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August 27, 2007
a scarf for everyone
So I saw this video podcast on Knitting over at Craft Zine, and I learned to knit... yippeeeee :) You can also download a pdfcast from their blog.
The first scarf I knitted was an experiment piece with different patterns. The result was a bit of a mutant scarf especially when I started out with 12 knits per row and in the middle I ended up with 15 knits, then 18 knits per row... ack! But I brought the amount of knits back down again and it's somewhat symmetrical now.
I thought that since I spend hours commuting between Milan and Turin, I could knit on the train. Sometimes I do work on the train and am quite productive on the train, mostly in the mornings, but I think knitting would be nice, and I get to make a nice scarf for someone.
I was looking for yarns to make scarves with, and because I have particular people in mind, I become quite picky with the colours, weight and texture of the yarn. I want it to match the person(s). It's funny to actually see what colours and textures I associate with certain individuals.
Mmm... let's hope this is really something I can keep up, and not just a temporary thing. People have been pinging me on Skype and Facebook asking for scarves.
Posted by Yasmina at 12:31 PM | Comments (3)
August 20, 2007
Roadtrips with friends
Found these four sunset scans while I was looking for old project files. Karen had scanned them in for me.
It was us on one of our random roadtrips. João, Laszlo, Karen and myself. We ended up in Brugge and Zeebrugge this time. It was frikkin cold on the shore that day but the sky was eternally blue and Karen's jacket was so bright, this visual memory still freshly etched onto my memory. I had a very tasty French onion soup that afternoon, on a beachside bistrot.
I miss us. I do, I do.
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August 18, 2007
so many
There's so much that happened lately and so much I want to tell but the words just don't come out. Gue udah lose the ability to form coherent story deh kayanya; apa karena kerjaan gue sehari-hari banyak involve storytelling and narration? Jadi kalo udah di luar studio, otak gue udah malas stringing the words and pictures to together. Ngga mau membuat content lagi dan maunya consume content :)
Memasak
Kemaren chatting sama Mas Ote yang memang sudah lama ngga ketemu. Paling saling ketlisut di forum saja. Chatting sambil masak, seperti biasa. Kalo musim panas gini biasanya appetite kita menurun; too hot too eat jadi kita banyak makan yang light aja, seperti salad, sandwich, kadang zarusoba. Banyak makan gelato juga sih.
Gue kangen makanan Indo. Pengen makan rawon. Pengen makan gudeg. Pengen makan daging empal. Mmm, apa lagi ya? Ketoprak sayur. Ini kok masakan Jawa semua ya? Kadang gue pikir bahwa I would probably be better at cooking Indonesian food if Robert had been Indonesian, then he'd want me to cook Indonesian dishes.
Little green dots
So Skype was down this week, but it wasn't what I was really missing. Everyone's gone off on holidays, and I miss my "dailies", the people I work with, usually translated into little green dots and Growl notification bars. Andrea and Tal (who I miss physically too, because the three of us made up the 'Milan team'), the terrible twins Dona and Halli, and oddly enough, Mark.
Gue juga akhir-akhir ini kan sering ngobrol sama Gaya dan Karen di London. Walopun ngga lama, dan isinya paling cela-celaan tentang orang lain tentunya, ahahaha doang, the words across my screen provides me dengan semacam emotional tanda sayang.
It was getting depressing, so in a way I was glad Skype went down and I didn't have to think about the gaping void that was my main communication and presence channel.
Teenage kicks
Pernah liat film 'The Virgin Suicides' ngga? I think the opening shots captured perfectly moments dari summer kita di tahun 1992. Masa-masa angsty, tapi full of lust for life, awakening, discovery.
Gue ngga tahu apakah gue merasa flattered, touched, awkward atau gimana, ketika someone from my blurry past mengatakan bahwa dia selalu berharap akan bertemu gue lagi ketika gue pindah dari US, Gue ngga tau apa mungkin dia punya unresolved issues atau memories yang membuat dia confess itu semalam. Anyway...
We lay on our backs in the grass
Silently watching the rain clouds move by far too fast
You said it was a night where anything could happen
But nothing was gonna last
And we're doing fine now yeah we do
We don't feel sad or bad or blue and you know
We ain't never defeated
Not broken inside all that is fine
Yeah all that is fine
- Beth Orton, Daybreaker
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