Asia-time

Leaving for Phuket in a couple of hours. \o/ Kind of nice timing as it just started snowing here! Looks pretty warm there :)

Got my final jab a half hour ago so I'm good to go, I just need to avoid getting bitten by dogs, bats and mosquitos :P I'm done packing, all of my belongings that I'm not taking are at my aunt's house, and all my Thai stuff is packed. I'm bang on the 20kg for hold luggage, and slightly over the 7kg for hand luggage as my laptop is a beast! Just gotta give my keys back to my flatmate, who's giving me a lift to the airport in an hour.

I'm meeting Craig at Heathrow and we're both on the same flight across to Bangkok then Phuket. Will be meeting up with Erik when we arrive, we're staying here for the first couple of nights and will start searching for a sweet 3-4 bedroom house right away. Will probably head for breaks in Singapore in about a month, and Malaysia in a couple of months. Will have to hit up Bangkok at some point too.

For the next few months I'll be writing mainly about life type stuff. Kind of like a journal for the trip sort of thing so I can look back on it, kind of like Vegas last summer. Saves me tellling the same stories to a lot of different people on skype too.

So for the last few days I've been hanigng out with friends/family, played pretty much no pokers. Was nice to see everyone before I headed off, cheers guys if you're reading. Had a poker game a few nights back, beers/thai-foodage/party a couple of nights ago, movies night on Sat night and packing with my Dad/bro last night followed by some food at Hard Rock. Been mostly drunk/hungover for the past few days, worth it though!

Oh yea, my Dad/bro left at like 10pm last night and took a bunch of stuff like paperwork, etc that I might need them to access for me when I'm away. I still hadn't packed for Thai yet and just had a ton of stuff on my bed that I kind of hoped was everything as I hadn't made a list. I then realised that my travel insurance and PASSPORT was in the file I gave them to take away. Fortunately caught them before they got over the bridge as it's a pretty long drive :O Organisation fail.

18-hours of flights time, yuck. Next post will be from Thailand...