I wish you all a happy, crisis-free, exciting new year full of love and energon!

This was my last workday this year (yes, a saturday...), now the only thing left is the company christmas party tonight and then I go home to my family for the holidays.
And the greatest things: it is snowing!!! And, I could finally save some money and I could buy Wacom Bamboo tablet for myself! I'm trying to install and then learn it at home cause I don't have any time for it now, but then it will really be a christmas present

Sooo... to K.I.S.S. (Keep It Short and Simple):
I wish a merry Christmas and a crisis-free successful and happy New Year to all of You!

Cheers!


My greeting card for 2009: [link]

I'm back to the art business, that means I've already finished some new stuff and still working on a bunch of new ideas.
I'm recently in a sort of egyptian mood again, so you'll get a series of Kemet-related art like it or not
I also wanna draw Transformers too, but I hate doing this all manually, so I must be patient till I can get a tablet

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Another great Sonata Arctica music with one of the best fan videos I've ever seen: [link]
Perfect pairing - I love both the music and the movie

I just want to share my actual greatest favourite from Sonata Arctica...

White Pearl, Black Oceans

[Music and lyrics by Tony Kakko]

On Youtube with spanish traduction: [link]

I was born and raised by the sea, shy yet proud,
Learned to stay away from the crowd
In my home, my lighthouse...
101 steps, round and dound
New Years Eve, one night in the town
Can change one life into eternity...

All I could see, her eyes,
We got caught in the moment, all of the night
Taken beyond all lines,
In silence leaving 'em all behind

She had found the sails, for the following night
The town, for her, was getting way too small
She promised to be mine
Forever, ... for that one night...

Moments, passion, small defeats
Concealed emotions, found in me
"You gave life to a brand new me..."

Crossing the wintry fields,
The first hour of morning light
Warmed by the flame inside,
The lasting memory of the ending night

I never had a chance to stop what hit me...
What broke my bones and mauled me...
After hours of deep, unwilling sleep... in a cold shelter
Fell back in the dark, and the hours of the day passed...

A nightmare awakes me, blinking light!
There's no guide, blind ships in the night
Oh blood red moon, eat away the night

Darkness covers my lonely soul,
No one to feed the dying light...

Good morn', oh dreadful day,
I prayed the moon had lit the sea instead of me...
For the sails of night,
"Please tell me everything's alright..."

My voice in the room broke the silence,
Everybody killed me with their eyes...
What I was to hear made the people cry,
Impossible for me to keep the tears inside

"All on board the White Pearl have died,
Coastal reef have tolled their lives
And you are the light of the night..."

One thing, I remember, before I fell on the ground...
Although I never saw the face,
A name was inked in his arm...

Love can be like poetry of demons, or maybe
God loves complex irony?
The family name stated I had seen before...
Written on her front door...

"Silence in the courthouse!"
A presence in the room, we both could feel
The father of her unborn child and me

All on board the White Pearl have died,
Coastal reef have tolled their lives
While I was the guide light...
Back in my tower, run, run, run
Light is out, I hope to see
Black oceans beneath rise and swallow me

One step will take me back inside, another sees my end
No one can love a man who guarded the light,
(Guarded the light, one faithful night)
Flaming eyes I must confront before I am stated free

Defining innocence is hell, after all that has past...
Building new walls inside my eternal night...
Although they took my heart and dried me up
Sometimes I still bleed...

Show me the way (show me the way)
The light will show me a way on the grisly reefs
Too many dead ends I see
No soul can save me
The respect I lost, the measure of a man...

10 000 steps down, round and round
One night at the town and I'm hell bound
Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
All on the board White Pearl had died,
Coastal reef come claim my life
Black oceans beneath come and swallow me

My little tower, seal my fate
Help me pay back, end their hate
Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
One direction, down, down, down
Pitch black night for my old town
Black oceans beneath shall now swallow me

[SPOKEN:]
I hereby commit the body to the deep,
to be turned into corruption
looking for the resurrection of the body,
when the Sea shall give up her dead
and the life of the world to come, through our Lord,
Amen.

Nothing much happened lately, I just wanted to pass that depressed journal entry from the last time. I feel quite alright

What I'm doing these days:
- work, quite much. E.g. today I spent 10 hours in the office :S
- I also had a great team-building weekend with some of the best guys from the company, that's where that motorbike-photo was taken
- the Hungarian TF forum moved to a new place, so I have to move my old figure presentations too (direct import not yet solved), also updating them with new and better quality photos
- btw I haven't had much time for real artwork, but ideas keep coming in
- looking for new home for the two little puppies (oh they're big boys now, more than 2 months old!)
- healing my cat Kivi's lil heart as she's quite jelaous cause everyone is in love with the puppies
- trying to find out how to get enough money to buy a new car. I already bought lottery XD