|
Personal
|
Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
Today I recieve an email from a fellow who must have been dropped on his head at birth, here it is:
i am writing you that im interesting in porn movie. i am 24 years-old, 183cm tall, 75kg weight. I am from xxxxxx but living in Bangkok, Thailand i can send you some photos if you are interesting to discuss more.
This is my contact
This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
and cell +66xxxxxxxxx
Seeing as I currently have a policy of answering every email sent to me, I thought I should be polite enough to answer this guy, since he is not being abusive just inquisitive (I do answer the abusive ones too).
What could I possibly write back to this guy?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Monday, 14 April 2008 |
Yes it's that time of year - Thai New Year - and what a good / bad time it is depending upon your mood.
This year it has been officially sanction as a 3 day holiday by the Government, great if you are a Thai or into reliving that lost childhood bad news if you have a business to run and want to get down to work.
You see all of Thailand (except Pattaya that is a special circumstance) goes into a 3 day water fight frenzy...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
|
I spent the last week in northern China filming, this article is about some of the non-movie related impressions I got while working
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Sunday, 16 March 2008 |
Had a few emails recently as my last post was about me being sick - just a quick update for now:
- I got better then promptly drank too much and got sick again :)
- Auditioned for and passed for a Warner Brothers movie
- Shot 1 week already on same Warner Bros movie
- Auditioned for and got A Thai TVC
- Shot the same TVC and got my first partial body burn
- Went to Phuket/Krabi to work on a stun show with Dan O'Neil
- Mangaged to party again, without getting sick this time.
I think that is about it for the last 3 weeks, though I am sure i have done more it eludes e at present.
More in depth articles and video takes coming in the next couple of days.
|
|
Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
|
Flicking though TV stations while waiting bored in a hotel room I recently saw an episode of the Biggest Loser - it's the TV show where 'teams' of obese people compete against other teams to lose the most fat each week. I good loss in a week is about 6lbs, which is 3kg.
Well in the last 6 days I lost 13kg which is 28.6lbs!!!
Want to know the 'magic' supplement that caused this massive weight loss?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
|
Got a stomach bug in Cambodia, been vomiting with bad diahoreea for days, the vomiting has now stopped but I feel light headed, somewhat dizzy and my guts hurt - not to mention I am off to the toilet every 1/2 hour at best.
I'll write more about the trip in a few days.
|
|
Friday, 15 February 2008 |
|
Following on the success of Air Asia's cheap 99 Baht ($3) Airfare deals - I am flying to Phnom Penh tomorrow for 4 days.
I plan oh heading down to the coastal town of Sihanoukville and seeing the place before all the International resorts and hotel chains build there (many have already bought land).
Also I will be meeting with representatives of Film Cambodia to check out hte current capabilities of the incountry crews and equipment availability and to form friendships for future working relationships.
Plus I will be taking time to examine the city in more detail as an ex-pat, accomodation, gym, supermarkets, food availability, etc.
And I will be catching up with a few friends I have made over my last few visits.
|
|
Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
|
"Happy Be Mi"
Happy New Year, I don't know why the Thais use the English word happy but that is generally what we foreigners hear.
Either that or the string of 500 exploding firecrackers let off in the car park of our apartment complex at 7am followed by yokels laughing and children screaming....
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
|
The Nokia N95 "It's what computers have become"
Last week before my trip to Myanmar I upgraded from my Nokia N70 (it was starting to have a few problems) to a new Nokia N95 8GB. I spent 9 hours online reading the manuals, and technology forums, transferring all my old files and setting the Nokia N95 8GB up to exactly how I wanted it.
To give a brief review would be to say that the Nokia N95 advertising slogan is 100% correct, this item is not a phone, though it does that too, it is better than a complete Pentium 2 PC in your pocket....
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
Travel exands your mind, your outlook and your opportunities, it can also cause a paradigm shift which can cause you to view life in a completely different way.
It builds tolerance and understanding between cultures and benefits those who come into contact with the other culture in many other personal ways, new friends, new recipres, interesting experiences, the list goes on.
Here are a few more of my thoughts and a list of countries that I have visited and still want to visit plus my top 3 International holiday destinations...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
At 5am tomorrow morning I get up to go to Yangon in Myanmar (used to be called Rangoon, Burma) for a 3 day 'holiday' trip to visit a very good friend and to partake in the Australia Day celebrations held by the Australian Embassy to which I have scored an invite.
Seeing how there is very limited mobile phone coverage, patchy internet coverage and NO ATM machines in Myanmar I probably won't be posting any articles while I am away, but I am back on Sunday so I'll have a travel video shortly thereafter and a travel article with many photos.
|
|
|
Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
|
For the last 4 hours or so my website has been unreachable. The server that I lease is hosted in Atlanta and there were some problems there:
The word we're getting from Atlanta is that a
major carrier is working on a bad fiber connection. This is not the
data center's fault and is totally unrelated to the emergency router
maintenance from a month ago. I'm seeing 1%-3% packet loss from NJ.
We'll continue to monitor and provide updates as we receive them.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
This means that 1 to 3% of information was not making the trip, in fact it was much worse than that with major sections of the Internet completely unreachable....
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Monday, 07 January 2008 |
20 Kgs of luggage allowance and months away from home - what do you pack?
Often I have seen friends packing way too much stuff in their bags when they are only travelling for 2 weeks . They bring a full backpack, a travel pack and some carry on luggage AND their laptop.... everything but the kitchen sink - just in case they need it.
That is too much to pack when travelling, especially when travelling to Thailand. Carrying around a whole pile of crap that you do not need or use is a sure way to annoy the heck out of you when travelling, especially if you plan on getting around and seeing the country you travel to.
Here's how I pack when I travel, and what I pack...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
Last week I was on my way to TOT, the major telephone company in Thailand to drop off some papers to get ADSL connected at my apartment, I called a friend who lives next door to the TOT office and asked if she would like to go to lunch. Turns out she was at the bank paying her mortgage, just up the road from my place, so I asked the taxi driver to stop and wait for a minute as she crossed the road.
Next thing I know Bangkok Police are hassling us for "prostitution" and trying to take an "on the spot fine"...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
|
I have just gotten ADSL connected at my new apartment - that means regular Internet access for me and more updates coming regularly for you.... AND more importantly more videos with a new video section planned - "Cooking With Conan"
Well everyone else has a cooking show, including the new Thai Prime Minister, so why not me?
But not just yet as tomorrow I go to Pattaya with a few friends to see the new year in.
|
|
|
Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
|
I just spent 5 weeks in Sydney, Australia with Sydney Dance Company, followed by 2 weeks in Bangkok while finalising details before I went for 2 weeks to Mumbai, India then to Brisbane, Australia for 2 weeks to finish my contract with SDC.
So all in all I have been away for 11 weeks, add into that the month living out of a suitacase at a girlfriends place before I left (I vacated my apartment) and it is just about 4 months living out of a suitcase.
So what have been the effects and what am I going to do next?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
|
Thanks to Tyranez for bringing to my attention some problems with my video library.
If you are a subscriber and are having problems with the video section please email me as the software I am using does have some bugs., by reporting problems I can get them fixed by the programmer.
The last 3 videos I also made typing errors when I made the posts before I went away, this means that the videos were not working and I was not checking them... doh!
Fixed now.
|
|
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
Tall Poppy Syndrome is a distinctly Australian negative trait. It refers to those who get their kicks and sense of self importance by bringing down others who are successful. It can also refer to these same type of people who revel in the misfortunes of these same successful people.
Tall Poppy Syndrome is such a wide spead trait that even our current Prime Minister felt moved to make this statement:
"if there’s one thing we need to get rid of in this country it is our tall poppy syndrome."
- John Howard (Australia Prime Minister 1996 - current(2007))
|
|
Read more...
|
|
| | << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next > End >>
| | Results 1 - 27 of 114 |
|
