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C R U I S I N G to A S I A ---- the only way to travel !

OK, I am (almost) on my way.

Today I paid for my cruise trip to south east Asia, on the good ship Sun Princess. This is a floating, luxury hotel:

http://www.princess.com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sun_Princess_(1995)

The ship will depart the port of Fremantle (port to the city of...
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Well, winter has finally arrived, and I am still in Perth. Been told that there are a number of important family events, birthdays and such that I must spend in Perth before I head off to enjoy myself. Obligations! They just swoop down and attack you.

One thing which annoyed me, today I got my annual fly inoculation, yes jabbed by a needle. This will...
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Hi, new post.

I know that SG normally has blogs about sex, relationships, and stuff like that, great human drama, but here is a more mundane but very enjoyable story, my nephew's 5th birthday. Yes, a family affair ! haha

About a dozen kiddies, and about the same number of parents (and me) were in attendance. The kids played games, including an air castle which...
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Almost ready, to leave Australia.

Today I will be picking up my passport with my shiny new six month Thai visa. I will be able to stay in the land of the smile for 6 months before having to get a new visa, cool. The entire Thai visa thing is tricky, but it can be worked.

I feel a profound sense of relaxation as I...
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Here we go, a new post (not that that many people read them, but what the hey!)

I sit here in the rapidly approaching Australian winter (that is southern Aust --- Aust is tall enough to have different climates in the north and south parts of the country ---- just in case you did not know that). I do not like the cold. Up until...
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Wow, today, just a few minutes ago, I sent out an email to my friends and various other people I email communicate with letting them know that my name has changed and that my email address has changed along with it. wow. So new. I feel a sense of exuberance over the change. It's like Madonna said: "like a virgin". wow. A new beginning.

See...
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Still chiliing in Perth, however, one thing has changed --- my name. As my regular readers will know for most of the year I was involved with a painful inheritance case against my adopted brother. I won the case, and since then I have been thinking about a few things. In short I have decided to change my name from that of my adopted family...
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It has been a week since my inheritance legal action was finalised. I have been chilling and making plans.

I have decided to return to south east Asia, indefinitely, at least the next two or three years. Right now I cannot see many reasons to stay in Australia. Over the last few years many of my friends have left town, several family members have died,...
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Good News (for me)

Just to bring you all up to date, for the last few months I have been in a legal squabble with my brother over our deceased mother's estate. OK, families! She left him everything, which is a fair amount of money, and for me -- nothing. Her reasons? My 'brother' compelled her to change her will while I was overseas.

I...
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Hi all,

I am now in Singapore, having survived 8 days at sea!

The ship itself was great fun, a Russian and Phillipino crewed freighter, 34,000 tonnes, 210 metres long, and filled with big big containers. The Russian crew were a quiet bunch, not unfriendly, but they did not speak much, even to each other. Understandable in one way, they spend 6 months at sea,...
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Hi all,

I am now in Singapore, having survived 8 days at sea!

The ship itself was great fun, a Russian and Phillipino crewed freighter, 34,000 tonnes, 210 metres long, and filled with big big containers. The Russian crew were a quiet bunch, not unfriendly, but they did not speak much, even to each other. Understandable in one way, they spend 6 months at sea,...
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