And it goes a little something like this…

I’m in Holland (officially The Netherlands) at the moment.
I was planning to be here later in the year. Unfortunately I’m here early because last week my grandma, Oma Han Kloos, passed away very suddenly from a stroke, at age 78. It is difficult for us that we couldn’t say goodbye, but we’re happy she did [...]

This post is huge, written between February and now. Woops. Many adventures were had in my final weeks in south east asia (I only visited Singapore for 3 days before heading back to Perth after this).
Ubon Ratchitani
From Pakse in Laos we (Raf and I) crossed into Thailand by bus with Kate and Fred. While they [...]

Have been inspired to start blogging again regularly (plan is every day for the rest of June at least) by some friends that have recently started blogging (regularly) again and others that have just continued doing so. I want to do random posts about stuff and things ( ;) ) and catch up on my [...]

Life is very good for me right now. In a way, too good. Which is a first world problem. As soon as I want to say ‘life is awesome!!’ I start thinking it’s not as awesome for everyone as it is for me. Which means deep down it’s not as awesome as I think it [...]

So I’m a bit behind with blogging…I’ve been busy! Now I’m in Singapore, the final days of my 6 month trip!!
Edit: ok, so I lied, I was already back in Perth when I wrote this, but I was keeping parents, Oma and some other people in the dark so I could surprise my parents by [...]

Some random things.
Sleeper train
I’m writing this on the sleeper train from Ubon Ratchitani in Eastern Thailand(Isan) to Bangkok. This is my third sleeper train in Thailand (have also travelled on a sleeper train in Vietnam, and sleeper busses in Vietnam and Laos).
It’s 19.45, the train left the station at 19.30. Initially you’re sitting in seats [...]

So I summed up the last decade, but I wanted to do the last year in a little more detail. Believe me though, even this long list is still a summary. Busy much?!! Life is short.
The biggest thing this year was traveling, for the first time ever by myself, for the first time ever to [...]

Amazed at how much I’ve done in the last decade, but hoping to do more, different things in the next!
I could regret certain things from the past (education, work and relationship choices), but I choose to see them as learning experiences, just ‘life’, and generally I’ve had a lot of fun. Things I didn’t do [...]

When I don’t blog often enough, or write things in my notebook, I forget sooo many little funny things that happen, conversations that are had.
Here are some random ones I did write down:
Trek near Umphang, months ago
Our mahout (elephant handler), climbed from the neck of the elephant, over us, and stood on it’s butt and [...]

20-22 December 2009
Caught the train back to Bangkok after a 2.5 hour delay, then a taxi to Stefan and Poi’s (Raf’s friends) house in the eastern burbs.

They were awesome and their maid made us a late dinner! Their maid lives with them, is a young girl from a poor family, she works about 4 or [...]