Movie night - National Treasure: Book of Secrets

I went to watch National Treasure: Book of Secrets last night. We got a couple of free tickets from my bank to a pre-release screening which was nice. At the entrance to the movie they collected everyone’s mobile phones so that people won’t be able to capture any part of the movie. Well everyone’s, except […]

Back from Phuket and Similan vacation

We’re back in Bangkok. We had an awesome vacation, seen and did tons of stuff. Stayed at a Navy base for 1 night, went snorkeling around Similan, stayed 2 nights in a bungalow in Koh 4 of Similan with gorgeous views of the Andaman, dived around the Koh’s, and then more snorkeling and power boating […]

Back

I’m back in Bangkok. Had a good trip to Singapore, it was nice meeting friends and doing some shopping. The place is definitely booming and everyone, their grandmother and dog are either buying or talking about buying property. Alongside all this economic boom inflation is going rampant, you can see it in most areas, everything […]

Weekend updates and a few movies watched

The market is a little boring so I thought I’d write a bit about the last few weekends. I’ve not updated much lately. I’m slowly going into a routine over here. With weekends spent mostly doing some shopping, eating, movie going, relaxed visits to the pool and watching my favourite sitcoms (Two Men and Half […]

A big heart

Tour de France cyclists’ hearts bigger than normal - CNN.com
Researchers who examined the hearts of former Tour bikers found that the athletes’ hearts were from 20 to 40 percent larger than average, said Dr. Francois Carre of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, France.
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Scientists have long noticed the phenomenon of the “athlete’s heart.” Athletes […]

World’s Best Awards 2007

Travel + Leisure Magazine has published its 2007 awards (are we done with 2007 already?). Anyway check it out.
2007 World’s Best Cities | Travel + Leisure
Top 10 Cities Overall

Rank
2006
Name
Score

1
1
Florence
86.90

2
7
Buenos Aires
86.75

3
3
Bangkok
86.56

4
2
Rome
86.30

5
4
Sydney
86.27

6
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Weekend fun

Had a nice relaxing weekend. Not very well rested yet, but then a whole week of sleep deprivation doesn’t get fixed with 1 or even 2 nights of sleep. Still, a good mental re-charge. The programme included:

Authentic home cooked Thai green curry with ultra fresh air-flown ingredients from Bangkok :-) yumm!

An hour’s sleep by the […]

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