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1 hoppy's hoppin

2 the computer's still broken, so no pictures.

3 My folks have sold the house and will be leaving sometime before the second week of october.

4 Rod leaves tomorrow

5 About twenty friends are gathering tonight for dinner and drinks, seeing rod off and celebrating my 22nd b-day.

6 Sharon sadly leaves on sunday. I really don't want to see her go. This is truly the best relationship I've been in since ruth, and that's when I was 18.

7 My sis should be coming back to hk soon, though I really have no idea when.....only soon.

8 I've become quite content sitting around playing a video game called Burn Out lately. It's an ultra fast racing game....it's so fast that it feels like my eyes are trying to retreat into my face when I'm playing.

9 Our big gig is tomorrow night and it's been moved to a much better venue.

10 Instead of playing in ho man tin at some obscure bar, we'll now be rocking out in Amnesia in Central. Waaaay better!

Once again.... VENUE CHANGE! DO NOT GO TO THE RED DEVIL BAR.......WE'RE PLAYING @ AMNESIA!!!!!!!!!

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Support your friends.
support the david bowie knives and maybe we'll get to make some noise at rockit festival this year. Ian brown will be there. He's a legend.

I stink. I need deodorant, gum and some cold medicine.

thank you to all you fine folks for the birthday wishes. You're all wonderful.


live long and prosper
brendan

90 days

so many lady boys
so much food
so much fun
i feel good

I'll back in hong kong with a fancy stamp allowing me three more months. That gives me 'til december 29th, but by that time I'll already be in ireland...relaxing in a new home.
This was the one crutial visa run that would either destroy any chance of me staying here, or give me just enough time before Ireland, then one last stop in hk and then I'm home free.

My flight was delayed nearly three hours, so sharon and I spent the entire beautiful day in the phuket airport.
The trip was exactly what I needed....which was to get away from the city.
I'm still feeling very relaxed even now, back in the land of humidity, typhoons and rainstorms.

I would usually update with pictures but the computer at my flat won't even turn on anymore, and I've been too busy whilst at work to get a chance to sit down for ten minutes until now.

I got some bad news from back home on sunday night. I was pretty upset about the whole thing, but I'm more worried about my folks. They're good people and deserve a life without worry and sadness.
Anyway, I drank a bit too much that night (not too over board mind you) and being pretty tired from the late flight the previous night, I ended up passing out on my friend's sofa. I had to go to work the next day without showering or changing clothes and my stomach was a wreck. Its been very sensitive since my one regretful night in highschool when I landed myself in the hospital with alcohol posioning. It's been a long time since I haven't made it home. I'm usually pretty responsible when it comes to getting enough rest for the next day's activites.
oh well.
every once in a while ain't too bad.

I've got one more lesson today starting in a few minutes.
Typhoon signal #3 is up, and rainstorm signal red is going strong. That means high winds and over 50ml of rain fall each hour. That means wet shoes. That means this place shouldn't even be open.

My band The David Bowie Knives are playing tonight at the Wanch in wan chai.
Check us out.
I'll have an exciting band update for you all soon.

cheers!
bebs

on my way comrades!!!!

son of a gun

i've just got home from a night of fun in tst.

My alarm just went off, which means I need to wake up. Oh OH OH i'm awake. I'm cooking my last pack of soup noodles now. It's half four. I'm drunk and I've got half an hour to pack, shower, eat noodles and get to the bus.

life is good my friends.
thailand awaits

YES!
Brendan James Harrington!!!

do it!

66

I leave for thailand tomorrow morning. I just picked up my ticket in causeway bay tonight and now it's time to pack. I'll leave my lovely home in hong kong at five o'clock to get the bus to the airport. I'm a bit tired now but I'm still debating whether I should go to bed or not. If I go to bed I run the risk of not waking up in time to catch my flight. If I do stay up all night then I'll probably have a few drinks....cheap drinks. Budgeting constantly is starting to get to me. Most of the time I don't mind it, but something always comes up that soaks up a few dollars that I has been hoping to save.

Hoppy's feet and ear's have really dried out. When I get back on Saturday I'm going to take her to the vet, where they'll probably keep her for a few nights and give her some magical rabbit cream that'll make her happy again. She's been looking a bit down lately. Poor gal.

Four days and Three nights in Phuket.
I'll see you all on Saturday.

Moby Dick

Lifted and worn
drift wood sails to a wider place
smooth blue grass and plastic wrappers catch
Turner's sky is doing fine.

..............

A bass drum hits
two hundred years ago, somewhere in the yellow sea
stories of a monster stir the sea bound man

Ishmael's son starts
the white whale:
"They say she took a harpooner's guide.
In her flat fin. She never sang.
She turned round and lifted two boats high from the sea
Everyone singin, she swallowed 'em hole."



cross your toes
bebs

My Thai Aeroplane

I've got ten minutes!

It's saturday, I'm working and I feel good. I didn't get much sleep last night because the mosquitos always seem to find me. Those buggers. But, I feel very awake.

Listening to Interpol lately almost all the time. I took the bus home from central last night listening to old interpol with my eyes closed made me feel like I was on a roller coaster.

So, I'm going to thailand for sure now.
Sharon and I are flying straight into Phuket. We'll be staying in some fancy four star hotel in Patong for four days and three nights.
I am a bit nervous about the whole thing though because we leave on the sixth....the same day that my visa expires. I hope I get someone nice coming back through hk immigration. But, I know I can't let it bother me now if everything goes wry and I'm sent out of the country again. The decision to remain in Hong kong is not up to me, so why worry.

cheers
bebs