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We are cartoon people :) A mix of hand-drawn comics & photoshop color palette...

Hope you are well dear friends :)

"People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages." ~Alain de Botton

The excuses will never end. There are always things which get in the way of doing the things we want to do. All I know is life without photography is dull and thinking about missing it makes me very sad.

Everything is going well though, I pretty much teach 7 days a week...I begin my work day at 11am spending the morning being the receptionist, the accounts lady and the annoying little manager in my humble little business. By afternoon, about 3pm, is around the time I tutor the kids, I come home at around quarter to 9pm, eat dinner, watch T.V., check and reply to e-mails before I doze off...Saturdays and Sundays are the busiest of days, I usually teach 6 to 8 kids per day from 10am to 7pm... I just realized life sounds duller that I thought, being a grown-up isn't as interesting as I had anticipated.

My camera and I have become strangers to one another. No more daily adventures or sleepless nights fueled by crazed creativity. I tend to look back at my 365 with wonder, how did I manage to take a photo everyday for a whole year? It seems so long ago, time seemed more lenient back then.

Please don't get me wrong, I love and enjoy my work, but I have gotten to that stage now, where pleasure alludes me and I barely have enough time for anything else besides work. The hedonist inside me desperately rattles her cage, struggling to be out even for a moment.

But all complaints aside, life is good...

Wishing you well dear friends... I miss you! :)

"The journey's aftermath was up to fate..." In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

It was silly of me to think that everything would remain as they have always been...

This year has been on some serious steroids! It's June already? I wonder where half the year has gone... It's been absolute mayhem, I don't even know where to start. Firstly, how have you been dear friend? I have missed you. Always know that life's been dull without you and I always smile at the thought of our fond but faded memories... I hope you're well.

Despite my being bed-ridden and quite sick of late, I still have some great news to share with you...

- On the 9th of April this year Alex surprised me by asking me to marry him, and I said YES. :o)
- We're planning our wedding day for the 10th of November 2012.

Wish you could be there in warm thoughts and kindled spirits...

This is Aileenette. She's a little worried about her future.

Hello dear friends,

Thank you so much for always wishing me well throughout my time on flickr. Today marked a milestone for me, I graduated and so very ecstatic. I apologize for being away for so long, it has been quite hectic at the moment.

I do hope you are all well and happy though... I will be by very soon :o) For now, smile :o)

Then I ran across this simple verse that said, "At God's footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt, and bowed his head. 'I failed!' He cried. The Master said, 'Thou didst thy best, that is success."~John Wooden

It's good to know we have control over a lot of things, but figuring out what those things are, can often prove to be a bit difficult...