Part II

Have you ever almost written one long post and then just when you're reaching the end, you accidentally hit a series of keys because you work too fast and it accidentally wipes out your entire post?!

Well, that just happened to me. So this is going to be a lot shorter than what it originally was (damn you, slow computers).

In an attempt to colour your imagination while reading my previous post, these images have been created to aid that process!

I recently finally got prints for some of my favourite pictures that I've taken over the last couple of years... I must say I'm really happy with them and quite impressed with the quality. The shop recommended to me by a friend was indeed cheap and good... There's just such a feeling of satisfaction thumbing through your painstakingly taken pictures and feeling that elation of an image well-taken! (I wish I could post it all but that would take forever)




Here's the Very Real Patong beach, on a beautiful sunny day. Did you know that you have to pay to sit on those chairs you see in the picture? We went to this other island in the middle of the ocean and we had to pay 100 baht just to sit under the shade! Everywhere you go, it was just baht baht baht... it slightly ruined the otherwise paradise illusion.




Sunny Patong beach... this is not even half as beautiful as the other islands we saw.




Patong street - Samsui-looking woman...




... and Patong street's very own makeshift Neighbourhood Police Post! (It's a coincidence that their tent is sponsored by Honda and there's a Honda car just driving past. It isn't always there. And no, it certainly isn't a road show.)




This is the lovely view we got from our balcony. I love the sunken pool bars.. it's the only time you could slide off your chair disgracefully, holding a cocktail in your hand and be proud of it.




This was in the toilets at the Phuket International Airport. It was absolutely hilarious, I was pissing myself... oh wait, no. I was pissing myself even before I actually took a piss. (if you don't understand the brit lingo, nevermind. just move on) What kind of debris were they expecting!

Oh, and did you know you had to pay 500 baht just to leave the airport?! If that's not shameless tourist exthortion, then I don't know what else it can be called. Even at the airport it was still baht baht baht... (I can still hear the hagglers' voices in my head like the incessant clucking of chickens...)


And I have so many more I wanna post! But for reasons of anonymity.. I can't really indulge. Sigh. Oh, and most of the pretty pics off the islands and out at sea were taken on my disposables, which surprisingly, actually turned out much better than I thought it would. Might get them to make me a digicopy when I get some reprints of it...

I love taking pictures on holiday!

Today at work, I got dumped some shit work again to bloody assist somebody else's story. I want my own!

(chill. Two and a half weeks more to freedom...)