Thursday, February 23, 2006
Day started badly and ended worse...
Got up, watched the Chelsea v Barca game, swore at the referee, got excited, got angry, went back to bed, nuff said...
Another rest day today for most of us.
Ruth popped into the Nursery to check on Juri - news was better than expected. Texted Yvonne to let her and the other Singapore escapees know.
Took a ride into Sandakan town with Nick, Caroline, Vicky and Rebecca to get some more phone credit, check out the cheap DVDs etc.
Had good lunch at Fat Cats cafe and some great cakes at Fat Cats cake shop next door. 3 cakes for less than 3RM (that's less than 50p!) - Ness you'd be in heaven there!
Nick needed to post a parcel, and had a very dry mouth after putting over 50 stamps on it!!!...
Walking back to a supermarket saw that part of a road had given way under the weight of a bus, looked like conractors had been digging underneath the road - ooops...... 
At the supermarket i picked up a bottle of a local "brew", not entirely sure exactly what it is (probably a rice wine cunningly disguised in a large old Carlsberg glass bottle!) but at 4RM (65p) it's worth a tryout. A few of us also picked up some cheap DVDs which are good for the quiet evenings in here. Official DVDs work out about £3 each and "copies" are about £1.
The return journey to the resthouse was an experience - 5 of us plus the old Hongkonese driver squeezed into an early 70s Nissan with bench seats front and rear. It appeared to have very little in the way of brakes and even less in the way of suspension movement! I think the car was probably worth less than the fare home!
Back at the resthouse, more bad news from Ruth as we found out that Juri had just died.
That's two youngsters who have slipped away now in past 3 days. Not at all what we expected when we started here :-(
Another rest day today for most of us.Ruth popped into the Nursery to check on Juri - news was better than expected. Texted Yvonne to let her and the other Singapore escapees know.
Took a ride into Sandakan town with Nick, Caroline, Vicky and Rebecca to get some more phone credit, check out the cheap DVDs etc.
Had good lunch at Fat Cats cafe and some great cakes at Fat Cats cake shop next door. 3 cakes for less than 3RM (that's less than 50p!) - Ness you'd be in heaven there!
Nick needed to post a parcel, and had a very dry mouth after putting over 50 stamps on it!!!...
Walking back to a supermarket saw that part of a road had given way under the weight of a bus, looked like conractors had been digging underneath the road - ooops...... 
At the supermarket i picked up a bottle of a local "brew", not entirely sure exactly what it is (probably a rice wine cunningly disguised in a large old Carlsberg glass bottle!) but at 4RM (65p) it's worth a tryout. A few of us also picked up some cheap DVDs which are good for the quiet evenings in here. Official DVDs work out about £3 each and "copies" are about £1.
The return journey to the resthouse was an experience - 5 of us plus the old Hongkonese driver squeezed into an early 70s Nissan with bench seats front and rear. It appeared to have very little in the way of brakes and even less in the way of suspension movement! I think the car was probably worth less than the fare home!
Back at the resthouse, more bad news from Ruth as we found out that Juri had just died.
That's two youngsters who have slipped away now in past 3 days. Not at all what we expected when we started here :-(
// posted by storri @ 10:54 pm 
