I’m now starting to get into a good routine here; wake up around 10, faff around for a few hours, possibly start working, go swimming and then have lunch, start working properly around 3, dinner sometime around 8 and keep working until midnight. It suits me perfectly and I feel that I deliver my most [...]
Category Archives: life
Older & wiser
Monday, July 6, 2009
Another year gone past, hopefully some new things learned. I feel wiser, for sure!
So my time in Kasai Village is drawing to an end, I’m working until the end of this month and then I’m going surfing in Siargao for six weeks. To top things off we are going to have a pretty full house [...]
Panic
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Life is now slowly settling back into normality, the girls have left, my mother left this morning, the current two guests leave in a few days and then it’ll be empty here for 18 days. Eighteen. Empty.
Today is scary hot and right now there’s a bunch of boys training karate on our lawn, the funniest [...]
Elvis has left the building…
Thursday, April 30, 2009
… and so has Carro & Linn, my two workmates here at Kasai. So it’s a sad day here, and as soon as they left it started raining, a sign perhaps?!
We’ve worked together since the beginning of this year and I first met them in November so we haven’t really known each other that long, [...]
Long time no type!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Dear internet, I’m very sorry I haven’t updated this thing for a while… or if I should swallow my pride a bit, Annika & Pelle, here’s an update just for you and the rest of the family!
My friend Damian has been over for a few weeks, and all the time I haven’t spent diving or [...]
Say what?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Both me and my brother have a genetical hearing disability, inherited from our dad, and I’ve also added on to that with loud concerts and explosions… and I’ve got tinnitus. Basically my hearing is pretty bad!
I can get through my day-to-day life pretty good, but every now and then I really notice it; in bars [...]
Boom De Ah Dah
Saturday, February 7, 2009
I’ve got a TV in my house, it’s got DVD player and, most importantly, it’s got a digital satellite receiver! Minor problem though; there was no subscription for it! So I’ve been roaming around asking in random shops how and where you’d buy satellite subscription top-up whatsits… and I’ve now succeded! I have a bunch [...]
House!
Friday, January 9, 2009
I now have a house! And as it’s looking at the moment I’m pretty sure I’ll stay in this house until I’m leaving the area in June or something. I’ve already lived in two different locations, about a month each, and now it feels like I’ve finally ‘arrived’ and settled down. The house is fantastic, [...]
Stuck!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
I’ve been in a mini-accident, and before anyone reaches for a phone in worry let me tell you I’m almost fine! And the actual accident was a week ago… I fell over with the bike and applied my right calf to the exhaust and thus removed a fairly large piece of skin, and then I [...]
Cockfight!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Cockfighting is a big thing here, almost everyone is trying to breed the noisy little bastards to win the big money… It’s apparently illegal but no-one is paying any notice to such things here. Massive big billboard adverts about new steroidal chicken-feed and sponsored events every Sunday. Surreal.
As I’ve mentioned before there’s loads of roosters [...]