LAOS | Thursday, 10 Jan 2008 | Views [7081]
I spent this morning sitting in a packed pick-up truck with a dying chicken wrapped around my ankles. A small Lao girl rested her head against my shoulder whilst her mother chain-smoked, shouted things at the other passengers and shoved things down behind ... Read more >
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NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 10 Jan 2008 | Views [978]
30 December Since I've only recently penned an open letter to my motivation, I can't very well use this device again by composing an open letter to my internal organs and/or digestional tract and/or whatever foreign organisms may be living in either ... Read more >
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LAOS | Thursday, 10 Jan 2008 | Views [4355] | Comments [1]
December 25th (Christmas Day!)
I'm sitting in a cafe with my laptop. I have a cinnamon bun, a bowl full of fruit, yoghurt and cereal, a coffee with some sort of caramel thing going on. I'm surrounded by people you might alternately call farang, ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Sunday, 9 Dec 2007 | Views [3321]
Oh, sweet motivation! How could you abandon me so soon? We're barely out the door and already you have me lounging around the floor of my hostel in the middle of the day. You only return when it's time to eat. Or when you want a new book to read. These ... Read more >
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