Dreaming in Thailand

Over the last few days I've been leaving my fan on at night, and have had dreams of being in 7 Elevens with my mum, perpetually poised between exiting and

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In The Mood For A Formative Experience

I have been feeling quite hazy - floating in my own little universe into which sometimes the odd English teacher pops in to say Hello. But mostly my spoken communication

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Monkeying Around in Lopburi

Greetings, Well, I'm sitting in a pink internet cafe whih has a lovely tiled ceiling and beautiful-looking dangling lights, each in a different colour. My internet connection costs 15 baht

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Time to leave Bangkok... but to where?

In Thailand's capital, no street is too small to be crammed with commerce. Which is great if you are determined to shop yourself silly, but I'm more interested in seeing

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Are the most interesting people in your country to be found abroad?

Today Charlee, the owner of the guesthouse in Bangkok I'm staying in (if you haven't been following), received a guest - an (Western) Australian author named Brian Dunne who is

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Day 2 (or is it 3?) in Bangkok

Bangkok is more frenzied yet more calm than Sydney... it's an amazing paradox - people have more stressful physical conditions (pollution, heat, traffic, economic hardship, working hours) to work with

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Fragments

Together we speak Your tear to my cheek * Society, Interrupted -~-~- My site recommendation for you is TED.com, where you can be inspired by thousands of accomplished orators on

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Postmodern Wisdom & A Change Of Direction

From Yoko Ono: Q: How do you define hate and love? A: The distinction between hate and love is all in your head. When you wish to make yourself ill

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Some Thoughts On Coming Out Week

a) I have been out (first as gay, then as bisexual, and, for a long time now, as being disinterested in definitions - just being myself and loving people for

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Thank You, Sydney

I go out into the open, and the gentle enthusiasm salutes me all around. Wherever I go, it is an impersonal or rationed, and many times it is a genuine

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My Astro*Talk Natal Chart (Part 2)

The Elements, Modalities and Angularity Elements, modalities, and house quadrants. These are all techniques used by astrologers to gain a general picture of how a person measures up. How do

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My Astro*Talk Natal Chart (Part 1)

Astro*Talk Astrological Report for Epiphanie Bloom This report compliments of: Anne Marie Plante Introduction Astrology is as old as measured time. Although there are many different approaches to astrology, all

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Top 20 Countries With Highest Quality Of Life - Brief Analysis

The United Nations Development Program has just released their statistics for this year, which you can find here. (Do check out the rest of the list, which I found quite

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No Doubt & Lady GaGa: Twin Tales of Female Disempowerment

In 2003 I was quite obsessed with a music video of No Doubt's called It's My Life: You will notice some incredible stylistic similarities between not only the two songs

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Pico Iyer Talks Postmodernism

I haven't finished this interview with one of the most respected travel writers of this millenium, but I know I have struck opal (my favourite stone, and the perfect postmodern

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Counter-Intuitive 'Realities', and How To Tune Out Of The Hysteria They Impose

Looking for a suitable URL for my previous post, I decided to explore the imagery that tickled the corners of my mind with attaching an 'invisible' to the word 'tattoo

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On Reading The First Chapter of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'

I haven't touched a crime novel for about eight years, but Stieg Larsson's best-selling novel seems like the perfect text for me right now: Something not too demanding, an exploration

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Inspiring Images

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