kota kinabalu june 2004

too much whiskey the night before-flight to singapore ok-hung around with a german and an english lady for the evening, missed bus out of stupidness to johor in the morning so got a taxi instead- flew to kinabalu and here i am-met 3 dublin ladys and drank lots again last night-one knows friends from lahinch. nice place but not very paradicey-but there are lots of islands off the coast that seem a mystery cause no one wants to talk about them???? but of to see a dive contact and see what happens. would lave to stay and write more but must go exploring- mail ye all soon and akakakak

right -since im probably gonne be seeing everyone in a few days im not going into the details-koyo kinabalu is brilliant etc etc

but ill beback next tuesday and shall be about the town -hopefully for a bit a alfresco drinking somewhere in town-man do i need a pint, anyway will you all please mail me your mobile numbers as it might be a while before i can track down my mobile-and ill give you a call some time-to all the cork heads -ill be down for the weekend and shall be starting work on sunday-joy.

it beter be fuckin sunny and hot there or ill go mental.

akakak and see you all tuesday-

hey jojo

so sory about the last crap email but i actually thought it was from someone else called jo (another sweedish girl i worked with in the woolshit) and when i saw that it was johana rotten i realised my mistake...

anyway im havin a good time besides that im back bye myself-and since im leaving so soon i could not be bothered talking to new people, so ill go down by the sea and have a beer and some cheap ciggeretts and be moppy. to be honest kota kinabalu is a bit of a crap city, but i have been in worse-its got some good diving and its really chep-there is all sorts of cool stuff to do around the place but it all takes a few days, so ive no time. im starting work next weekend back in ireland, making tv programs aroung the country-its for 8 weeks then i recon ill go back to ozz-before the winter comes.

which city do you live in? im still hinking of going over to see some friends in sweeden-probably just for a weekend-ill have to see how the money goes over the summer.

ok pretty sweedish lady-im off for my depressed evening beer then home to hastel and bed early so i can get up and dive all day tomorrow in blue seas under hot sun....

pus pus pus-akakak and woooop wooooop wooooop simon

hoo arrr me hartys-pieces of eight-mell ye all im up north here-in kota kinabalu-bit of a bolixy city-but ive been in much worse-any way got here with high hopes of 6 days diving but met 3 dublin ladys during my second pint after arriving-and been hanging around with them-especially the ultra pretty one - i think shes probably the prettyst girl ive ever kissed- and whats great about here is that a plush hotel is still cheaper than a bag off cairns weed.....

but they have just left bound for melbourne and now im moppy and alone and not in the mood for starting conversations all over again with strange backpackers-but anyway

today i did my 1 st dive-its cheap and fun-wee boats spped you out to the near by islands, they have "house" coral formations just off the beach and a nice current so you see lots-unfortunatly they were into catching fish with dinamite until quite recirntly so lots of it is been distroyed-however the basket coral is making a comeback and it looks suspisciously like someone dropped a few thousand baskets over the rubbel-not much big stuff but guide showed me shit loads of tinnie wennnie lobsters and shrimp-cuttel fish eggs that look like condoms full cum and marbels-a dead reef cat shark(???) a couple of lion fish, cow fish and scorpion fish bla bla bla bla- they dont do confined water training instead the bring theopen waters into the crystal blue shallown and away they go-so i went for a wee snarkel (just call me irish simon) about the bay after my dives and saw more stuff-its good fun divin in the shallows over sand-had great fun chasing this fat bastard crab across the sand with a stick-then it rained that nippel hardening rain-hich looked really amazing from underneath and the sun was also shining- back tomorrow for another few dives- been asking about the dive camera stuff-the guys seem nice but i have been otherwise occupied to properly met up with man-found out i can do my dm here in 2 months-with lots of diving-hmmmm ponder ponder.

no doubt it all be good

bye for now and akakak

exactly like the begining of four weddings and a funeral-woke up 40 mins late for my dive and pegged it down the road to the boat-missed it, so here i am gammy eyed and thirsty at a coin operated computer. fuck.

i slept in for many reasons- at about 3 am one of my 2 new room mates came in with lights blazing-then a few hours later the next one came back-he was very considerate to not put on the light, instaed trampeled abou the room like a elephant-speaking of elephants-i remember from a sleepy wake up when it was getting bright seeing his sleeping form accross from me gripping his morning wood-yick.

and whats nearly more scary for me but youll probably be drooling is that the hostel was over run by some type of milatry convention-i swear that there were hundrends of them all in uniform chattering away, then they started emerging from rooms wearing only towels and heading for the showers-god it was freaky brushing my teeth but i survived unviolated.

but probably the cause for my lie in was that some sort of creature from star ship troopers was flying about the room last night eating me alive-so i woke up itching my itches-had to appy cream and than mosquito lotion for the first time in 6 months.it was all the rain you see.

so after i saw you guys off i headed to do some emails-i was not in the mood for saying much so i decided to head back to the kiwi drink place for a beer-but it was tooo sad so instead i decided to have a beer in the place where it all began and we all 1st met-jusus the place was jamming and as i sat for ages in the same stool waiting for my change-i was feeling pretty depressed and i shit you not gloria gainer singing i will survive came on-that cheered me up until the bastard dj played bon jovi and phill collins in a row-sick bastard. so i had my pint quickly, chain smoked a few ciggys and left the shamrock possibly never to return....

then i got home-realised id roylaly fucked up and cringed my self to sleep.

oh its like a email that works backwards- like momento

well i suppose ye all be melbourned now-is it cold as a witches tit or just like another dublin? either way im sure you will have a great time-andf itll warm up eventualy-ive runout a coins so bye for now-will mail soon and xxx

lots of aks

shit,

went out with the 2 roomies last night, buckets of beers for hours-went to the club again, it was jammers this time-fell in to bed at 4, had in my drunken state packet my day bag-had money camera etc all ready-put on my bord shorts so i couls just wake up and go to the boat-did everything in my drunken state apart from turning on my fuckin alarm-man i feel so special-so my last day in kk is spent emailing and been hungover.

any way the 2 chaps are owen and daren (or is that brian and derick??) canadian and english-both sound out and up for a larf. massive market today-head is full of poo and tummy is sick-chat you all soon and akakakak

joy-6 hours to kill and backpack and chain-yup flying back home tonight-be drinking cans tomorrw in the sun-lol-been havin a larf on okcupid but just joined myspace.com on the advice of some random sexy yank-ohoo i becoming a net nurd, a web monkey-but maybe ill actually meet a beautiful woman and we can have babys. just had aweek in malysian borneo-was ment to be checking out work but got pissed instead-met these 3dud ladys-oho man-it was one of those times where one is defo godess like compared to her matesd and she chose me!!-ha and you can get a posh hotel room for cheaper than a smell bnb at home. just bought myself a sniper esc 28-300 lens and x2 converter for about E360-he through in all sorts of straps-i was gonna go digital but thought id go oulskool and fuck the pixelated cunts-long live 35mm-enjoy the copenhag and akakakak

sydney june 2004

some decient music and some people to go out with and soem cash to spend-the venue: "Home"classy night club in posh docklands area of sydney where they search you with metal detectors and a bottle of beer casts $7--but a few pills took care of the expencive beer problem with a little help from jamson and redbull to really get the shits going-at none other than the supa sharp shoota himself was spinning away all his lovely d n b for all us chewing bibyiots. actualy i thought hype looked like a total skanger-but he put on a nice show even if the mc was a bit of pratt and kept interupting the good stuff. any way it was a all right lets do a half cause im working early-to just one more between us to beers at 4am while normal people larfed at us and purchases of weed and 3 hours sleep before facing the hard mean world-at least it was sunny-but where is all that money i took out of the atm last night??.

next week sweatfactory tour is coming to sydney-kicks of at 1 pm until late and snap, c&c mucic factory and the klf are playing all day in a ware house-the day before i leave but the tickets are pricy at about 70 euro-but the klf and think off all the ould summer o love heads who will get baby sitters and go relive the 90s-ohooooo

last bit of news for now and i m living with some reall life crack fiends-like i thought this guy was a jittery type of chap but hes actually on crack all day and he works all night-hahaha crack heads-brilliant,there is not much left for me to experience in this life after crack heads in my back garden.

xxx to you all and akakakakak

i met up with the chap down here for a few nights-also bumped into that colardo amanda lady who bar tended in the green ant-so we all hung about and dranked lots-last night we had lots of whiskey red bulls and dance d to mental drum n bass. he told me funny story about 461-including the gay guy who took over my room, smurf infactuation with the english lady in your old room and bestest of all: all sitting out on the balcony including dirk and his korean ladyfriend when who shows up a day early-anieta, dirks "other" girlfriend-korean girl did a runner and she was none the wiser until she discovered bag of photos and condoms in his room. oho i would have paid to have been there-maybe offer anieta a sholder to cry on (rebound off of)!!!

actualy i dident mind your sloppy seconds but dirks-euwuuuuuuuu

off home next week with 6 days diving in malysia on the way -yipeeeee

hy to all in south america and akakakak


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so after a wee spliff in the park me and this girl amanda that i met in cairns went to check out the musium of contempoary art-which was nice, then we went for some munch and a beer-and who walks into the bar----Roar-hhahahaha we laughted so much-then proceded to get get ratarsed with 3 othewr dubs and fell asleep in someones house surrounded by beer bottles-then today i met up with a welsh girl-i havent seen her for years and she was a kid-now she is grown up and im a happy boy.so ive 3 days left here then its off diving.

and as for you-you sound like you need a hug-relationship still rollercoasting? damm girl i wish there was something i could say or do but alas im crap at the love stuff at the moment-part of me wants to go back to ould ways-either with alma or something similar with swhoever-not healthy-she even wanted us to meet up back where we 1 st got together-not a chance-but ill only be a few hundered kms away and she cannot get the hint and come find me-which is still good-god dammmit why cant be love just be easy and fun-instead of painfull and over taxing to keep going. your idea sounds good about getting some space-it rarely does any harm and absence makes the heart grow fonder (although best not to absent for too long)

anyway babs-nomatter what happens, there are many cute welsh girls in this world and they can bring hope into your life when you have given up-you gotta keep yourself healthy cause if the relationship breaks you - how are you expecting to hold it together when your broken-i hope im making sence-just know that im sending you all my love and strenght-itll all be good (and hopefully welsh for me!)

chat you soon exy- akakak

sydney end of may 2004

well i doubt ill get so much in to this one but sure ill try-and anyway ill be home in 3 weeks so ill have to save some news for you.well sydney is grand altogether-probably my favourite city but still only a city-people get sucked into their own thing and disapear evn though they only live 15 mins away.everyone is busy and has somewhere to go-but its full o bars and culture. veen doing some crewing work for concerts-simon the roadie and bits of tv work-i was doing cables on a shoot at a japanese corporate event which was mental-that olivia newton john slut who was in greese played and they all went mental-all these buisness men in tuxes kneeling down infront of the stage lusting after this reminant of the 70s singing greese lightning and summerlove-then this good beatles cover band came on and they all went crazy on the daqnce floor-kids and all-i was running after the camerman making sure no one bumped into him and that he had enough cable-i had to beet the fuckers of my cable so he could move about the place-and i got paid handsomely-so anyway ive got 2 weeks left here and im trying to sort out a weeks holiday in malysia before heading back to work in ireland-ill be doing the same roving the gaeltachts of ireland with tg4 which is cool cause i should have a few weekends off around clair and conemara so illk be doing some camping and looking for scandinavian beauties at the willy clancy etc.

alma finaly got outr of ireland and is currently back in thailand where we have our romantic roots-she wants me to meet up with her there but im prefiring my plan of heading to malysia-i dont think she got the hint about meeting up there but im not pushed about seeing here and im not going to press the issue. still at least shes off on her adventures and maybe itll sort out her messy head-

so "sexxxyy basstard" sam is sluttin it up with multi ladys-bless him cant wait to get down to thomastown for a weekend on the beer on hamilton island. and to see how alls changed in dublin-

well i better go check my adultfriendfinder.com website and see if there be wonderfull beauties waiting to hear from me.

thak careeyy thomas-enjoy the terrosim on the park and alkakakaka

sydney may 2004 more nice work a coming

yipeee- got another 2 days tv work on a corporate gig later in the week-until then im still making a basketball court-ever wonder how they mark out a volleybally court? no-me neither but im learning how-lots of masking tape but it sure beats sanding and it keeps me off the streets. and alas all this good fortune has its down side -some inbread fool, nicket my bike-well watch out mr bike thief cause i believe in karma and you will get yours-serriously not a big set back cause im only here for another 2 1/2 weeks and i have ridden the life out of it so i would get that much if i tried ts sell it-but still my baby thats carried me all over cairns and sydney is probably being sold off to get some junkys fix or worse still some lazy drunk idiot has it and now its unussed in his back garden-such is life.

well all this work means that i can definatly get my weeks diving in malysia provided the ticket changes aint gonna cost an arm and a leg which is doubt full so yipeee. im heading to kota kinablu in sabah, malysia-nice-and its also about 500km (over the sea) from where alma is heading to. im gonna stick to my plan and if she wants to come visit let her-im really not pushed on going back to kpn as it been nearlt 4 years since we were there and no doubt has been developed for the worst-also ive got good memories and dont want to risk damaging them with an attempted reliving of times gone. anyway6 as i said to alma-whats the rush?-i think she just got a bit freaked being alone in strange lands and wanted company but shell get bye. anyway i gotta go check out some online flights and ill talk soon

woooop wooooop s

no sails to remove the wind from

well now those were interesting emails and i thank you for your honesty-but then againy ou were amost,dare i say, over honest in your mails-i remember it been kinda hard to get your true feekings out in the open over stuff-but like you said its been 8 months. well what can i say you know im leaving here in 3 weeks and that i dont even have 2 pennys to rub together cause im saving for a week in malysia before starting work in cork-but ireland will only be a summer afair and ill most likely be back here by september. this trip to malysia is to a place called kota kinablu in sabia. all i know about it is that the company who i may do my underwater camera work with are based there, its beautiful and hopefully cheap-iam yet to book tickets etc but will soon as im leaving in 3 weeks. i was for a while thinking about heading to north thai land to meet up-but ive only got a week and to be frank -im still digesting your last to emails so its hard to know what to say-it dose look good on paper-it would be nice to see you (etc!!!) but why now-and for fucks sake you just arrived so i know your a bit scared and lonely but its one of these things that youve got to do yourself-i know you can do it.

in your email you said stuff like we only live once-is it better to regret something you

have done rather that something you have not done etc etc. well maybe you have blissfully forgoten all those issues that went on between us for the guts of a year before i left but i have not- so what im trying to say (i think) is that there is only 1 shot at this life and i took it when i booked my ticket here. that day the world took on a brighter shine-and those 6 months of living in a girlfriendless house full of empty memories-as well as an unrewarding collage course, little cash,disapearing furniture and a job in a video stop vanished -it became a distant memory. lots of stuff became distant memories when i left and thats good-to think about the nice bits------okokok ok im waffeling now. and im still noy sure what i want to say. im happy your on your travels at last-and im really chuffed that your want to see me so much but why why why??? if you have an idea of what will happen when we see each other again and the fact that we both have plans for the future.ohoooo my head is confuddeled and im going to have a beer and hopefully when i email you next time ill have a more composed corrispondance. go kitten and have a ball, your back in paradice finially after 3 years so stop frettin and smell the air and smile at everything. sorry again for not really answering your question-but i dont understand the reasons for asking

sorry again for the group thing

but im so tired-its 4 am and ive just finished workin on a kiss gig-rock on you crazy old men. doing sooooo little work at the moment-about 15 hrs a week-wich means ive lots of time and no money to spend on it.so im doing lots of juggeling and reading in parks-damm sydney has some nice parks-its probably my favourite city ever but its still a city and i wont be weeping when i leave next month. i live with some crazy heads- ex junky and hi teeneage son own the house and 6 others board there-2 crazy ozzys-jason, quiet father, works alot- tim,going to be a soldier,never buys food but eats lots. a brazilian called marcel, smokes lots of grass and is always happy and then there are my 2 room mates-claudia the german nurse and young the korean - he is studing english and he cleans offices from 5am to 9pm every day-and he is teaching me much good good food ideas.

right enough of this carry on -im to tired and thinks me that im not making any sence--

what you must do is: go to google search and type in "weapons of mass distruction" dont hit return instead click "im feeling lucky" and read the notice-funny

good night all and sleep tight akakak

sydney may 2004

ohoo im so scared-i hope bad things dont happen to me-tisk.

yesterday i met ozzy simon-just bumped into him on the street-tis a small world.hes practally married and living the quiet life, but his girlf is off on a holiday and he said hes going on a mad one. im doing some hard crew work at the moment (by the way im in sydney)-just loading and unloading trucks for concerts-but today ive got an interview for some proper tv work--joy. sydneys nice and small (2mill) and cold like ireland-but there is loads of different cultures all thrown in.anyway ill be back around june

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doing some stage bumb ins-so far ive dont pink and nickleback and ive got kiss next week-so cheesy.but ive got me and interview for a tv agency tomorrow so hopefully ill be doing lots of well paid tv work next week and with all the cash i can go on a wee holiday in malysia before headin home to ireland to work for the summer.so thats it here in ozz-i have been on the piss once since i got here 3 weeks ago and have bought no blow-just ciggs and food.god im great.no girlfriends either after my whirlwind shag fest in cairns before i left-she even said she would marry me so i could stay in oz for ever-my mum was shittin herself


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as im sure ive mentioned before-every sunset, every funny animal, every weird cloths shop, every park, every sunrise, every new accomadation, every airport wait, every sleepy arrival, every bar, every time ive got a few minutes and there is nothing to do- and you tend to swim around my fish bowl head, sometimes like a pretty gold fish-sometimes like a piranah. so get used to it cause i am -and in a way its cool cause i had to go talk to new people, but that gets boring sometimes because most other travelers are not heading your way-and after initial conversations they go their own way-so be prepaired for lots of initial conversations. damm how weird it would be to be back in bangkok-im still not sure if i liked the place but maybe i should have given it more time. im still not so sure about sydney, somepeople say its fast paced-but i kinda find it quite chilled-being unemployed most of the time means i have lots of hours to pass each day on little or no money-so reading a juggeling the time by in one of the many beautiful parks makes me smile-its nice and warm all day and sunny-but the house is cold all the time and dark. its quite hard to meet people (for more than an initial conversation) and i mostly just know the 8 people i live with-ill tell you about them some other time-they are quite strange. still no tv work but just finished a crewing job on a kiss gig-its 3am and im sleepyawakeboredbraindead and smelly-

well kitten your there now-enjoy the heart pounding moments, and look back on them and larf and larf and learn if need be.dont for get to bargin and you have to get ripped off at least once. have a nice travel north and leave the poor elephants alone. will mail again soon when im not so tired.

wooooop[ wioooop and akak

ive met a ozzy lady who will marry me...

.................but alas ive other fish to fry-shes called loren and we have been involved for a few days but while waiting for a taxi to dinner the other day i told her of my quest to find a local lady i could marry to stay and she accecpted.nice to know the option is there but at the moment it looks like the diving has been a complete farce-i doubt ill even get my rescue course at this rate-but such is life.ill be staying in sydney for the next 2 months-lookin for a placde by the sea so i can surf and get some bar work.then back to ireland mid june (with 1 week stopover in malysia to check out this dive cameraman operation) where im back with forefront for about 8 weeks tv work-ill make it over to the manor house but not for as long as expected.so ill get the summer in ireland and i recon ill try get my new zealand visa and bust back here if your still offering my return ticket