Aw I'M SORRY that Ive been so lazy in keeping up with this blog. I think up things to write all the time but by the time I get a big sofa and kim's laptop and other such essentials to myself... well, thats taken, until now. Anyway, if it makes you feel any better I think travelling is making me fat. We all weighed ourselves to much hilarity on the portable weighing scales they wheel around the streets in Phuket. Why would ANYONE use those, we mocked? Well, when youre standing outside the 7-11 necking bottles of H150 aka Thailands version of red bull aka rocket fuel, cos on the 10th night out in a row your wallet and your insides are literally screaming NO MORE, you've got to do something to pass the time. Anyway the scales said I was 4 kg heavier than I would normally be in London. I decided to reject this notion especially as the grouper fish Id had for dinner weighed in at waaay over 4kg. BUT, my tummy keeps turning off the wireless switch on this laptop. So alas, it must be true. 4 lousy kilos. My Mum has suggested a quick jog from ayers rock to sydney should see me right. Which might give you a wee clue abut a SURPRISE addition to my ongoing plans.. Can you guess what it is yet!!??

Back to now. Im in Malaysia! My passport stamp for Thailand was due to expire the next day and as id already spent a whooping 20 days or so in Phuket I wasnt interested in buying a visa extension, my liver voted no. So I flew to Kuala Lumpar, simple as that! Ive been planning for ages to visit my friend Kimmy from Bloomberg whose moved back out her to look after her fathers business. So here I am. Kim and I both love food, especially cool new types of food so she put together a whole list of restaurants to take me to, UNFORTUNATELY the very first meal I had in Malaysia screwed me up big time. It was this lovely buffet of every type of local fare imaginable. So fair to say I tried some stuff where I had no idea what it was. But you know what, im blaming the chicken. On the bone chicken is difficult to cook right through - Im thinking I was unlucky and got a bad piece. I dont want to hear from anyone that it was the 'new and exotic' food, my stomach has never never never let me down on this trip so far. The sympton that upset me the most was the fact that my stomach hurt so bad that I couldnt sleep on my side, on my back or on my front and every time I stood up I got dizzy. So yeah a whole night lying awake with gritted teeth going 'let it be over', 'let it be over', 'let it be over'.

The next day Kim took me to the Tan family doctor and its funny you know cos the NHS conditions us to NEVER go to the doctor at home. We 'stay warm, stay hydrated, rest up'. and basically just suffer until our sick pay runs out or we take the infectous diease into work for sport (sorry). It felt very strange to actually see a doctor for a problem, get diagnosed, get medcine, get better. Simple as that. My medcine looked like clay. Clay. But I drank it anyway and Im better now. Hurrah!

I think when you feel lousy and then you feel better you start to feel a bit more excited about things. And then of course theres that whole stigma about people going away travelling and talking about the bigger picture etc.. But I just wanted to say that I have had some FANTASTIC conversations with Kim. Shes probably one of my biggest fans and supporters and when I speak to her I feel like I could do anything. Thats the whole point of having the education Ive had isnt it; to DO something with it. And the thing i with Kim is she doesnt think small, she'll be like, if you studied international business then you should RUN an international business. Or do international politics or publishing or something on a level where it actually reaches out and does something. So when I speak to her I feel like all this is attainable, that Ive got the qualities to do it and it'll be what fufils me.

Lot of effort required mind you, so I wont be rushing into anything just yet.

Had another fairly epic conversation with Big Rich who'd come out to visit too, and Kim, this time on relationships, sex, love etc. And he said at the end of it, yeah, I see what it is that youre saying now. It was a very long conversation and probably very loud, I definately rememvber saying at one point 'This is how intelligent women operate, you know Rich, we're NOT going to settle, we've got so much gong for us, we can achieve so much ourselves so for US to even consider a man hes really got to have somehing to offer, and how often do you see that; not often.' and Kim saying 'Ill BE the man that society says I should be looking for, I can make my own money and I can make my own happiness'.. Kim by this stage I should point out was on to her 4th dirty martini... Wish I had that excuse..

So yeah, big converstions, big thinking, a lot of which stems from the kids project I did in Vietnam. Its like Kim says, if I succeed, I can actually gear my earnings to do something worthwhile. Its not about saving up to put yourself on business class flights.

Its happening isnt it.. Somebody slap me..
;) :)