.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :.

I've had an extremely long and rather colourful work history, starting a young age I had to learn to be self-sufficient. There was barely enough food to eat at home and definitely no money spare to buy anything considered remotely luxurious..

It all helped though and it helped me mature a lot, mainly in terms of finances it really taught me the value of money and that money isn't easy to come by so don't simple spend it frivolously. I won't list all the jobs as I had as some were temp and lasted a few days or in some cases a few hours...I'll mention those that I find interesting, or somehow relevant in my development.

I think it's something Asian kids generally lack, working, earning money and learning some respect for the value of money. Kids here don't have to contribute to their own studies or cars..they just get given money for free!

How many of you have had part time jobs? If you look at the catering industry here, or manual labour, security guards or factory workers and so on they are mostly foreign workers. All of these jobs are considered to 'low' for locals. You know what? In UK I've done ALL of those jobs.

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So a few days later I headed back down to town to capture the cathedral again with my sturdy tripod and the correct ISO setting..sadly it was closed by the time I got there, but do enjoy these pics of the Riverside.

We started off customarily with fish and chips sitting on a bench by the river watching the children playing and people feeding the swans and pigeons.

The kids were really enjoying the fountain.

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So after the cathedral I had a walk through the deserted streets of Worcester City center.

There weren't many people around as it was a weekday afternoon and it was getting towards the time when the shops close...yeah 5.30pm

Shocking eh!

I had a walk through the oldest part of Worcester near the city wall, Friar Street. It contains a lot of grade I and II listed Tudor period buildings.

Enjoy!

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So after the hearty pub lunch we took a rather long stroll up to the top of the Malvern Hills, one of the oldest hills in the UK.

We parked at the North Quarry and walked up to the beacon, the highest point in the range.

As it's towards the end of summer a lot of the flowers are going brown and dying off for the browns of Autumn.

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Streamyx, but actually I do!

Current equipment - Pentium II 333mhz, Windows 98 and a crappy dial-up connection.

So yeah I did manage to get on the plane the second time, I didn't miss it again, flight was smooth, slightly earlier than planned they gained some time. Watched a Spike Lee movie on the plane "The Insider" with Clive Owen, not too bad, might review it later, and had a few ultra strong Gin and Tonics and passed out.

I'll try and upload some pictures, but flickr takes forever to load so I'm not sure how many I'll be able to do, I got some nice ones yesterday of the Malvern Hills.

Did an 8km walk up to about 1300ft, pretty tiring, totally not used to walking.

Was beautiful though, if rather windy and cold up top at the beacon (the highest point in the range).

I'll try and sort out a few pics after lunch and get some uploaded from yesterday!

My Moms addicted to Flickr now too, but she goes down the library to look at it.

She's so excited about her new camera, I bought a Panasonic DMC TZ-1, 10x optical zoom, 5 megapixels etc..

Excellent little cam, shame about the high noise at higher sensitivity ISO, but I guess they will fix that as they go along.

It takes great macro and very nice scenery and the flash metering is good so indoor portraits look nice too.

I'll post a review and some samples from it when I get back probably on DigiSniper.

So Hi and Bye for now, off to have some bacon and eggs for breakfast it's 9.30am here.

Will be back later with pikchures and stuff.