176 to 180 Koh Phangan
Here comes a first update from Koh Phangan, I will probably stay for a while longer on this island so expect more info to come later 🙂
The boat-trip out here was quite interesting. We where on a small shipping boat that they had decorated with rows of bunk beds… you really slept shoulder to shoulder with your neighbor.
Victor on Christmas morning in our Bungalow
The Bungalow to the right and the beach to the left 🙂
3 small Santa ready for Christmas!
Swedish Christmas dinner
Well… KIND of Swedish Christmas dinner 🙂
I am staying with the two guys in black… the girl to the right I met up with on the boat ride over to the Island…
Half moon Christmas party… was really wild… SO many people there 😀
Foam machine on the beach of the full moon party (the day after)
A lot of people on the beach!
It is a bit dark… but Victor is actually on that slide to the right 🙂
Yea… Bevis and Butthead… or? 
These are called bucket shops… they sell a bucket of liquor (about 1 liter) for between 150-300 bath. (About 3-6 euro)
Henri putting UV-paint on Victor
Soo nice 🙂
Scary hand!
Then the question came… did the text work? 
Well… Victor got a bit jealous… so luckily Chantal decided that it worked for him too 🙂
Typical Thai spelling 😀
From our porch on the sunset.
Barbecue dinner (The thing in the middle is actually on fire)
How many people can you fit on a scooter? Well the extra saddle in the front kind of gives you a hint 😉
Day 174 to 176 Phuket
These days where quite fun… I got to meet up with my parents again and revisit Phuket. I was there once before in 2005 but must admit a few things have changed… they don’t try to commercialize the Tsunami as much any more for one thing…
I also had the realization that my travels have changed the way I see and react to things in many ways. During the days I spent with my parents I did see them in a new light. Things that just a few months ago would have made feel angry or hurt or upset just flew right through me this time. I also realized that I cannot take responsibility for how anyone else feels, it is totally up to each person how they react to information. To be able to do this requires that you are fully conscious of your emotions and thoughts. And realize that what you feel or think is not who you are.
Once you have stopped identifying YOU with your emotions and thoughts you get a choice. Because once you observe your emotions from a “third person” perspective you realize that you are creating pain for yourself by staying in this mindset. There is no sane person who would ever create pain for themselves and when you then have the choice to react or not to circumstances around you it becomes clear that there is only one sane way forward.
Well, to be aware of this requires that you stay present, that you don’t identify with roles, and that you are very careful with how you react on things that SEEM to be positive things. (Such as if you build your happiness from when someone tells you that you do something well, or that you are beautiful or any other happiness built from external factors. The danger of this is that the happiness you feel from this is just the other side of the coin that brings misery or pain to you, such as when someone tells you that you do something bad, that you are ugly or other things that hurt you.) True happiness radiates from within… and is in all of us!
Well…. that was a few thoughts I had right now, here comes some pictures from Phuket 🙂
Mom and dad on a shopping street.
All three of us
A guy that was connecting a new while to the electric net… not quite the Swedish standard 😉
On a restaurant, I love those happy smiles 🙂
Day 171 to 174 Penang
After Langkawi it was back to Penang to pick up our Thai Visas and spend the weekend on the CS invasion that was taking place. We had a great weekend touring around the Island looking at beautiful scenery, bathing in waterfalls, eating good food and going out to clubs!
From the Dragon Show the last night:
In the car of our host the first night… we managed to squeeze in 7 people in it… was just a TAD full 🙂
Victor in da club… (yea… the sun was very strong that night 😉
Josh partying loose!
Playing with dragon costumes!
Heeello!
Victor doing a cool pose!
Josh on his pink scooter.
The view from the place we had lunch the first day of the CS invasion… really nice!
Michel, one of the organizers at the lunch place
Cool girls…
Me chilling… oh, and the small scrub wounds on the knee is from falling with the scooter in Langkawi.
CS:ers at the invasion.
Group-picture of all of us!
The girls riding a horse… Josh and Victor where more fascinated with the equipment of the horse though…
Don’t they look cute… on the love bench…eh?
Hmm… something tells me I don’t want this one to bite me…
CS:ers at dinner during the invasion.
Victor goes with a mask in the night!
Many of the CS:ers as the waterfall on Sunday
We went up another mountain…Michel is pointing out something.
Dragon show at night… this pole was actually really heavy!
DID
People queuing for free food… wait… did I say free food… eh… forget the part about queuing…. people RAN over!
You can never get enough hugs!
Don’t you like my gloria? Yea… soon new hair color 😀
Ula looks kind of happy!
Day 167 to 171 Penang & Langkawi
Langkawi turned out to be a bit of a paradise on earth after having been in big cities for a long while. Fantastic beaches, parties by bonfires on deserted beaches and loads of clubs without dress-code (where you can enter in shorts!)
The first thing that happened when we arrived at the Island was that we met two German girls who took us with them to a party on a deserted Island called the Monkey Island. When we came to the boat we quickly realized that Me, Josh and Victor where the only non-native guys there though… oh and about 40 blond European girls… well… quite easy to guess we had a really fun party night!
We also rented some scooters and drove around the Island… I had a bit of an accident (going very slowly luckily) and dislocated my shoulder quite bad… two weeks later it still is sore… but is getting better for every day 😀
Partying on Langkawi the first night:
Scootering around on the Island:
With Lukas on Penang (this was actually one day before Langkawi)… they guys had some fun on my hand-gestures on my different profile pictures on facebook so we did a parody on them 🙂
On the bus ride to Langkawi… Victor and Josh resting a bit.
A sign when we came to Langkawi…. such a true sign 🙂
Cat, one of the German girls we met up with the first night that took us to Monkey Island.
Victor feeling the Love!
Loads of blond girls as i said…
The first night we got a room with only two single beds… Josh kind of occupied a bit more than the whole first one… so me and Victor where cramped up on the second 🙂
Me on a scooter with a golden helmet 🙂
Scenery on Langkawi… was really a beautiful place!
Victor ready to race!
Flying on the beach!
Josh looking quite happy…. with a Lady boy in the background… (he claims he didn’t know this of course 😉
Tourist place? Naaaah…. not at all 😉
Us with the two cat girls..
Day 166 back in Kuala Lumpur again
Ok,this is probably the last Kuala Lumpur post that I do in a while… going of to some more beach-like places soon 🙂 This is mainly to talk about a nice barbeque that we had up on a mountain watching what we hoped would be a meteor shower (but it was cloudy so we didn’t see much) was a very nice time anyway though 😀
City view from the mountain
Two CS:ers up on the mountain
Milda, ehm, I mean… someone… preparing some weed to be smoked. (Yea… they kind of have a death penalty on possession of drugs in Malaysia…)
Magnus the wizard… (no I still don’t do drugs!) 
Josh slipped on the way down and hurt his leg.. (yea… we also didn’t understand why he needed to take of his t-shirt because of that 😉
Day 165 Singapore
Singapore… I went here mainly for the ZoukOut dance festival… but ended up arranging a pillow fight there too… quite a lot of fun 😀
Most of the below pictures are from other people’s cameras, found on facebook 🙂
I kind of feel that there was some collaboration here on the fighting…
Time for posing…
and again
and again…
and again…
Whee… pillow flight… ehm… I mean fight!
Super-tall pillow fighting machine!
Pillows in the air!
Some massage after a fight is never wrong… but wait… I think there is a hidden message here 🙂
Under siege…
and then it calms down!
More pillows in the air!
Some might recognize this as my facebook profile picture..
Singapore street… very much cleaner than Malaysia…
Very nice Buddhist temple
You can buy these small shrines to put the ashes of a loved one… as a grave.
On top of the temple… hard to believe that this is in the middle of the busy city.
ZoukOut festival… looooads of people!
Why have a dance festival in a country where it is 30 degrees also in the middle of the night? Well, for one you can have a dance floor in the middle of a pool… for the other girls can run around in bikini during the party 😀
Fireworks during the festival
Want to hook up with someone? Go to the flirting point!
Why not do some wave-riding during the festival!
Flirting point in full action 😀
Good music, cool lights and laser-shows… great festival!
The couchsurfing crew!
Day 155 to 164 Kuala Lumpur
Once back in Kuala Lumpur I visited the city a bit more… such as Chinatown and Little India. (Oh, and I got my Indian Visa… can now go to India with multiple entries whenever I want for the next 6 monhs… yeeeha!
Was also going to a place called Batu Caves where they have a pretty cool Chinese temple.
The KL tower… quite impressive and beautiful
Look up… naaah… i am not falling or it 😀
Ehm… is this a copy of Starbucks or are referring to something completely different (it was a cafe… and the guests seemed quite normal actually :-P)
Me with two CS-gils at a gathering
Arriving at the “Monkey house”, a place where I stayed for quite a few nights in KL… for some reason all guests there had their laptops with them… and yepp… all of them where long-term travelers, gave me quite some inspiration!
A Chinese CS-girl took us to a temple and showed us how the ceremony is when you burn incessant.
Some of them where thin and some of them where thick.
Walking around in Chinatown… you can find lots of expensive “brands” here fro all over the world… to very… ehm… attractive prices 😉 (everything fake of course!)
Four CS:ers and their cameras 😀
This house was apparently a facade they had left after WWII.
Monkey house the day after a party… but we managed to clean up quite quickly 😀
Batu Caves… the first step was to get up all these stars… phew!
Once you are up the view is pretty nice though!
I think the opening looks a bit like a heart… or perhaps as from within a smiling mouth 😀
Inside the caves… they where huge!
A monkey that found a coconut… lucky day!
Mo, Moritz and the CS-girl who brought us to the caves.
Moritz next to the fire!
A sermon over a relic in the temple, they washed the thing in honey, and oil and milk…over and over again!
A Cs-girl (Ula) sleeping in the Monkey house… I just liked her style 😀
Look a monkey… THAT is why we call the house the monkey house 😀 (The girl to the right, Milda was my host in the house and the guy to the left, Josh was the guy who told me about its existence)
A normal shopping mall… ehm, with a rollercoster inside.
I wonder what discrimination on race, age and gender would say about a job-add like this in Sweden 😀
A CS-group that wanted to go Salsa-dancing… unfortunately they didn’t let us in since we where wearing shorts…
Another CS-party… started out as a pool-party but ended up indoors in the end.
Cool dudes… (we where watching a 3D movie… that’s why the “cool” glasses,… and our gangster looks!)
A view from the Petronas towers… the building in front is tiiiny in comparison 😀
The park outside Petronas tower… more of that in the next post which is about a Pillow Fight I made there 😀
Day 163 Pillow Fight outside PETRONAS Towers in Kuala Lumpur
This event started quite promising… I had 850 people signed up on facebook that they would or might attend… when I did the same in Turkey about 75% of the Facebook people turned up so I thought it would be a HUGE event!
Well, it seems Malaysians are not quite as good at doing what they say they will… in the end about 100 people showed up… and only about 40 of them brought pillows…we had a great fight still though and loads of laughter and fun!
Oh, and all the pictures in this section are borrowed from other people posting on Facebook… my camera didn’t take any pics from this event.
And a few pics 🙂
And in a restaurant with some CS:ers after the event.
Day 153 to 154 Melaka
Our excursion to Melaka contained everything from seeing the “Full Moon” vampire movie for a second time to experiencing a real Chinese tea-house… and Melakan Satay.
One more of those KL pictures… but this time in daylight…
Who ever thought that cassette recorders died in the early 90’s have not been to Malaysia… these are all new productions 😀
My host’s place in Melaka… and yes… this is a STUDENT dormitory!!! Why the heck did I study in Sweden!!! 😀
Is it raining or not? Well, the girl to the left is actually from the UK… one would have thought she would have been used to it 😀 To the right is my host (who is from Indonesia)
In an old fort on a hill… loads of tomb-stones of Dutch merchantmen are found here…
Craaaazy pic 😀
The veiw from the fort… is it actually sea there in the background.
Posing by the water! Really beautiful scenery!
Going for the Satay
You dipped the sticks in the pot in the middle… which also cooked them.
All the raw food in the background… you just take what you want and pay for the sticks afterwards.
Tea-sermony he traditional Chinese way.
The group (mainly CS.ers) who attended the sermony 😀
Outside the tea-place… was a really nice atmosphere in the whole place! (Not sure what was in that tea though 😉
Riding the lion!
