#11: home cookin'

My mum is away for the weekend, which means I have to 'cook' for myself. Pizza anyone?

(it wasn't very yummy though, but I liked the very crunchy crust. And it looks a lot smaller on this pic than it actually was!)

#10: the boy with a thorn in his...

Look jen! It's the holy trinity, aka Morrissey, Morrissey and Morrissey!
This isn't for me though, Thomas asked me to order it for his girlfriend. I'm The Guy With The Credit Card, so he asked me to get these singles from a UK site.

(yes, this was even less interesting than before, but I didn't leave the house today and I'm already running out of random things to take pics of!)

#9: who's your daddy?

Having finished Bioshock for the 3rd time today made me realise it's not just my favourite game of 2007. It's one of my favourite games ever. I don't think it's that far from games like Zelda, Ico or Metroid, they all have memorable characters, settings and story progress, and something I'm particuarly sensitive to: atmosphere. I can feel the ocean pushing down on me whenever I'm walking around in Rapture. It probably helps that I'm dead scared of vasts amount of water, I want to get out of there as fast as possible! Although it's still one of my favourite environments to be in (I almost consider it a holiday location haha), and I wouldn't surprise me if I go through it a fourth or even fifth time this year.

(also, I really like that wrist tattoo, some people actually got that tattoo after playing the game! It has more than one meaning in the game, so I like the ambiguity as well.)

#8: what does this look like to you?

Apart from people, clouds are my favourite things to take pictures of. Expect a lot of these in the coming year :)

#7: yesterday's rainbow

Took this on the train back home. Can you see it?

Also, look at the left side of the pic. Basically a reflection of a reflection of a factory on the other side of the railroad.

#6: My hometown...

it's nothing special. And calling it 'hometown'... I only lived there 3 years (the first 3 years of my life). But I still consider it as home, even though we've been living here in Ostend for 18 years now. There are a lot of memories connected to it, it always gives me a bit of a melancholic feeling whenever I go there. Although I'm happy my dad kept the house after the divorce. We moved 4 times since then, so the house really stayed a 'home' throughout those years.

I only recently noticed this house though, even though it's quite impossible that I never saw it before. I guess it's one of those 'unique' things every town has, you know what I mean? And I don't really like it, hah.

#5: Carnaval Aalst

The carnaval in Aalst is the biggest and most famous one in Belgium, and somewhat of a yearly tradition for me and my dad. For the people of Aalst, this means 3 days of non-stop partying and drinking. Non-local people only come for the parade though. Which is always very nice, especially when you keep in mind all the people participating are volunteers and paid for everything with their own money.
This year, we only arrived quite late (around 3) and stayed until after 6. Some of the wagons and costumes looked quite spectacular in the dark.
I had an extremely hard time choosing just one picture, but I like this one a lot. Just look at their faces, especially the one in the lower right corner, looking directly at you. This one was taken just before. My second choice would be this one. The carnaval really is a multi-generation thing. The one this year is the 80th edition.

But, the best thing I saw were a couple of Vicky Pollard look-a-likes. Most guys dress up like tramps, but I hadn't seen this variation yet.

You can see some more of the pictures I took here.