OK!

Ah, cant remember a time before formatting at the moment. Here is another cheat, one I prepared earlier. It says thikcha, Nepali for ok, alrite that sorta thing.

Like its nineteen ninety six

You would think that wearing a tshirt with Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera on it would be pretty shameful for anyone really, in any country. However in Nepal guys rock them like its 1996 or whenever there hey day was. Riding to work this morning inspired this scribble. You dont have to go far over here to see some guy wearing one.

Royal Babu

Our house was once inhabited by other people that all followed a similar path as us. They worked for the same organisation as my wife and experienced a lot of the good times and the bad times that we have also experienced over here. I learn't this while back home in Aus last time when I ran into some previous tenants, it was sweet to compare notes. Since the three previous rounds of tenants the place has never been cleared out of everyones crap. Hence I use a lot of the crap for random things.

This photo I found and decided to recycle by doing a quickie drawing on it. Its actually a photo taken at Pokhara over looking Phewa lake. We were also lucky enough to make a trip there last year, it is one of the main tourist destinations here. This little drawing was inspired also by a recent trek to Everest base camp. A funny man friend on the trek discovered while he was over here that 'royal babu' meant crying baby(boy) in Nepali and used it sarcastically in broken Nepali conversation. it made our Nepali guide laugh a lot. Anyway guess you had to be there. The back of this photo has the word royal printed on it so it just reminded me of the goodtimes while we were not trekking. I hate walking especially for 13 days straight for 5ish hours or more a day, why the Jeffrey Higgons would I put my self through that. Never again.

Hard knock life

Made this guy this arvo. Well actually its a illustration I did from a photo of a really weathered looking little old Nepali lady. But my drawing skills/lazyness some how made her look a bit like a man. My bad. The back ground I used is actually from this site lostandtaken they have quite a few free high res texture backgrounds that you can utilise in designs or to customise a blog or something.

No threat

I like to sometimes just start making something and see where it goes. This is one of those occasions (as you can see). The process of making and creating is more important sometimes I think than the outcome.

Also I picked up a whole bunch of these security checked stickers recently while at a domestic Nepali airport. I love the contradiction of it. Gives you an example of the capability of law enforcement and security over here.

Striked out

Nepal has alot of political instability. One of the things that happens here alot is a Bandh (strike/protest) which if done by the right people or enough people, can literally shut down the whole nation due to intimidation through people in numbers on the street. This happened for six days straight this week. so my friend had a barbecue and I decided to capture a few of the happenings there.