hi everyone, my name is oon. I used to be on the list. But not now because my computer has become Chinese. which is one of the languages i ALMOST understand. however,I still read the archive sometime so Miss Honey graciously allows me to write a little. i live in Bangkok, Thailand. if you're one of those people who sometime see strange country on the map and not entirely convinced that it actually exists, you're welcome to visit me. how're you doing? myself have a GRATE winter. (just to prove, once again, that i read the archive) it's been really cold winter. seriously! the weather was actually very very cold. It's so cold we could wore all those winter clothes like woolly, padded jackets, scarves, gloves, boots, and all other thick things. Gave Bangkok wonderful surreal ambience. ie. like you're on drug the whole time. because it didn't look like Bangkok and Bangkok people and yet it was. i've been in good mood for the whole month. partly due to the extent of shopping the good weather allowed. i even broke my own item per minute record. which is a bad bad thing to do. sigh... that's the only Thai news i have today. that our winter was really cold. then it's hot again for a while. right now it's not cold but still nice enough. things are now back to reality. and i am back to work and misery. (oooooh rhyming!!!!) not that i didn't work in winter, but when weather is cold there's much more important things to do. or i should just say only one important thing to do, which is having fun. i had a gypsy card reading (or Tarot Card?) last night. seemed that i'll be stuck at this job for a long time. how sad. other things seemed to be well enough. i also have a bad throat right now. doctor gave a "shut up" order so i've been quiet for the last few days. but yesterday Fluke had a graduation ceremony. so i talked a lot. speaking of Fluke (some of you may have met him in chat, yes?), he's going to US to study Master. in Washington DC at first. anyone here in DC or nearby? because he's never been to US before i'd be grateful if someone could kindly give him some advice on where to have fun. that's probably all he needs. advice on serious matter he can get easily enough from other source. with all the honour i have, i can guarantee that Fluke is a lovely person so have no fear and email me at oon_oon@yahoo.com please. he's leaving in March i think. sad : ( speaking of leaving and moving, anyone got Mr Miller a job yet? what about teaching job? i'm not sure if you'll be allowed to teach small children but there's always teacher job, isn't there? at least in Thailand there's always english teacher job all the time. and i bet Mrs Miller will like my country too. i'll even throw in some more incentive since you're such good Thai news reporter. you can pick one of these..... a. elephant ride b. foot massage session c. head in alligators' mouth show d. Thai boxing lesson um i can't think of anything else right now. will that do? Speaking of Mr Miller, i have a dream about him to tell. and what an exciting dream that was! think Speed bus. think Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid. you get picture. Mr Miller was Butch, keith was Sundance. Keith was driving the bus. Peter had hugh green hair, like an 80's punk and swore ALL the time. in Thai. they stole the bus to cross the very dusty mexican border. cops were shooting after us. I was bus passenger. the escape was very exciting. the bus was half full of people but i can't remember other people. only the lovely MIss Honey, who was kniting. i remember Honey because of the way she looked. just think Bridget Barfot ( in the sixties, please) However, this wasn't just random dream like people usually have because I know where it came from. Butch was on telly when i went to sleep. before i went home, i saw people shooting. i went to a bar and was very much enjoying myself. which was quite something since it's drum and bass night. normally the kind of music that would have me fall asleep in half an hour. then i walked out to go home. and on the other side of the street, i saw a shooting. the first time i ever i saw* with my own eyes! first there's fighting, then bottle breaking. Then i saw people drawing gun. Then shooting! at this point all eager onlookers scattered away at the speed of light. one second i was standing there, another second i was cowering inside car. amazing! *maybe saw is not correct word. it's very late and my eyes had become too small to see anything beyond my own hand. Those people could have been tangoing for all i saw. Lucky there's still someone with good eyes to narrate. Last time i saw people really fighting must be years ago. How nostalgic. In a bad way. Only the honey's kniting part i can't think where it came from. i bet Stuart M was in the bus too. he's a regular. heaven bless him. can i quickly say something here? i hardly have time to do email lately plus everything i have in my old computer is all gone so i don't have many people address. sorry. Pam&Mike-Thank you so much for the lovely card! my Thai postcard serie will continue in timely manner soon. Adrian-have you get the photo in Krabi done yet? please send the good one soon. i need some beach photo, thanks. David-have i told you the t-shirt yet? if not, it's H&T Here and There and i 'm very very sorry! Richard (Lander)-i'm thinking of going to either Hongkong or Singapore after Chinese new year. could you please tell me if there's many secondhand record shops there? is it any good? and is it true that many nice shopping spots on Nathan Rd. has now become Chinese medicine shops? Kevan, i really really hope that Beepsterworld won't appear in my dream or i'll send you bill for my therapy sessions :) Mr Chris, it's too late to say Break a Leg for your London show. so i'll say something else. in case you played badly - it could be worse! in case you played brilliantly - a big hug and congratulations :) and as you may know, it's Chinese new year next week, i have every intention of doing proper tidying and sleep a lot. HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE! and to everyone i've not say Happy New Year to before, HAPPY NEW YEAR! oon xxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@missprint.org". 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