This time next week I won’t be at work… Why? Because I will be having the day off… Why? Because I can… Why? Okay, Okay… I’ll tell you for funks sake!!! Damn split personalities, neither knows what the other’s doings… Hold on.. can alternate personalities even converse? Hrmm.. anyways moving right along.

In approximately 170 hours and 13mins time I’ll be running late for the plane I was suppose to have already boarded… I’ll be blaming customs staff for the hold up, though they’ll probably be blaming the 5kg of Hashish I had stashed in my surfboard bag.

So anyway after I’ve slipped them a fifty (maybe a ‘hundy’ if they found the Heroin body bags as well) I should be on my plane.. Ohh unless of course the attendants notice how ridiculously drunk I am, but I’ve mastered hiding that… “Okay everyone act straight!!”

Okay enough of my hypothetically ramblings! I’m going to Thailand, the land of the free*. I fly out next Friday afternoon (Nov 4th) and arrive in bangkok at about 9:30pm local time, and am checking straight in to the Grand President Executive Serviced Apartments, staying in a swish room too - Grand Suite (posh accent required).

The rest of the trip is completely unplanned and will probably end up a blur anyway… However we’ll definitely be heading to Koh Phangan by the 16th for the Full Moon party on the beach! And our flight home leaves Bangkok late on the 20th seeing us in Brisbane on the 21st.

I’ll endeavour to keep this site updated with photos and stories…

Its my first overseas holiday… My second time on a plane..

And the first time I don’t get to jump out… :(

The End

* The word free in this context is use to describe the extremely cheap prices of good and services. It doesn’t in anyway imply that the people of Thailand consider themselves free from hardship, poverty, hunger or tourists.

Okay so I don’t know who really won Miss Indy 2005… But I saw the finalists… all I had to say was meh ;)

The most beautiful woman that I saw throughout all four days of Indy 2005 was this girl (on the right, my left). OMG still speachless I don’t know which part of the heavens she fell from! Gooooo ACER!

See the gallery for more photos from Indy! :D

My weekend was spent at the Lexmark Indy 300 on the Gold Coast… I was doing promotional work for Coke which was sooo physically draining!! We worked 8am-5pm. In the morning I had to walk from our compound to setup a display stand then basically stand at it all day long, swapping coke lids for lanyards (ticket holders)…

As if standing all day wasn’t difficult enough I ended up going drinking with the promo staff (Gillette, Duracell and JetStar girls etc… we all worked for the agency and were staying together - Some real Legends!!) and we were up each night to 2-3am… They were lucky they didn’t have to start as early as the Coke crew… but they were much more scantly dressed, and had to deal with the sleazy drunks! Haha

But all in all it was a fun experience… I was setup next to a Streets ice cream stand so was able to chat to the Streets girl each day… ohh, get free ice cream!

Aside from that it was a generally boring (mindless) task so I kept myself entertained by promoting the lanyards in amusing manners… Mostly yelling out “free lanyards” with an irish carnival folk accent… As the days past by I got more creative - using the same voice these was some other catch phrases I had:

• “You’ve heard of free tibet folks, You’ve heard of free willy, but have you heard of the free lanyard?”
• “Invest in your future with a free lanyard”
• “Make the most of the latest in scientic research with a free lanyard that holds your mobile” (it had an elastic pocket designed for this)…
• “FREE LANYARDS” followed by a much quieter “conditions apply, while stocks last”
• “Free loves overratted folks, but the free lanyard isn’t”

Well, I was amused anyways - it was funny because you could tell who walking past was paying attention cause they’d turn and smirk… othertimes the crowd had to wait for a controller to let them walk over a bridge so I’d end up with a big audience standing in front of me… Hehe

Its highly amusing to watch a large crowd all looking in the same direction simultaneously turn to look at you when you start yelling at them… ;) Sheep!!

All in all it was an excellant way to develop those public speaking skills ;).. Ohh and as for the winning batercard girls from around Australia.. most were average looking but I found the girl who deserved MISS INDY 2005… I’ll post a photo of her soon!!