i know donating blood is serious business, but seriously, do you have to sound so mean and rude about those who should not donate blood?

reading your website, i just don't even want to consider donating blood anymore! if you want my blood, hey, be nice about it ok.... *tsktsktsk*

and why is it that people who've spent more than three months in the UK between 1980 to 1996 can't donate blood??? i dun get it......

couldn't stop playing with this ancient marvel i found in some corner of city hall building. guess what this is???

IT IS.... *drumroll* an umbrella lock. super, ultra primitive contraption, used by judges and lawyers in the past to store and lock their umbrellas while they went to court, prob from 1950s - 1980s. Just slip your umbrella (it assumes your umbrella has a handle) into the holder and pull out the token and voila! your umbrella is safe there until you return.

and of course, your truly did not take this picture. a profesisonal photographer did.

entreinte (embrace), by pablo picasso. watercolours by the man is apparently a rarity.

this is a lousy rendition, i know. but i couldn't find a better picture online. someone kept the original painting in his bedroom in england, and is now auctioning it off for 100,000 pounds.

there's just a certain something-something captured here that is everything - beautiful, intense yet innocent.

and i rarely enjoy a picasso.

wish i had the money.