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Hi all

Just a small update to promote my boyfriend's blog which he's started for his game that he's been developing with his friend at TAFE. integermax.com/

As for me, just started full time work and I'm getting accustomed to the early wake ups and long days on my feet but I'm rather enjoying it.

:peace: integermax.com/

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So moving out has meant cooking my own dinners and such. Which I find fun (most of the time). What I find interesting when I search the net for new recipes/ideas is the amount of ingredients needed in some of them. So because I'm lazy and often don't have the pinch of turmeric or cup of saffron handy, I tend to remove those "extras" and end up with a "simple dish". I think it's a good and bad thing. The good thing being that the dish is kept simple. The bad thing being there could be all those extra possible flavours that I'm missing out on.

Awhile back I bought a book called "Five Ingredient Fix" by some celebrity chef (who I've never heard of but is popular on some channel in the UK). The philosophy in the book is, to not use more than 5 ingredients in any dish, because the flavours of the ingredients should speak for themselves (salt and pepper aren't added as ingredients because some people like salt or pepper and it's to their own personal tastes). In a way, I kinda followed that philosophy. I haven't really followed any recipes in it yet, but she has some interesting ideas in it.

For example, my easiest, almost foolproof recipe, is chicken and corn soup. Chicken breast+creamed corn+stock+eggs+cornflour, salt and pepper to taste. According to my boyfriend, this is the best chicken and corn soup he's ever had, and he refuses to order it at Asian restaurants now because mine's too good. He might be a bit biased but *I* think it's rather good too. So after this simplistic starter of a recipe, you can add anything to it I guess. There was a recipe with bacon, noodles... but I don't know. I think it might ruin a good thing to add anything else to what is already a good dish.

What I'm doing lately is eating more completely vegetarian meals. My Indian friend sometimes made me vegetarian lunches when I was still working at Subway. She used turmeric in her dishes and the spice really reminded me of my mum's cooking. She later tells me that she saw a cooking show which says that Vietnamese and Indian people like to use turmeric in their dishes :P So I guess that's what started it all. I got a liking for chickpeas and tofu. I recently made this: a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto… which is homemade tempura vegetables with tofu on rice. Not sure if I'll go ALL vego because I still like my meat =P But it's good to expand my dietary horizons.

Still talking about food, moving out with my boyfriends also means I'm cooking for two, so I can't make things that he won't eat. Which isssss. All seafood, beef, lamb or pork (the minced kind is okay) and anything too weird, out there or well, asian. Which is okay, I get my share of squid, prawns, steak, lamb etc. when we occasionally eat out or am at my parents (or his). So my cooking creativity is a bit limited sometimes. All in all, I like cooking :) I wouldn't make a great chef (I wouldn't be able to handle the pressure) but the meals I make at home are tasty, and that's what counts.

Moving on to old art.

I looked through the entirety of my gallery today (including my scraps). I have a lot of art in there, some that I'm a little proud of, others not so much. But here comes the question. Is it better to have a gallery full of your art which shows progress, thought, improvement... Or is it better to have a refined, good quality gallery to show off. Whenever I'm browsing devianArt and come across an artist whose most recent is really cool and later works not so much, I still take the time to browse the entire gallery (unless it's 20 pages long). I don't favourite or comment on the older pieces, but I like seeing their progress as an artist. Then there are those galleries that just are full of just REALLY good art and it makes me wonder if they were really that good when they joined, or they just siphoned out their mediocre art. :shrug:

My :twocents:

Till next time, :salute:

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Hi Ho

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Gallery

It's off to work I go...

Well, off to do more art. After my almost year long hiatus, I'm back, sort of. My boyfriend is getting me to do more art this year and as such, I've made it my new year's resolution. We'll see how this goes :) Letsee. For a quick-ish recap, I got an Inkling for Christmas, as well as Lego of Robie House and other assorted things (kitcheny stuff and chocolates). AND a set of emerald precision dice :heart: New years was spent at a LAN. Most of last year was spent just working at Subway. I've been playing many games, Disgaea 4, Kirby's Adventure Wii, Batman: Arkham City, Final Fantasy XIII, Magic 2012, Heroes of Might and Magic VI, Bayonetta, Marvel VS Capcom (and Ultimate) and all the Prince of Persia's that have been released on the PS3. There are more, but those are the games I've been enjoying most.

Continuing with games, I have preordered FFXIII-2 as my birthday gift to myself this year :) Really looking forward to playing that when it comes out next month. Soul Calibur V should be fun too and then there's the DMC HD release. Other than those, I don't have anything else in mind to look forward to. Any recommendations?

Job wise, I'm getting fairly tired of working for pence and making sammiches for people. So I've been looking for a new job, had an interview with EB games and I'll be hearing back from them on Monday/Tuesday.... Wish me luck guys :( If I don't get that, I'll be working for the man until someone offers me a job.

After being away for so long, I don't really much else to say. I have a few sketches here and there, doing some 3D art which won't be seen till I get some textures done and I still love fractals. I've been buying online quite a bit too... Mostly shirts from Think Geek

Well, what have you all been up to?

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Twenty Eleventy

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To those who have noticed, my lack of updating has been due to my finding full time work as an assistant manager to a Subway store. The majority of my time is now there, as well as most of my energy. Work just exhausts me so I mainly spend my days off recovering.

I have found a little time to do small things. This for instance:

Clownfishies by Loucife

And jigsaw puzzles. I do love me some jigsaw puzzles. I got quite a few last Christmas :D On that note, my Christmas was really nice :heart: I spent Christmas day with the boyfriend and his family, who were really nice and gave me things (no, I wasn't expecting gifts which made the day all the more nicer). And I'm pretty much set for any chocolate cravings since I got a lot of that too. I also got Golden Sun Dark Dawn, which I was really looking forward to, considering how much I really liked the first two games. Honestly, it was a bit of a let down but I think that's mainly due to the long wait and hype. I bought prints on dA for myself and I think that's about it for THAT holiday.

New years was nice as well. Again, spent with my boyfriend and a few other friends playing various games. The Kinect is the only thing I remember because well, there was an incident with a light getting smashed.

As for this year, I'm just looking forward to it :) My 21st birthday is next month, I'm going to have a small dinner with friends, then the family party. I bought myself Lego Kingdoms as a gift for myself, because 1. I've always wanted my own set and 2. Lego is awesome anyway.

I'm really disliking the hot weather. I know it's summer and it should be expected, but I still dislike it anyway.

Art wise, you probably shouldn't expect much at all. I still love fractals and doing various crafts. But I just don't have the time nor the energy. So I guess, just a few things here and there.

I've been buying online quite a bit, which is partly due to my love for getting mail and partly due to my job and having a secure income. Recently, I've bought The Settlers of Catan, which is a strategy board game. I highly recommend it to anyone. :D

That's about it from me I think. I've love to hear from any of you though :heart:

:peace:


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First place:
LukeDenby

Rotten Peach by LukeDenby Gentlemen, We can rebuild Him by LukeDenby Hooked on the Brothers by LukeDenby

Equal second place...

Redfred92

ZOMBIE LINK by Redfred92 Feedback by Redfred92 :thumb113314694:

and R-Kasahara

AERIS LIVES by R-Kasahara Grand Theft Crossing III by R-Kasahara BSP OCs - Saber by R-Kasahara

Third place

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