thailand and F1

here is the short version of my weeks break.

bangkok-pattaya-bangkok-singapore-formula 1. bangkok good. pattaya bad. formula 1 awsome.

ok, im gonna give you a little more then that. first stop of my trip was bangkok, where i met up with my old friend andreas. he is an exchange student there and he showed us around and gave us tips. thank you andreas. most of the time in bangkok were spend shopping. this is what i came over:

1 smoking (tailor made)

1 suit (tailor made)

7 shirts (tailor made)

2 pairs of sneakers

1 hat

6 t-shirts

1 pair of glasses

4 boxers

i'll problaby forgot something. it was a good shopping town. we also went to a skybar in bankok. it was on the 64th floor, had a outside bar and a jazz band. that was really nice. a little scary. but nice. oh and not to forget, massage and pedikure.

pattaya was... i don't know what to say... i guess its true what the t-shirts said: "good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to pattaya". however, we got to spend two days at the beach and shoot a 9 mm gun. so i won't complane to mutch.

when we got back to singapore it was time for the singapore grand prix. people here has been talking about it since i got here. the first f1 night race ever. and i was a part of it. it was cool hearing the cars and feeling it in the whole body as the past you in a speed of 300 km/h.

now it's back to school at full speed. presentation today, thursday. papper due thursday and so on... no woriies im hanging in there. it's just half a semester left.

Im back.

i got back to singapore last night. done some school today and now im of to the formula 1 race.

just heard the thunder. might be a wet race. better buy a umbrella.

i'll be back with more from my break and the race soon.

Recess week!

ok, so apperently half the semester has passed. hmm, thats fast. but anyways, to celebrate half time we get a one week break... or we are supposed to get it. but my professor decided to put in a extra lecture this week. im not gonna show up for that lecture. i'll be in thailand by then.

it is only the exchange students that see this week as a break, i've noticed. the locals sees it as a week to study. well, thats their choise. im gonna have a break.

i have just finished my part of a report we have to hand in right after the break and now i only have one lecture left before im free for a whole week. nice. my plan is to spend a couple of days in bangkok, where im gonna have some clothes made by a taylor. im also gonna meet up with a old friend of mine, from my days in the military, who studies there. that sounds cool. like i acctualy worked in the military. i might even wisit the dentist and fix a tooth. after bangkok im off to a beach somwhere. maybe kho samet... i don't know if that spelling was corect, but the important part was the BEACH!!!

so, you'll problaby won't hear from me on this blog for a while. when i come back i have crap loads of school to do. but i promise that i will eventualy post something about my trip.

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so, another week without a single interesting post on this blog... i don't know what to say for my defence. i guess i'm just lazy.

what happed in singapore this week you might wonder? let me tell you. not mutch. sorry to dissapoint you. or, well, wednesday happed. the anual MRT pub crawl went down. basicly it was 520 students, all wearing orange t-shirts, going on the train getting of for beer at 4 stations and then going to a club. it seemed all singapore were wearing orange that night. people that saw us must have been wondering what prisson that all the convicts ascaped from. anyways, it was a good night. i had lots of fun.

now it's only a week left to the mid-term break. tickets are booked to bankok on friday night. from there we will go somewhere to lie on the beach and enjoy life. it'll be sooo good. i really need a break from school. one week without studying. nice. i'll come back on saturday, because on sunday it is the singapore gran prix. formula 1.

i'll try to post something fun for all you out there to read while im gone. i have five days to figure something out.

oh, by the way, i spent the weekend trying to study, but not being able to untill sunday afternoon. but i'm done now and ready to go to bed.

good night and take care/martin

Redang!

last thursday me and 6 of my homeboys set off on a trip to Redang, Malaysia. it was Daniel's birthday-trip. it started with a 9 hour bus trip to Merang, in the far north of malaysia. due to seat availibility we had to divide our group into two busses. me and one more went on a separate bus. the better bus it turned out. we arrived on time and started asking around for a ATM. we didn't have a singel ringgit from before. we found out that there was one 2 km up the street. fine. we'll just wait for our friends arriving on another bus we told the taxi driver.. he laughed at us. and told us that their bus had broken down on the way here. they are delayed for three hours.

so, we set of for the ATM without them. it turned out that it was out of service. the closest other ATM was 1 hour drive away. we had no choise but to ask him to drive us there. they drive like crazy in malaysia. and there are no seat belts in the backseat. i'm glad i came home in one pice. anyways, we knew that none of the others had any ringgits eather. so we emted our accounts.

when we came back from the car-ride from hell. we found a nice man that knew where our resarvation were and told us that the boat will depart as soon as our friends arrive. when we got on the boat it turned out to be dave chappel that was the driver. cool. maybe he has retired from being a comedian.

when we finnaly arrived at tha island we checked in to our hotel, then lunch, then the beach. in the eavning we found that there was a music festival for yooung, underground, tiwanese, hong kong and vietnam bands. pretty nice they set up a stage on the beach. to bad it rained in the eavning. but it was fun as long as it lasted.

saturday was spend by taking a snorkeling trip to some marine park. it was nice, lots of fishes. in the afternoon we wanted to try the real thing. so we did a descovery dive with scuba equipment. that was cool. really nice. the night pretty much rained away. beaten after a hard day in the water we called it a night around 1 o'clock.

sunday it was time to go home again. the 9 hour bus trip turned into a 12 hour bus trip. due to traffic jam at the boarder to singapore. after crossing the boarder of singapore a couple of times now, i realised that it takes time. nothing you want to do in a hurry.

that pretty much sums up my weekend. all and all it was a really good weekend. in between all our activities we just hung out on the beach.

going to redang

the reason why i don't post that often, during the weeks, is that it really doesn't happen that much on a regular day.

this week i'we had a couple group meetings. otherwise nothing special. i was supposed to go to the inline-hockey thing on tuesday. but it got canseled due to rain. too bad. maybe next week.

right now im doing some reaserch for a group project. we're having a panel discussion on the subject of super thin models.

im leaving for radang later today. i don't know that much about what it is. all i know is that it is an island in the northen part of malaysia. i hope that we will have luck with the weather. i need to work on my tan. it's starting to fade after a couple of weeks with rain.

anyways we're leaving singapore at 10 pm (22). and it is first a 9 h bustrip then the ferry for i don't know how long.

i'll be back mondy. hopefully i can post some good pictures from my weekend then.