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A Friday evening in the city centre

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During the day I met my old class mate Luc and toured him and his wife around the city. It was great! When it was done, I met by accident an old work mate whose daughter is twice as tall each time I see her ;) . But this time we stopped for a drink/snack and spent some more time together than just saying “Hi, how are you? See you next time!”

In the evening, I followed Egle and her boyfriend to the city centre. There were many groups playing drum in different places in the city; that was awesome! Stopped for a drink at Konrad Cafe, watched some drums, walked around the city corniche, did some window shopping and had another drink at Banana’s. And once again, I meet some friend I haven’t seen for while, except at the supermarket when I was in a hurry; so we had another drink ;)

Video and pictures:

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Drums People Book store
And a drink at Banana's Drums Drums Graffiti letter Window shopping

Meal of the day

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Some days I eat fat, today is such a day. The main ingredient is sunflower oil.
First, seafood and tofu are fried with soy sauce:

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then, some vegetables are added to the mixture:

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Then I added some mushrooms, chilli and noodles, but I forgot to take a picture.

Improved chinese noodles

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Here’s something easy to cook, if we can call it that way…

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Ingredients:
Instant chinese noodles, shrimps, spices and fresh chopped vegetables.

Put the noodles into 3/4l of boiling water. Then add all other ingredients and wait 3-4 minutes. Enjoy!

Consumerism

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That’s it, I got a new camera, a Nikon D7000 with the NIKKOR 18-200 VR II kit ;)

First, I had to book it and the only store that was able to deliver it (quickly) doesn’t accept credit cards and the cost was higher than my debit card’s limit, so a cash withdrawal was necessary:
Money for my new toy

In return, I received this:
My new toy!!!

And of course, the new lens size (72 mm) required new filters,
Filters
So I chose a polarizing in addition of the classical Ultra-Violet (which I always use to protect the lens against shocks).

New camera (unpacked)

It took two hours and a half to charge the battery, which seemed forever.

I took a few inside pictures, but for most of them I noticed a slight problem: most of the objects I was trying to photograph were dusty!

Quite funny… my D50 is almost dying; did it know it was about to be replaced?

The fist picture taken with it is my stairway:
Stairs
View first pictures.