But I get the scores on the net…
That being said .. I heart Ottawua and we just pouded the Leafs 8-0 .. hahaha.. I have epic dislike for the Toronto Maple Leafs. They are the last Canadain team I will cheer for. In yo face Toronto!
That is all.
Oh.. I know this post holds mininmal interest for almost all of you so in that light.. go here
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/28/people.georgetakei.ap/index.html
.. thats right Sulu is Gay.
Just watched Final Fatasy VII - Advent Children.
It’s super wicked sweet. I bought the DVD for 3 dollars which is equally as sweet. I have no idea if this movie is out back home yet… is it? The version I have is in Japanese with english subtitles. The CG is definatly the best out so far. So good infact that you would describe the characters as ‘cute’ or ‘hot’ which is disturbing to me. There are quite a few scenes that just don’t look computer generated.
The story is cool cause its FF but at the same time slightly boring cause good vs. evil.. blah blah blah. But the almost non stop action more than makes up for it. And hearing FF music while the movie is going on makes it feel just like the video game.
I also wanted to go see the movie DOOM but i found out its only in Thai here. Which is weird cause usually new realeases are in english with Thai subtitles, then when the DVD comes out its dubbed over. Dang yo.
Anyways.. beer at a bar = $2 and Dvd’s = $3 awesome.
Just chillin in Korat and my house. Setting up high speed internet. Buying things like a toster, toilet paper, and clothes hangers.
I’m supposed to start work at a school here soon, but its all so unorganized so who knows. Im working there as a favor for a friend and they are realy nice. They are just unorganized. It will all be good as long as i work and get money.
Funds are low.
Once i get the ol high speed net up i’ll up load more pics.. somthing happened to the phone lines here and now the dial up is slower than ever.
Spent the past few days teaching english camp. Made it to Bangkok last night after the camp and a friend and I decided we would go out and party to celebrate.. uhh.. life?
.. anyways.. Bangkok is a very dangerous city when you decide you want to have crazy type fun. Oi.. the pain .. I had one of those moments where you consider not drinking ever again while riding/suffering the bus back out to Korat. Why did the alcohol have to glow blue? How does it even do that?!?! I think I injested neon… and why doesn’t my pee glow in the dark? Where did the glow go?
Now i’m back in Korat. I met the new volunteers and will be helping Nong Pen to train them. Going out to Si Sa Ket tommorow for 3 days to do more english camp funness..
no beer please.
Presently in my house in Korat, Thailand. Easy days.
Spend my time getting english lessons ready and buying things like pillows and hangers! Traveling is adventerous no?
Anyways heres my pics from Lao… basically I drank Beer Lao everyday for a week and listened to “We built this city on Rock and Roll” and Genisis.
Creepy.
Baby elephant in Chaing Mai during english camp.
Panda Bear at the Zoo in Chaing Mai during english camp.
Lotus flower.
The ‘Arc du Triumph’, Lao version in the captial Vientiane. The french influence can be seen everywhere. They sell baguettes everywhere. Bread vendors. AND.. the coffie is real.
The picture is bit off, and isn’t a good view, but the can’t all be postcards folks 
One of the many temples in Vientiane. There are more, I took some pics, but honestly I’m templed out.
And after a 14hr bus ride, I ended up here. Duh!!! It’s a bus station.
90% of Lao looks pretty much like this.. misty, cloudy mountains, rice, rice,rice, house, rice.
On the way to the ‘4000 islands’ in Lao we were told ‘you get out here, wait for new bus 5 min’ yeah.. where are we? Well let me see rice, rice, rice, road, rice, rice.. oh i’m in the middle of nowhere. YES! Atleast we can rock!
Eventually we just got ontop of the bus/truck (it was a bit of both) and rocked Lao with classic great hits like “Look at us were white” and “check out my greasy facial hair cause i havent showered in 2 days cause I live on a bus”.
See we are ontop of the thingy non believers!!
If we rock hard enough the rice will grow and feed the populus. ROCK GODS!
Our following. We found them swimming in the ditch… seriously. But you can call it ‘the river beside the road’ if you want. JOKING!!.. calmness.The kids here also swim in the rice fields and anyother small gathering of liquid. There is really no such thing as a lake around here. They are rare, and when you see one your more likely to think pond.
Look ,the cutest disease ever!!!
Mekong River. Huge , brown, has the only fresh water dolphins in the world, and there its likely that there are sunken boats under me from the Vietnam war.
But don’t get down.. cause we brought the rock with us! At this point the guitar has a name.. Blue Lighnting! It should have been obvious though.
I had no idea what that was until 2 days ago I walked by a coconut tree and saw one. I asked my Thai friend and she said it’s what the coconuts grow on. Thats a boring answer. I was thinking more along the lines of ‘Nature’s most powerful weapon against the pestulance and evil.
This is the local School. The kids here are playing a game that I saw everywhere. You put down some money and then pick your distance, and how ever can hit it with their sandle gets the money. They are deadly with a flip flop at 40 feet.
The mighty MeKong can only be entered via ninja flips while thinking of your happy place. So it was written , so let it be done. Down side .. strong current, Up side.. free trip to Vietnam!
The Mekong goes That way!
Rice, Water, and port village. The man’s name is Yuan and he likes yo-yo’s. And if you believe that you be a mighty fool human! (What can I say it’s late at night here)
Last pictue.. the o so offical boarder of Lao into Cambodia.. little did I know that in about 5 minutes I would get to see smuggeling!! This man did not tell me. He is not a happy man. Infact he may be made of wax….
Thats the end of the hillarity for now.. It should be stated again though that Beer Lao is amaizing, and Lao girls are hot. These two things may be realated. How is that possible!?!?!
I’ll put up my cambodia pics soon.. everything from the boarder crossing to ancient wonder of the world and the inbetweens.
Oh.. and whats up with all the shooting in Toronto? .. I actually was safer in Cambodia, and its the most land mined country in the world.
Spent the last 2 weeks in Lao and Cambodia.. pics to come, but I’ve slacked off so much that i’ll do my posting backwards.
Here some pictures of my last 3 days back in Korat. I was helping my friend/housemate Nong Pen take care of her two niece’s from Ubon province.
Me , Nong Mai, Nong Mink. Nong Mink is the only 4 year old girl I’ve ever met who wants to get her ears peirced and leave home. When we asked her if she would miss her parents she said “I can talk to them on the phone.” ha.. shes ready for university already.
Me and Nong Mai bikeing around the zoo.
We went and watched a seal show. This was my best picture. Unfortunatly the camera focused on the railing instead of the seal. Whatever.
Nong Fon and Nong Dtam (students who live close to me and Nong Pen) with Nong Mai and Nong Mink.
Nong Pen, Mai and Mink at memorial in the centre of Korat.
More pics coming.. just have to edit like crazy or else uploading one picture takes half a day. I’m getting high speed interent for the house soon since im gonna be here for the next 4 months working.
Dig it.
Still the most obvious and best Title ever! .. if you don’t get it, don’t worry.
Livin it up beach bum style in Cambodia.. who knew this country had tropical beaches… and they drive on the right!
so..
‘..have I offically lost my “anti-war,” “anti-hate,” “anti-kill a mosquitos,” inner peace loving brother?? Where did HE go? ‘
Hahaha.. he’s still in here, I wasn’t shooting people.. I was shooting paper. And its still awesome. Do I approve of guns, no. Do I approve of war, definatly no. But do I approve of fun times.. yes. Does that include firing a Kalichnakov .. yes it does! No pictures aloud though.
Anyways, reality is what it is. And it ain’t lollipops and sunshine..esp where I am.. In the end the bullets were better spent being fired at paper than at people. Actually, givin the past 30 years of history here.. its a bloody miracle.
Cambodia is really cool, the Capital Phnom Phen is unique.. I wounldnt mind living there at all. It’s nothing like Thailand or Laos and probably not like Vietnam ( but i dont know that having not being there yet). In a few days i;m off to see Angkor Wat. If you don’t know what that is you never played ‘Civilation’.
Time to go be a beach bum..
You can do a lot in Cambodia
you can.. enter the country through an unoffical boarder.. done.
you can.. end up in a van smuggeling goods into the country.. done.
you can.. risk being shot while the Laos army shows up and watch your Cambodian driver shit his pants then bribe them.. done.
you can.. drink Angkor beer and crash a local wedding party.. done.
you can.. see the graves of 1000’s of murdered people during the Khmer Rouge reign and see the bones coming out of the ground, inexpressable, and not to be belittled by my short little sentence about it, words are hard to come up with your you realize your walking on bones and their owners clothes.. and also.. done.
OR.. you can just spend your money on shooting illegal weapons.. DONE!
.. I SHOT AN AK-47!!! It was awesome.. .. oh man.. I was holding expolosive death. And out of 20 shots I hit the target with 18 of them.. mostly head shots too. How good do you have to be to hit something with an AK-47 .. repeatedly .. from 50 feet away. AMAZING! You can also shoot hand guns (pffggbbtt :P) , M16 .. eh. , M60.. next time to expensive.. but I want it, a tommy gun.. sorry I wasnt wearing my suit.. but it would have been awesome, an anti-aircraft gun .. very expensive! , a bazooka.. worth the money but I no have, and you can throw a grenade.. WHICH.. i was going to do until i found out you throw it into a pool of water.. screw that! I wanna see that badass explode some dirt! There were also some chinese guns but I dont remember their numbers or names.
The best part was that they gave you a ‘Menu’ to choose from.. and they even called it a menu.. yes!
The smell of gun powder and the overwhelming sound of the exploding cannon I was terrorizing my target with was enough to get rid of any glorified Rambo images I had before I started shooting. War, not only disgusting and brutal.. would have been very loud and smelled of burnt gun powder.
But….
In concluesion.. I dominated. I turned my target into a “can of smashed assholes” - Full Metal Jacket. And most importantly.. it made me feel like a big man.
“This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for shooting , this is for fun”