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monsieur! crossing ze street is so dangerouse!
So it's less than 24 hours until the KOTO sponsored bike ride.
An eighty kilometre bicycle ride through the still green lakes and hills of Vietnam, to raise money for a worthy cause: the education and training of street children of Ha Noi, by an aussie charity here.
I'm all hyped up. Pumped, as Arnie says. I'm ready to kill myself doing this.
And kill myself doing this is extremely likely.Did I mention that I'm not really outdoorsy?That despite my action man exploits underwater, back on dry land, I remain the world's biggest seven stone weakling?Did I mention that I haven't ridden a bicycle in fifteen years?Did I mention that I haven't done any physical exercise at all since rowing with the british dragonboat team in Singapore four weeks ago?I did mention that just those two hours left me crippled for two days, didn't I?Did I point out what eighty kilometres is in imperial measurements? It's FIFTY MILES. When I wrote to everyone in my address book asking for sponsorship, I didn't realise this. To a Brit, every metrical measurement appears tiny. I assumed this would be something simple, like a foot or so. 80 metres. 80 centimetres. Perhaps 80 millimetres. You know, something possible?I ever mention to you that even in the gym in days of yore, the stationary bike machines were the one thing I couldn't cope with? That my thigh muscles are such flaccid dead fish of a human sinew that they usually appeared to split at the seams after just 75 repetitions of pressing down an unweighted wheel to get nowhere?Many of my good sponsors have communicated an earnest hope that I have been in training since I foolishly agreed to murder myself by two wheeled means. This is not so. My training regime has been a peculiar one. It involves food poisoning, a full week laid prone in bed, running to the toilet every hour, and eating one bowl of rice and boiled broccoli a day. I look skinnier, yeah, but fitter? Think 'The Pianist'.Have I mentioned that Ha Noi's road traffic doesn't follow any rules whatsoever? That simply crossing a road intact was a Vietnamese challenge set by one reader, here?The streets are infested with speeding mopeds, ridden to be seen, not to get from A to B, and therefore populated with the type of motorist whose mirrors are angled to check their hair is straight rather than to stay alive.The rules of the road are: the bigger the vehicle, the faster you have to move out of the way. Horns are a deafening everpresent scrum. A horn beeping replaces the indicator lights, replaces the use of brakes, alerts people to the oncoming road accident, and tells everyone that you're rich enough to have a moped. Horns beep day and night in an orchestral cacophony. Horns beeping will not save me from harm.Did I tell you that the reason I never cycled in London was because I'm not roadworthy. I was the only kid in my primary school class who didn't pass the Cycling Proficiency Test.Did I tell you that the last time I cycled anywhere, I had to ask a friend to cycle just in front of me, so I could steal the signals from her without looking behind me? Because if I look over my shoulder, I wobble ten feet to the left, then fall off the bike?That I've never yet managed to stay on the bike on a mild incline?That I have a serious problem navigating Ha Noi's streets, and have only once managed to leave my hotel without getting lost within six paces?That one of the KOTO bike rides central problems is that people with an actual sense of direction get lost year after year?Are you feeling quite how bloody foolish this bike ride will be for me yet?Nevertheless I will do this.
I will do this because KOTO is a really really worthwhile cause. I will do this because I promised my friends if they sponsored me, I would photograph my agony and embarrassment.
I will do this because having read this promise, my sodding bloody over-generous friends committed more than $800USD in just 48 hours, if I kill myself on Saturday.
Every mile I ride, every muscle I tear, every ragged gasp I breathe, every pained tear I shed, every tendon I split will be recorded for their delectation.
And it will kill me.
"if you're not willing to be changed by a place, there's no point in going."
If you're willing to add to the sum raised by my death, and are titillated by the thought that KOTO will sell you pictures of it, please leave your email and your sponsorship promises in the comments below.
Roll call of esteemed sponsors:
Russell Braterman, Germany, Eroica from Frogstar World, NZ, Looby from Gay Nazi Sex Vicar ..., UK, Francesca from End Message, UK, Vikki Tomlinson, UK, Martin from Web Frog, UK, Tess from Bored and Broke, Northern Ireland, Duch, UK, my mum and dad, UK, Margret Smith, Spain, Ruth Gilburt, UK, jatb, UK, Will of Moving Forward, Mexico, Tim Worstall, UK, Karen from Secret Walk, Phillippines, Robin Brzakalik, UK, my sister, UK, Paul from Noxturne, USA, Paula Newark, UK, Fishboy from Effing the Ineffable, Australia, Pete Connolly, UK, Yidaho from kitchensunk, UK, Bloom from Tales from the Chalkface, UK, Madeleine Minson, Sweden, Emma from Etcher: A Print Maker's Diary, UK, my mum's boss at work, UK, Terry of More Coffee, Less Dukkha, UK, Mike of Troubled Diva, UK, Nicole Hammond, UK.
Killers, all of them.
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Petit cahier de notes que je traine avec moi lorsque je fais de la photo argentique.
Little notebook that I carry with me when I'm shooting film.
Stewardship Committee mtg notes for church. We cover important church issues, like the need for cinnamon rolls and pens.
File name: 08_02_003755
Box label: Events: Fires & disasters
Title: Cocoanut Grove fire, Boston, Nov. 28, 1942
Alternative title:
Creator/Contributor:
Date issued:
Date created: 1942-11-28 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints; Portrait photographs
Subjects: Cocoanut Grove (Boston, Mass.); Fires; Nightclubs; Dead persons
Notes: Title and date from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.; Number on item: 37
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A love note found within a copy of "The Female Eunuch" I bought at a thrift store. The note looks to be over a decade old, and possibly up to three decades old.
Can you tell that I am entranced by this little nymph? It's stayed on this bud from early this morning till 8:30pm! Decided to try and capture it with the Note 4 camera, just holding my arms up in the air so I could reach it and trying to steady the camera so the little bugger would stay in focus. Guess that optical stabilization in the camera is pretty good!
Here's another, taken the next morning, which is better because I stood on a ladder and could brace the camera a little better: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/isabel95/18362144904]
note of hand on board. You are allowed to use this image on your website. If you do, please link back to my site as the source: creditscoregeek.com/
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Thank you!
Mike Cohen
Airplane doodles on my Galaxy Note II phone. I always planned on using my phone to draw more but it only seems to happen while flying, and that's not very often. I started the ogre the last time I flew to New Mexico over new years. I just finished him up a little more. I did the girl during my two hour flight home today. Someday I'll do more drawing. Maybe if I get the Note 3.
A fan of 10 euro notes
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Crumpled note papers isolated on brown board
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Go figure that my "COLORS" subscription ended right before a set of notebooks that I really wanted came out. Solution: resubscribe.
These "Expedition" Field Notes books are my favourite so far. Perfect for Space Pens.
Day 1 of the 2014-15 school year. Thought I better clear my desk of last year's stuff. Found thank you notes from the class of 2014.
Just 4 everyones info.
This picture is mine , i found it in another flickrest account , when i add a reply saying ( This is my doughter and my pic too ^_^ ) he just delete my words and banned me !!
This is his account
www.flickr.com/photos/70654075@N00/61841476/?#comment1796...
And here is mine
A 50 pound note being cut in half
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