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Published: February 1st 2010
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Hi Everyone,
My stagnation continues here in Bishkek, where the President has Decreed that we must all work Saturdays till mid Feb - just what everyone needs to get over the winter blues right! Anyway I thought instead of writing like I usually do I would simply quote a selection of lines from my journal (for those that have travelled with me in El Salvador and in the Caucasus - yes you might know this as my book of thoughts and feelings).
25th Dec - "Sat up chatting with Emrys by candle light - beer and wine bottles of the previous weeks making for candle holders"
26th Dec - "Have a bucket shower whilst trying to avoid tripping over a stray goose"
27th Dec - "Have a rotten apple fight half way up a tree"
28th Dec - "Free Lunch … Emrys cooks dinner"
29th Dec - "2nd Free Lunch … A Camel is $95 … Dinner at Ann's"
30th Dec - "3rd Free Lunch … ...but suddenly six armed policemen turn up!"
31st Dec - "Free Lunch at Navigator Bar … fireworks being set off by Iranians amongst the crowd … Drop Emrys"
1st Jan - "Like being
beaten with a warm lettuce"
2nd Jan - "Played poker with a kangaroo"
3rd Jan - "Vodka shots with the Taxi driver at the Ala-Bel Pass"
4th Jan - "The milk has turned sour"
5th Jan - "Found the face of Arslanbob"
6th Jan - "I am a little wet blanket"
7th Jan - "KOK-ART, not sure I want to visit there"
8th Jan - "With the power invested in me by Mr. Saul I successfully bargained my taxi ride … My reactionary thoughts were 'Are we going to die?' "
9th Jan - "Diplomatic Cars to Almaty make the trip go faster"
10th Jan - "Did get dressed - ?honest?"
11th Jan - "The Pink cafe on Chui"
12th Jan - "10 Russians, 3 foreigners and mandatory naked plunge pools"
13th Jan - "No underwear on - Did I sleep naked? … Expats are like trifle"
14th Jan - "I find myself introducing myself to the host of the party I gatecrashed!"
15th Jan - "The leader of the opposition has been jailed for 9 years, Emrys' chocolate is really lovely"
16th Jan - "...gets taken to stage and has two topless ladies snog in front of him"
17th
Jan - "... BUT NO MIDGETS! - we had been cheated!"
18th Jan - "Help a drunk lady who is faceplanted in the snow and can't get up"
19th Jan - "
Everything in the kitchen is frozen including my ..."
20th Jan - "If being of all religions is contradictory so is being a Christian"
21st Jan - "Laura reckons I'm older than her"
22nd Jan - "Ice-breaker games ... an Iranian in a trilby ... RUM!! ... finding my half naked boss gyrating on the dance floor"
23rd Jan - "Amadeus is taking away my heater and I am powerless to stop him, for I must sleep!"
24th Jan - "Find out my boss got beaten by some muggers at 6pm outside his apartment - office in shock"
25th Jan - "A girl's imagination is far better than your charm could ever be - Karl Brax ... Chemical Ali is executed"
26th Jan - "Vinegar in an old vodka bottle ... tacky mureals ... the kind of chairs that you associate with Bugsy Malone ... soldiers to babushkas to businessmen to twenty something girls coming to town for shopping and tea"
27th Jan - "There was five in the
bed and the little one said"
So, that is a few snapshots of how I live my life here.
Goodbye,
Tim
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