I scrolled through my iPhone camera roll of thousands of crappy pictures and found a slew of memories I had forgotten. Most of them are random, repetitious and nonsensical when you look at them again months or years later. Then I found a set of pictures with a common thread in them.
Taro Gomi’s Daily Doodle Calendar was a birthday gift from my friend. I worked on it daily until August 2011. That was when we got really busy with work, the wedding and the new flat. On 17 May 2012, I was still grumbling about the many defects about the place, how we were kept awake by bright as day lightning flashes at night, the howling wind and worrying about leaking doors and windows. But I digress. Needless to say, the doodle that day was bleah~
But I was happy too. After endless tarrying with non-contactable contractors, we finally got 90% of our storage up that week. Yes the toilet cabinet was still missing doors but the relief of finally having storage brushes all that away!
Looking back at the previous posts and photos of every leaf of hand-drawn doodle captured into my phone brings back a linear trail of memories that is rather heartwarming. An event for every single day of the month, captured in the same silly format, crystalising a particular thought, a point in my own personal history. Together, it all becomes such a great gift that I still enjoy looking at two years later, even if they were memories largely captured in crappy pictures! :P
To think I would find a copy of this calendar in a garage sale far away from home on this make believe weekend road trip that Daily Prompt has cooked up! Wahahahahaha~
Anyway, here’s a small selection of doodles from my own copy of the calendar:
Jan 24: That’s my mom in the wheelchair. She fractured her knee.
Feb 19: I watched 127 hours.
Apr 19: Parliament is dissolved today.
Apr 24: Random boxing potato heads. Maybe I was watching Hajime no Ippo.
Apr 29: My girlfriend and I were holidaying in Australia when it happened.
May 08: The election results were only announced at 3am.
