Hey guys,
Just wanted to drop a quick line to let everyone know that I'm going to Koh Somet for a few days. I may or may not have internet access. In case you want to get a hold of me, I do have a cel phone here now, It's really cool!!! My number is +66-89050-8340.
You can send me international text messages for usually 25 cents. It's free for me to receive messages and phone calls but costs money for me to send them out so I may not be able to keep replying to you guys but definitely send me a message. If I have the chance, I'll check my hotmail address.
I've started a blog too, haven't been able to fully update it yet but I thought I'd let you guys preview it. The address is http://jeremyinc.blogspot.com.
If I have some free time in Koh Somet, I'll update it. Oh yeah and sorry about the lack of pictures, my SD card isn't readable in my laptop for some reason... I'm going to try and find another place to load my pictures and then see what's going on with this card... Ok talk to you all later.
Love Jeremy
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Friday and Saturday in Kelowna/Vancouver
Ok this was a crazy day. So on Friday I basically spent it finishing laundry and packing. It took longer than I thought. My dad was still in Calgary visiting his sick father and he wouldn't be able to make it to say goodbye before I left. He was quite worried about this but I said not to worry because I'll be here for a while, his dad won't. So I got all packed up and had to be ready for about 6:30 cause my flight was at 8:30 to fly from Kelowna to Vancouver. I got everything all ready to go and my mom took me to the airport. It was snowing like crazy. We arrive at the airport and the flight was already delayed about 30 mins. This was ok, as long as I could get there eventually I was happy. So we get to security screening and my mom has her moment of saying goodbye/crying. Just as I'm about to say goodbye and pass through security, some people walk out and say the Vancouver flight was cancelled. Cancelled? What, how could this be? I've never had a westjet flight cancelled, this couldn't be. So yup, it was true, they cancelled the flight. Uh oh... What to do? I can't miss my flight the next day to go to Singapore and onto Bangkok. So we left the airport and were told to call westjet customer service and they'd "take care of us". So I called them and the next flight they could accomodate me on was like 2 days later... Not going to work. So I called Greyhound with a low battery and thought we'd try that route. It was either Greyhound or we'd have to take the envoy to Vancouver (Which my mom was really not wanting us to do). My sister had offered to drive me through the night, which was really nice! So I got a hold of Greyhound and they said there was one bus ride tonight from 11:15 to 6am. This would probably work except that the office to buy the ticket doesn't open until 11pm and even then there was no guarentee I could get a seat because they don't reserve seats, they just sell the tickets for travel anytime. So we wait at my sisters new apartment on Burch for a bit, and then go to the Greyhound bus station. Remember the manager at Joey's that was so apologetic and nice? Yeah she was waiting for the bus too because she was on the Vancouver flight. So we buy a ticket at 11pm and the bus comes and thank god there is room. It was a gong show. The people waiting there were......interesting..... Definitely a different breed of human that's for sure. Ok so thank god I'll get into Vancouver at 6am, my flight to Singapore wasn't until 12:35. Oh, gotta go, I'll update more in a bit...
Monday, November 27, 2006
The beginning of my Journey
Well hello there! This is my first post to my new blog. I finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and get with the 90's so I created one...
So the reason I'm creating a blog is to try and document as much as I can in regards to my new trip. So I decided I needed a change at work, don't get me wrong I enjoyed working for Interior Health, but couldn't handle the repetition. I can only help so many nurses set up their Outlook Calendars before it becomes mundane. I still enjoyed working with great people and love providing customer service but decided I needed a change. Hence now.
So I quit my job from Interior Health after unsuccessfully trying to get an LOA, I would have had to work there 3 years full time before I could even request an LOA and even then there are restrictions. Ironic I think, they are looking for great staff but HR doesn't leave a huge incentive for someone to come back to work after an absence. Oh well, nonetheless my boss said she would re-hire me if/when I come back. So that was re-assuring, I am re-hireable after all.
Ok where am I headed with this? Hopefully I haven't bored you too much yet. After much consideration and humming and hawing, I decided to book a flight overseas. I had been to Bangkok/Singapore in March of 2006 with Andrew and Josh and loved it so I decided I was going to start with what I knew and go from there. So I booked another flight to Bangkok on Singapore Air (the best airline!) even though it was a bit more expensive than Air Canada (I refuse to fly with them...No offence to anyone that works for them!). As I'm writing this, I'm actually in the Singapore airport, I'll get more to that in a bit.
So I think I'll skip ahead a bit to the part where I am about to start my journeys. So I talk to my parents and go over all the stuff I would need to to travel and they're surprisingly calm about it... But as we get closer to the day my mom was getting visibly more worried, heh love you mom :).
I'm listening to Brian Eno "An Ending (Ascent)" right now, it's so peaceful and great to reflect to. I highly suggest downloading it!
Ok continuing on... So I decide to give a months notice at work, my last day was November 22, 2006. So Dave sent a calendar invitation at work for "drinks at Joey's" for Nov. 22 with the reason being because it's "belinni Wednesday"...hmm coincidence it was on my last day? Probably. Haha no actually a bunch of work people went to Joey's that night, it was so cool. I honestly didn't think anyone really liked me and maybe they don't haha but they still showed up and we drank to my leaving IHA. It was really quite a bit of fun. I bought one drink and then Morgan and Kristine bought me a flaming Lamborghini (In case you don't know what this is, OMG it's a quick way to get drunk). You start off with a martini glass with some type of alcohol in it and the server lights it on fire and then you put a straw in the glass and she pours 5 other shots in it and you drink this back in about 6.2 seconds. So needless to say after that I was happy and people were buying me drinks all night. There was a hair in my food and so I casually pointed that out to the server fully understanding that this stuff happens (I've worked in the restaurant industry before) and just asked for a burger. Next thing I know the manager comes up to me apologizing profusely and telling me I won't pay for it. She was really nice and I must say adorable! So it was all good, we ate and had fun. My work colleagues bought me some cool Roots gear with Canadian emblems on them and a "stop global warming bracelet" which is perfect haha.
After that I went to Breakers with Dave, John, Matt and I. We play some pool, it was fun. I then had to get my mom to pick me up heh cause I had had a bit too much to drink. OK stop laughing, yes, my mom picked me up. Haha
Ok so that was Wednesday night. Thursday was my first day of being unemployed. I went out with Kristine, Karla and Karla's sister Leanne. I got to see Savannah again, she's so cute, I'll miss her growing up. (I took this picture of Savannah when I was "babysitting" her for a couple hours. This was taken in late November 2006)!
That's all, I'll post another entry for the next few days.
So the reason I'm creating a blog is to try and document as much as I can in regards to my new trip. So I decided I needed a change at work, don't get me wrong I enjoyed working for Interior Health, but couldn't handle the repetition. I can only help so many nurses set up their Outlook Calendars before it becomes mundane. I still enjoyed working with great people and love providing customer service but decided I needed a change. Hence now.
So I quit my job from Interior Health after unsuccessfully trying to get an LOA, I would have had to work there 3 years full time before I could even request an LOA and even then there are restrictions. Ironic I think, they are looking for great staff but HR doesn't leave a huge incentive for someone to come back to work after an absence. Oh well, nonetheless my boss said she would re-hire me if/when I come back. So that was re-assuring, I am re-hireable after all.
Ok where am I headed with this? Hopefully I haven't bored you too much yet. After much consideration and humming and hawing, I decided to book a flight overseas. I had been to Bangkok/Singapore in March of 2006 with Andrew and Josh and loved it so I decided I was going to start with what I knew and go from there. So I booked another flight to Bangkok on Singapore Air (the best airline!) even though it was a bit more expensive than Air Canada (I refuse to fly with them...No offence to anyone that works for them!). As I'm writing this, I'm actually in the Singapore airport, I'll get more to that in a bit.
So I think I'll skip ahead a bit to the part where I am about to start my journeys. So I talk to my parents and go over all the stuff I would need to to travel and they're surprisingly calm about it... But as we get closer to the day my mom was getting visibly more worried, heh love you mom :).
I'm listening to Brian Eno "An Ending (Ascent)" right now, it's so peaceful and great to reflect to. I highly suggest downloading it!
Ok continuing on... So I decide to give a months notice at work, my last day was November 22, 2006. So Dave sent a calendar invitation at work for "drinks at Joey's" for Nov. 22 with the reason being because it's "belinni Wednesday"...hmm coincidence it was on my last day? Probably. Haha no actually a bunch of work people went to Joey's that night, it was so cool. I honestly didn't think anyone really liked me and maybe they don't haha but they still showed up and we drank to my leaving IHA. It was really quite a bit of fun. I bought one drink and then Morgan and Kristine bought me a flaming Lamborghini (In case you don't know what this is, OMG it's a quick way to get drunk). You start off with a martini glass with some type of alcohol in it and the server lights it on fire and then you put a straw in the glass and she pours 5 other shots in it and you drink this back in about 6.2 seconds. So needless to say after that I was happy and people were buying me drinks all night. There was a hair in my food and so I casually pointed that out to the server fully understanding that this stuff happens (I've worked in the restaurant industry before) and just asked for a burger. Next thing I know the manager comes up to me apologizing profusely and telling me I won't pay for it. She was really nice and I must say adorable! So it was all good, we ate and had fun. My work colleagues bought me some cool Roots gear with Canadian emblems on them and a "stop global warming bracelet" which is perfect haha.
After that I went to Breakers with Dave, John, Matt and I. We play some pool, it was fun. I then had to get my mom to pick me up heh cause I had had a bit too much to drink. OK stop laughing, yes, my mom picked me up. Haha
Ok so that was Wednesday night. Thursday was my first day of being unemployed. I went out with Kristine, Karla and Karla's sister Leanne. I got to see Savannah again, she's so cute, I'll miss her growing up. (I took this picture of Savannah when I was "babysitting" her for a couple hours. This was taken in late November 2006)!
That's all, I'll post another entry for the next few days.
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