A belated hello from Thailand. I can't believe i've been here for ten days but there you go. time flies when u are having fun and/or stressing and/or not sleeping...yes it's still the same old me and i am completely doing my head in. why can't i be normal??? i want to be someone else again-i'm just annoying. as is this computer as lots of the keys don't work v well hence the even worse than normal grammar.

anyway i loved bangkok - i felt like i was michael palin and in a travel programme thus really travelling as asia is soooo different (with apologies to nz and australia). we were there for a couple of days before heading north to chiang mai. we got the overnight sleeper train and i had the best night sleep i've had here!

after one night, i went on a 24hr buddhist meditation retreat. i loved it at first and thought it was the best thing i've ever done in my life but the next morning we had to get up at 5am and i was too tired to concentrate on the meditation. when i got back to where we were staying at about 2pm i rested and then fell asleep abou 5pm - i then slept for the net 24hours as i had a bit of a fever.

however we are going on a cooking course later today and we wanted to go on a 3 day trek so dosed up on paracetomal we went to book it. not sure if it was a good idea or not but my body exceeded all expectations and i had a really good time (despite the fact that i was so stressed about taking every medicine you can think of on the trek that i forgot my fleeces and slept terribly as it was freezing).

The walking was easy and the tour guide really nice and we met up with different groups of people an went swimming by waterfalls and bamboo rafting and elephant riding and stayed in hilltribe villages and had camp fires and hung out with the local hill tribe people. yay!

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Thanks everyone for your lovely birthday messages...have never not wanted a birthday so much and not sure i like being 30 at all. I met a girl in nz who was 34 but she said it just felt wrong saying she was 34 as she didn't look like it and didn't feel it. that's what i feel like. no one believes me and i don't want them too. seeing as i was premature i've decided to stay 29 until March 11 or whenever it was i was meant to be born, not sure what i'm goig to do after that...