Banditry

• #ebz Melbourne is cloudy, and daytime TV here is unspeakably bad. Hence: http://fallenlondon.com/c/23971 #
• Sydney is awesome, in the "excellent" sense of the word. Sydney rents are awesome, in the "inspiring terror and fear" sense of the word #
• Flat-hunting is rubbish. New area exploring is fun. At least we get to combine the two here. #

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• Wow, Perth is like all of the best aspects of western civilisation combined. #thishappenswhenyouspendamonthinAsia #
• Western Australia features quite astounding amounts of nothing at all. Pretty nothing at all, mind. #
• Internet connection too poor for full-scale review of 8-hour wine tour. Short review: DRINK! Bonzer. #
• Off to see how Perth celebrates Carnival Brazilian-style. Arriba, etc. #
• On a borrowed computer using IE6. Wow, IE6 is rubbish. #
• I wonder if racists (sorry, "profiling advocates") will be adding "middle-aged anti-tax white men" to the no-fly list? http://bit.ly/9FWm4P #
• It's depressing when you realise there's no option but to agree with George Galloway: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8521246.stm #
• #ebz Perth has good Internet, even if it has poor browsers… http://fallenlondon.com/c/22493 #

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• Bali is nice. Just spent 2 hours bodysurfing. Possibly a real board may be called for tomorrow. Now – COCKTAILS! #
• As @TheBuddhaSmiled says, the hotel is pretty dire: there aren't any pellets in the automatic bug-killer, and wifi only works in the bar #
• Also, the bar and massage service in the pool doesn't stay open 24 hours. And the hot tub doesn't have a jacuzzi #
• Excellent temple of thieving monkeys, who successfully removed one friend's glasses and one friend's hairclip #bali #
• Apparently, swimming, drinking beer and taking underwater photos until 3AM, although excellent fun, makes mornings slightly slow #
• Luckily #ebz is helping ease me into normality http://fallenlondon.com/c/18193 #
• Slightly sunburned. Unrelatedly, have almost removed my beard, via various ludicrous styles I wouldn't try if not on holiday #
• Balinese traditional music is pretty awful. Unlike Khmer pop music, which is unimaginably excellent #
• No sympathy for Iraqi grumpiness about US throwing out Blackwater prosecutions – due process infinitely more important than revenge #
• From this, we can conclude Jonathan Mendel is a prat http://ow.ly/168OD – it's PR to get kids into science, not a sodding thesis #
• #ebz Yes, I'll stop buggering about on the computer and get in the pool shortly http://fallenlondon.com/c/18691 #
• Not being at all cultural. Hell, I've been to India and SE Asia, surely Balinese culture is just a blend of the two, right? #
• Last night was this: http://www.cool.asia/?p=98 – about as excellent as anything gets #
• FACT: even if someone runs you a bath of rose petals, it neither turns you into nor allows you to go to bed with Mena Suvari #
• #ebz yes, this again http://fallenlondon.com/c/19232 #
• Based on a study of Balinese monkeys, socialism leads to cuteness and excellence and private enterprise leads to meanness and thieving #
• (subsidised monkeys in govt monkey park well behaved and sweet; free-enterprise monkeys at tourist sites hit people and steal their things) #
• #ebz it may be 35 degree sunshine, but that isn't going to stop me playing silly online games http://fallenlondon.com/c/20065 #

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• Trying to find things to do in Siem Reap that don't involve drinking or going to Angkor Wat is surprisingly tricky… #
• #ebz yup, more of the same http://fallenlondon.com/c/14140 #
• Angkor Wat is an amazing feat of art and engineering. However, I now entirely understand the meaning of the phrase "templed out" #
• Waiting for a bus to more or less nowhere. Hurrah! #
• #ebz …and while waiting for a buss, one plays EBZ http://fallenlondon.com/c/15084 #
• Wow, Pnomh Penh is DARK. In an "absence of visible light" sense rather than a metaphorical sense, although perhaps the metaphor fits #
• For all its darkness, Pnomh Penh is quite a fun place to go out, in a nice-food-and-cocktails kinda way. Can't speak for ropier sorts of fun #
• #ebz wherever there's good wifi, I'm playing this. The Jockey Hotel in PP has good wifi http://fallenlondon.com/c/16183 #
• Killing fields were, erm, intense. Unsurprisingly. Now intend to drink enough that we don't think about them too much. #
• FCC at Phnom Penh is proper excellent – @antonvowl is a correct man. Londoners: lobby your FCC to be more like the Cambodian one #
• Young Tory makes inept comment; dickheads get offended: http://bit.ly/bsNEzJ – he needs slated for his beliefs, not WWII-era PC nonsense #
• I hate the way that, even though I'm logged in as me, Google defaults to the homepage of whatever country I'm in. No, I don't speak Khmer… #
• KL is OK. Staying in soulless airport hotel, but oddly it's surrounded by fun plastic seat bar-restaurants solely frequented by locals #

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