hello everyone,
Well, Nok and Steve finally got some sleep and we got a reasonably early start via Taxi for Wat Pho. Wat Pho is one of the more famous Wat's (Buddhist Temple/Hermitage) in Thailand for at least 2 reasons that I know of. It has the Laying Buddha that is . . . . I am guessing about 20 meters long and about 10 high. And it is the storage place of over a 1000 Buddhist Statues. And of these thousand I am not talking little bitty things that are an inch tall. Most that I saw were in the region of 5-6 feet tall and most are reported to be solid GOLD.
Entry was 100 Baht for Farrang's (Westerners). I just went to Wikpidia for verifications and found that my idea of the size was incorrect. 46 meters long and 15 tall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho There is a video that you can watch that does a bit of a walkabout.
The place is 80,000 sq meters. It is BIG. Do the video.
After we left Wat Pho, we were all hungry. So, we headed to the street vendors for some . . . what ever ones tastes allow. It is all available on the streets of Thailand. From eggs, fish, meat, vegies, fruit and many things that I didn't know what they were.
I did spy a vendor selling Coconuts for juice. I asked Steve if he had ever had fresh Coconut juice. His immediate Farrang statement was, "I don't like coconut.", I laughed and said we are not talking about eating dry old plastic packaged coconut here. We are talking about the vendor chopping off the top sticking in a straw and we get to drink the juice of the coconut that has not yet become milk. Then the best part is spooning out the innards. If the coconut is young enough this is a slimy opaque looking too much like runny snot that tastes absolutely awesome. My first taste was with Jenny in Honduras at the property that she owned there. I did get steve to try it. He was not duly impressed, however, he did try and that is really something for most Yanks to try something different.
Next was a noodle bar. I had had 2 coconuts and some fruit and am not impressed with the noodle bars. Steaming water, spices, a few vegies thrown in and meat that has been laying around a bit too long for my taste. Let alone that I had become vegetarian about 3 months ago. After we were all satisfied we had a long walk to the front entrance of the King's Palace. We had come out of Wat Pho at the back side of the Palace and needed to walk all the way around to the other side.
The King of Thailand is probably almost more revered that the Buddha. He has reigned for over 50 years. He has done well and the people of Thailand greatly love him and his wife. Nok said if the King declared that the following Tuesday everyone was to wear Yellow. Everyone would, in the entire country. Again go to the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej
Here we saw the Emerald Buddha. It may have been highly revered, however for me it was atop a huge dias and almost invisible to my naked jaded eye, ha ha ha. The building and the dias were greatly impressive. The buildings, temples within, many statues were all impressive.
For me the best part of the day was to be with my nephew, friend, brother Steve and his lovely wife Nok. Steve had once upon a time lived with me for a summer. at 19 he was a pain in my butt. 21 years on he is a lovely man, comfortable with who he is and his decision to marry into a different culture. We had many great conversations. Nok has considerable English picked up along the passage of her life. Sure there is the odd word that she needs to look up of figure out. Yet, Nok was very capable during a long disscussion that she and I had about Buddhist Monks in Thailand to get her point well and completely across to me. And to understand where I was coming from about Buddhist monks in Australia and hopefully the Forest Monks from Ajhan Mun's and Ajhan Cha's Forest Monastery traditions.
All of you that will read this as far as I know live in the Western 1st level countries, like Australia and USA. These countries have incredible support systems in place for those that choose to give their life over to meditation. The hospital system is in place to give them help when it is needed. Ambulances to carry them, safe conditions etc. In Thailand as far as I know there is no bottom line of support for the needy. Steve said that there were NO Ambulances. I saw a few very very few however.
So, in Thailand the Monks will accept money, cash, checks, gold, what ever for the Monastery and keep a cut for themselves. I felt pretty bad about this initially until I understood that there is no guarantee of any support from the public, the hospital system, the courts anything for that person that has chosen to become a monk. So, He/She needs to create some form of back up. I have yet to discuss this with Ajhan Bramvamso here in Perth and when I do I will pass on his thoughts and comments.
Until then. Gotta go to bed.
Next will be about Traditional Thai Massage
peace
gene
may you be well and happy
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Monday, 28 January 2008
Bangkok 2
Well, after a little sleep here at home, ready to write some more.
The trip from the NEW airport to the city I had been told takes about 1 hour. It is all 4 lane freeway. This was to be my first experience of transportation in Thailand. Everywhere in the world there are the lines on the highway. Well, in Thailand that are for mere guidance of an idea where a lane might ought to be.
I quickly noticed that there were hardly any old cars beyond maybe 10 - 15 years old. Mostly the cars were VERY new. So, I figured everyone would have some level of caution when driving, ha ha ha. then there are the millions of mopeds, scooters, motor cycles and later in the city 3 wheel thingys called tut tut I think or put puts. Someone will correct me I am sure.
Now as I mentioned this was a 4 lane freeway. then there is the shoulder, and most freeways lanes are much wider than needed right? Well all the freeway from lane wall to lane wall was in use. Not at high speeds, just at dead slow crawl speeds. Everyone working to find the hole that would get them further up the road sooner. I could go on and on about this, however, it is pointless. Imagine perhaps a very busy ant trail where the ants are crawling over each other to get to their destination . . . it felt like that at times. And the most amazing part was 1) no accidents 2) no horn honking 3) no anger or upsetness that a driver didn't get the "hole" they wanted. Much more on this concept several blogs from now as I finally learned why only the last 2-3 days of the trip.
When we dropped off the freeway it was to a very congested 6 lane highway Sukhumvit. Here it was crawling with buses belching smoke, trucks, cars, scooters, tut tuts, policement attempting to direct traffic and seemed utter chaos . . . yet it all flowed.
Finally to the hotel or at least as close as the driver could get. I had set it up for early arrival. Well, that is a mis-understood word in Thailand from what I learned later. After 4 hours of sleeping on a couch that was 1 1/2 meters long I was finally given a room. Seems that all rooms in the entire hotel have to be ready before any are made available. By then I couldn't sleep, or only fitfully.
I did a careful walk about to explore my immediate surroundings. Walking down the street and back the same way that I came. Shops everywhere, NOISE that already was driving me around the bend. The tut tut's seem to not have a muffler and the drivers cannot just let them idle having to rumpa rumpa the engine when ever they are stopped. Hundreds, thousands of people talking, luckily like I have mentioned no horns. I found a small store to buy some toothpaste and water. Later I ventured out to a restaurant that had a picture menue and ordered a nice meal for about $3.00.
I thought that Steve and Nok (rhyms with coke) where coming in 5 hours after me. Mixed communications. They came in around midnight.
I love to travel and see and do different things, yet I am a very cautious traveler. I needed Steve and Nok for guides to build my confidence. So, I stayed in my room mostly.
The next morning as I ventured out to see the world, I virtually bumped into Steve and Nok on the way to knock on my door.
Next adventure was the buffet breakfast. It was great. They didn't eat much, me, I had just paid $185 for a room, I ate all that I could. At the end, I observed Steve leaving a tip. I was shocked, what we gotta tip here. I have become Australian in that regard. It took me a while to be comfortable with a bit of tipping in Thailand. When I finally figured out how little they make and on what narrow margins they survive compared to my relative wealth, tipping became OK.
The next few days became a bit of a blur. Walks to the train station and rides to MBK a HUGE HUGE department store mall factory. My guess is that this place is about 7 stores tall, about 1/2 kilometer wide, and maybe a kilometer long. And unlike a western mall this one is CRAMMED with mini stalls sometimes not even 4 meter square. Selling everything that can be imagined. Our first adventure was to buy Sim cards for Nok's and my mobile phone so that we could contact each other. My sim card and about 30 minutes cost 200 Baht (about $7.15 OZ) Later a 111 minute upgrade of time cost me 100 BHT or about $3.60 OZ.
When Steve and I ventured back on the train, we got the wrong one. There are many layers of this sky train and getting on the wrong level as everyone knows that uses trains takes you places unplanned. Fortuanately he realized the mistake early and we retraced our ride to get in the proper level and back to Sukhumvit Soi 22 area.
Steve and Nok were tired as anyone traveling 1/2 way around the world would be. They went to nap early and wished to get up late (when i normally am in bed) to travel, visit, eat whatever. Mostly I slept at night LATE and still got up reasonably early for me to do my exercizes. And go for longer and longer walks exploring as I got braver.
I carried a business card of the establishment where we were staying to be able to find a taxi and return home, ha ha ha. The place we stayed was where Nok had lived when she lived/worked in Bangkok. I had a 5 floor walkup with a small balcony, fridge, TV with 60 channels {5 in english}, shower, toilet for $600 Baht a night ($21.43 OZ) it was always quiet there and cleaned every couple of days. The foyer was a tin covered communal area with 3 tv's on different channels, heavy wooden tables and chairs, piles of old newspapers in at least two languages, Rambo the incredibly friendly Rottwieler, and Grumpy (my name until he got a massage from me, ha ha ha) an Australia Shepard cross).
There was a steel slide door across the front about 5 meters in length with a small door to get in in the evenings. it was/is a great place to stay and I plan on returning there when/if I return to Thailand.
Next up will be the visit to Wat Pho and the King's Palace
See you all
peace
gene
may you be well and happy
The trip from the NEW airport to the city I had been told takes about 1 hour. It is all 4 lane freeway. This was to be my first experience of transportation in Thailand. Everywhere in the world there are the lines on the highway. Well, in Thailand that are for mere guidance of an idea where a lane might ought to be.
I quickly noticed that there were hardly any old cars beyond maybe 10 - 15 years old. Mostly the cars were VERY new. So, I figured everyone would have some level of caution when driving, ha ha ha. then there are the millions of mopeds, scooters, motor cycles and later in the city 3 wheel thingys called tut tut I think or put puts. Someone will correct me I am sure.
Now as I mentioned this was a 4 lane freeway. then there is the shoulder, and most freeways lanes are much wider than needed right? Well all the freeway from lane wall to lane wall was in use. Not at high speeds, just at dead slow crawl speeds. Everyone working to find the hole that would get them further up the road sooner. I could go on and on about this, however, it is pointless. Imagine perhaps a very busy ant trail where the ants are crawling over each other to get to their destination . . . it felt like that at times. And the most amazing part was 1) no accidents 2) no horn honking 3) no anger or upsetness that a driver didn't get the "hole" they wanted. Much more on this concept several blogs from now as I finally learned why only the last 2-3 days of the trip.
When we dropped off the freeway it was to a very congested 6 lane highway Sukhumvit. Here it was crawling with buses belching smoke, trucks, cars, scooters, tut tuts, policement attempting to direct traffic and seemed utter chaos . . . yet it all flowed.
Finally to the hotel or at least as close as the driver could get. I had set it up for early arrival. Well, that is a mis-understood word in Thailand from what I learned later. After 4 hours of sleeping on a couch that was 1 1/2 meters long I was finally given a room. Seems that all rooms in the entire hotel have to be ready before any are made available. By then I couldn't sleep, or only fitfully.
I did a careful walk about to explore my immediate surroundings. Walking down the street and back the same way that I came. Shops everywhere, NOISE that already was driving me around the bend. The tut tut's seem to not have a muffler and the drivers cannot just let them idle having to rumpa rumpa the engine when ever they are stopped. Hundreds, thousands of people talking, luckily like I have mentioned no horns. I found a small store to buy some toothpaste and water. Later I ventured out to a restaurant that had a picture menue and ordered a nice meal for about $3.00.
I thought that Steve and Nok (rhyms with coke) where coming in 5 hours after me. Mixed communications. They came in around midnight.
I love to travel and see and do different things, yet I am a very cautious traveler. I needed Steve and Nok for guides to build my confidence. So, I stayed in my room mostly.
The next morning as I ventured out to see the world, I virtually bumped into Steve and Nok on the way to knock on my door.
Next adventure was the buffet breakfast. It was great. They didn't eat much, me, I had just paid $185 for a room, I ate all that I could. At the end, I observed Steve leaving a tip. I was shocked, what we gotta tip here. I have become Australian in that regard. It took me a while to be comfortable with a bit of tipping in Thailand. When I finally figured out how little they make and on what narrow margins they survive compared to my relative wealth, tipping became OK.
The next few days became a bit of a blur. Walks to the train station and rides to MBK a HUGE HUGE department store mall factory. My guess is that this place is about 7 stores tall, about 1/2 kilometer wide, and maybe a kilometer long. And unlike a western mall this one is CRAMMED with mini stalls sometimes not even 4 meter square. Selling everything that can be imagined. Our first adventure was to buy Sim cards for Nok's and my mobile phone so that we could contact each other. My sim card and about 30 minutes cost 200 Baht (about $7.15 OZ) Later a 111 minute upgrade of time cost me 100 BHT or about $3.60 OZ.
When Steve and I ventured back on the train, we got the wrong one. There are many layers of this sky train and getting on the wrong level as everyone knows that uses trains takes you places unplanned. Fortuanately he realized the mistake early and we retraced our ride to get in the proper level and back to Sukhumvit Soi 22 area.
Steve and Nok were tired as anyone traveling 1/2 way around the world would be. They went to nap early and wished to get up late (when i normally am in bed) to travel, visit, eat whatever. Mostly I slept at night LATE and still got up reasonably early for me to do my exercizes. And go for longer and longer walks exploring as I got braver.
I carried a business card of the establishment where we were staying to be able to find a taxi and return home, ha ha ha. The place we stayed was where Nok had lived when she lived/worked in Bangkok. I had a 5 floor walkup with a small balcony, fridge, TV with 60 channels {5 in english}, shower, toilet for $600 Baht a night ($21.43 OZ) it was always quiet there and cleaned every couple of days. The foyer was a tin covered communal area with 3 tv's on different channels, heavy wooden tables and chairs, piles of old newspapers in at least two languages, Rambo the incredibly friendly Rottwieler, and Grumpy (my name until he got a massage from me, ha ha ha) an Australia Shepard cross).
There was a steel slide door across the front about 5 meters in length with a small door to get in in the evenings. it was/is a great place to stay and I plan on returning there when/if I return to Thailand.
Next up will be the visit to Wat Pho and the King's Palace
See you all
peace
gene
may you be well and happy
Return Home From Thailand
Hello Everyone,
Well, I am back from Thailand and again a changed person.
Now to answer the exactness of that last part will to be fair take a few blogs. Rather than one that will take a week to write, ha ha ha.
First there is the trip up, arriving, the hotel, the massages, the new hotel, walking and walking, the food, the people, the trips, the food, the sleeping, late night partying, the book, "Thai Fever", and starting to get a glimpse of understaning it all, the return . . . see way too much for one blog.
I had determined from an adventure a couple of years ago that it is not good to arrive into a strange city after dark. So, I scheduled myself through asiarooms.com into the suggested motel "Regency Park". Unfortuanately I had not read the email or maybe a previous one correctly and booked my entire stay at this hotel. I was supposed to stay here one night only. Instead I booked the full 10 days here at US $59 per night.
So after a couple of emails back and forth with my Nephew Steve, I emailed Asia Rooms again and cancelled 9 days at a cost of $125. So, one night ended up costing me $184. I was sort of in shock at many of the up front expenses that kept adding up. Getting my Tetnaus Shot and Typhoid was around $160. Mosquito repellent $16., Electric adapter $20 and there were a few others that I have forgetten now. Well, like paying rent for 3 weeks while gone and one extra . . . it all adds up to quite a chunk.
Finally, the day arrives of my departure. To arrive early in Bangkok, means leaving Perth late. 22:35. It costs a fair bit to get a Airport service to take me to the airport. And since I was leaving on a Wednesday evening most of my friends would be occupied at another friends "Oneness Blessings" so I didn't wish to ask them to take me. I set it up with my land lady to take me. That however seemed to turn into a drama as her van needed servicing and she didn't feel comfortable traveling after dark. Next, friend Jacqueline wished to take me to the airport and go to Isha's gig. Well, that is what eventuated and I put in for a very early drop off so that Jacqui could make it. Also, I figured that my airline would be open, I could get checked in and pass time walking around the airport.
Wellllll, I was to fly Tiger Airways. It is a fairly new air company to Perth and it is a budget airlines. So, of course they don't show up for check in until 1 1/2 hours before the flight, ha ha ha. I was first in line so, no worries.
Did my wondering, did some buying, and suddenly realized that, "Oh my Buddha" I forgot to bring the Thai Baht money that I had exchanged from home, duh! I bought $50 at the airport, 1 for 22 same as in Fremantle. Also, about that time I realized that I had my toothpaste container with me and that it was too large for the less than 100 grams limit. It became a tosser.
Once inside the immigration, and security lines, I purchased 3 600 ml bottles of water (forgetting that I couldn't take them all the way to Bangkok, ha ha ha.) I did a walk about to see what was purchaseable.
One interesting thing that I learned is that since this was an international flight, i could buy GSTax free inside this area at up to $900 total value of return products and not have to pay GST on my return. This may be aplicable to many of you that read this and you could find a savings this way. Mostly all that was available was booze or perfumes. I did purchase an Australia T-Shirt to give to Steve. and I found a picture book of Perth. I flipped through the pages and recognised many things, Hay St Mall, Freo Mkts, The Indiana Tea House, the Cottesloe coast line, to name only a few. It brought me close to tears as I realized that I really loved WA and wanted right then to return to WA . . . and I had not even left yet, ha ha ha.
I do not remember why, yet for some weird reason I had booked my seat into the last row of the airplane against the window. Now this is a budget airlines and there was not enough room for me to get my long legs into the seat and actually sit down. With legs splayed sideways I was able to squeeze in very uncomfortably. Eventually I traded seats with the little girl in the aisle. Then I lost my head rest and couldn't lay my head to sleep for the 5 hour flight YIKES! It was rugged to say the least.
Other than that mistake, I had a good flight to Singapore. At Singapore, check through was a breeze. If I had anything to declare, I went through one line, if not another and walked right on through after the immigration stamp. I then walked next door to the departure terminal. Now for those of you that fly into Singapore through use of the regular airlines . . . I have heard of the glory of the main Singapore terminal. I as mentioned was flying a budget airlines and at Singapore that means we landed at the Budget terminal. it was a huge warehouse, well lit and well airconditioned with one place to eat and the baggage counter, that was all. Once through Immigration and security, there was more available. Free internet, coffee shops etc. I took the time to reposition my long skinny legs for my return flight to Perth out of the rear seat into an Exit Aisle seat, YEHAH!
The flight to Bangkok was uneventful. I managed to get a whole row to myself with a simple request. Unfortunately the front row seat dividers didn't fold out of the way, bummer.
At Bangkok, Immigration and security was fairly fast. Then entering the outter regions I was assailed by the masses. The first first first is a group of people in my face offering taxi rides into the city for $1000 Baht. I didn't know what was fair, but didn't a lot of Baht on hand and mentioned that I needed to go on for more. This was misunderstood and the price was immediately dropped to 850, hmmmm very negotiable. Well, I took that amount because I just didn't want to hassle as I was very tired after my near sleepless journey. I got a front seat of a nearly brand new van with me as the only passenger. It was rush hour. In my quest to be early in daylight I put myself into Bangkok at the worst possible time of the day. It is normally a one hour drive, took 1 1/2 hours.
Now this drive is worth talking about and the hotel check in in my normal long winded way, so I am cutting this letter off for two reasons. One is that this blog is long enough and it is 3:20 AM and I need to sleep some.
Love you all
Best wishes
Peace
gene
may you all be well and happy
Well, I am back from Thailand and again a changed person.
Now to answer the exactness of that last part will to be fair take a few blogs. Rather than one that will take a week to write, ha ha ha.
First there is the trip up, arriving, the hotel, the massages, the new hotel, walking and walking, the food, the people, the trips, the food, the sleeping, late night partying, the book, "Thai Fever", and starting to get a glimpse of understaning it all, the return . . . see way too much for one blog.
I had determined from an adventure a couple of years ago that it is not good to arrive into a strange city after dark. So, I scheduled myself through asiarooms.com into the suggested motel "Regency Park". Unfortuanately I had not read the email or maybe a previous one correctly and booked my entire stay at this hotel. I was supposed to stay here one night only. Instead I booked the full 10 days here at US $59 per night.
So after a couple of emails back and forth with my Nephew Steve, I emailed Asia Rooms again and cancelled 9 days at a cost of $125. So, one night ended up costing me $184. I was sort of in shock at many of the up front expenses that kept adding up. Getting my Tetnaus Shot and Typhoid was around $160. Mosquito repellent $16., Electric adapter $20 and there were a few others that I have forgetten now. Well, like paying rent for 3 weeks while gone and one extra . . . it all adds up to quite a chunk.
Finally, the day arrives of my departure. To arrive early in Bangkok, means leaving Perth late. 22:35. It costs a fair bit to get a Airport service to take me to the airport. And since I was leaving on a Wednesday evening most of my friends would be occupied at another friends "Oneness Blessings" so I didn't wish to ask them to take me. I set it up with my land lady to take me. That however seemed to turn into a drama as her van needed servicing and she didn't feel comfortable traveling after dark. Next, friend Jacqueline wished to take me to the airport and go to Isha's gig. Well, that is what eventuated and I put in for a very early drop off so that Jacqui could make it. Also, I figured that my airline would be open, I could get checked in and pass time walking around the airport.
Wellllll, I was to fly Tiger Airways. It is a fairly new air company to Perth and it is a budget airlines. So, of course they don't show up for check in until 1 1/2 hours before the flight, ha ha ha. I was first in line so, no worries.
Did my wondering, did some buying, and suddenly realized that, "Oh my Buddha" I forgot to bring the Thai Baht money that I had exchanged from home, duh! I bought $50 at the airport, 1 for 22 same as in Fremantle. Also, about that time I realized that I had my toothpaste container with me and that it was too large for the less than 100 grams limit. It became a tosser.
Once inside the immigration, and security lines, I purchased 3 600 ml bottles of water (forgetting that I couldn't take them all the way to Bangkok, ha ha ha.) I did a walk about to see what was purchaseable.
One interesting thing that I learned is that since this was an international flight, i could buy GSTax free inside this area at up to $900 total value of return products and not have to pay GST on my return. This may be aplicable to many of you that read this and you could find a savings this way. Mostly all that was available was booze or perfumes. I did purchase an Australia T-Shirt to give to Steve. and I found a picture book of Perth. I flipped through the pages and recognised many things, Hay St Mall, Freo Mkts, The Indiana Tea House, the Cottesloe coast line, to name only a few. It brought me close to tears as I realized that I really loved WA and wanted right then to return to WA . . . and I had not even left yet, ha ha ha.
I do not remember why, yet for some weird reason I had booked my seat into the last row of the airplane against the window. Now this is a budget airlines and there was not enough room for me to get my long legs into the seat and actually sit down. With legs splayed sideways I was able to squeeze in very uncomfortably. Eventually I traded seats with the little girl in the aisle. Then I lost my head rest and couldn't lay my head to sleep for the 5 hour flight YIKES! It was rugged to say the least.
Other than that mistake, I had a good flight to Singapore. At Singapore, check through was a breeze. If I had anything to declare, I went through one line, if not another and walked right on through after the immigration stamp. I then walked next door to the departure terminal. Now for those of you that fly into Singapore through use of the regular airlines . . . I have heard of the glory of the main Singapore terminal. I as mentioned was flying a budget airlines and at Singapore that means we landed at the Budget terminal. it was a huge warehouse, well lit and well airconditioned with one place to eat and the baggage counter, that was all. Once through Immigration and security, there was more available. Free internet, coffee shops etc. I took the time to reposition my long skinny legs for my return flight to Perth out of the rear seat into an Exit Aisle seat, YEHAH!
The flight to Bangkok was uneventful. I managed to get a whole row to myself with a simple request. Unfortunately the front row seat dividers didn't fold out of the way, bummer.
At Bangkok, Immigration and security was fairly fast. Then entering the outter regions I was assailed by the masses. The first first first is a group of people in my face offering taxi rides into the city for $1000 Baht. I didn't know what was fair, but didn't a lot of Baht on hand and mentioned that I needed to go on for more. This was misunderstood and the price was immediately dropped to 850, hmmmm very negotiable. Well, I took that amount because I just didn't want to hassle as I was very tired after my near sleepless journey. I got a front seat of a nearly brand new van with me as the only passenger. It was rush hour. In my quest to be early in daylight I put myself into Bangkok at the worst possible time of the day. It is normally a one hour drive, took 1 1/2 hours.
Now this drive is worth talking about and the hotel check in in my normal long winded way, so I am cutting this letter off for two reasons. One is that this blog is long enough and it is 3:20 AM and I need to sleep some.
Love you all
Best wishes
Peace
gene
may you all be well and happy
Monday, 14 January 2008
Finally . . . a phone
Hello everyone,
I decided today, Monday that rather than wait for my internet provider to call me, I would be proactive and call them.
I had played with getting my Voip phone up and couldn't. Well, lo and behold, along with all the other snafus, iinet had also changed my phone number and never told me.
My REAL new phone number is now 08 6468 4936. Now there is supposed to be an answering machine service attached to that. I will attempt it later.
Life could be very frustrating if I was not doing the Oneness Blessings. Since I am doing them, I know that all the frustrations that I am feeling are being brought up by the blessings for me to look at how I deal with the world.
I may have mentioned in my last blog that my credit card got used by someone. Then promptly cancelled too. And I am leaving for Thailand . . . . so they overnight express mailed a new one to me . . . . a week ago. it has yet to arrive. No card in the mail box saying to pick it up at a Post office, nothing. Now as I have just moved I didn't know where to find the post office. Seems that it could be at any of 4 different post offices that I need to chase after before I leave.
Now to me the message is clear that on this trip that I use the debit card that I have and though I may come back broke, I won't be in debt too.
Best part of all this lead up to Thailand as of this writing is that I have only one more day of work as the Picker.
YEHAH!!!
So, not much news just now. Life is crazy and it is ever more a greater and greater adventure.
Love to all of you
peace
gene
may you all be well and happy
I decided today, Monday that rather than wait for my internet provider to call me, I would be proactive and call them.
I had played with getting my Voip phone up and couldn't. Well, lo and behold, along with all the other snafus, iinet had also changed my phone number and never told me.
My REAL new phone number is now 08 6468 4936. Now there is supposed to be an answering machine service attached to that. I will attempt it later.
Life could be very frustrating if I was not doing the Oneness Blessings. Since I am doing them, I know that all the frustrations that I am feeling are being brought up by the blessings for me to look at how I deal with the world.
I may have mentioned in my last blog that my credit card got used by someone. Then promptly cancelled too. And I am leaving for Thailand . . . . so they overnight express mailed a new one to me . . . . a week ago. it has yet to arrive. No card in the mail box saying to pick it up at a Post office, nothing. Now as I have just moved I didn't know where to find the post office. Seems that it could be at any of 4 different post offices that I need to chase after before I leave.
Now to me the message is clear that on this trip that I use the debit card that I have and though I may come back broke, I won't be in debt too.
Best part of all this lead up to Thailand as of this writing is that I have only one more day of work as the Picker.
YEHAH!!!
So, not much news just now. Life is crazy and it is ever more a greater and greater adventure.
Love to all of you
peace
gene
may you all be well and happy
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
peace in the midst of chaos
Hello everyone,
Well, I may have mentioned some that I was moving. Many I have found didn't get the message. And to make matters worse the phone number didn't come across to the new address. And the internet has been &*()^%&%^ a bit of a problem.
I called late in November to let iinet know that I was moving. I was advised to call later and give a more exact date as to when to stop the old phone number. Also, the lady told me of the Naked DSL where I didn't need to have a land line phone number. AWESOME as I wouldn't have to pay for that service that I didn't need.
So, I was notified that I had to have someone here at the new place on 5 December so the Telstra man could do his thing. Well, it took him longer than he planned but he got the phone line in to the Studio Apartment that I live in behind my land ladies home.
The next day I got a SMS from iinet saying that I was operational. That night I tried it and AND, it didn't work. It took me a couple of days to find time to make my first call. Since I had no access to any land line I used my mobile. And waited for about 30 minutes before making contact. OH WE ARE SORRY do they re-scheduled the telstra fellows. Seems that Naked DSL is so new that most don't know how to do the job right the first time. It cannot be a standard phone line.
Well about a week later I get another SMS saying it is operational, and AND, it isn't. This is around Christmas time so time gets weird. Then and then and then and then till now it is 8 January and I still am getting the run around. Now supposedly I will have an iinet Tech out to my home on Friday to fix the problem.
The last person that I talked with suggested that I take my modem to a friend's home and try using it to make sure that it is OK. I did that on Tuesday evening. I got everything set up and then my brain went outside to play with itself. I plugged the power cord from the borrowed home into my modem. Of course they are different in power supplies and it blew my modem. ha ha ha.
Many of you know that I am working closely with my Massage Therapist Healer, Isha doing the Oneness Blessing work. I will send you to an URL to check the process out:
http://www.onenessuniversity.org/oneness/cms/home/onenessblessing/
The work for me is totally transforming what ever it was that I might have thought that I was/am into a new lighter, brighter wiser person.
One major area of muck for me has been with Mother Issues. The only one that might know about them if she reads this would be my sister. And her own issues would be different than mine.
With Isha, I have been working on these issues for probably the last 4 sessions which would relate to receiving about 12- 18 Oneness blessings. After every session, I could feel profound differences within my makeup. However, I would say of those changes that "the body has had a profound shift" After yesterday's session, and after messing up the computer I was standing in my friends driveway prior to going home. I thought to myself, "I feel completely at peace. I have shifted dramatically." then I realized what I had said to myself . . . "I have shifted" rather than, " the body has shifted". For me that is profound.
I urge everyone to go to the web site that I listed and play around and do a bit of searching. YOU can receive Oneness blessing in your home town or very near by. The Oneness Blessing practitioners are growing by leaps and bounds in all countries of the world.
I too am going to learn how to do this wonderful technique. I have just received information that the workshop costs are approximately $4000 - $4500 US, not counting airfares.
Anyone interested in supporting me in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated.
I have a workshop on 2-3 February to teach the Spiritually Guided Healing. It appears to be full. If that is so, I will have about 1/2 of the needed funds. The workshop isn't until 4-12 April so I have time.
Peace and Love to all of you
gene
Well, I may have mentioned some that I was moving. Many I have found didn't get the message. And to make matters worse the phone number didn't come across to the new address. And the internet has been &*()^%&%^ a bit of a problem.
I called late in November to let iinet know that I was moving. I was advised to call later and give a more exact date as to when to stop the old phone number. Also, the lady told me of the Naked DSL where I didn't need to have a land line phone number. AWESOME as I wouldn't have to pay for that service that I didn't need.
So, I was notified that I had to have someone here at the new place on 5 December so the Telstra man could do his thing. Well, it took him longer than he planned but he got the phone line in to the Studio Apartment that I live in behind my land ladies home.
The next day I got a SMS from iinet saying that I was operational. That night I tried it and AND, it didn't work. It took me a couple of days to find time to make my first call. Since I had no access to any land line I used my mobile. And waited for about 30 minutes before making contact. OH WE ARE SORRY do they re-scheduled the telstra fellows. Seems that Naked DSL is so new that most don't know how to do the job right the first time. It cannot be a standard phone line.
Well about a week later I get another SMS saying it is operational, and AND, it isn't. This is around Christmas time so time gets weird. Then and then and then and then till now it is 8 January and I still am getting the run around. Now supposedly I will have an iinet Tech out to my home on Friday to fix the problem.
The last person that I talked with suggested that I take my modem to a friend's home and try using it to make sure that it is OK. I did that on Tuesday evening. I got everything set up and then my brain went outside to play with itself. I plugged the power cord from the borrowed home into my modem. Of course they are different in power supplies and it blew my modem. ha ha ha.
Many of you know that I am working closely with my Massage Therapist Healer, Isha doing the Oneness Blessing work. I will send you to an URL to check the process out:
http://www.onenessuniversity.org/oneness/cms/home/onenessblessing/
The work for me is totally transforming what ever it was that I might have thought that I was/am into a new lighter, brighter wiser person.
One major area of muck for me has been with Mother Issues. The only one that might know about them if she reads this would be my sister. And her own issues would be different than mine.
With Isha, I have been working on these issues for probably the last 4 sessions which would relate to receiving about 12- 18 Oneness blessings. After every session, I could feel profound differences within my makeup. However, I would say of those changes that "the body has had a profound shift" After yesterday's session, and after messing up the computer I was standing in my friends driveway prior to going home. I thought to myself, "I feel completely at peace. I have shifted dramatically." then I realized what I had said to myself . . . "I have shifted" rather than, " the body has shifted". For me that is profound.
I urge everyone to go to the web site that I listed and play around and do a bit of searching. YOU can receive Oneness blessing in your home town or very near by. The Oneness Blessing practitioners are growing by leaps and bounds in all countries of the world.
I too am going to learn how to do this wonderful technique. I have just received information that the workshop costs are approximately $4000 - $4500 US, not counting airfares.
Anyone interested in supporting me in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated.
I have a workshop on 2-3 February to teach the Spiritually Guided Healing. It appears to be full. If that is so, I will have about 1/2 of the needed funds. The workshop isn't until 4-12 April so I have time.
Peace and Love to all of you
gene
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