, said that the 4 Million Dollar Home bag looks like a purse). I decided on the 5MDH, and so far I like it. Very roomy, and not too big for daily bag. I can fit all what I’ve been carrying around lately.

Canon EOS 400D with 18-55mm kit lens
Sigma 70-300mm DG Macro + Hood
HP iPAQ Pocket PC 4350
Wintec G Rays 2 WBT-201
Lens caps for everyone
Motorola Razr V3
and of course Robo Bob.

With Room for spare for more stuff that hopefully I won’t be collecting.

Well, this was sorta my official first outing with my camera. I guess I haven’t wrote about it, but I got a Canon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi. I’ve been wanting to have a camera for a few years, at least 4, and well, I saw opportunity and got it.

Paul invited me to cook together today, he’s an indonesian friend a met thru Luke. He’s cute and he’s friendly, we also share similar interests, cooking and photography. Along came one of Paul friends whom I first met today. His name is Edward, he’s from Hong Kong. I first thought he was 17 years old, just because of the way he dressed and acted, totally non pretentious and laid back. Which is not very common in gay world.

We took a lot of photos in Chinatown, downtown Brisbane, there was a group of people performing for some festival, this was one of them dressed in a costume portraying a sorta santa claus-like character who brings gifts for the children, I feel ignorant because I have no clue what his name was.

After that we went briefly to some very nice markets in James street and came back home to cook. They cooked prawn and pork dumplings, and I made two sauces to go with them, Alfredo and salami rendered Marinara. Everything went nice, and they were very reassuring about my cooking. I think it’s something to do with asians that is customary to praise people a lot, either that or I’m a good cook. =D

It was very interesting to see how relaxed they felt at my place. They kicked off their shoes and were laying on my bed and seems they felt pretty much at home, like if they’ve been my friends for a long time.

Paul mentioned that Eddy liked me. Wonder what should I do with that.

I guess I’ve been busy on the last 10 days. This is an semi-accurate logging of all the driving I’ve done in that period.

All the way from the Brisbane airport at the NE corner to Mount Coo’tha to the left and etc. 😛

Finally went to pick up my passport. If I could get excited about things, this is something I would get excited about. Among all people that could’ve gone with me to pick it up, guess who went, René. Yeah, althought other people knew I needed to go they never offered to.

Was an interesting trip. I get along pretty well with him, sadly he’s too young (19) and not my type at all. Funny thing is that he has hinted about getting together and stuff. I had fun though, after picking up the passport we went to El Recreo Mall, and went to a bunch of stores looking at clothing, had lunch (sushi) and then walked all the way to El Sambil Mall and did another dose of window shopping. We ended up eating cinnamon rolls and then walking to Plaza Altamira and sitting on benches and talking until it was late at night.

Been thinking too much.

In my efforts to take over the world. I found out that my many fans need a regular dose of what else but me. (pause) This is the reason why today, I decree, starting today I will post my memoires over here. In a regular basis you finally get your cravings satisfied.

Had a caesar salad, had bacon bits in the bottom of the plate, was good, not a traditional caesar flavor, but enjoyed it. Also had a couple beers.

Few days ago I finally met René, after 2 or something years talking on the phone frequently I finally decided to meet him, a mixture of boredoom on my part and desire to make new friends made me take the decision. We got along very well together, It was fun. He picked me up on his dad’s motorcycle, was fun to ride around Caracas, we ended up going to drink beers and eat bbq, Luis Luis and Andreina met with us and they got along pretty well, I think it was a very successful meeting.

Talked with Roelo yesterday, he’s pretty excited about me going. Makes me feel weary about his expectations, hopefully everything will go wonderfully.

Chatting with Jon today he said this, which I wanted to keep somewhere to remind myself of happiness on an otherwise sad life.

nevrcantel: btw…i don’t want you to get all nostalgic, but, I realized the other day, that one of the nicest things I ever gave T was your friendship…I really enjoyed watching you guys hang out together, driving home, seeing you all in the van…was very nice for him…and all of us!!!:)

> Pizzaman < I do think about that from time to time. I enjoyed guy guys very much, and during the day having someone who was so smart to be nice enough, respectful enough, and friendly enough was awesome. > Pizzaman < Honestly, I've told you this before. That's the only time in my life where I felt like living in a family.

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