I have the bike. It's a Trek 3700 model. I hadn't been on a bike in over 10 years. It's a beauty. I rode it home, scary in this country. I kept trying to look in the mirror that wasn't there. I have been speeding about Sunnyview attempting bunnyhops and succeeded in cutting my foot in my sad plastic shoes that fell off.
We got Grace a new one too. Her old one was like a very heavy toy which would hardly go. I found a great one with proper wheels and spokes and it goes like a dream. She too has been wizzing about the estate. I'm terrified of the Thai drivers though who will slow down at nothing.
Last night I researched making ginger beer which I shall attempt in the October break.
I had a brainwave and am downloading The Karate Kid which I am hoping is a movie Oi may enjoy, "wax on, wax off".
Tomorrow I plan a ride which I have devised. It's going to be awesome. The thing that struck me the most as I rode home through the country lanes was the silence of my bike. No engine. No noise. It was magical.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Bike
I'm hoping to get a new bike as soon as I can figure out how to get into town and bring it home again. I have also seen a decent one for Grace but I want her to sit on it first to check the size. My one is going to be a Trek mountain bike. I did quite extensive research and went armed with a tape measure, asked lots of questions, made mental assessments of the people talking to me. The folks were all decent actually. I can't imagine a shithead selling bicycles to be honest. One guy though couldn't get around the frame size dilemma. Thais are small and 19" bikes are hard to find.
We are all working pretty damn hard of late. Twice this week Grace fell asleep on OI's bike on the way home from school and didn't wake up again until the next morning. I told her to take a nap at school in the daytime, which she promptly has started doing. Oi is working flat out at school too. As a result there is little time for anything else.
I went out last Friday as it was Jon's birthday and had a great time. We ended up back at his gaff for some late night Playstation 2 tennis. I got home at three in the morning.
Last night (Friday again) I stayed home, having secured another bottle of rum which kept me company as I watched music videos on Utube.
I have to work this Sunday which really limits my time this weekend.
My lower back pain has been bad of late, despite the new chair, but my 2nd boss told me about magnesium tablets. I got some, actually calcium and magnesium, and they appear to be working. I do my best to keep away from any dairy food as part of my diet.
The school canteen has me reeling. Acres and acres of food stalls selling meat, meat and meat. There was one stall that sold salad but they stopped because no one bought it. One old lady sells fruit and lately I have just been eating her produce. It's sad viewing seeing all the fat kids in the school and everyone seems oblivious to the fact that there may be something wrong. A nation that once lived on fruit and vegetables and only used meat as a flavour have done a big 180. I think in about ten years there is going to be a lot of people keeling over. That and the road traffic fatalies, six times great than UK, it makes for scary stuff every time you venture out.
Still, there is always the war. Hey! I am so glad UK voted no go. Hague and DVD Dave are furious, and can you believe they were caught calling Miliband a "fucking cunt". Kind of shows you the level of people running the country. Looks like USA has to go it alone, or at least with France. That should be a laugh. I wonder if Freedom Fries will be on the menu in the marines canteen. Russia supplying arms to Assad. China completely out of it as usual. They'll be jumping all over Japan and the South China Sea before too long.
Sad world.
We are all working pretty damn hard of late. Twice this week Grace fell asleep on OI's bike on the way home from school and didn't wake up again until the next morning. I told her to take a nap at school in the daytime, which she promptly has started doing. Oi is working flat out at school too. As a result there is little time for anything else.
I went out last Friday as it was Jon's birthday and had a great time. We ended up back at his gaff for some late night Playstation 2 tennis. I got home at three in the morning.
Last night (Friday again) I stayed home, having secured another bottle of rum which kept me company as I watched music videos on Utube.
I have to work this Sunday which really limits my time this weekend.
My lower back pain has been bad of late, despite the new chair, but my 2nd boss told me about magnesium tablets. I got some, actually calcium and magnesium, and they appear to be working. I do my best to keep away from any dairy food as part of my diet.
The school canteen has me reeling. Acres and acres of food stalls selling meat, meat and meat. There was one stall that sold salad but they stopped because no one bought it. One old lady sells fruit and lately I have just been eating her produce. It's sad viewing seeing all the fat kids in the school and everyone seems oblivious to the fact that there may be something wrong. A nation that once lived on fruit and vegetables and only used meat as a flavour have done a big 180. I think in about ten years there is going to be a lot of people keeling over. That and the road traffic fatalies, six times great than UK, it makes for scary stuff every time you venture out.
Still, there is always the war. Hey! I am so glad UK voted no go. Hague and DVD Dave are furious, and can you believe they were caught calling Miliband a "fucking cunt". Kind of shows you the level of people running the country. Looks like USA has to go it alone, or at least with France. That should be a laugh. I wonder if Freedom Fries will be on the menu in the marines canteen. Russia supplying arms to Assad. China completely out of it as usual. They'll be jumping all over Japan and the South China Sea before too long.
Sad world.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Chair
My super comfy chair means there has been a lot more TV watching going on.
I have embarked on a crusade of; Breaking Bad, The Top of the Lake, Endeavour and a scattering of carefully perused reviews of great TV series. It makes for fine viewing and I am still in acres of delight at the relaxed posture of my body as I gaze these wonders.
A chap of work, Les from Stoke on Trent, is a gamer. despite being over 50, and we have hooked up on World of Tanks. I forgot my previous account details, so have started again. I am aiming directly for a KV and a IS, like I had before. I also have a German route open to acquire a Hetzer and an American route to get me a Pershing. I have come back into the game with my previous experience and have bagged 4 tanks in one battle fairly early on. It's an awesome game.
Borderland 2 is still great, but I am taking a breather from the relentless gunfighting.
School is ok-ish. Jon quit in a fury, and things have quietened down. We (the remaining teachers)generally just hook up for chats. I have started going out in to the town in my spare hours and exploring. I found found some nice shops that could one day be of use. It's a nice town, probably about the same size as Petersfield actually. It's not a complicated place, and it is a market town as Petersfield is.
I will be watching series 2 of Breaking Bad this evening. It's been fun. I may possibly have seen the few episodes I have already watched, but I was quite possibly too wasted to be sure. The boring bit I imagined that had stopped me from continuing a couple of years back, doesn't seem to be present and I am finding the story quite amusing. It's like seeing a couple of old friends again.
I think it's time for a battle in World of Tanks....
I have embarked on a crusade of; Breaking Bad, The Top of the Lake, Endeavour and a scattering of carefully perused reviews of great TV series. It makes for fine viewing and I am still in acres of delight at the relaxed posture of my body as I gaze these wonders.
A chap of work, Les from Stoke on Trent, is a gamer. despite being over 50, and we have hooked up on World of Tanks. I forgot my previous account details, so have started again. I am aiming directly for a KV and a IS, like I had before. I also have a German route open to acquire a Hetzer and an American route to get me a Pershing. I have come back into the game with my previous experience and have bagged 4 tanks in one battle fairly early on. It's an awesome game.
Borderland 2 is still great, but I am taking a breather from the relentless gunfighting.
School is ok-ish. Jon quit in a fury, and things have quietened down. We (the remaining teachers)generally just hook up for chats. I have started going out in to the town in my spare hours and exploring. I found found some nice shops that could one day be of use. It's a nice town, probably about the same size as Petersfield actually. It's not a complicated place, and it is a market town as Petersfield is.
I will be watching series 2 of Breaking Bad this evening. It's been fun. I may possibly have seen the few episodes I have already watched, but I was quite possibly too wasted to be sure. The boring bit I imagined that had stopped me from continuing a couple of years back, doesn't seem to be present and I am finding the story quite amusing. It's like seeing a couple of old friends again.
I think it's time for a battle in World of Tanks....
Sunday, August 11, 2013
A Visit from Don
Don came over from Ranong this weekend, as it was a 3 day holiday.
It was good to catch up. This time I was more settled into the new house and felt far more relaxed than last time. We had a few drinks and watched some movies.
I had picked up a bottle of rum and some ginger ale and coke with ice. It was a nice rum and the drinks were really nice. Oi liked it too.
Grace had a great time with Don. Any opportunity for her to meet someone else is well taken as she develops. We had fun.
Oi and Grace took off to the farm leaving me and Don to have a good time. He headed home this morning. A 2 hour ride over the mountains to the other coast.
My lower back has been in much pain of late, caused by sitting in my PC chair for hours on end. I could stand it no more and went in search of a comfy chair. Boy! Did I find one? It's a beaut and I picked it up in Home Pro. Black fake leather on a laminated wooden frame. It reclines right back is super compfy and has a stylish foot rest to boot. Good bye bad back!
It was good to catch up. This time I was more settled into the new house and felt far more relaxed than last time. We had a few drinks and watched some movies.
I had picked up a bottle of rum and some ginger ale and coke with ice. It was a nice rum and the drinks were really nice. Oi liked it too.
Grace had a great time with Don. Any opportunity for her to meet someone else is well taken as she develops. We had fun.
Oi and Grace took off to the farm leaving me and Don to have a good time. He headed home this morning. A 2 hour ride over the mountains to the other coast.
My lower back has been in much pain of late, caused by sitting in my PC chair for hours on end. I could stand it no more and went in search of a comfy chair. Boy! Did I find one? It's a beaut and I picked it up in Home Pro. Black fake leather on a laminated wooden frame. It reclines right back is super compfy and has a stylish foot rest to boot. Good bye bad back!
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Friday
A mad week.
It began with me at crysis point, really angry, swearing and in a fould mood for about 3 days. All this unpaid for extra work pushed on us at the school was really getting to me, the last demand was for 200 multiple choice questions on ASEAN. I struggled for hours typing up questions before giving up exhausted and finally copied a bunch straight off the Internet and pasted them on a document. I have very little free time as it is, then to be told to do massive amounts of extra work for free is beyond comprehension for me.
The atmosphere at my school is terrible and gets worse by the day, though personally I am spared the evil eye from our boss. A spy has been placed in our room. A thai woman who sits at the back of the room watching us. It's like being in a POW camp.
Poor John blew up whilst being observed and said he was quitting, unable to teach with a Thai teacher scribbling notes about him at the back of the class. He didn't come in today.
I have decided to complete this year then get another job next March in a smaller school. It's very sad and strange. We collectively call our manager, "Hitler", and other nicknames like, "witch", banshee", "Kitler", Imperial Emporer" are also thrown about.
I was offered another full time job last night in the language centre where I work in the evenings. I will keep it in mind and the staff there are lovely.
Anyway, I juiced all week and didn't eat any meat or crap, only allowing fruits and vegetables to pass my lips. Soon the mist rose and dispersed and I feel great again. Such a great secret of a good diet, no toxins and lots of water.
Tomorrow we head to the beach for a break and Grace is desperate to get there.
The weather has been very mild and quite a lot of rain. It's much cooler here than in Hat Yai and I am often cold!
Gamewise, I am really enjoying Borderlands 2, a fun comic-like shooter. I bought all the DLC for it and as it's pretty big, I am relishing the fun gameplay and ga-zillions of different guns and upgrades to be acquired. Highly recommended to budding gamers.
It began with me at crysis point, really angry, swearing and in a fould mood for about 3 days. All this unpaid for extra work pushed on us at the school was really getting to me, the last demand was for 200 multiple choice questions on ASEAN. I struggled for hours typing up questions before giving up exhausted and finally copied a bunch straight off the Internet and pasted them on a document. I have very little free time as it is, then to be told to do massive amounts of extra work for free is beyond comprehension for me.
The atmosphere at my school is terrible and gets worse by the day, though personally I am spared the evil eye from our boss. A spy has been placed in our room. A thai woman who sits at the back of the room watching us. It's like being in a POW camp.
Poor John blew up whilst being observed and said he was quitting, unable to teach with a Thai teacher scribbling notes about him at the back of the class. He didn't come in today.
I have decided to complete this year then get another job next March in a smaller school. It's very sad and strange. We collectively call our manager, "Hitler", and other nicknames like, "witch", banshee", "Kitler", Imperial Emporer" are also thrown about.
I was offered another full time job last night in the language centre where I work in the evenings. I will keep it in mind and the staff there are lovely.
Anyway, I juiced all week and didn't eat any meat or crap, only allowing fruits and vegetables to pass my lips. Soon the mist rose and dispersed and I feel great again. Such a great secret of a good diet, no toxins and lots of water.
Tomorrow we head to the beach for a break and Grace is desperate to get there.
The weather has been very mild and quite a lot of rain. It's much cooler here than in Hat Yai and I am often cold!
Gamewise, I am really enjoying Borderlands 2, a fun comic-like shooter. I bought all the DLC for it and as it's pretty big, I am relishing the fun gameplay and ga-zillions of different guns and upgrades to be acquired. Highly recommended to budding gamers.
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