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Posted on June 30, 2006 @ 11:14 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, sailing, travel, wordpress

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nathael peterson one ton conerissimo 2006

I’m going to be off-line from tomorrow until next saturday. I will be sailing the Adriatic Sea along the coast, on board the Nathel, maybe heading east to beautiful Kornati Islands. This is what I end up to do while on vacation. I’ll glad to catch up with you all as soon as I get back….
Have fun!

the rains

Posted on June 25, 2006 @ 2:41 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, people, travel, wordpress

the rains maugham aynaku illustration adobe

Wet Monsoon blows in the Indian Ocean from South West, from April to October. Further East, in the Philippines, the western wind is called Habagat and the rainy season comes with it. The rains turns out to be a bit oppressive, as Somerset Maugham perfectly wrote in his famous narrative “Rain”. The dullness, occasionally broken up by typhoons, can go on for weeks. And rain and showers drive people’s mood to absolute lethargy…
On these occasions there is little to do but stay in the bungalow and lay on the bamboo floor, trying to stand the flood against the roof and the radio blasting old sweetie cheap American love-songs telling on someone else’s dreams!
So, to remain at large, really the best once can do is to write a pair of letters, just to mark the anniversary of someone he used to be, and it always takes a lot of patience to make these memories go away…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: rain

dance!

Posted on June 16, 2006 @ 11:22 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, mythology, philippines, travel, wordpress

goa trance dance full moon party aynaku illustration adobe

Dance! Once in a lifetime –at least- a beachcomber happens to join full moon parties and happy dances. Sometimes parties are spontaneous: someone strikes up the band, so to say, a glass of rum in his hand and a few companions by his side…sometimes parties are carefully planned by beach resorts crafty owners and involve trendy disk-jockeys, fashionable people, hard drinking and much more…It all depends where you are. Goa made a reputations because of hers trendy and demanding parties. In Perhentian Island, east coast of Muslim and severe Malaysia, some “underground”, really freaky beach parties, due to the circumstances, where held under the pale moon light. Once felt almost illegal while drinking an absolutely expensive and rare bottle of beer, somehow imported from the mainland by some laic and enterprising chap…ah, ah.
In the volcanic island of Camuigin -Philippines- I sat once by a coconut tree all alone. Maybe it was the way I contemplated the enchanting sea, or the way I looked to the moon and the distant constellations, or just because beer was cheap (finally!) but I fancied mermaids and tritons dancing and rocking between the waves, sharks and eruptions, an almost mythical outlook you know…and tonight is full moon again!

Illustration Friday’s topic is dance

bukit timah

Posted on June 10, 2006 @ 10:36 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, travel, wordpress

Singapore and Rio de Janeiro are not normally associated with nature walks and jungle treks; yet they are the world’s only two cities to …

negritos

Posted on June 3, 2006 @ 11:50 am by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, people, philippines, travel, wordpress

Aetas are the black pygmies of the Philippines. They have long inhabited the archipelago and are believed to be the aborigines of the Philippines; Aetas were largely displaced by the invading Austronesian-speaking migrants. …