I've never been to a city as relaxed as Luang Prabang. As mentioned in the previous blog entry, it was immediately clear that the contrast with Vietnam was going to be felt immediately. I'm now in Thailand and the 5 nights I spent there are already a blur. I did very little during my time there. I'd wake up around 5:30 AM each day, when the monks in the local Wat started banging their huge drum. This announced the beginning of the daily procession through the centre of town. The faithful line up each morning to donate sticky rice to the [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well the minute I got off the airport here in Laos, I knew that if I didn't get right down to writing this blog, it would never happen. Why you ask? well simply put, the difference is culture and ambiance between Vietnam and Laos is so staggering that the crazyness which is Hanoi will mellow from absolute insanity down to a mere - shall we say - eccentricity after a few more hours of monks, temples and whatnot. Anyway, Laos is the next entry - this one starts where I started...getting on a Vietnam airlines flight on a Saturday [View Full Entry]

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As a kid, if I ever thought of Cambodia, it was probably in reference to either the Dead Kennedy's song or the Vietnam war. Like many American's, the idea of actually going to visit a place as dark and mysterious as Cambodia always sounded mysterious and down-right dangerous. How times change...travelling to Siem Reap last weekend to visit the temples around Angkor Wat was nearly magical. Just a day before our flight, I was still thinking we might not make it. Hundreds of people had died in the Phillipines and dozens in Vietnam as a result of a seemingly unstoppable typhoon. [View Full Entry]

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Hi all- I Hope this post finds you all well and enjoying the coming autumn (or spring if you are down under!) So its been ages since my last entry. So much for once a week. Since the last entry, Carla and her bloke Joao have visited, left, visted, left, visited and left once more! Was great to get to know Joao a bit and see Carla again. We shared a few too many beers, some curry, a couple of pub quizzes, some pool and basically have a fly-by all around catch up. I'll be back in London for her birthday-which [View Full Entry]

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Its been a long break between entries again - but no excuses...Mike was here the other week and I wasted no time getting him out to the pub quiz where I was sure he could help improve our team's dismal record. We came in dead last the day he arrived...but Mike redeemed himself the following week when our second to last place finish got us a free pitcher of Stella - compliments of the first place team (who felt sorry for us - naturally). I managed to take 1 day off work while he was here, so we headed for Kota [View Full Entry]

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Been a while since my last entry...not that life hasn't moved on...the adventures continue! There've been a few good reasons/excuses for not writing every week like I'd planned. Primarily, the unexpected and inconceivable passing of Brian Johnson a couple weeks ago. Brian was the one guy that has been involved in every single project I've worked on since I moved to England in 2001 - in fact it was his influence and connections that got me the job I have now. I last saw him only a few days before heading to Singapore - we had lunch at a great pub [View Full Entry]

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If you are in the US, on Friday the 3rd of July, you were probably having a BBQ and enjoying a cool Miller High Life or a PBR while shooting off fireworks. If you are in the UK, unless you are as lucky as Debs and got to go to centre court at Wimbledon, you were probably watching Andy Murray battle it out on TV when you were supposed to be working. But if you were in Kuching, Malaysia, you spent the afternoon at poolside working on your tan. You had a beer or two, read a book, listened to the [View Full Entry]

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Hello again folks! Feels like its been a long action packed week. Not sure that there is lots to tell b/c I'm just not going to talk about the day to day grind of work...its going well of course, and I've settled into a routine...morning train ride in on the amazing public trans system of Singapore -air conditioned, frequent, cheap, clean ... the discipline clearly enforced ... $500 if you get caught drinking water or eating food on the train. Can you imagine London trying that? its only people drinking water that keeps them alive down there!! Lunch is always good [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Since I'm not likely to be able to keep up with everyone properly (over the phone) the next 4 months and have grown tired of posting photos on facebook, I've decided to try out this new-fangled 'Blogging' thing that I heard about on that BBC news show, Click! By the way, I feel like its been about a month since I left London. It was a bit of a whirlwind towards the end with work (and a cold) in Chicago, an amazing weekend in New York, some great rocking out to rock band in Shepherds Bush and several nights [View Full Entry]

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