Times They Are A-Changing

Bel is gone. Beaver is here. He has a new name. I work new hours. I have a new phone number. There is a new local working here. All shall be blogged about, exclusively. Here.

First, no Bel! It was so lonely the couple of day when I was the only Westerner here. Don't get me wrong, Bella and Deera are amazing (I know I keep saying it but it's true) but sometimes I just need a Western perspective on stuff and that easy conversation with a native English speaker where the words can tumble out without thinking. I spent a whole night on the sofas at Daniel's Lodge being antisocial on the internet and another hanging out with a really great local lad I've met who is so sound. It was weird going to get food without her, not smelling the dodgy under the counter cigarettes she smokes... Might even go and buy some so I can remember her! Sounds like she's dead but I'll be seeing her soon when I get my arse to Australia.

So Bel's replacement arrived three days ago I think. He was here a few weeks ago, got threatened with Malaysian prison and walked through the bonfire whilst steaming drunk. Bel and Winter bumped into him in KL, he's been travellng around Vietnam with Winter for a few weeks and has come back to work. He isn't too keen on any of his names, Beaver has vaginal connotations, William is too formal and Drake is a rapper. So my brainwave was Liam, it's sticking and it works so I'm happy and hopefully so is he! We've spent the last few days intensely talking and getting to know each other and I think it's going to work, definitely a different dynamic to me and Bel but who likes the same type of people all the time!?

I got asked the other day to start working in the mornings, 8-4, which is kind of scary considering I've trained my body clock to go to bed between 1-3am depending on whether there is trip to the Highlander involved! There was another consideration that I'd rather not blog but my tracks may be harder to cover in certain circumstances. It's a whole other story which is best reserved for emails and Facebook inboxes. Another strand to that story has encouraged me to change my Malaysian phone number which has removed some bad stuff from my life. Good move.

Finally, one of the guys I met on my birthday and was at the party in the jungle with, Marvin, has started working at the same place as me. Two new members of staff in a week, I'm beginning to feel like and old timer and I've only been here a little less than two months!!

So news all updated, other changes that need some work on before they go public but I definitely feel like I have a purpose here now...