From the monthly archives: August 2008
Homer

Don’t screw it up, brain

On August 14 2008 · 3 Comments · In Diary

I had a job interview yesterday for a job I really, really want, and as has been the case on several occasions before, thinking back, I can hardly remember a word I said. What does however worry me is that I think I might have come across as an eight-year old with ADD who just [...]

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New look, same tripe!

On August 12 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Because I’m not travelling at the moment, and because I had something else I should have been doing, I changed the name of the blog back to it’s pre-Carry On Up The Mekong name and gave it a new look. All the ill-informed rants, casual insults of religion, highly amusing videos of cats and the [...]

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London

On August 11 2008 · 2 Comments · In Diary

I’m in London for a job interview, and I had forgotten just what a pain in the neck this place is to be in if you’re just mooching here, if you’re not working, not a tourist, just here. It’s not unwelcoming, not exactly, you just get the feeling the place couldn’t give a stuff if [...]

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Back

On August 8 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, Travel

I’m going cold turkey from heat and mosquito bites and mango shakes and noise and Anchor beer and moronic TV on AXN near-drowned out by ceiling fans and riding a rickety motorbike and being laughed at by Khmers all day every day and having my belly prodded and being asked when I’m going to have [...]

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Bye bye

On August 1 2008 · 1 Comment · In Cambodia, Diary, Travel

With 24 hours left in Cambodia I’m just getting round to sorting out my possessions into stuff I can take back with me (about 20%), stuff to give away (about 20%), and crap which needs to be thrown away and/or burnt (about 60%, and that’s probably a conservative estimate). When I came to Cambodia part [...]

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