Hi everyone, Hows everyone doing??? (Thats an offer for you all to comment and let me know...) Life is much the same in Melbourne. I am now the second longest resident in the hostel - can't decide if that's a good or bad thing, but it's still a lot of fun. There is a continual debate in my head over the pluses and minuses of finding a house and it comes down to this: If i move out I will have a much quieter life and meet much less people, BUT I would have my own room and proper cooking facilities. Hmmm, somehow that made it all sound so simple. Anyway, below is a picture of my bed (the lower one). As you can see mum, I am still an incredibley messy person. Organised disaster, yup, ... read more

Hi Everyone! For those of you who have been on tenterhooks awaiting the next thrilling instalment of 'Pork', I can only whole heartedly apologise. There are many excuses though for this monstrous oversight. Actually, oversight is the wrong word really. Pretty much the reason is the in the title. Since getting the job here I've been doing the full time work, including last Sunday as well, which are fairly big system shocks after 8 months with no routine, except for forcing myself up early for the latest plane, train or auto mobile. Over the past 5 weeks I've spent most of my free time unsurprisingly with people from the hostel, here's a few of the long termers: James (Australian), Bert (Belgium), Ricky (English), Kevin (Irish), Johan (Sweden), Dan (Sweden), Jess (Sweden), Christoph (France), Nikki (Holland), Marye ... read more

Start working tomorrow morning at 9.30, data entry (not so cool or fun) but being paid well and it's close to where I'm staying so WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Working for the same company as Rick, could be a lot worse! No more goon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UPDATE: Figured I'd do some sight-seeing on the weekend, but unsuprisingly goon took over and was out friday and saturday night. Got ID'd friday night (I'm 24 not f'ing 17!!!!). Both good nights out. Other than that I've been doing as everyone does here, sitting on my fat ass watching tv or films depending on whether I'm upstairs or downstairs. Moved out of the giant 14 person dorm into a nice 6 person one in hope of a decent night sleep, fingers crossed on that one. Also I have a new memory card for my ... read more

Hi Bums who don't comment (mum excluded!) First thing, whilst waiting in Singapore airport (for forever as I managed to arrive crazy early as some sort of balance for arriving at Jakarta far too late...) the Fulham football team walked past me, kept me entertained for a while! Flew to Sydney via Adelaide and arrived eventually on 4th July about 10am. Australian immigration is generally regarded as being completely brutal and after I collected my luggage and saw the tremendous queue to have luggage x-rayed and for everyone to make their declarations I was a bit worried (even if I had cleaned my boots with a toothbrush). However, after making my way through most of the queue and showing someone that my arrival card had only one 'dodgy' item on it, a yak bone necklace from ... read more

Selemat Detang! Spent the flight to Denpasar talking to a lovely lady from Singapore. A former company director who got fed up of the chase and decided to become a Yoga instructor instead. She was en-route to Bali for a two night holiday. I just figured I'd let you all know that slightly pointless story as it seems to sum up Singapore quite well. Thinking about it though; a return flight to Bali is about 50 quid and that is cheaper than a day return on the train from Hereford to London, takes less time too.... Kuta, Bali Spent two nights in Kuta, Bali. Kuta is the area of Bali where pretty much all holiday makers throw themselves towards - it is rammed full of west coast Aussies (flying here is cheaper and takes less time ... read more