PADANG - SUMATRA

Pues que bonito suenaaa... 4 días super-oferta vuelo a Padang. Nos gustan las ofertas así que nos apuntamos! Padang! en plena costa Oeste de Sumatra. La idea es buena, pero es que el sitio no lo es. No hay infraestructura para el turismo ni mucho que hacer, la verdad, a no ser que estés preparado para hacerte horas de -mala- carretera para las selvas o horas de barco para las islas.

Incluso a la isla más cercana tampoco pudimos ir por que nos requerían un mínimo de 10 personas.... o pagar one millions de rupias.... pero no nos aburrimos para nada, puesto que salimos cada noche, fuimos al karaoke del pueblo, a los billares, y al gym, e hicimos bastantes amigos, algunos bastante buenos!

Happy four days in Padang, Sumatra! Flown on Air Asia... Padang hasn´t got much to do but we had a great time!

DREAMZ - GENTING HIGHLANDS

A través de la embajada nos invitaron a ver DREAMZ. Espectáculo-circo y de magia que tiene lugar en el Pavilion de Genting Heights. Los artistas son españoles. Genting Heights es una montaña a unos 60km de KL en cuya cima hay montado un parque de atracciones la mayor parte cubierto, puesto que en esas alturas siempre hace frío:

Through the Spanish Embassy we got VIP tickets to see DREAMZ: It is a Cirque-Magic show at the Pavillion in Genting Heights by a spanish group of artists. Genting Heights is a mountain about 60km from KL which has all sorts of fairs, amusement park, cinemas and casino, most under roof as it is very cold up there!

brr qué frío! - it´s cold and cloudy!
Ash nos llevó por la difícil carretera!-Ash drove us up the steep road!


Con algunos de los artistas después del show - us with some of the spanish cast.

El espectáculo fué muy bueno, números de magia, gimnásia y malabarismo, trapecio y 4 chicos en moto rodando por dentro de la bola al mismo tiempo! Lo mejor las chicas de la orquestra, geniales pasos de baile! Y Lo inolvidable los animales que aparecían de la nada en cajas y jaulas que aparentemente estaban vacías. de entre ellos un bonito tigre y un león de pelo blanco!

The show was excellent. The orchestra girls and her dancing maneuvres were very good-which we now copy!- But the best were the animals: a white tiger and a white lion which appeared from nowhere inside empty cages!

ANA SERA MAMA!

FELICITATS ANA!!!

NEXT TRIP TO K.L.

I am packing again, going again to K.L. for a week and Padang in Sumatra with Julian, so, depending on what access I have to the internet I will be able to update my blog... or not...

Ja torno a fer les maletes! Una setmaneta a K.L. i a Padang a Sumatra... (mare, no t´espantis!)

p.s. Zain: I forgot to buy VOGUE.
p.s. Pilar: vinc carregat de bollycaos!

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Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, executed in Iran on 19 July 2005.

email from DANNY

I am very happy that my friend Danny had very good news today! His ops went really well and we all now can´t wait for him to fully recover so we can go out and celebrate!
Before the ops he went down to Barcelona and this he wrote:



Ah yes David! Really weird too! Went out friday, saturday, sunday and monday.
Friday nothing interesting happened even though we went to the openning of this new club D-BOY in Barcelona!. Saturday I went to an ex-work colleagues party and this guy I fancied completelly blank me... but it´s OK because he was all too young! sunday gave out my number to this muscle bear called Alfons... he never called back so fed up with it all I just couldn´t wait to fly back home on monday! so I woke up at 12 noon.... tired in bed too much drinking-clubbing... my friend G was at work and he called me and said you better don´t catch the plane cos you are not working till wednesday, so I started packing anyway and I thought oh gosh, get on the train to the airport, drag the suitcase, and then not sure if all still messed up by the snow in London and all so I decided to stay. Went out on my own while my friend was still at work. It started raining. So I had to seek refuge. SOOO the path led me to this gay sex shop.... WELL, apparently there was this party going on in there and a porn actor was there signing up copies of his latest CAZZO film.. his name is Milan Gamiani.. (google him or google CAZZO FILMS...)he kissed me (on the cheek :-( I got his signed picture and a picture taken with him! So all flushed came down from the stage and this gorgeous Venezuelan started talking to me... free champagne, canapes, jamon serrano and all... Bad news is that his boyf lives in London. Anyway, I then met up with G at another bar, and he brought with him his friend Iran who also brought his brazilian friend Junior. Then another Brazilian came and said hi: I have known him for a while, he is very nice and seemed interested in me but let´s not forget friday night he was at D-BOY and he was very busy... busier than me tonight! The evening was too much!!!He had to go anyway because wasn´t feeling too well so G left with him to give him a lift home, then Junior went with his mate Iran for something to eat so I was there on my own with the venezuelan. Very good looking but in a relationship, we swapped email and phone, and a kiss or two, then he had to go because he had to be at work tuesday am. (today?....yes, today.. getting time-confused!)sooo off to METRO where G was now waiting for me and Junior was there so tongues again... and as a good Brazilian he is a totally good kisser! he fell in love with me, he said I am his dream come true! a few tears, got a plane to catch and all that... never went back to his because we both had early starts and it felt like the right thing to do, it made the kissing really meaningfull...he has already texted me 3 times today... AGH! I know! I´m just back in England today... that´ll help!I should publish this in my blog! but I can´t cos my mum reads it!hope i entertained a bit... my grandma used to say I should be a clown.xx danny

BARCELONA 5-7APR. BAR PLATA, ENSAIMADAS DE LA MISTRAL y CENA EN EL BERRO

Another eventful weekend in Barcelona, just what I needed after the worst week at work for as long as I can remember!

Spent several evenings at Plata Bar, went to a new club called D-BOY, and of course re-visited CHAPS and METRO!

Un altre cap de setmana a la ciutat comtal ple d'aventures! Era just el què necessitava després d'una de les pitjors setmanes a la feina!

Com sempre vàrem anar al Plata Bar, a una nova disco, D-BOY, i com sempre al CHAPS i a LA METRO.

Plata Bar

en Robert (Hur mor du?) i en Pau...

ensaïmada típica de Mallorca al forn Mistral de la Ronda de Sant Pere... mmm
sopar a cal Berro...

WORKING HARD.

TERMINAL 5 has been a huge challenge. It still is. We moved offices at work and started on the 27th to face a huge uncoordinated mess. Too many people moving not only into a whole new building but to a whole lot of different jobs and processes. It is now somewhat improved and the shifts are becoming more normal, but we are paying the toll, and so are the thousands of passengers whose baggage has gone astray. Bad. Unforgettably bad. Cheer me up!

clouds over the new building