Retirement’s Over. Back To Work

So the coffers are all but drained so I’m forced to return home to save up some more cash for the next trip. I’ve missed the Australian summer, which is the best part of living in the land down under, so the goal is to find work quick in order to get away before winter…

Careless Whispers

Language seems a lot like Chinese whispers, you know that game where you all sit around a table and pass a message from one side to the other only to find that the message has been totally changed by the time it gets back to you? I see the same situation with how a language…

The End of Days….

  Gili Trawangan isn’t the sort of place to keep to a schedule, and Indonesians aren’t the sort of people that are ever in a rush. Two doors down from Blue Marlin, where I am finishing up my Divemaster Traineeship, there is a nice Indian themed restaurant/resort/cafe of sorts called Pesona with a  half decent…

Dead Calm

Indonesia may well be the new frontier for travellers, just isolated enough to have a genuine cultural experience but safe enough to avoid kidnapping by angry rebels.  On the subject, Mindanao, the southernmost island of the Philippines, is regarded as off limits for travellers as it is plagued by the dangerous and unpredictable Moro Islamic…

Experimental

When I’m working I have two portraits, usually on my computer screen or the wall facing me, of two inspiring people to use for grounding when things need to put things back into perspective. This usually occurs after interactions with people I have, in my ultimate wisdom, decided are incompetent or not committed to the…

Gili T as Charged

It’s very hard to know exactly what to expect from a destination before you get there, no matter what creation you have made in your head it’s never the same as what you encounter on arrival, most times substantially different. This was no different with Gili Trawangan. The facts I had about it were that…