Sorry For the Delay!

So hello Bloggers, been a while!

We have been all over the place in the last couple of months. We were living in the big smoke of Sydney, Amy in an office collecting meter readings from a photocopying company, and I, cooking seafood in a very busy restaurant in Manly.

Neither of us were happy as we had no chance to see each other, living total seperate lives, helped us choose that we should continue on and get wet again...

Its 0759 on a Thursday morning and I am up this early because I am teaching my friend Jon his Advanced Open Water course, a fun course consisting of just having a good time under water basically. We are now on Ko Tao.

The last few months in Sydney were crucial, we had made good friends, and I hadn't seen my bro for a long time before the last 6 months, so it has been awsome, catching up and getting mashed together. Mandi is an inspiration to every one who does nothing with there lives, she seems to have alien blood which gives her super powers and just before we left she was planning a 100 mile trek for "Charity Mate", I hope your not aching too much!!
My bro and Belinda are as happy as I would like to see a person, any more and its just not nice for anyone else, but their plateau is wicked and it was amazing meeting B, getting to spend time with them both, if anyone gets a chance to meet them in OZ do it, go see how happy they are its way cool. And they have had some big changes in there lives too, but not for me to say, just that they are "moving on up", not like M-People, even better.

We left Australia via Brisbane, where we run up against yet another costly problem regarding our outward journey from Thailand. We had a ticket booked to Cambodia the next morning but only a number with which to obtain tickets in Thailand. So the Twat wouldn't let us through with out something to prove we were leaving Thailand
even though Bangkok is a mecca for people travelling south east Asia by land, and you do not need an outward flight neccerserely. $600 later we were allowed to leave, now we have 2 non-refundable tickets to Singapore!

We managed to get on our flight, it was sweet, free booze and t.v in the back of the chair. We couldn't really manage to sleep, it was a day flight, and after the annoyance in Brisbane, we just drank.

By the way the hard thing about writing a travel journal is that so much happens its hard to recollect, just thought I'd let you know that.......

We left a load of stuff in OZ so we could freight it back, but still had our massive bag for diving, which we quickly dumped at a bag holding place, and went to meet Jon. He was getting his dreads dreaded, and we met him at his mates, (Jon's been in Bangkok teaching English.) Our flight to Cambodia was at 7am, so didn't have a chance to change or wash or sleep, we were back in the air again.
We arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's Capital, and it was mayhem. I have never seen so many petrol guzzling mopeds in all my life, and with the French influence, they all drive on the right, and eat frogs.

We all decided to stay at the "Toxic Lake" which is smack bang in the middle of Phnom Penh. The lake is where all shoestring backpackers go to stay, as its so cheap. I mean all the places are cheap. but for $3 you can get a real nice room, with a cool view, like the sun setting over a toxic lake, cool huh?

Cambodia's history is really quite unbelievable. For those who have no idea about the whole Khmer Rouge thing, here is a little piece of what went on, as we have learnt since visiting.
The French colonised Cambodia, making a French country, don't know when, but after the "60's" they decided they did not want Cambodia anymore and gave it back to the King. There was a civil war, which ended when the King enlisted the help of a Communist general called Pol Pot.
Pol Pot lead the Khmer Rouge, and everybody was pleased when they ended the civil war. People were lining the streets cheering as the Khmer Rouge entered the streets of Phnom Penh, everybody was pleased the war had ended,
Within 3 hours of the Khmer Rouge taking over, they evacuated every single person from every city, forcing them to leave behind any money or possessions and get there asses out into the fields to work equally alongside everybody else. Pol Pot wanted to turn the country into a Communist Regime. The Khmer Rouge burnt all the money they could find, robbed and vandalised ancient relics and ruins, stealing millions of dollars worth of Gems encrusted into temples, the streets were empty and each town was now a ghost town, with trees growing through the road, out of buildings etc.
But then they decided this wasn't enough, they couldn't be equal just by working on farms, they have to get rid of all intelligent looking people, or they will surely over rule and take back Cambodia! So Pol Pot went to the poorist parts of Cambodia offering things like shoes, food, and M16's to as many under priveliged 10-16 year olds as he could manage, and sent them out to capture, torture and finally kill and bury in shallow graves all intelligent people, including those who wore glasses, even if they were stupid, they looked intelligent, so they died all over Cambodia.
We visited one of the "Killing Fields", not the biggest, and was amazed.
A huge field, all lumpy and silent, an orchard before, now a really depressing site, but unbelievable. As you enter the property there is a huge building, full with skulls, some with bullet holes but most where they have been battered to death with blunt weapons, shovels and things. Even in the ground you could see old bones beneath the mud, and old clothes still buried, without the rotted corpses, but you can see the amount of carnage that went down.
We thought about finding something less depressing to do, so went to the Genocide museum straight after. A high school that was turned into a torture centre right in the middle of the city. Where they would take the captured and do some really sick weird things to people, like chopping off fingers with pliers, or cutting ladies nipples or breast off, putting mens testicles into electric water, drowning people, bashing babies against trees till they died, whist mothers watched on waiting for there life to end too. A couple were killed for being in love, and if you had sex it would for sure be the end of you. But the Khmer Rouge raped most attractive captives, then killed them.
We left there in a daze, to be fronted with amputees and hideously scarred guys begging for money. Our driver asked us straight away, "Where now, the shooting range, bang-bang, hehe". We declined and went for a Happy Pizza!!!!