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News from the Pink Phuket

Friends and strangers alike,

Below is the entire email sent to me by connect guesthouse, the place I stayed when I was in Phuket. I enquired how they all are and whether Noi is safe. I now publish the email in its entirity.

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Tsunami
I have learnt the meaning of the word, tsunami. A tsunami has not hit Thailand in more than 300 years so few people here know about it.

A tsunami is a sea wave of local or distant origin that results from large-scale seafloor displacements associated with large earthquakes, major submarine slides, or exploding volcanic islands. It may travel unnoticed across the ocean for thousands of miles from its point of origin and builds up to great heights over shallower water. Also known as a seismic sea wave, and incorrectly, as a tidal wave.

When I write this mail the death toll is close to 23,000 for the entire region and 700 in Thailand. It is the biggest nature catastrophe in modern time.

This is Börjes (manager at Connect) story
"It was a clear blue sky and we were having our morning coffee at Connect when we heard people screaming that the beach had disappeared."

''When I got close to the beach I heard more screaming and suddenly I saw this huge wave, taller than the palm trees, coming to crash down on us.''

''I just couldn't believe what was happening,''

"We rushed into a hotel as the huge wave rolled into Patong Beach. The giant wave flooded the lobby within seconds and dragged furniture onto the street."

"I had to wrap myself around a pillar to avoid being swept away"

"As I was standing there, a car actually floated into the lobby and overturned because the current was so strong," "The water was up to my chest and I was holding on to my boyfriend's hand because he can't swim,"

So how did this affect us in Paradise Complex?
The first wave hit Patong Beach at around 8.30 am and almost all our guests were sleeping after a late Swedish Christmas dinner party at Connect. Most of the local boys were also sleeping because they normally get up very late. We still do not know much about missing people we actually know. One thing we know is that the beach front places like Club One Seven and Patong beach bungalows were hit very severely.

The Paradise Complex area did not get affected by the water at all. It's a strange feeling to walk from one side of Rath-U-Thit road to the other. On one side it looks like a war zone and on the other side nothing had changed.

Yesterday we had a full house at Connect. Our satellite system was ok so we had news from BBC all day and night. Internet was working and gave us updates and information from newspaper all over the world. Many people were gathering at Connect to look at BBC news, use telephones to make phonecalls to family and friend and use Internet. We did not get much local news so this was more or less the only source of information. Several times people came shouting that a new wave was on it's way and everybody started to run. A couple of times we did find ourselves without any staff. Everyone left but came back after a while.

I had a walk on the beach road yesterday morning and it was at that time a really understood the full extent of the devastation close to the beach. Many rescue workers were busy clearing debris from the streets. Refrigerators, cars, furniture from restaurants and an entire concrete building with an exchange office and ATM machine was in the middle of the road. I could see a car inside a building on the second floor.

This evening seems totally natural and calm. We did go to Khun Bon's birthday party at May Way. Everything looked much the same as the night before the disaster.

Being in Paradise Complex feels much like being on an other Island and not in Phuket because everything was so "normal". It was like the entire Paradise Complex just got very lucky.

Is it safe to go to Patong? Yes ! We have electricity, telephone lines and Internet working in Paradise Complex. The water supply is working and the reservoirs are located inland of Phuket. Paradise Complex area feels very safe and we did not get a drop of water from the tsunami. The Beach will be closed for 5 days for cleaning. The beach road is a total mess. It will take time until any business will be able to open up again. Shops are open as usual on this side of Rath-U-Thit road. If you want to do any serious shopping go to the new Central Festival that has just opened in Phuket town. Life is getting back to normal very quickly again.

Please do not cancel your tour to Patong. Now more than ever we need your support.

Our hearts and minds are with those who have lost their lives and we send our condolences to their familys and friends..

If you need to contact anybody here please send SMS The mobile network is overloaded but SMS is still going through.
Connect Ulf 09-6521544 international +66-9-6521544
Connect Borje 09-7310180 international +66-9-7310180
Handbag Ray 06-7419489 international +66-6-7419489
Daniel Club one seven 04-0518870 international +66-4-0518870

Best regards and a happy new year
Ulf
Connect

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----- Original Message -----
From: robert cook
To: connect@beachpatong.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:49 AM
Subject: tsumani

hi guys,
i would like to expressour sympathies to all who have lost family friends and businesess in Phuket. I have had some fabulous times there and it was with absolute shock that i watched the news here in australia.
Good luck to you all i hope to visit again within the next year regards robbie.
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Another one Bites the Dust

yes, I am truly sad when an accomplished blogger decides to quit blogging.. Amongst those dearly departed are Ms. Sloth from Slothville , a new blogquantaince I acquired from the accomplished Steven Neff and not to be forgotten the beautiful, hilarious, weird and witty Ms. Rachel. I met this foxxy Lady at Frangipani and after just a few minutes was so taken aback by this young woman that I explained to her replete with diagrams on a serviette, my DONUT Universe Theory. Now I do not know how to copyright/patent an idea but know this! That Idea was/is and will be the sole province of Mr. Hussin Yusof.

anyway... It is sad when to go... it is not so sad when the ones that quit are those just starting out, quitting after the first hurdles of flames and boredom. These are very gifted accomplised writers with leagues of their leaders.. I pale so much in comparison that even making that comparison is embarassing. I myself have been absent from Blogsphere, for years even at a time... and when I do read my earlier posts, I do laugh out loud at the hilarity of my own state of mind back then....

So to those of us who are currently Absent but are wholly missed... first and foremost... Aidil, Nyah Ayue who probably have left forever and William who had stopped before I even started on his... so to you guys.. I look forward to the days when your words ring again in cyberspace..

for a voyeur like me, this is the life

Asia Hit by Earthquake

This is an excerpt taken from a game I play, I posted this on our buletin board.

well my place wasnt hit by it at all.. Malaysia wasn't much hit... our casualties might reach 100. Its because the whole Island of Sumatra shielded most of us from the waves... Only the northern states were hit. But it was surreal reading about the news..

We the whole nation had never had an Earthquake and Tsunamis were japananese occurence .... then, we felt the tremors, of course we only got the slight tremors but it was still confusing... I didnt feel a thing tho..

but i think thats because I am somewhat oblivious to Earthquakes.. there were three while I was in Tokyo and I didnt feel not one.

but yea, I am fine... Phuket is gone tho .. I hope Noi is doing alright

I am not sure of the feelings I feel. On one hand, it is the first time these things have happened and I wasnt affected at all. So, there is this feeling of excitedness and other totally improper feelings. But then when I read the papers with tales how boys become orphans after one fateful picnic by the beach day. I feel sad...

shower & undies

shower & undies
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Well Holden this is the dirt on this post that you've been wanting to hear about lol..

advise to more family-oriented readers, "You might want to close your eyes for a bit".

I had to work late that night and my mom was in Ipoh. I tried to call Collins but I couldnt get through. Apparently, he was enjoying himself in Bali at that moment lol..

anyway so I had no place to stay, considering that the fellows who live in the unit where I usually bunk in, none of them were working late that night.. so I went up to this guy, the aforementioned Mr. A and asked lamented my whole dilemma.. I have flirted with this guy many times before and he was more playful and more reactive than any other guy. Plus there was something about him that was HOT! so basically he said, "I dont have a bike to take u home but you can stay over at my place"

hehehe evul plan in action. No really it was nothing like that, well not EXACTLY at least... so basically we walked back which was kinda of kewl..i offered to buy a drink coz I was thirsty. Guess what he bought? Tongkat Ali. lol.. I guess I wasnt the only one who was looking forward to the nite lol..

now I have to tell u guys something... Mr. A is kewl in the fact that he lets me know from the start that he has had men and women going after him... and occasionally when he feels like it, or when there is no available girl, he would let a guy suck his dick or maybe even top some guy..

so he was cool. but that night the guy brought me back to his flat.. he shared it with 5 others... 2 of them was there.. one short guy and one quite ok slim guy. there were all broke.. I was pretty broke myself... but I gave em RM2... the boys pitched in some more money and went out to buy 2 cans of sardines... which Mr. A cooked up and we all ate.. I ate only a little bit coz I ate already and also I didnt want to take much of their dinner..

anyway... halfway thru dinner one of their housemate charges back home.. HOO HAA HOO HAA he comes out of his room with a fucking switchblade in his hands and asks if anybody has any complaints about him.. he then went on and on with the slim kinda ok guy.. I just shut my ears and played it cool.. what a prick he was.. of course the boy is probably a big coward anyhow.. lol

anyway.. so that night we retired to the room and mr kinda ok guy decided to have safety in numbers... he was oblivious to the fact that we wanted to be alone.. anyway... mr A. shut off the lights and we laid down on the bed side by side.. mr busybody was lying on the floor playing with his handphone apparently not wanting to sleep..

well.. we were still horny, especially after the flirting some more.... he loosened his sarong lol he was wearing a sarong to bed.. and under the cover of the blankie I was groping him real nice =) he couldnt take it any longer, he unhitched his underwear and while his friend was busy writing sms or watever, he pulled my head downwards.. I was happy =) however ... (story to be continued coz I wanted to be an ass)

MUAHAHHAHAHHA evul laugh

Merry Xmas!!!

its been a cool week, I got laid, went to BlueBoy on Xmas eve and met some people, my fren Collins went to Bali.. he had a blast over there and came back, we had christmas dinner at TGIF !! amazing.. then I hanged out at his place and just chileld.. he got me a lovely dick shaped ashtray... I will post a picture later!

Funny how the mood escapes you

I havent been in a mood to blog since a looong time ago.. Alot has happened lately, especially these last two days.. but still I do not feel like sharing..

so the gist of it is I am very tired but I got laid last night.. oh sweet... sweet mary the size of that boy OMG. and thats all I will say

Who AM I????

You're Andy!


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WINDOWS SUCKS!!! but the support is kewl

yea .. my computer game me problems again. I couldnt log in to windows.. it kept saying "parameter is incorrect" EVERY time I key in the right password. so I powered on my other hard disk and installed windows on it.. that took ages.. but in the meantime, I searched for ways to get over the problem... including.. filling out a form on the microsoft website and voila! I receive an email several days later..

a nice guy that told me to do the "F8 while booting so that I can get into safe mode" thingy. he told me to choose the last configuration that worked.. I thought that cant be right since I did manage to load XP, just no get in.. so I told him exactly that ... still havent received word...

but after successfully installing windows on my other harddisk, I figured, why not... why dont i try what he suggested.. and guess what LOL HAHAHAHAHA it worked!!! so I might hate WINDOWS but I do love their support... maybe its coz they have had so much practice lol

JD - Jack Daniels

this post was supposed to be a happy excited post about last night.. however, now it is going to be a jaded post. I am sooo fucked up.

I met JD at BlueBoy last night. Very cute .. fuck I dont feel like telling the story.. I like the guy... thought he was cool.. found out he wasnt what I thought he would be.. and now I dont know what to do..

damn even words wont help tonite.. whatever.

damnit!

my little sister has a blogspot and soon she might find this place. damnit. phuck. bnut her english is good and I wish she would become a regular blogger

Life is a SHIT!

I really believed my brother had changed.. but I guess he didnt change enough... he used to steal money from my mom, my sisters and me, heck he stole from anybody he could in the house. I ended up in my teenaged years finishing all my money so that I didnt have any to leave at home. figured, its better that I spend my money than him. and this is my OLDER brother for crying out loud.

now tonight my mom is super upset, just like the bad ol days... he borrowed some money from a loan shark some time ago.. but now I found out that since he was grounded from flights, he didnt pay the usual installments... and now for every day that goes by without payment, they add another RM100.. shit I dont know what to do short of murdering the loan shark.. cant kill the brother since they'll only come get us.. THIS IS SHIT! hmmm "this" spelt backward is "shit" oh damn.. its not..

anyway, I dunno how to help my mom, I am, absolutely broke right now.. I can spare only what, RM600 in a couple days, but that wouldnt even cover it. I get a feeling that this would end up with the car being sold, the house mortgaged or even sold and my mom being flat broke.. and worse he still would do it again until nothing is left, we are homeless and he is dead.. coz while we still live, I doubt he would change.. why? because right now, after my mom confronted him, he went out and havent come back, probably enjoying himself.

fuck is all I can say right now. no more updates until this is solved.

My my my

somebody just told me,.. that somebody just had naughty naughty sex... yes, that certain somebody certainly had a LOT of loving while that somebody was away..

ooo OOO ooo welcome to the club baby!! ooo OOO ooo

of Pizza, Mashed Potatoes and Fried Chicken

well it's a little late but I actually called work and asked for a day off. lol. why? well, because I was sooo tired due to not enough sleep. I actually went to sleep like 5:30am lol. It was actually a busy busy day yesterday or should I say on thursday. started with me waking up late which is usual, and deciding to host a dinner at 4pm lol unfortunately I hadnt done the groceries yet so by the time I managed to prod my cousin to drive me to One Utama and back, i think It was already 7pm.. they were due to arrive at 8:30pm lol.

so I spent like RM93.00 which means I am broke because I tried to charge it to my card but my card was blocked by MAYBANK, i dunno why.. so in the end had to pay cash and now I am broke lol

anyway, I planned to serve homemade pizza, mashed potatoes with gravy and karaage fried chicken. the friend chicken came out nice... very easy to do. the mashed potatoe gravy came out nice too but too little. and the potatoes itself, I wanted to blend the damn thing with milk and butter but my mom said you'll spoil the blender so in the end she hand mixed it. hence a little chuncky. but i know how to make the gravy now MUAHAHAHAHA

pizza never happened.. I made the dough and heated the oven. i shut it off soon after so I could stick the plastic bowl with the dough in it.. so it can have a warm place to rise. unfortunately the heat was too much.. the yeast died and the bowl melted. my mom was sooo pissed!!

but other than the guests came early at 8:00, the food came out late ( my mom made spagetti instead and also mee goreng) we had a fun time.. next event is on the 5th January.. a BBQ cookout at the other house !!! WOOT!!

and in april a trip to Jakarta WOOT WOOT!!

anyway... after that some relatives or something came.. wow it was a full house.. funny.. but i ditched it.. i went upstairs to shower and Leman called, said they were on the way to Tasek Kelana Jaya so I said "pick me up"

that night I met with Zam, and shahrol and leman, and somebody new, a petite little boy with the cutest moustache and unfortunately a cynical view of love. so it was that I spent most of that night talking to him coz I really like him.. however, when it was time to go.. we decided to go to tasek permaisuri, me because I had never been there and also because I didnt want the night to end there..

unfortunately because of factors I am entirely not sure of, I was a total drag there.. I was like a swaying dancing mak endan lol.. I dunno why, but even my walk was a total bitch lol ...

all in all.. I had fun..

2 things happened

well I rushed home.. and went out with Fahmi. YESS!!! no lah, went for a driving lesson.. but it being 7:30 oredi, like where the heck are supposed to drive around? lol so I brought him to Kelana Jaya Tasek Park,... lol you guessed it! the cruising spot lol ..

it just felt right lol =) anyhow, now we found some space to drive around, do some 3 point turn, no where to practice parking tho and EVEN a hill to practice the hill stop brake start thingy.. man that is HARD!!!! lol been a while since I last drove,

anyway, went home and tried to finish Nazirah's wedding Video CD.. man it didnt work earlier but now I am burning it right now... a simple feat of changing the format from AVI to MPEG. piece of cake but of course.. ITS TAKING AGES!!! damnit.. anyhow, she came... i rented out my video cam for RM50 lol .. that means I have some money to tie me over.. shiit I still need to borrow about RM200 from mom to finish paying the bautiful fahmi..