Two words instantly spring to mind when I look at this place, the word shit and the word hole, put together to make shit hole and that’s exactly what it is.

I know these people are poor but is that any excuse for piling your garbage up right outside your front door and burning it once a week? Why not carry it that extra 10 metres and put it at the back of the house? This place is just full of garbage, when the wind blows the garbage pile around they just leave it where it lands.

Chickens, I have… Continue reading →

Consider this another lead up post to the one I plan to make about Nuth’s family who I met for the first time a few days ago.

Just to set the scene for the coming entry I thought I would give you all a glimpse of what I was offered for breakfast the morning after I arrived….

Yep, it’s a bowl of fried cockroach, what made it even more sickening is I saw them being cooked… alive…

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I think I have finally decided to scrap my current desktop PC and switch to using a high spec laptop as a desktop replacement.

There are several reasons for this. Primarily it’s a power problem, even using a UPS the power here on the island makes using a desktop very difficult. Quite often it’s hours at a time that I cannot use the PC and work suffers because of this. At least using a laptop with an extended life battery I should be good throughout all but the longest power outage.

Another reason for this decision is one of security,… Continue reading →

I’m currently staying in a hospital suite in Surin following the birth of my Son. I’m going to keep this a very short post as I want to keep it about completely good things about the birth, I’ll leave the discussion of my in-laws for later.

So here he is….

He was born at 8:21PM on 11th of November 2007, he weighed 3550 Grams and was 53cm long.

He doesn’t eat very much, he doesn’t cry very much either. Because Nuth had to have a caesarean the Doctor has told me that it’s my job to stay awake all night… Continue reading →

I got here last night, I took the overnight train from Bangkok and I am currently at the hospital with Nuth awaiting the birth of our baby!

I have to say it’s all a bit daunting, a man should not have to face these kinds of situations without a few friends around but I don’t even have another person here who can speak English.

In fact I haven’t seen another non-Thai person since I got here yesterday, no ‘farang’ here, I can’t remember the last time I felt so lonely.

Expect quite a few posts over the next few days… Continue reading →