Random Thought for the Day

Pablo Picasso, aged 5.

(Toy blocks spotted around Spitafields market, London)
His kindergarten teacher probably had a fit. "People have two eyes and one nose."

The Shit My Uncle Says on.....Technology

These comments are really too good not to share.

"That strange contraption that plugs into the wall." - Uncle's definition of my Sennheiser headset.

"The thing that looks like tofu." - Uncle's definition of my external hard drive.

"My Face" - what happens when MySpace and Facebook decide to conceive a child.

Canon S95's Initiation into the Not So Lonely Planet

A camera change has been long overdue.

Regrettably I should have done this sooner with all the traveling that I've been doing over the past four years. My old lumix had such terrible flash burn, rendering it useless for night shots, and even with tinkering with the exposure, the photo quality in bright sunlight wasn't great either. I had given up taking photos unless it was sun rise or sun set, which was pretty limiting. The HD filming function would have been useful for Sun & Bass but oh well, you can't win everything......

(Below: Day Out Playing Tourist at Marina Bay Sands)






(Above: Perhaps that telephone card company was right about the rice paddy hats.....)



Now it's time to improve on those photography & photoshopping skills.....

Just Another Thai Wedding

The groom gets his wallet stolen by a lady boy in Phuket during his buck's night. (No sympathy there.) One wedding guest is ban from going to Phuket for the buck's night. ("For all I care, you can have a stripper in our hotel room, but you're still not going to Phuket," says his wife.)
The wedding is held on the beach.

The bride is dressed in a slinky Ruth Tarvydas dress, and the bridesmaids are dressed in fuscia chiffon. The groom is in grey and wears white sneakers.

The rest of us girls don floaty maxi dresses and sandals.




My dress? A find in a Budapest vintage store, a bit of a find as the dress is originally a Kenzo number. :)


We all bring umbrellas, but thankfully it doesn't rain.

The best man is demoted by a monkey as the ring bearer.

There's Moet and Bollinger to drink and fresh oysters (Thai style) to eat. I don't drink - (I'm still trying to work out how to convince my aunt to open that bottle of dom pe).

I am annoyingly hearded to catch the bouquet and immediately dodge as it comes towards me. Annoying idiot boys are shoved towards me because I am "single". I tell everyone that I don't "do" country boys and insult 50% of the wedding guest population.

Pendulum is played, and the elderly wedding guests escape. The Prodigy's "Smack my Bitch Up" is also played - not particularly appropriate for a wedding, but hey, it's all fun. We all end up jumping into the pool and the groom strips down to his jocks.

All in all, it's just another Thai wedding...........

Okay, no more weddings please......All the girls keep on rabbiting on about relationships, and to be quite frank, I am sick of it. There are a lot more interesting things to talk about..... Stop talking around in circles.

Postscript in Samui:



Just me and my sweet lil' coconut, Fisherman's Village, Bophut.



Fish sticks (literally) @ Fisherman's Village, Bophut.

Coconut icecream @ Fisherman's Village, Bophut.

I didn't buy anything as I didn't see anything that I particularly wanted to bargain for. Bargaining is exhausting in Ko Samui as the store owners don't seem particularly motivated to make a sale, much preferring to watch tv/talk on their mobile phone/sit in front of their laptop. They seem to think that it's perfectly reasonable to have a starting price of $50AUS for a flimsy sun dress and frequently refuse to budge on the price...... Who are they kidding? As J. said, "All this bargaining is a pain in the baht."

The party's at the coconut tree, Chaweng beach.

Ali's - the best restaurant in town. Authentic Thai curries for 45 baht - bargain!

View from the back of a Thai jeep, Chaweng

Petrol in a bottle, 40 baht

Weigh yourself for 1 baht. I weighed myself (for free) with the hotel weighing scales and found that between stepping on the scales at the GP in London and now, I have put on a whopping five kilos..... That's it, it's diet time for real.......