Keeping in touch across the miles

Everything is going by in such a whirl. Every time I blink, a month passes. As soon as I was done school, it was a hectic few days spending time with the new beau, cleaning a bit, and buying things for my parents before heading off for England for two weeks. I think the time…

2005 is now up and running, and what a year 2004 turned out to be in the end! Happy New Year to everyone. I am presently at the airport in London on my way back to Bangkok (3rd January), and Trish will be joining me there again on the 15th. This time we will not…

I am back in “Merry” England for the Christmas season. I arrived on these familiar shores at 8pm on 1st December. It was strangely familiar returning to the house considering we have lived in it just 2 years. All was well – even the dreaded spiders had been vanquished by the cleaners in preparation for…

I’m almost done this semester. Just one more project to hand in (which I’m having a serious amount of trouble concentrating on today), and I’m done! The work I produced this semester wasn’t as fulfilling as I’d hoped it would be. First semester is always like that though – for the first half, I’m still…

It is four weeks since our last excursion out of Bangkok, so we decided to take a long w/e and go off exploring again this last few days; this time down the west coast of the gulf of Thailand to the Rayong Resort, just opposite the island of Samet (Koh Samet). We left on Friday…

As I was saying in my last blog (the title works now, thanks Christina), we had a party around the pool on Sat night to celebrate the above festival a week early. We had lots of food and drink and Thai dancing all free. A very good evening we floated our Kratongs on the pool…

I keep trying to give my blog a title but it doesn’t seem to want to accept it! Seems my last blog amused some of you, thanks for all the comments. For those that still don’t know if you click on “comments” at the end of the blog you can leave a note of what…

As a result of my long and rather severe illness a few weeks ago, caused by what I believe to be was a weakened immune system from not eating properly and not getting enough sleep, I have resolved to eat properly and get enough sleep. Thus, two weeks ago I purchased a box of clementines…

City of Angels – the real name of Bangkok. City of smiles – its nick-name. City of traffic. City (country) of noise. This is the first thought that will come to mind of Bangkok once I leave. It is unbelievable how much traffic there is here. It can take 1 hour to go 1 mile…

Today I went to a brunch put on by the ladies of the Australian and New Zealand Women’s Group. It is held each year to coincide with the running of the horse race in Australia. It started at 9am, and I left at 3:45pm. When I arrived at 9:30am, I placed bets by paying 50,…