Who am I? II

Hello!! From home.

It's been a long week and it's strange how it feels like I never went away at all.

Anyway here's a little tease of something I was working on long before my little trip. This is not the most current wip of the drawing. I think it had more potential then than it does now. I got sloppy with the shading. I'm not going to show you its current state because I can still perfect it. I hope!

Can you guess who it is??

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Home time ...almost

My last night in Lithgow... and it's pouring. Lucky I'm in doors with the lovely heater. I can't say the same for this morning though. I went rifle shooting... In. The. Rain. The cold, cold rain! Ok you may be thinking I'm missing the plot here. And you may be right. Rain is not as exciting as getting to handle a firearm. But just to emphasise: it was really cold.  But the the rifle thing, that was cool! Now don't go thinking I'm a gun enthusiast or anything! Because I'm not. And I show very little interest in weaponry. But this experience is probably something I'll never get the chance to do again. Plus, it was a controlled test shooting at a patch of empty sloping grass and at nothing alive. So don't you go all hippie on me.

So I'm finally going to be heading home tomorrow morning! I'd be excited if it wasn't for the fact that I'm so ready to nod off. It's like I'm about to head back to reality because I'm been away for so long. But what I really want is to head back to reality to sleep. Ha!

That's it. I've got to nod off.

Less than one week...

Less than one week till I will find myself back in home sweet Sydney!

My second week in Lithgow went like *click* and I really enjoyed myself. But now into my third week and I really think it's time to head home. What can I say? I'm not one for long trips. =/

One thing I have found is that I really crave getting back to my drawings! You know how people crave chocolate? Well, I guess I'm weird and I crave making a drawing. No. I crave chocolate too! I'm not that weird... Or am I? O.o

Unfortunately, I didn't bring any of my gear. Ergo no drawing for me, and no drawing for me to share with you, i.e. no drawing for you. Ha! But who am I kidding it's really just me who suffers isn't it? Anyone care to share?

Anyway got to go. Laters!

Hello from Lithgow!

Helloooooooo!

I'm here in Lithgow where it's so cold tonight for some reason. I've been here for a week and it's felt cool but I haven't felt the chill to my bones until now!

I haven't lived up to my word and the rest of my Doctor Who episode posts never came did they? No, they didn't. Sorry, my bad! - Well, of course it's my bad. Ha!

I had planned to come up here to Lithgow and have plenty of free evenings but I've been snowballed in by my commitment to become a Chartered Accountant, with the immense amount of studying. Yes, I'm an accountant. Are you shocked? Although, I have a strange preference for the title, Bean Counter. Ha! Let me just say it was NOT my career ambition as a child. Could a child be any less creative if there ever was one that wanted to be an accountant when they grew up!

Ok, so you definitely know what's not coming... any posts on Doctor Who any time soon. Which means this is one of my rambling posts to let you know I'm not dead and you have not been abandoned!

That's all for now! Laters.

Salvage of a Lifetime

Here's my catch up ...because I promised. Ah, but my memory eludes me. Without watching it again, I'll see if some Youtube snippets will do the trick.

Journey to the Centre of the Tardis. I liked this episode. It was fun. But - there's always a 'but', isn't there - I think it could have been more. Only because the "infinite" just didn't feel like infinite. Sure we saw a variety of what lies within the "bigger on the inside" but when Clara only runs past several of the rooms particularly the deluxe sized swimming pool - which mind you reminded me of the Leisure Palace spa Donna Noble was relaxing by in Midnight - and not go inside. I mean, Come ON! I did however, like the feel of the endless corridors, going round and round and round, to trap her victims. Smart Tardis. 

I feel like the premises of this episode would have been fab for a double episode plot, with more to explore, Tardis-wise and character. I've done a little reminiscing - Oh how I loved The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People.

The Doctor: ...There's no way I can save her now... She's just always been, there for me and taken care of me and now it's my turn and I don't know what to do. It-It-It-It's just...

Oh Doctor!

There's actually a lot of interesting scenes that I liked in this episode but I especially love this scene in the heart of the Tardis. For a brief moment The Doctor is utterly helpless and defeated. It's a sad and touching moment. A beautiful one because Matt Smith delivered it wonderfully. Anddd then the timey-whimey sets in - which to be honest didn't quite make sense. But let's just leave it alone.

The Doctor tells Clara that time can mend all as a consolation for her memory loss. Does The Doctor not seem rather selfish and uncaring? The playful banter between the two is brilliant, but it's sad that there does not appear to be anymore to their relationship than a bit of fun and The Doctor's obsession to solve who Clara is.

Ok. That's it. The next catch up will come soon.

Vivid Sydney

First of all. Hey. How you all? I've been a slacker. My keyboard's even dusty. Eww!

Secondly, Matt Smith's leaving Doctor Who. Arghhh! Noooooooo!! How can he?! I don't think I'm ready for that. I was hoping for at least one more series and a bit more notice. But two more Specials and he's out of here end of Christmas :O All aboard the emotional rollacoaster!

Thirdly, who enjoyed Doctor Who at Vivid? Hands up. Hands up! You can count me out. Bloody cold nights rather be by a heater. But here it is on Youtube :p

BBC Worldwide Australia and New Zealand - Doctor Who

Lastly, I will go back and do the commentray of the rest of the episodes I neglected. Eventually... but don't hold your breath!

Hide and Seek

The Doctor: Boo! Haha! Hello! I’m looking for a ghost!

Yay! Another Doctor Who episode! I’m starting to get use to the regular weekly viewing. Too bad it’s only for another few more weeks.

Hide is… a good episode. Unfortunately I can’t be more raving about it. I’m not one for the scary, not that Hide is scary but it does have the necessary eerie tone of a ghost story.  

There’s a lot to see in this episode all layered in. The Doctor is a “liar” as we have always known but even more interesting, “he has a slither of ice in his heart”. Oooh! And well, the Tardis is apparently like a “cat”. Is it because it purrs? No. No. It’s just slow to trust, that's it.

Clara: …one minute you’re in 1974 looking for ghosts. But all you have to do is open your eyes and talk to whoever is standing there. To you I haven’t even been born yet… and to you I’ve been dead a hundred billion years... Is my body out there somewhere, in the ground?

Interesting point of view, but, if time is "really just a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-whimey stuff" to The Doctor it does not matter. It's the people you're with and the experiences you have that count, regardless of when and where, in or out of ones correct time. We all have our own person futures, our own death, what counts is now. 

Next up, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.