2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/richperry77/rss.xml Well, the plan is to get from Sydney to Beijing for the Olympics next August. So this is about the places, and all the other stuff, that happens in between. Leave a message every now and then so I know that people are actually reading this thing. Cheers. http://www.getjealous.com/richperry77 http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=443527&go=richperry77 As a result of the bad kharma from the previous day"s free entry I felt pretty average on New Year"s Eve. I had flashbacks of the previous year"s NYE which I spent with my mum in her motorhome watching Frida on DVD. It was one of the worst NYE"s I"ve had (sorry mum, it was really boring but not your fault). I was sick that night as well, although getting to see Salma hayek... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=443527&go=richperry77 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=442986&go=richperry77 After an eventful Christmas I headed back to Pontianak on Boxing day. I decided to ditch the idea of getting to gunung palu national Park as it would have taken around 3 days to get there and then I"d have to sort out a guide. The limitations of having a 30 day visa in a country where it takes quite a while to get anywhere reared their head again so I hopped on a cheap flight to Jakarta inste... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=442986&go=richperry77 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=431233&go=richperry77 'I want you to cook me a fucking pizza'. Its not something you'd expect to hear on Christmas eve on an isolated beach in Indonesian Borneo. Actually you don't normally expect to hear someone be so verbally abusive to their wife in front of other people. But Charlie was very pissed and Charlie was a little bit different to say the least.I wasn't expecting much from Christmas. I was actually trying ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=431233&go=richperry77 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=440657&go=richperry77 Most of my entries just talk about the places and not so much about the people and because its just as much about the people that you meet that make a place interesting or not I'll dedicate this one to the ones I met in Kuching.Chris, Ernesto and the staff at Nomad BorneoOn the recommendation of some peole I met in Miri I stayed at Nomad Borneo, a relatively new hostel in the centre of town. The t... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=440657&go=richperry77 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=434259&go=richperry77 The flight into Gunung Mulu National Park was a short one. I was hoping to avoid flying but the alternative, a bus and 2 longboats, was going to be pretty expensive by myself. Some time ago they used to have a public longboat go direct to the national park from one of the towns along the river. They cancelled it for some reason (I reckon it was malaysian Airlines trying to make more money) so now ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=434259&go=richperry77 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=434251&go=richperry77 It took 5 buses to get from Brunei to the border with malaysia and then to Miri. The distance wasn't far but for some reason transport in brunei is a bit average. I guess the money gets spent on maintaining the Sultan's car collection or something like that. So after a couple of hours on various buses I was back in malaysia. i had a few half empty pages in my passport but only two empty pages. The... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=434251&go=richperry77 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=434234&go=richperry77 After the bad news at the embassy I decided to just move on. in hindsight I should have waited until the afternoon to see what the embassy person would say about the visa situation but I just wanted to move on. So after quickly chowing down a laksa I ran to the port to catch the afternoon ferry to Palau labuan, a duty free area which is meant to be malaysia's equivalent of the Canary Islands excep... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=434234&go=richperry77 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=431181&go=richperry77 I wasn't planning on doing much in KK and I managed to achieve just that. I didn't really want to see anything in or around KK but I wanted to try and get a visa from the Indonesian embassy and maybe try to get a new passport at the Aussie embassy as I've only got one empty page left. i arrived on the weekend so I had to wait for both of them to reopen. i spent most of my time watching movies eith... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=431181&go=richperry77 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=428783&go=richperry77 After the disappointment of Sepilok i spent an unremarkable night in Sandakan. I didn't have much info on the place so I found the tourist information office there. It was the first tourist office I had been to in about 3 months. It definitely highlighted the stark contrast in the level of tourist infrastructure in Malaysia compared to Indonesia. Every single place that you could go to in Sabah ha... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=428783&go=richperry77 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=428772&go=richperry77 'I was working part-time in a 5 and dime. My boss was Mr McGee.He told me several times that he didn't like my kind 'cos i was a bit too leisurely.'The opening lines to Prince's Raspberry Beret. For some reason I've had that song in my head for the last 5 days and those 2 lines always seemed to come up at the most random times. I think it may be an early sign of insanity. There's nothing worse tha... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=428772&go=richperry77 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT