Monday, September 25, 2006

What you think of my Owen Wilson styled pose?

Actually I'm trying to find a way to get a pic on my profile thing up there in the top right corner, but every pic I put up can't seem to load for some reason or another. I couldn't put a lederhosen pic up there, yes I know that is shocking! .. so this one from my ol' Newtown RSL membership card will have to do.

Warning sign at a golf course

A pic I took a few months ago. Best ever golf sign!

..the other left!


I took this photo in a Perth carpark last week. A couple of friends said it was photoshop'd, but no this is as taken. Yes, I hear you say it now, there sure are plenty of stupid people wherever you go in the world!

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Life is returning to normal for Mr G. Not really sure what that means, but at least I don't have that manic "must be doing something at all times" feeling at the moment. 'twas a moment of sadness on Friday when the Royfro, one of the guys who started at work at the same time as me, left the department to go travelling around Southeast Asia. I'm sure he'll have a ripsnorter of a time over there! But I think everyone's gonna miss the random roy-ness that would interrupt our work. Hehe.. Asia get ready for Roy!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

These pics accompany the story in the next entry, for some reason I couldn't attach them before.

Monday, September 11, 2006

A big boat, a dangerously low tide and Japanese bikini models learn they can't swim - the hard way

Some guy went awol on the last island stop of our cruise around the Phi Phi Islands and messed up our tidal schedule, and we had to search for him for half an hour. As a result, the driver of our 3 engine mega speed boat drove like a crazy man on our return trip to reach the harbour before the water became too shallow for us. It seemed like we were racing at 30 knots through this channel with only 2 metres of water on either side of us. What a rush! In Australia you'd get fined for speeding for something like that. It felt like it was a rally event, heaps of fun!

The next two pics are from the Chalphya Hotel in Din Deang in Bangkok, after I had returned from Samui, before I went to Phuket. Anna had just left, and I was looking out the hotel window, when I noticed that these two Japanese models, a photographer and a manager looking type of person were preparing for a bikini photo shoot by the hotel pool. Judging by their movements, the plan was for them to run up to the side of the pool, jump in the air in an "oh yes" celebratory way, and then land in the water, whilst the photographer captured it all in a high speed series of photos. Simple enough? Yes you would think that. I was packing my bag, and looking down to the pool level about 5 floors below me every now and then to see what they were doing. Sure enough, they went for a practice run. Then they did the real thing and jumped up in the air, up and then splashed into the swimming pool. The photographer got his snaps, all was good.
THEN.. I couldn't believe my eyes. The girls had started floundering in the water, and seemed to be DROWNING! The manager lady grabbed the nearby lifesaver ring and threw it at them but as they were panicking they didn't grab them. I wanted to run down and help, but it was 5 stories away so I had to just watch. The photographer flung off his shirt and put his camera down, and was about to jump in but then noticed another life saver ring to throw to them. He held the string, and then just managed to keep a grip of it and threw it right on top of the girls. They soon grabbed it and then he dragged them to the side of the pool. The girls were alright, but very shaken.
I couldn't believe what I had just seen. How utterly stupid were all of those people! Did they not think to ask the models if they could swim? Were the girls such utter bimbos that they didn't think to mention that they couldn't swim? Unbelievable. Not a good look at all!
The pics were taken about a minute after they reached the side of the pool.

Pics from around Phuket

Back to the real world today. Here's a few pics. I'll write about it asap.
1. The view from the Novotel 3rd level swimming pool. There were 3 levels of pools, on the side of the hill next to Patong Bay.
2. Khai Lei Island Beach, with very cool coconuts.
3. Phi Phi Lei Island, view from the speedboat.
4. Koh Phi Phi. A great place to take lunch if you happen to be in the area!
5. The 2nd level pool at the Novotel. Sheesh it was great to live in luxury.



Sunday, September 10, 2006

Already it is time to return to home

I am sitting at an overpriced internet cafe at the Brunei Darussalam International Airport, waiting to board the final leg of my holidays back to Perth. Ai ai aii. It is always sad to know that I have to leave the bohemian lifestyle and 200 baht thai massages behind me, in order to return to work. That being said, I am feeling refreshed, charged up, confident, enthusiastic and ready to take on the world now! They were just the elements of my life that needed recharging, I am happy to say I feel good, and that Thailand totally rocks. I have been up to all sorts of fun times and adventuring, I will post some pics when I'm lounging in front of my own computer sometime soon (and after I've washed all those piles of stinky t-shirts). Yep don't you just love it when you are on the road and you find yourself out of fresh clothes and are faced with three options: 1) Find a laundromat, drag your filthy sweaty socks n' clothes and pay up, 2) Do slow-pony handwashing in the shower (yawn!), or 3) buy a new t-shirt!
Ahhh, holiday travels. My travel buddy of the last week gets a few more days off, grrr! Hehe, nah good on her, she works too hard anyway. I am going to miss Anna, I am determined that I will not leave it two and a half years before we meet again next time :)

Ooh, i'm outta brunei dollars and the prayer call is coming on loud. I guess I will be writing from Orstraylee-ahh next time!

Monday, September 04, 2006

a few days on Koh Samui

Anna orders our first drinks for what proved to be a looooong night of drinking on Chaweng Beach. September is a good time to be at Samui, not so crowded yet still really hot! We stayed at Montien House, it was so good to have a swanky pad on the beach! Certainly a little different from some of the dives with accompanying mosquito populations that i have stayed at in some of my previous tropical travels.
Possibly my best ever 5 second exposure photo!
Now that's lounging in the beach!
..the 8th mai tai and green (?) margharita
I should do this every day. I have a heap more pics to put online, I think I will wait until I get home, I've already spent enough of my time at an internet cafe writing this! Vamoosh I am off to back alleys of Bangkok.. til tomorrow when I leave to the next destination..
Who Links Here