  Online nowSargt000- Taaaaaaaaaaasha is a person from Yay Sunshine, Bahrain.
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meat eater, pickled egg lover, big fan of dogs and anhialator of spiders. talks a lot. always makes a wish at 11:11. pretends her iPod is her life soundtrack. loves the water. always up for adventure. rarely boring.
she is very serious.
she likes hats.
can you spot her chick stache? gone now. thanks, iranian threader lady.
my muxtape.
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Jan 15, 8:16pm
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well, after 3 days of travelling with no shower and only those little wipey things for my armpits, i'm back.
back back back.
i left a little of my heart in SE asia, particularly laos and cambodia. it's ok - i fully plan on returning to leave a little more.
super jet lagged. lost my backpack. need a bath. more later.
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Jan 15, 8:11pm
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mean spirited, rotten bitch from Hell.
and i love her for it.
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Jan 15, 12:33pm
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god i wish people wouldn't fart on airplanes.
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Jan 14, 8:00pm
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ok - basically the gist is this: we left vietnam, went to cambodia, loved cambodia, met these two guys, kris and lawrence, ended up in bangkok with them, changed our travel plans, spent 5 glorious days with them on ko tao, i dove, lawrence and i explored on dirt bikes/quads, we snorkelled, we partied, we had a great time. it's been an incredible trip - now i'm in korea waiting for my connection back home. i can't decide if i miss ko tao and the boys more or my bed at home. it's a toss up at this point.
off to eat some spicy korean food. back soon.
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Jan 10, 6:54pm
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you know what i love about travelling? that randomness reigns. i ended up on a completely different ocean that i had anticipated, all for a guy.
a 22 year old guy.
travelling is fun. i'm not looking forward to the real world in 4 days.
in ko tao, going diving today - it's been 3 years since my last dive - i cannot wait.
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Jan 8, 10:43pm
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i've had so many crazy adventures in the last 10 days i can't even begin to tell you. i'll post them more later, but let's just say, it's the stuff true travel memories are made of.
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Jan 8, 1:05am
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i am cougar.
hear me purr. contentedly.
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Dec 31, 2007 10:11pm
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disclaimer
i'm going to be a boring stumbler for a while. why? because i'd rather be drinking cheap beer on a beach wherever i happen to be than sitting in a hot internet cafe plundering through my stumble cue and wondering if that stray cat by the door is going to be my lunch later.
yes, that's right - i'm on my way to SE asia for about 6 weeks. thailand, laos, vietnam and cambodia, here i come. so, if you drop me as a friend because of my lack of stumbles, well, see you next tuesday. but if you stick around, i promise stories and pictures. eventually.
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Dec 31, 2007 10:10pm
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happy new year from mui ne! (that's a place, not a person)
hellooooooo, it's been a while. internet places are not as ubiquitous here in vietnam though they are significantly cheaper. which is good because the connections are crap. good thing it's only about 4000 dong an hour (haha. i said dong.) that's about 20 cents. it's about the only thing in vietnam that's really cheap, comparatively.
so, i'll dig way, way back into my memory to hue (so much happens here, and combined with my goldfish memory it's amazing i can remember what happened 5 minutes ago). after writing my last blog entry in hue, i left the internet place to a waiting cyclo rickshaw guy. he had followed me to the internet place convincing me to go on a tour, i said maybe when i was finished. i have learned that you never, ever tell a vietnamese person you might do something because a: they never forget it and b: they never let it be. the sucker waited for over an HOUR that day, so of course i had to say i'd go on a tour. i told him to meet me at the hotel in 1 hour, and shea and i would go for a ride. he gave me a freebie back to the hotel.
so, shea and i hopped in our rickshaws and went for a cruise. we went to the citidel, the forbidden purple city, a crazy ass market, and back to our hotel to pick up our bags and go to the train station. we paid far too much for our little tour, but god i hate haggling, especially here. in vietnam, they start at about 10 times the price, and it takes so much effort to get it to what's reasonable and what most people tell you you should pay. it's actually a bit frustrating, westerners are seen as walking ATMs, and i won't lie, it's wearing thin. a t-shirt in laos started at $5 an you got them to $2. here they start at $20, and by the time you get them to $5 they're so pissed off at you, babies have grown into children, seasons have changed, but they still sell it, so you know they're making a profit. anyway, we got to the train station to find out we'd been given the wrong information, and that the train didn't leave until 1 AM, not pm. we've learned this "misinformation" is the one thing you can rely on here in vietnam.
so, this guy, mr. linh, who speaks exceptional english (most people here do, it's really cool, and they love to practice on you.) tells us he has a travel shop, so he whisks us there and sells us two open tickets on sleeping busses from hui to hoi an, then hoi an to mui ne. perfect. three times the price that my lonely planet, published in september 2007, said. but whatever, you can't haggle with these people. as long as it's not a packed local bus for 14 hours, and as long as there is a bed (yes, a bed. on a bus. beautiful.) i'm happy. oh, and toilets! yes, there is a toilet on the bus. they proudly exclaim this complete with photos of said toilet on the bus. PLUS we get a baguette (baguettes are everywhere in vietnam and laos - part of the french colonization, which is actually kind of nice, since in thailand the only bread you get melts in your mouth to form a sugary lump, exactly like cotton candy) oh, and a damp towel to clean our faces. well, the disappointment i had about missing the train (i love travelling by local train. it's real and comfortable and the scenery cannot be beat) went out the window. a towel to clean my face
AND a toilet. we're riding in style.
we got on our bus to hoi an, and wow - what an incredible scenic drive. the train would have been better (more countryside) but it was the first real beautiful vietnamese scenery we'd seen - everything else was just long stretches of houses and rice paddies. oh, and this tunnel. ok, i love tunnels. it's a weird thing to love, i know, but i get so excited to go through real tunnels (not lame snow sheds like the coquihalla), and i always hold my breath, you know, for good luck. so we came up to this massive tunnel, and i start to hold my breath.
and hold.
and hold.
i couldn't do it. this tunnel took FIFTEEN MINUTES to get
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Dec 31, 2007 10:09pm
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through, i shit you not. 4 songs, anyway. about 10 minutes (or 3 songs) into it, i started feeling a little panicky. i'm under essentially a mountain in a tunnel engineered by a country whose standards are considerably less strict than canada. i mean, we have tunnels that go under rivers, yes, but a 15 minute long tunnel under a mountain? let me tell you, i was never so happy to see the light of day.
so then: hoi an.
as i mentioned, i spent too much money in hoi an. in fact, i'm really sad to report we didn't see any of the old part of hoi an because we spent our entire day going from shop to shop getting fitted and re-fitted. i'm still sad about that. but i'm not so sad when i look at my awesome new jackets, my shoes, my new bathing suit bottoms (finally - no diaper bum or chest high bottoms) or my new boots.
oh - the boots.
so leaving hoi an was a bit insane - they kept telling us the bus was full, but we called good old mr. linh and he assured us we had a spot. we decided just to try and be first on the bus and claim ignorance if we were questioned. sure enough, they didn't believe us, but after a couple of calls they suddenly weren't full anymore and we had a bed on the sleeper bus. the sleeper bus, remember? with the toilet? and the face towels? well, problem was our boots weren't there yet. she didn't show. and she had half of our money. i ran my ass to her shop in a panic, i wanted our money back. she refused, and assured me she would send them to mui ne. my heart sank - no way was she going to send them hundreds of kilometers away. no. way. i was sad our entire bus ride to mui ne. the bus that had no toilet, and no baguette, and no face towel. we did get a bottle of water though. score.
we had a stop over in nha trang, our other beach option, which was heavily commercialized and basically a big city. i was more and more excited for mui ne, and shea for the first time on this trip picked up my lonely planet and read about it. she too was excited - the "action capitol" of the coast! yes!
we arrived here at 1:30 in the afternoon, another long haul on the bus (about 18 hours). we got a hotel room, beach view, three times the normal price (thank you, new year) in a nice little resort called noan hoa. mui ne is truly beautiful - a fishing village, there are fishing boats everywhere out in the water, and these funky little round bamboo bowls that they fish from - seriously, it's like a soup bowl, but fits 5 vietnamese (or probably 2 canadians). they're all over, and they're pulling up clams and snails and all sorts of tasty things. oh, and mui ne is where most of the fish sauce is made, so it smells fabulous here (shea wanted to throw up. i wanted a spring roll). we had dinner at this place where the seafood was so fresh, one prawn actually crawled off of the plate as he went to put it on the BBQ. oh yum yum yum.
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