New year, new look!

Hya folks,

    So here we are 2011, a new year starts, and i decided to come up with a new look for my blog a more clean one, hope u guys like it!
   With the beginning of a new decade i cannot help but feel hopeful again, isn't it funny that only because we restart the count of months on our calendars we feel like is a fresh start, i mean isn't it common to say "a whole new year ahead of u" as in this is a total new beginning, forgiving and forgetting the mistakes committed over the year past.

   The other day as i was sitting outside on the porch at late night, tired yet sleepless, with a full bottle of an ice cold beer, after a loooong 16 hour work journey between my 2 jobs, contemplating the wonders of this new year, up till when i stopped to think of the "bad years" i've had, only to realize that i never had a bad year. Honestly we all have problems and obstacles in life but 365 days of bad is way too much for a person alone. Companies , industries, crops, farms, and so on have bad years, if you consider to compare with other years that profit wise were better, but us we go through a few bad things in a year, but there is always good things to look forward to right?! At least i would like to think so, and from this i send my best wishes for a great year in general for all of those that have the hope for it, specially those that have not had much luck over 2010.

latest facts of me life:

I changed the look of the blog cuz i thought it would be nice to start the year with something special;

Finally done working on of the jobs, which means that i have a normal life again;

Just finish to re-read Harry Potter and the deathly hallows, and it's really a great book to my view!

The drawing above is based on the book/movie by Steig Larsson "The girl with the dragon tattoo"

Nothing leads to more nothing!

Well let's see...

 The reason for that tittle is that lately while i was waiting for my visa to be approved I have been doing nothing,  and folks nothing can only lead to more nothing, a lot of people complain about having a routine, i can only complain of a routine when the routine gets boring, if you only do the exact same things for a long period of your life they will eventually become boring, it's necessary for the human being to change, for some of us a lot is needed and for others not much but for all, and let me say this again, FOR ALL of us changes are necessary!

To exemplify, working on ships was a huuuuge part of my life, that I dedicated almost six years of it, and hell yeah it was amazing. The routine of a Crew member of "jumping" from island to island, or country to country day after day really is as interesting as most people think, but when it comes to working it is, as it has to be, a very well disciplined way of life, otherwise you'll fail miserably on many of the good aspects of being there! 

Therefore i had a Routine that was great but got old after the six years and that's why i ended up here in New Zealand now, to search for new horizons, to get me a new ROUTINE.

I finally got my work visa and on Monday the 4th of October i'm starting to work at the Antarctic center,but to cease my last weekend being a jobless person (YAY!) me and my flatmate took my roller blade and her bike for a ride to Downtown Christchurch, and watched an AWESOME movie called "The girl with the dragon tattoo" . Tthis a great crime/thriller novel that was turned into a movie, and a job very well done, is a Swedish production, and i really love watching different foreign movies like this, i pretty much grew up watching american movies, and there is nothing wrong with that, but nowadays it feels fresh to watch something with a different take on how to shoot a movie, plus as i got used to read subtitles, feels a bit nostalgic to go a to a movie theater and have to read them again cuz it's not on any of the 3 languages i speak now, hehe! 

To finish this post, i had a few ideas of things i would like to draw after watching the movie, but since i don't have more than sketches i posting this Police investigation scene that i did last year!!!

cheers mates!