britstanger

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:22:58 GMT

right about 18 hours to go before i get on a plane back to blighty im really looking forward to it in some ways will be absolutely great to see everyone again but now its acctually about to happen i feel like i wish i could stay here as well. ah well no regrets eh since i last posted i went to bankok again and bought a samurai sword god im such a kid im slightly worried about getting it through customs at the airport but hey it should be fun i can just start chopping peoples heads off if it all goes wrong im sure i have watched enough films to know what i am doing. ok then i went to ko phi phi wich was beach a litious didnt get up to much as i have absolutely bugger all cash left as in really bugger all. now im spending my last few hours in kuala lumpur. how bissare if you think about something llong enough it seems to lose relevance i think im just going home cant really get my head around it properly

these are of ko phi phi how pretty right bye bye rest of world next post will be from the comfort of home

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:02:32 GMT

hey dilligent readers. ok im in cambodia now but didnt post about bangkok i think. um well bangkok is cool tons of people and quite a lot to do. went and saw buddhist temples (lots) and drank a few beers with some highly entertaining cambodian guys on a floating jetty this was lots of fun as they seemd to get more pissed than us( me alf(full moon) and some italian guy we just met) apparently one of the many meanings for the word mao is drunk. got bored of bk quick though . ordered a suit and a tuxedo i have never had a garment made for me before yey the tux looks pretty bloody swish with a silk shirt to boot. i dont know how often i will use it and very much doubt i will be as slim when i marry lol. ok from bangkok went by train and taxi( while listening to dance chrismatas songs of all things) to phnom phen (no f's) wich is crazy hectic the roads are a nightmare. got a motorbike to the kiling fields very nasty made me feel sick. oh yeah didnt mention the 36yo deaf lady on the border who spent hours trying to guilt me into sleeping with her this made me feel very bad and i really didnt enjoy it. from phnom phen caught a boat up to where the temples are siem reip in the north very nice hotel and spent all day yest riding around on another bike taking billions of pics of very beautiful and striking temples

of wich these two are possibly the best also yest i went to a firing range much to the amusement of my driver and fired a pistol and an ak-47. never listen to your mum playing with guns is heaps(ahh robin) of fun. although probably morrally questionable in this country.

notice my closed eyes and the shell case in mid air. ok so next another silly long bus journey back to bangkok then im not so sure what im gonna do only 10 days till i head back to blighty and i kind of feel like killing time as im so exited about going back i sometimes even find it hard to sleep. giggedy giggedy yey friends.

ps. sorry mum

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:10:18 GMT

what a hangover so since i last posted i have arrived in thailand wich is very different to malaysia hat yai was first big city very nice food and the people seemed cool. then headed up to krabbi urgh what a not ver ypleasent place however did have one good night out went to a bar with livew music and me and a french guy were the only farang in there it was quite funny the musicians i think were taking the piss out of us in between each song but it didnt matter because it didnt seem too mallitious. after krabbi headed over to ko phangan nice place i can see what people mean by it being spoiled by the development but it still seems like a niceenough place. although they play bloody friends in the bars friends argh. my hut was awesome

this was the view from my door. i could swim and stuff and i could sit on the rock and watch the beach where the big party was

the party was awesome tons of music and drinking and quite a lot of chatting to random people hopefully some of them will email me some pics as i was too scared to take my camera out. so had a good night but crashed out around 4. and a couple of friends came round about 8 obviously strait from the beach and we went back down and had a bit more of a dance tons of people just laying on the sand was awesome heading to bankok next so peace out.

thats alf btw

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:30:30 GMT

hey ok time to move on again form here lancouie im geting a ferry to thailand not sure wehre but hey i guess i will have to buy a map when i get there. ok so pinang was quite nice spent two nights nothing really interesting baught some gifts and things and a mah jong set wich i am going to have to find the rules for. ferry to lancauie was ok got myself surrounded by a teenage hockey and netball team from london, hmm no comment.
arrived on island its verry sunny and pretty got a taxi rm20 to west coast beach then tried to hire bike but everything shut for bloody holliday so bunch of local kids picked me up on scooters and drove me to next town to hire one. here is me on it sans helmet sorry gran.

so spent a couple of days bimming around the island on the scooter loking at sights and stuff very pretty cormac went to bangkok i rented a bigger bike and spent two days ripping around the island

oh yeah i also did quite a lot of swimming here is me sliding down one of the many waterfalls

ok so next stop thailand yey cheaper beer and the full moon party
peace out everyone

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:02:46 GMT

ok so i have been in cameron highlands a few days now done all the walking i can be bothered doing. seen lots of nice tea plantations and some nice jungle/insects

had a nice cup o tea and a chocolate brownie and ice cream lol lots of walking before and after though. there have been some pretty interestin people here and thre socialising has been fun round the campfire with beers a plenty looks like im gonna hook up with a couple of them for the full moon party on 5 nov in thailand sounds like a wicked party. this guy kept us entertained on an eve

well peace out everyone. pinang next stop for me and possibly a cheap motorbike.

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:21:09 GMT

oh yeah i got a bloody leech in between my fingers too that was unpleasent. god damn i hate leeches. still not as much as mosquitos though.

ok this may be a big one

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:11:50 GMT

so since last posted have gone from perhintian islands to jungle and now in cameron high lands will start form beginning with pics
ok this is carl the guy i met in kl who travelled for a couple of weeks with me hes swedish. the two girls we met on kapas and then again on perinthians they are also swedish.

these swedes are a crazy bunch suffice to say nude midnight swimming in the rain ensued, carl had a brief romantic entanglement (lol).

ok this is me on the island dont ask me why its in sepia i must have been drunk. while on the island like i said losrt my glasses and broke my camera saw lots of lovely fish though and played lots of frisbee with carl. my camera seems to have started working again though so no worries

this is a child i encountered when i was waiting for a bus(a regular occurance) i dont thik he quite understood what it said if you cant read it it says 'fuck off wankers' it made me chuckle

ok from the island i got the went to kota bharu for a couple of nihgts (unaventfull) then got the 12 hour jungle train down to taman negara (the jungle) it was a nice journey they left the doors open so you could dangle your feet out of the train and get your head knocked off by passing bushes. for some reason a very nice lady gave me a moon cake and another slightly odd gebtleman gave me a bag of snake fruit i must be looking thin. at this point was travelling with daniel very energetic french man an his 40's
after 1 night in a town got the boat into the jungle propper this is it it took 3 hours and despite all its beauty got reall boring also my feet.

ok so spent a couple of night getting accustomed to wandering around the jungle swimming and stuff wich was really really nice btw here is a pic of me not getting deep enough before the auto timer went off

then decided to do a proper trek took 7 hours to get to the hide pretty hard going met an english couple (vets) and walked it with them. the lady rthrew up after 5 1/2 hours. we got totally lost at one point and had to just scramble through the forest wich was getting pretty stressfull until the guy got stung by a hornet or something thenm i got stung in the neck. damn it hurt after that it was hard work but we got to the hide eventually as i knew we would lol.
the hire was acctually realy nice better than some dorms with a toilet and everything the first night there were 5 other ppl to share in the fun of trying to stop the rats eating your food they all left in the morning. leaving me top play david attenborough in the jungle but i saw absolutely bugger all apart from some shaking bushes and a wild pig or two. i expected a new buch of ppl to arrive in the eve but none turned up ulp a night on my own in the jungle wasnt too bad but got a visit from dave in the middle of the night
dave is a dirty rat he came to me with a troubled soul i told him the only way to get your life back on the strait and narrow is to develop a strong moral code and be fithfull to yourself and your friends. he just looked at me blanckly and stole my soap

rest of night was uneventfull but i wish i hadnt started thinking about blaire wich damn. trek back was a hell of a lot easier saw some elephant footprints and generally enjoyed a pleasant stroll in the jungle on my tod. so thata about it i left jungle by bus got the train up to a town then had to pay a rediculous taxi fare to get here the land of tea and srawberries cameron highlands.

sorry its sop long winded dont know how to link stuff or anything if you have bothered reading this far thanks will try make the next one shorter
XleighX

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:03:44 GMT

my god! its full of stars.

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:07:49 GMT

damn camera broke and lost my prescription sunglasses blind as a bat. balls balls balls going to jungle day after tom do some trecking /camping. hopefully wont be eaten by gient elephant eating python or a hat (obscure reference to 'little prince') carl going back to kl today travelling to jungle with a crazy french man in fact i have no idea what his name is hmm.
toodles
XleighX
ps they can randomly test your blood for weed here and lock you up if its in your system hmm scary stuff

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:27:12 GMT

hello
island beutifull feeling strangely melancholie or however you spell it. im sure it will passhaving one of those does life get any better and what do i want from my life moments i think. anyhoo going to another island now i will love it im surei tried spear fishing on the island it looks so easy when you are snokelling but unsurprisingly i didnt spear myself any dinner and had to pay for it instead.

anyway nice pics of the island

Random thoughts

Carl the guy i am travelling with has decided he is going to stop giving himself so much to other people as he believes this will bring him instability and emotional weakness. while i heve been travelling i thought that expressing all emotions is a good thing and that its wrong to supress anyhting but now im starting to think if you dont put these emotions out there you will be more stable and less prone to the extreme highs and lows that an emtionally charged existence brings. so maybe its better to be a cold content rock? i dont know im mulling it over.

cliffs

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:59:48 GMT

this is part of the beach i have been staying on in cherating me carl and i climbed round the cliffs yest and ended up in a club med beach where we were promptly asked to leave the nobs. just makes you wanna run around tipping over tables and swearing and be generally an arsehole to the rich folks. hmm think there is some bad grammar in there. anyway it was fun

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:43:39 GMT

ok hopefully this will work its me in a park in kuala lumpur

hmm lets just hope thanks a lot kate and rosie
ok im going further up the east coast now gonna get a boat out to a little island called kapas apparently really good snorkelling thinking about hiring a motorbike too

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:51:34 GMT

ok so now i am staying just north of kuantan on a beach called cherating it is great the water is so warm and te nights are possibly too warm. the swedish guy from kuala lumpur came over yest wich is cool so i think i am going to travell with him for a bit he seems up for a laugh and is pretty experienced in asia. been eating coconuts from the beach and getting green ones and drinking the juice it is quite nice.

someone please explain to me how to get the photos from www.photobucket.com onto my live jounal i am incapable

so fire on the beach tonight we are in town to pick up some beers they are expensive here so wil keep them as a treat. having a fire tonight down the beach from the village somehting i have wanted to do all year. love love.

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:21:07 GMT

wow so last night was pretty crazy. er drank jd with a few old guys from the hostel then went to reggea bar on my tod where i had a couple of beers and chatted to a 50 yo blues singer who played the blues harp he was pretty good. we went for a drive to another club but cue was too long so went to a bar he knew members only lol 'would you like a girl sir?' anyhoo stayed there for a while talked quite a LOT ABOUT god wich was reall interesting then drove around a while looking for places open got bored he took me to an indian all night food joint had hot pankakes and sweet tea he paid i had run oout of cash. was really greart i was only westerner in bar and cafe got back to hostel about 4:30 lol awesome night. the guy said he would drive me to east coast becouse he was going that way this morn but i chickened out and have booked a coach instead for 6 dollars nuts 6 hour coach journey. so i will be at beach in a couple of days going out with some swedish lad to one of the suburbs tonight. should also have a new phone num shortly. peace out hombres

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:56:39 GMT

ok it was only a matter of time but i have lost my glasses. damn damn damn so im sat here in my sunnies while there is a thunder storm outside. as far as i can tell it happens every other day. so today i visited the national museum fora dollar and went to the big park in the city wich was incredibly good looking. i thikn i am going to book some travel tom cos the city is a little intence for me i need to get the hang of the culture a bit i thibk then i will appreciate it more. in hind sight that guy defo did try to rob me but he fifnt so it was a little adventure a tick in a box as it where. ok i might try going out for A DRINK tonight wish me luck.
XleighX

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:40:09 GMT

so malaysia i cant believe i am still awake. had an exiting first day i really underestimated how totally different this place is from western cities. my dorm is silly cheap and in the middle of the market district i astick out like a saw thumb and think i have developed a mild case of culure shock. im loving it though went to some guys house and his wife made some sort of fish and crasy vegies i have never seen before. i think i will sleep for about 52 billion seconds. miss absolutely everyone in the world at this moment but wouldnt trade this crasy experience for anyhting. love love.
ahh they are all different sweeeet

culture shock

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:46:17 GMT

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:17:45 GMT

well after that last stream of conciousness a little more subdued one. im sat in the centre of bris killing a few hours until my flight to malaysia wich leaves at 11:50 tonight. im exited and nervous and stuff im pretty sure everyone can guess how i feel. whale watching was great and fraser island was also nice swam in the lake and smoked a fat joint with a really cool 50 year old aussie. so next time i write i will be in a whole new world woo. tried to get some pics up but its pissing me off so i cant be bothered im sure ill get round to it some time. peace out my australian compadres. XleighX

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:40:17 GMT

er ok i forgot what i said the last time i posted and sitting at some shittly placed pc in a hostel i really cant be bothered figuring out how to look. so i went to cairns from bris didnt really like the place too much think it was the hostel so me and a guy i met in bris decided to book a snorkel trip to whitsundays departing from airlie beach. so we also bought infinite stop bus tickets travelling south to bris. airlie beach was good got on the boat spent all day drinking snorkeled played games.(i found out i can pick up a piece of paper from the floor with my teeth a previously unknown skill) and generally had fun. however when i woke up the second morning i would quite happily have stayed in bed the entire day. due not as most people assumed me having a stinking hangover but to saome dreaded killer alien flu bug that massacred my imune system and levelled me for 3 days solid. obviously i may be over exagerating but hey i can. so got really pissed off about not getting to do anyhting on the two days of the 3 day trip balls. however after a couple of days rest at airlie beach forced myself with a nice large JD to hit the local bars was great dave is a good laugh and he loked after me despite trying to shag everything and totally insulting anyone who knocked him back lol. next came mackay pleasent enough place but boring as fcuk. then the genious decision wich wasnt really a decision but a must do i visited nick in his working hostel in bagara near bundy. what a guy talk about brother from another mother. will never ever forget getting high on the beach with the full moon glistening on the water perfectly then just deciding nick lets get in so we swam in the shiny glitery ocean and my friend it was good it was warm it was bliss on a stick and a memory that will remain. awesome. also went out a couple of times go reall drunk not a lot to report i think i dare to say may be over night clubs and getting hammered. prob not but hey run with your gut. so i need to tell about the coach journey from bund to here this is hervey bay. i gave the bloody southerner a big hug told him to give it to everyone of my amazing friends in melbourne watched him drive off with his amazing girl tooting the horn. i sat on the coach got out my phone to make space for messages deciding wich messages to delete and sat there reading peoples comunication with me. i realised with absolute certainty that i am loved and that made me so happy i sat on the coach in the dark shaking my head just remenising. god it felt so good so many people who are amasing in my world. to top it off nick gave me a tune on my psp wich when listend to will instantly take any one of maybe 7 people directly to one particular night out in one particualar club its a sort of dancy trance track and when the tune kicked in and everyones face flooded my head and every memory exploded in my head at once i swear sat on that coach i let out a really stupid noise like hurk a coff choke emotional upwelling what a ride. im so damn emotional today i love my life i wouldnt swap it for anyhting. anyhoo enough masturbation im going to see if i can spent the last of my cash on a camping trip to frasier island. i love every single person who will ever read this

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:30:39 GMT

so i have been out of melbourne for 7 nights on each of those nights i got out of my tree while this was all fun and games at the time i am now left with a very light wallet and a strange sence that i have failed to acchiev anyhting. but hey what am in oz for if not to go nuts? hopefully i am going to book some sort of adventure tour tom and make myself feel like i have a purpouse peace out homies ahem
XleighX

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:55:47 GMT

hey its been a while since i did one of these posterjeroos but hey. have been in melbourne about 3 months now been having a most exellent time and have met many many interesting people. i am leaving melbourne to go to queensland next wed wich is making me really sad due to hving to leave said interesting people. however hopefully queensland may be warmer and sunny and hopefully i will be able to replace friends with colourful little fishies. i have decide to hit asia for 3 months before i head back to blighty. im stopping in kuala lumpur in malaysia for 3 months and can travel around anywhere i can get a visa in that time. im really exited about that part of my trip as hopefully it will give me some exposure to another culture wich i am really looking forward to. anyhoo
nibs

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:19:11 GMT

hey been a while im in melbourne now. staying with zac trhe bf of one of the girls i was staying with before. having a really good time had a really rANDOM NIGHT LAST NIGHT. just decided to get beers in and then get naked and hit the bath 5 of us. oh yeah then the bed for the mandatory mass hickey session. well its another tick in a box. not sure how long im staying here but will be heading up north next where hopefully it will be a little warmer. should be having a big weekend this weekend wich im looking forward to will post how it goes.

Thu, 11 May 2006 09:32:38 GMT

hey climbed up the cradle mountain today well not quite to the top it was snowing and raining and stuff so i chickened out. was a really great experience though. i fell down a stream about 6 meters on my ass shook me up a bit but funny now im home and dry. going to lonnie for the weekend then on to melbourne on tues. staying in ulverstone at the mo with some ppl i met while hitch hiking. hitch hiking rules
Nibs

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:34:28 GMT

this place is great its really out in the sticks the guy who owns it is a shaman and he takes me and the other couple who are staying here into the woods regularly and tellly us about the spirits of the trees and the like. i know im probably the most cynical person i know but its really lovely to have a bit of a different outlook on life for a while before i hit another city and get back on the sauce. the hitch hiking up was really good took me a few hours to get from perth to where im staying but it was all good. the last set of people who picked me up took me for a milkshake and a cake at a deli in deloraine. wich was really nice of them and they said i could crash at their place on the north coast whenever i wanted. not sure what my immediate plan is at the mo but gonna go prob to melbourne next from here. at some point. sorry aboutmy complete lack of punctuation i view it as an optional extra.

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:22:31 GMT

camping was cool as. it really was in the middle of nowhere at the end of at least an hour of pretty turbulent off road driving. it wasn't actually camping it was a little wooden hut that the guy who's idea it was had built with his dad. there was obviously a camp fire and much alcohol was consumed. also on the second night i managed to pull a rather significant whitey. tick in a box at least. i also got to fire a shot gun which was cool as i have never even touched a gun before. im leaving hobart and all the friends i have made here (bummmer) on monday and am going to hitchhike up north to launceston (hopefully). i have a wwooffing guy who is willing to put me up not too far from there so should be good. money still sucks but hey. selling my body doesent sound like too bad an idea.