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My dear readers,<br /><br />It has become more and more difficult for me to adjust to settled life after the nomadic life of a traveler. Travel is addictive! I survive only with help of my non-prescription medicine, which I take on a daily basis: seventeen table spoons, at bed time with food. What medicine, you may ask? Here is the chemical formula of it: 40% solution of C2H5-OH in H2O.

SE Asia 2004 (part I)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 19:06:55

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like in the above mentioned TV show. Will you get upset and angry by such situation or will you enjoy it depends on your mental state. I decided to enjoy the situation and considered it a TV game.

I learned awhile ago how turn a bad situations into enjoyable one by manipulating my mental state. Once I was stuck in traffic in car at hot sunny day. Air conditioner was not powerful enough to cool the car. And I think: "the car became like sauna". When I start to think why people hate when car became like sauna, but the same people enjoy extreme hot in real sauna. The only difference is in their mental state, I concluded. So I decided what I will think of hot car as of sauna. I switched air conditioner OFF. Switched high heat ON and closed the windows. It is became very hot in a car like in good sauna. I removed shirt and pants, stay in boxers and imagined that I am in sauna. Immediately everything changed and instead of suffering I started to enjoy that extreme heat.

Alex Mumzhiu
Bangkok Thailand
Dec 4 2004 10am

I have to upset you my dear readers. When I came to Bangkok I realized that I do not have enough time to visit Irian Jaya, so I will not be able to sent you my picture in a cannibal's costume. Keeping in mind the time constraints I have to set for a less ambitious goal. I always wanted to visit uninhabited island. You know, that type of island about which we read the books in childhood. It should be covered with tropical forest and surrounded by tropical sea full of mysterious and dangerous creatures. I went unprepared, so I had to do my research after my travel started. Unfortunately most uninhabited islands now are covered with all-inclusive 5 star resorts. However, I found something which supposed to be close to my dream. It was small island Ko Wai located near big island Ko Chang near the Thailand border with Cambodia. I came to the island in the evening November 30 by once in the day ferry with 3 other ...