A New Home

We have been looking for a new house for when the baby comes and we found a beauty. Just outside town with a lovely garden. Looking at it it looks very expensive and will rent for 8000B a month. Hopefully all will go well.

This morning I went around the park at six in the morning which was great

Home Life

A few weeks into the holiday and I am doing some private classes at home with Gee this week. Later Oi and I will go to Chum Pon to stay with her mum before I have to venture onward alone to BKK and England. I am not looking forward to the flight and I have spent far too much time worrying about this trip.

At home I have been playing Age of Empires III which has been a blast. I have got some guitar playing in too.

I have had to cut down massively on the drinking as I have drunk myself into a stupor on a couple of occasions lately, which ain't no good considering I am to be a papa. Someone said it might be because I am going to be a papa. Anyway, I had a long think and got very serious and won't stop but will cut down a lot. The thought of stopping is unbearable and I am likely to go the other way - lashing out in sober fury.

Looks like I am going to miss Peter as he flies out to Sri Lanka, but hopefully we can meet up In the Indian ocean somewhere and drink Gin Slings under the balmy, evening sky.

Oi has finished college and work now, and spends her days sleeping, watching TV, playing puzzle games (hidden object) and going to get food. One thing you guys might know that if Thais do work they a. Get very little money a month and b. Have to work incredibly long hours. So, in my view, there is very little logic in her working at all, unless she is absolutely happy with the situation. Her last boss was a Chinese Nazi bitch from Hell who told Oi that she was lazy and selfish and complained about having to pay the 300 Baht a day that she had previously offered. When Oi left the boss was on holiday in India (no doubt being a bitch to poor, suffering Indians in hotels and restaurants in Madras or the like).

Music - Asian Dub Foundation, Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas

Movies - Awesome Jean de Florette, Forbidden Games, Wee Geordie (ancient flicks)

Off to war...

How to Stop Population Growth?

Watch this great lecture. Only 10 mins.

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth/

9/11 In Plane Site

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5386487651203625811

Make up your own mind.

Krishnamurti

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=J.+Krishnamurti&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=D1LASYHrDMPQkAWGsZ0x&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary."


"The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said: 'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation, and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a sense of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these dominates man's thinking, relationships and his daily life. These are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship."

Zeitgeist - A reminder

Don't forget about this;

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197