The Lochie Monster

Often found seeking out young girls around the Suan Lum area this rare antipidean breed is generally friendly but doesn't like scared rabbits.

He he da blog now has a digital camera!

Well I finally took the plunge and bought a digital camera... blogging I think requires such a tool so the new Pentax Optio is now my daily companion. Unfortunately the PC is a touched goosed at the mo so I can't as yet up load any of this weekend's little treats of which there were many.
Great weekend started early as we all left work early on Friday. I think that as this is an expat blog that the joys of Thailand (ie the girls) need to recieve a bit more eposure than they have up until now. I will try and see how we get on with putting mini movies up too.
I need a couple of tips on where to find good online photo storage for free so if anyone does actually read this please do let me know at my email address.

Back from a weekend in Kanchanaburi!!

Well its a lovely place to stay and along with great company I had a thoroughly great time staying in Kanchanaburi. Smoked and drank a lot and slept even more. Its a very moving place for me Kanchanaburi as it seems kind of perverse for a place to be so famous as for such awful reasons. Each time I see the bridge I think of how it must have been that day when the bombers had to let the bombs fall on our own boys and how the river ran red with the blood of the dead and the dying for two days afterwards (or so they say)..... spooky huh...
I didnt go to the war graves this time as I went the first trip but that still doesnt mean that each time I dont think about and be very grateful to everyone who fought there and helped us win that terrible war. Thank god for these people or else we would be speaking German and our SE Asian partners would be speaking Japanese!!!
Anyway Bangers seems to be livening up as the tourists return now that the world has been declared SARS free. There is no alcohol for sale in town today as its Buddhist lent which is a shame but there is more than enough plonk here for us to drink. Not sure what to do today but I might just stay in and watch the fish in the newly arrived tropical fish tank!!!

Our Apology

Professor Stephen Berger, Tel Aviv Medical Center Following the latest atrocity in Jerusalem, Secretary of State Powell urged the Palestinians to issue some form of denunciation. Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas complained that only the Palestinian
side is ever required to denounce terror.

Predictably, the Palestinian denunciation later mumbles that they "deplore the murder of civilians on both sides." Perhaps the Palestinians have a point, and so to set the record
straight, I do hereby denounce the following in the name of the Jewish People:


1. All Jewish suicide bombers who have ever acted against Arabs.
2. All Arab buses blown up by Jews.
3. All Arab pizza parlors, malls, discotheques and restaurants destroyed by Jewish terrorists.

4. All airplanes hijacked by Jews since 1903.

5. All Ramadan feasts targeted by Jewish bombs.

6. All Arabs lynched in Israeli cities; all Arab Olympic athletes murdered by Jews; all Arab embassies bombed by Jews.

7. All mosques, cemeteries and religious schools fire bombed or desecrated by Jews in North Africa, France, Belgium, Germany, England or any other country.

8. The destruction of American military, governmental and civilian institutions in Kenya, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen - along with the murder of U.S.Marines and diplomatic personnel.

9. All Jewish school books which claim that Arabs poison wells, use Christian blood to bake pita, control world finance, and murdered Jesus; or that Arab elders meet secretly to plot a world takeover.

10. And I am particularly ashamed at the way my fellow Jews attacked the World Trade Center, Pentagon and civilian aircraft on September 11th while others danced in the streets to celebrate the act.

-Professor Stephen Berger, Tel Aviv Medical Center