Blogs from Eastern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 18

Yay they are gone. Woohoo! Jeez, last night I got all these sms’s that were sent to me on New Years night. They all came in one go and I even got 7 sms’s from sum French unknown number!? Weird… So today K and I went to Ubon and interneted. I chatted to phung, which was nice, and tried to catch up on my blogs and all the emails that im behind on, I hope they were more interesting but afraidly they are not . We then went to Robinson’s (equivalent to Myers in AUS) and we then went to Swenson’s. I ate so much ice cream!!! The thing that I ordered was SO huge but I had to eat it, I couldn’t let it waste, haha. So I didn’t bother eating lunch… We then went ... read more

Happy birthday dad… Ah! It is so windy here it is crazy, coconuts are falling down left, right and centre and it’s really COLD. So I made it to midnight last night! Well kinda… I chatted to Mark for a while @ 11.30 but was so tired I went straight to bed afterwards but the fireworks were really loud so technically I was still awake, but in bed…haha. The only people that were successfully still up @ midnight were Dad and Big John. So this morning we got up @ 6.30am for Buddhist prayer and food donation to the monks and new years. There were 5 monks and were gave food donations to each of them (they give ti to the homeless and charities and schools). It was a nice way to start the New Year. ... read more

Yes that is the name of the song that Sophia likes at the moment by The Hives on their CD The Black and White Album. Just got an sms from Phil he tells me it’s really hot back home. Haha, well you guys have insulation, fans and air conditioners. We have two roof fans and that’s it but it’s about 30-sum thing here and its ok but it’s been really cold at night. Today is another lazy day. I was really bored this morning. To the point where I was going to call someone back home. Elycia was my first victim but I realised she was working so I lost all-purpose in my boring mission. More construction on the bathroom, today it’s the roof. … Hmm 1pm here, I should do sum thing productive!! But all ... read more

Yes it is Boxing Day in AUS and exactly 3 years ago in this exact place there was a tsunami on the west coast of Thailand. We just happened to be at the eastern most point of Thailand! Haha. I remember because we were at the restaurant next door this ‘resort’ (it consists of 8 cabins and they call it a resort!?) and these 2 Frenchies came up to us panicking and told us there was a tsunami the an AUS couple came by and told us the same thing. We Didn’t realise the extent till we went back to the ‘resort’ and turned the TV on, although it was in Thai, it was very scary as we were here for the aftermath, the country was in disarray, it was HUGE here. My mum even refused ... read more

Actually, it was the day before Christmas and nobody gave a stuff because it was just another day. So update. I still have the cold and I still have some stomach thing going on. Why am I still sick damn it! Blaa… And to correct you, I watched 8 episodes of greys yesterday and Kristina watched 11, haha. … I am still in a bad mood. I mean really bad. I don’t want to talk about it. So what did I do today? We walked to the big Buddha, which is being built right near the village, I took some happy snaps. When it is done, it will be coated in gold, it will be interesting to see wat it looks like. Adios Sophia ... read more