hail!

i had a blog all ready but this comps pretty old and cant handle usb2. ill put it up soonest. in the comoran highlands, still in malaysia! heading to tailand tomorrow. possibly ko lanta, depending on the weather.

nice to see rio taking on the brockbank tradion of having a nice steaming cup of hot water!

one can only assume dod, that you took a pear of shears to your hair without the benifit of a mirror. most fetching. perhaps you can give me a trim on my return! 🙂

julio

fantastic machine! isn’t that back wheel a lot smaller than the front one?!

hotel dusk is really good. bit easy so far but then i am a genious when it comes to point and clicks! 🙂 not sure when its out in uk, but you can use my copy when i get back. final fantasy is good, but not much story so far… also crazy hard! but that makes it more fun.

in kuala lumpar, or something. having a fun time with a canadian chap we have joined forces with. heading to the highlands soon.

im going to bring some Aloe V back with me so you can experiance the taste!

julio

hello!

hampi. an impressive vista

some sort of bizzare festival going on whilst we were in hampi. it involved a lot of people with knives dancing and chanting around a semi-comatosed guru with a shrine on his head. he staggered about the main street in a daze, supported by his acoylites who followed him where ever he went like hands on a uija board glass. this chap with the lime on his sword was one of his guards.

lucy in a tuk tuk

a lush pomigranite.

me and an elephant at the maharaja’s palace in mysore

some holy cows

all cars and lorries had this message on the back. the horn is used primarily instead of signel lights.

the finest beverage known to man! this kept me alive during my illness in singapore. luch peach flavoured aloe vera juice with lumps of succulent aloe plant in it. mmm-mm

feel free to send me the tesco sim! its better than nothing that i have at the moment. looks like i would have to get a new sim in every country i go to so that would be a bit of a bind.

julio

cheers for the info tom! we are in melaka at the mo’ and although nice it holds no real interest. we are going to head up to the camaron highlands and then onwards to tailand. we had planned to go to the islands but as its monsoon at the moment in malaysia it not that great or so we have heard.

i tried to put some pics up but for some reason this computer has only ms paint on it and thus i cannot resize them. will try later.

julio

hail all!

thanks for the letter ma! it sounds rather pleasent and cool at home.  its monsoon season in singapore and malaysia at the moment and the air is wet, thick and sweaty. been having some nice food, there is so much variety here that its hard to choose.

 so far south east asia has been a breath of fresh air. people are so friendly here! i’ve been so unused to it, i am wondering around in a sort of daze thanking people prefusely for what to me is an unexpected kindness, but what is actually fairly normal behavior. its so nice to be smiled at in the street! our stay in singapore was really pleasant. out hostel was run by a young chinese couple who where so friendly and helpfull it practically brought a tear to the eye. singapore itself is crazy expensive so we only stayed for 4 nights or so and now we are in malaysia, whose people are so far is exhibiting a similer amount of cheery goodwill. for lucy’s birthday we went out in singapore with an vietnam war veteren, his two sons and five fabulous brazilian girls, who we met at our hostel. a goood time was had buy all. we had a bit of trouble getting into a club becouse one of the sons was wearing flip flops. we eventually got into a different club, though he had to hire a shoes for the evening. thus he strutted the measure on the dance foor in patent leather shoes with the socks pulled up and shorts a t-shirt. a striking figure!

 love julio

ahoy! singapore is as nice as i remember it. a city of the future filled with really friendly people. as it happens i just had a refreshing glass of suger cane juice and i had some seedless watermelon yesterday. good stuff! i have yet to find the pie place but the china town mall close to where we are staying rings a bell.

unfortunatly my arrival was spoilt by a parting gift from india, some sort of illness not unlike flu. i was a bit worried that i might have got maleria, but as it turns out im feeling much better now and i must just have been run down from lack of sleep and stuff.

 

india was alright on a whole.

 it is a lot easier to write down what wieghs heaviest on the mind and also what might be interesting to read. this paints a bit of a negertive picture of india.  but in reality i enjoyed myself and it was a good experiance. however, i was interested in finding out about indian culture and having done so, i find that i don’t like it that much.  

 

nice to see snow! has it been snowing long? here its muggy and hot but a light drizzle is falling which is quite refreshing.

 of interest to no one but liv perhaps, i went to one of the massive shopping malls dealing with electronic stuff. i picked up omongst other things final fantasy 3 and hotel dusk: room 314. they are still in there wrapping as i atempt to elongate the pleasant feeling of anticipation.

 

might try and ring later.

 

julio