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Posted on February 10, 2007 @ 11:08 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, fear, philippines, wordpress

boracy aynaku travel illustration

I always like stormy weather and perhaps I am a hopeless romantic. A few days after I got the island of Boracay were I was about to spend such a long time, in a low-season windy night I went to the local disco, a place called Bazura , to have a beer or two and a little dancing. I was so excited: dancing barefoot under the stormy black sky really pulled me up! I kept on dancing, gazing at the wild swinging of the coconut trees and making friends with local beauties. Late at night the wind had increased surprisingly hard and it seemed safe to everybody to quit the place and getting home before the coming storm would make it impossible. With my empty bottle of beer in hand -a souvenir almost- and my mind full of happy nonsense, I recklessly started moving. All I had to do was to follow the palm fringed pathway at whose dark end my little bungalow was. But the hard confounding wind, blowing against my nose, and my dizzy thoughts, let me to do just a few quick steps in the dark, before crashing painfully into the trunk of an apparently invisible coconut tree. Gosh! I felt clearly the crack of my eye-glasses lens breaking, closed my eyes instinctively and so avoided some more serious trouble. What a night…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: crash

Six weird things about me

Thanks Lu and Pati for tagging me. The ones who know me say I run an uncommon life; I fear it is my DNA. Anyways here are six hints:
1. I do not orientate myself that much, both with situations or surroundings. I might get lost even in my
hometown.
2. I like very dim lights and would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly.
3. I always feel embarrassed by wearing a brand new, polished pair of shoes: they are so inelegant to me…
4. I always remember plainly the dream I dreamt the night before, and every night I have a dream.
5. Please don’t ask me to drive a car unless absolutely needed! (But I’m a good driver then.)
6. I never owned a guidebook.

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16 people have left comments

some funny charater font showing in your blog for your info.;

-i like your illo! good that the coconuts did not fell on your head!

-i think a jetsetter like you are doesn’t need any guidebook!

-nice if you could share those dreams aynaku!

have a nice weekend

isay wrote on February 10, 2007 - 11:39 am CET

ciao :-)
uno scontro tremendo!!!
alla fantozzi!!
ma dimmi, come mai non vedo più lettera ma simpatici simboli?? ero già in difficoltà con l’inglese!! :-)
ciao ciao a presto

fra wrote on February 10, 2007 - 12:33 pm CET

Molto divertente!Molto intressante anche la composizione cosi movimentata!

Nicole wrote on February 10, 2007 - 1:31 pm CET

i am not sure if i am just the only one who can see it but you see it’s only in your site that all the texts in your comments box are in windings.

isay wrote on February 10, 2007 - 3:02 pm CET

“Happy Nonsense…” I love that. This is one of your most entertaining stories. Your tag info was great too…the part about the shoes was priceless. New shoes are just too obvious, I agree.

amy Zaleski wrote on February 10, 2007 - 3:44 pm CET

Ohhh… I want to give u a BIG huge, Massimo! I loved ur story, ur great illo and ur ’sixpack’ hehe… Eres un encanto :)

Pati @-;– wrote on February 10, 2007 - 5:35 pm CET

hello my friend…very nice image…great story!

Michelle Lana wrote on February 10, 2007 - 6:24 pm CET

What a fun post! Your 6 things are fun and not to weird! Your illo is perfect and I’m happy you didn’t lose your vision!!! Have fun at the party!

valgalart wrote on February 10, 2007 - 8:27 pm CET

nice illo! and about the carts, no, we don’t have those here in indonesia. i was inspired by soap box race in…england, i think? thx for stopping by!

enigma wrote on February 11, 2007 - 7:01 am CET

lol hope ur souvenir survied ur crash and that u did no more damage then breaking ur glasses, which is bad enough. another great illo and story

michael dailey wrote on February 11, 2007 - 4:08 pm CET

I see….I gotcha..thanks. I just read your about blog…Hehehe….Yup! I always say “aynaku” at home :) take care!

Michelle Lana wrote on February 12, 2007 - 12:51 am CET

Ciao bel blog …io pure ho dato delle gran botte da ubriaco di tanduay rhum filippino….una volta l’ho beccata pure una botta da dietro sulla mascella….meglio bere il verdicchietto no ?….

adventure chef wrote on February 12, 2007 - 12:37 pm CET

Hi Aynaku, very fun illo, but take care :))
Pd:I also oientate myself very badly :P

lu wrote on February 12, 2007 - 9:21 pm CET

Ciao Massimo,
sei passato …. e anch’io … molto bello il blog …ha bisogno di un adsl though….. lo leggerò in ufficio !
Ciao !

Manuela wrote on February 13, 2007 - 5:51 pm CET

hola.
long time no sea. (little island blogging joke there). sorry I haven’t been around. Must say I love the sprouts. Shame about your glasses. when I drank I also lost a lot of glasses. one of the main reasons that I stopped drinking.
storms are great for me too.
but a little pissy bit of rain like is falling here now just makes for bad cycling weather.
sad
love scott

Scott Hollingsworth wrote on February 14, 2007 - 11:07 am CET

nice writings. good work keep it up.
six things are intresting abt that.

the unknown wrote on February 23, 2007 - 1:04 pm CET

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