SO, finally in Cambodia, Sihanoukville. After a rather bothersome trip from Australia I am finally here. First I managed to be refused to get on my plane from Cairns to Brisbane. These very cheap airlines are such a pain in the bum. Then, at the international airport in Brisbane I managed to confuse everyone there by claiming that 'yes, I do want to go to Cambodia', and 'no, I do not have a visa yet', and the killer sentence were of course 'no, I do not have a return ticket, or any ticket as such out of the country'. Many phonecalls later, many airport officials later, I finally got them to agree that maybe, but just maybe, there was a slight chance that the Khmer custom would let me in. Pointing out to them that there ... read more

I have no number of how many times some customer on the boat will tell me, with envy blazing out of their eyes, that I am so lucky to do what I am doing. And every time I will patiently reply that in the end of the day this is a job as every other job. Sometimes there are good days, but too often there are not so good days, and sometimes you are just left to ponder why you didn't go for the nice office job... But, when the going is good the going is very good... or something like that. When you have a good day, or a good dive, the whole world is a better place, and you cannot think of one single good reason why you ever would want to give this ... read more

Well, it's a new day, and Kat has received some new job offers. Not only do I have a job offer from Vietnam, which were covered in past post, but I also just today received a job offer from Cambodia. The problem here is that although I am thrilled to have received these offers, and would lurve to work and live in both Vietnam or Cambodia for some time, the pay is rather bad. Well, for living in Cambodia or Vietnam the pay is very good, but taking into account that I will have to repay a quite hefty student loan at home as well as owing money hither and tither it is not really doable. Which do kill me!!!! And of course, I am in some dialouges with a couple of diveshops in the Philippines, ... read more

Found some pix from various events in Aus, thought I share them with you.... read more

Ellers saa skjedde det sproeste her paa mandagen da. Jeg sitter paa en ladyboy bar (siden jeg naa kjenner alle der), naar det setter seg ned en mann i 50-aarene ved siden av meg. Etterhvert begynner vi aa prate sammen (han spoer meg faktisk om jeg ER jente...), og det viser seg at han er norsk. Han forteller meg at han jobber i Shanghai, og jeg lurer paa hvilket firma. Tenker at hvis det er et norsk firma saa har jeg sikkert hoert om det, siden jeg har soekt paa jobb i alle norske firmaene i Kina. Saa viser det seg faktisk at han jobber i Raddicon. I oktober ble jeg tilbudt en jobb i Shanghai, i et norsk fast-food firma, men tok den ikke siden loenna var for lav. Vel, tror du faen meg ikke ... read more