wtf

i'm still alive...just didn't remember my password for this blog, haha
i will write something soon
:)

Euro 2008

So this is what we are doing now is it? Watch football every night and eat potato crisps and drink beer? Eating in front of tv, sleeping in front of tv...well, if that's how you want it, that's how you're gonna get it!!

AirAsia - Now nobody can fly

Had a fun start to my trip to Sweden this week. I arrived on time at Phuket airport and saw a sign hanging at the check-in desk saying my flight was cancelled due to maintenance....great. I had my next flight from Bangkok just 2 hours after this one was supposed to land, so what the hell was i supposed to do now? A really really fast taxi? AirAsia is a "low" cost airline that takes no responsibility if a passenger missed his next flight because of some problems with the AirAsia flight. But, in a stroke of luck, my next flight was so near this one that there was in fact something they could do. Nice. They booked me on the nearest Nok Air flight so i could get to Bangkok in time...only problem with that is that Nok Air fly to the old airport "Don Muang" and its pretty far from the new one "Suvarnabhumi" where my next flight was at. Any transfer for me? Nope. Had to take a taxi and ask him to drive faaaaaaaast! For some reason the traffic was not too bad and we got there 5 min before my check in closed. No time for relaxing or eating or getting my vat return for the laptop i bought last month or anything else, just start walking to the gate. The rest of the trip was ok, Qatar Airlines is one of the better ones i have used and flight didn't feel too long. So, thanks for almost ruining my trip AirAsia, i will only use you guys for completely non-important flights from now on, can't risk it again.

IV

i've been looking forward to this sooo much, but it's for playstation 3, which i don't have, buhu

and he is back...

hey folks, 

i made my last entry on 17 of November 2006...so i figured it was time to write something, lol

i have been through alot since i last logged in here and to make a long story short:

tommy was working in bangkok, tommy was a bit fed up, someone offered him a job in phuket, tommy said no, they said it included free accomodation and food, tommy said no cause he hates tourist places, they said they would pay good salary, tommy said no, they said they would give him a work permit.........tommy said ok, let's give it a go, hehe

www.indigo-pearl.com

have a look, it's not a bad place to work, but now things might be changing, not sure what i am going to do actually. i will go to sweden soon, thats for sure, but then what?

i will have to sit down with my boss this week and sort it out, hate to not know where my next paycheck is going to come from

brb

 

what the hell have i've been up to??

well, i have been working as photographer for a website called bangkokrecorder and here are a few of my favorite pictures:

check out the rest of my pictures on: www.bangkokrecorder.com

link straight to pictures: http://www.bangkokrecorder.com/fotos/index.php?cat=14

the events i covered are: "fat festival", "dj studio @ polly bar" and "timo mass @ astra"

other than that, i've just been sick and feeling sorry for myself...i hate being sick, it sucks

haven't been able to go out that much, haven't been able to play football, have hardly any appetite so i reckon i've lost 3 kg in one week

but today i'm feeling better and tomorrow night i'm playing records at Pla Dib in soi ari...come join me from 8pm to midnight

the greatest movie ever made?

In the history books there have been many great storys of battle, but there is one that stands out. The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC where the greeks defended against the persian invasion has something very special about it, something amazingly heroic. Historians can't seem to agree upon exactly how many soldiers the persian king Xerxes had under his command, it varies between 200,000 and 5 million...but the number of greeks that stood their ground to slow down the invasion is well known. 300 from the city of Sparta, 700 from the city of Thespiae and 6000 other greek allies, all led by Leonidas, the king of Sparta.

They took position in a narrow mountain pass, where the persians had to come through. Because of the excellent choice of terrain, the persians could not surround or flank the greeks and suffered heavy losses during the first two days, the greek side had very few men killed. This could have continued for weeks if the greeks had not been betrayed. Someone told the persians about a path to get around the mountain pass.

When Leonidas found out, he knew it was futile to keep fighting and ordered his army to retreat. However, he and the surviving spartan and thespian soldiers stayed so the rest could escape. They were surrounded but did not surrender, they kept fighting until the end. This last stand is one of the most famous battles, and has been the subject of many books.

It was made into a graphic novel called "300" by Frank Miller, the man behind Sin City.
And just like Sin City, "300" has now become a movie, and it's going to make all other movies look shit.

It's coming out next year (march 9th, 2007) but here are two trailers and a website to check out until it's released:





http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/

i'm so clever sometimes

tonight

i was at q-bar with some friends, it was supposed to be "hip hop night"
haha fucking ha
two indian guys playing black eyed peas and pussycat dolls is not hip hop
shame nobody knows what hip hop is anymore
but, i blocked it out and had a pretty good time anyway
the only thing that almost ruined the entire evening was three fat british girls in their late twenties. had probably booked a holiday to phuket that included a few days in bangkok for shopping. drinking heavily and being heavy is not a good combination when surrounded by petite, pretty asian girls...and when they noticed that all the guys in the club were only interested in the petite, pretty asian girls, something just snapped. they starting talking so much shit and pushed and bumped people in all directions. i was so close to making some rude remarks and maybe get them to completely lose it and get into a big fight with everyone, cowboy movie saloon style.
but i feel a slight, slight, slight, very slight bit of sympathy for the foreign girls who come to bangkok for holiday or work or whatever. very few guys give a shit about them and that must suck something awful. its like when superman is near kryptonite, his loses his powers. thai girls are kryptonite to foreign girls, they just have to back away, there is no point in trying

from a different planet

went to the book fair in queen sirkit convention centre yesterday with a friend, and was struck by a familiar feeling...
it happenend a few times before, not too common since bangkok is such an international city.
first time was when the staff at pla dib (bar/restaurant where i work) invited me to come with them after work to a place they know. under the expressway near our soi there is a snooker club and outside there is a "restaurant" consisting of some tables and chairs and an outdoor kitchen. they serve the spiciest food i have ever tried to digest, from the northeast region of thailand called "isaan". they love to put lots of chillies in the food, leaves my mouth burning for days. but they managed to cook some stuff especially for me that i could eat without tears rolling down my face. after eating we went inside to play snooker, which turns out to not be snooker at all, just normal 9-ball. the people in this place were mostly cab drivers having a break from pretending to be michael schumacher. they didn't try to kick me out or anything but it was pretty clear i needed to be with my friends or else i would not be so welcome...
thais have a love/hate relationship with us foreigners. they love that we come here to spend money on their services but hate when we take up too much of their space. so they have these dark little places that are impossible to find unless you are thai...and they can relax and not think too much about us.
anyway, as long as i behave well and don't act like i own the joint, they don't mind, cause i was invited by my thai friends after all.
i can without a doubt say i was the only foreigner they ever had in that place.
i felt the same feeling when i decided to take the scenic route for my first visa-run. if i had been hanging out with other foreigners, they probably would have insisted i take one of the organised bus trips that leave kao san road every morning to take people to the border and then back.
i hate doing what everybody else is doing so i found out what other ways i could do the trip and decided on the train. it's a little bit slower but takes you through the countryside with the rice fields, and the farmers are so close you could snatch their hats as you go by
loved that trip, and was the only foreigner on the whole train. little kids looked at me like i had just stepped out of my space ship, visiting from a different planet.
and couldn't stop talking to me even though i couldnt understand much of what they said.
i wouldn't swap this for that bus packed with sexpats for any sum of money.

the feeling of walking around the convention centre was the same but as im not a big book reader and don't read thai yet, one hour was enough. before i had a chance to get bored i took the subway home.

todays youtube

i love star wars
yes, i'm a nerd and i love star wars. there...i said it
i don't like the latest 3 movies (why did they make them if they were going to suck so much?), but the old ones rule
found this on youtube today, they have so much funny stuff there

First Post

welcome to my blog
been wanting to do this for a while but never really had the time...
now there is plenty of free time to kill

BAD MOVIE
saw the worst movie i have ever seen last night on star movies (they show a lot of crap), i have seen lots of bad movies in my life but this one takes the price. its called "hammerhead: shark frenzy" (here they gave it the name "sharkman"), it's about some crazy guy who attempts to combine human dna and shark dna, and its truly awful
please don't see it...ever