Posts Tagged ‘rain’
In computers & internet, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged 85mm, american psycho, atm, banana pancake, beer, book, breakfast, bret eaton elis, bukit lawang, burma, burmese refugee, bus, camera, chinatown, christina, dinner, email, embassy official, f1.8, ferry, flight, food, georgetown, hindu temple, hotel, indian visa, indonesia, labyrinth, lake, lens, linux, lunch, mail, malaysia, mcdonalds, medan, minibus, money, myanmar, myanmar embassy, nikon, orangutan rehabilitation centre, parapat, passport, petronas twin towers, photographs, post office, rain, reggae bar, street cafe, taxi, terminal, the beach, ticket, tourist, travel, tshirt, tuk tu, united nations refugee status, visa, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 286 — being on the lake made me feel lazy (well, lazier than usual) and i decided to stay and do some reading. i sold my copy of ‘the beach’ (which was actually very, very good) and snagged a copy of ‘american psycho’ by bret eaton elis. i’ve read it before, but it was […]
In travel on
16 December 2009 tagged bali, beer, bus station, cafe, cats, coffee, crowd, dancing, dinner, dirty, drunk, ferry, garbage, girlfriend, hotel, indonesia, jakarta, jl jaksa, karaoke bar, kids, korea, monument, mustang sally, noodles, photography, photography club, rain, rubbish, scavenging, sick, singing, slum, spc, street market, sumatra, taxi, tom, traffic, yulia with no comments
day 276 — i spent the day at the hotel and café. i had started feeling a little sick again so i didn’t want to go too far. i messed around online all day.
day 277 — i felt much better today, but i was reluctant to stray too far from the hotel. i stayed in the […]
In australia, drama & theatre, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged alice springs, australia, brisbane, brisbane river, concrete, craig, cricket, darwin, driveway, flights, indonesia, margarita, mecian, megan, qpac, queen street mall, queensland bulls, rain, ray bans, southbank, sunglasses, tacos, the crucible, tickets, travel, uluru, wa warriors with no comments
day 236 — i spent the day at craig’s house, not doing much.
day 237 — i spent the day at craig’s house doing work online. after he returned from work, we drove out to craig’s sister’s house for a little mexican fiesta. we ate tacos (tacos rule!) and some heavily concentrated margaritas. feeling happy and a […]
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
30 October 2009 tagged buddhism, buddhist, budha, gargoyle, gold, rain, roof, scooter, sky, temple with no comments
top — golden gargoyles adorn a buddhist temple
middle — blue sky and symetry
bottom — a scooter zooms through the rain
In australia, travel on
26 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, blue poles, boxes, breakfast, bus, canberra, circular quay, coffee, darling harbour, exhibition, federal mint, ferry, fish and chips, gallery, harbour bridge, hostel, jackson pollock, john howard, kirabili, koala, luna park, mall, map, matilda, meat pie, national library, nick cave, norman hotel, opera house, parliament house, rain, steak, sydney, the lodge, tickets, train, yha with no comments
day 221 — when i checked into the hostel (the day before) i got a sydney city map which also had some coupons attached. one of the coupons was for ‘breakfast with the koalas’ at sydney’s wildlife centre. it sounded good, but required getting up early.
i walked down to darling harbour and was disappointed to find […]
In rants, travel on
8 October 2009 tagged address, advice, aggressive, asia, bank, banpo village, bbq, beer, beijing, bicycle, china, coffee, digs, dinner, drum tower, drunk, dutch, embass, evil eye, expensive, forbidden city, hookah, india, korea, korean, matriarchal, mongolia, muslim quarter, netherlands, olympics, passport, peter, photography, photos, pizza, rain, restaurant, subway, taxi, terracotta warriors, tibet, ticket, tienanmin square, tour, tourist market, train, travel, traveler, visa, xian internet cafe with no comments
day 181 — i booked my train to beijing and a terracotta warrior tour. i walked down to the drum tower and took some phởtos. then i walked around the muslim quarter, bought some dried pineapple, took phởtos and walked back to the hotel. that evening i met a couple of dutch travelers and we […]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
7 October 2009 tagged airport, bananas, beer, bracelet, cafe, chengdu, china, coffee, computer, diary, dinner, employees, flight, friends, grafitti, group, guide, headphones, hostel, hotel, ipod, japanese, lhasa, lunch, mall, meat, military, monasteries, night, online, photography, photos, pictures, police, potala palace, rain, rickshaw, tattoo, temples, tibet, town, train, travel, wifi, xian with no comments
day 176 — i spent the morning at the hotel an said goodbye to hokuto (he was flying back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the airport with hokuto, so i just spent the afternoon wandering around town. i wanted to take some […]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
6 October 2009 tagged altitude, altitude sickness, apples, beer, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cards, celebration, chengdu, chess, china, climbing, coffee shop, crowd, customs, dalai lama, delay, dreprung monastery, event, festival, flight, foreigners, guide, headache, immigration, kimchi jiggae, korean food, lhasa, markets, military, norblingka, painkillers, painting, passport, performance, photography, photos, plane, police, potala palace, praying, rain, riot gear, security, shorton festival, sleep, steak, summer palace, tibet, travel, tree, yak with no comments
day 171 — today it rained all day. i’d been spending a lot of money in china, so i decided to stay at the hotel. i chatted online and played chess all day.
day 172 — i packed, checked out of the hotel and went with hokuto to catch our flight to lhasa. customs and immigration were […]
In blog stuff, rants, travel on
4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 — we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with […]
In humorous, money, rants, travel on
26 July 2009 tagged angry, bank, beer, boots, border, bribery, britain, bus, camera, candle, carlsberg, cash, cleaning, coffee, corruption, credit card, diary, dollars, dong, donut, electricity, exchange, girls, hanoi, hooker, hotel, immigration, ipod, ireland, lake, laos, loan, motorcycle, pint, rain, room, sandwich, shoes, taxi, vientiane, vietnam, visa, woman, yelling with no comments
days 124 — 137 can be found on my vietnam motorcycle diary page.
day 137 — i woke up late and moved to a cheaper room. hanoi was hot, but i still got out and walked around town. i ended up down at the lake which is basically the centre of town. i wandered around there […]
In buddhism, travel on
3 July 2009 tagged american troops, annika, backpacker, band, beer, bike, blind, border, breakfast, buddhism, bullet, cambodia, cao dai great temple, ceremony, china, church, city hall, coffee, confucianism, cu chi tunnels, cult, dinner, embassy, eva, german girls, handicapped workshop, hawkers, helmet, hindu temple, ho chi minh city, incense, lightning, lonely planet, massage, minsk, motorbike, motorcycle, music, north vietnam, notre dame, opera house, palace, practice, prayer, rain, rifles, riverfront, saigon, scam, souvenir, spectacle, storm, tanks, taoism, taxi, temple, thunder, tour, traffic, tunnel tour, tunnels, underground, vendors, viet cong, vietnam, vietnam war, weather, wifi with 1 comment
day 121 — my room had wifi, so i did some stuff online, including chatting with friends. i had breakfast and wandered down to have another crack at finding a bike. i spoke to a motorbike taxi guy and he spoke really good english. when i told him what i wanted, he pointed straight at […]
In australia, travel on
28 June 2009 tagged australia, australian, author, bangkok, boom, bus ticket, cafe, cambodia, chess, chiang mai, editing, elements 7, embassy, giottos, hard drive, ice cream, ipod, khao san road, markus zusak, mexican restaurant, motorcycle, passport, photoshop, plate, ploy, poipet, police, rain, repairs, ryan, storage, taxi, thailand, the book thief, the mesenger, ticket, train station, tripod with no comments
day 106 — ryan and i took the bike and went into town. today was the only bad day during my stay at chiang mai. ryan and i had gone out on his bike again. we were going to buy my train ticket to bangkok and get the second hard drive for backing up my […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged air conditioning, ants, argument, audiobooks, bago, base camp, beer, book, breakfast, bridge, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, burmese days, bus, buses, champions league, chinese, clouds, electricity, email, fan, gold, gold leaf, golden rock, hair, hike, journey, king, kinpun, luggage, lunch, money, monks, mosquitos, myanmar, phone, rain, relic, restaurant, rollercoaster, sacred, scared, sedan chair, shinya, ship, shrine, sleep, sunny, sunset, switchback, temples, train, train station, truck, yangon with no comments
day 54 — the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
27 April 2009 tagged amarapura, audiobook, aung san suu kyi, ayerawaddi, bagaya kyaung, barefot, beer, bicycle, boat, brechtian, british couple, buddha, buddhist, burma, crowd, curry, emails, ferry, government, hot, hsinbyume paya, humour, ice cream, imprisonment, inle lake, inwa, ipod, liverpool, lonely planet, mandalay, mandalay hill, mingun, mingun paya, mini petra, monastery, money, monk, monywa, moustache brothers, myanmar, nanmyin watchtower, ox cart, pagoda, palace, photography, political, political prisoners, polygamy, prison, rain, rickshaw, river, sagaing, sagaing hill, sandamani paya, satire, shinya, shwe kyet kya pagoda, souvenirs, statues, tattoos, tea, teak, temple, thai girls, tilawka guru, touts, tripitaka, troupe, truck, ubein bridge with no comments
day 41 — today was an early start, as we were catching the ferry to a small town across the ayerawaddi river. the town is mingun and has a few interesting temples. one of the temples is on the cover of the myanmar lonely planet. shinya had got no sleep and was tired from his […]
In australia, buddhism, life, money, rants, travel on
22 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, baht, bangkok, bar, beer, boom boom, breakfast, buddha, buffet, bus, cash, chicken noodles, dance, dollars, filipino band, fucking, girls, guesthouse, hotel, ice cream, ipod, irish bar, japanese, kao san road, kyats, liverpool, mahamuni paya, mandalay, monastery, money, mosquito, music, myanmar, nightclub, photography, photos, pole dance, prostitutes, rain, restaurant, routine, samosa, shin rameon, shinya, shwe in bin kyaung, skype, statue, tables, tea, thai, thailand, tomato curry, transvestite, visa, water festival, weather, yangon with no comments
day 36 — i finished packing and headed into kao san road for some last minute business … first on the agenda was obtaining enough cash to keep me going in myanmar. the country has no atm machines (due to economic sanctions) so it’s impossible to withdraw money and very few places (mostly expensive hotels) […]