The Rosebush

Pics are now available HERE of Cyclone Nargis.  Please don’t use them, especially if you are a journalist! Just ask me nicely

By the way, my photo gallery is now relocated at smugmug.  Thanks Mark!

I am now in Bangkok for a week or two with nothing to do except eat greasy food (yum!!) and lounge around by the pool.

I am textable on the usual number!

I’m being evacuated (!) to Bangkok on Friday and will be textable from then, and will have better net access too.

THANK YOU to all the people who called my parents to ask about me :) 

xx

But I am safe and well.  I’m still in Yangon, which is a total diaster area, but I’m okay (and grateful for all the worried messages!).

Waiting to see what will happen next…

Yangon is not a fun place to be, and I think it’s going to get a lot worse over the next few days.  People are queueing up for HOURS on end (like 8 hours at a time) to try to get fuel, and are then limited to just a few gallons at a time.  Supermarkets are running out of food and drinking water, and it could start to get ugly in terms of civil unrest as people start to panic. 

Fortunately for me, i’m a foreigner and will (I hope!) be taken care of by my employer and my embassy, but it is a tragedy that the vast majority of Burmese people can’t say the same thing.  I’m definitely one of the lucky ones.

Anyway, once I can update again and maybe even get some pictures up, I’ll do so.

Ciao for now and thank you again for caring xxx