1. Line dancing in Laos - Well, well where have i been! I've successfully managed to lose my diary in Malaysia (which after shoving a tenner in an envelope the lovely people are sending back to me!) but this means I've lost all of your postal addresses. So send me them if you want a postcard!

I'm currenlty in Laos, which is inbetween Vietnam and Thailand, and is the poorest and least developed of most of SE Asia. Having said that they've caught onto charging westerners over the odds pretty swiftly so i think this shall soon be rectified!

It's a lovely place, where all the locals say SABIADEE!! all the time (hello), and the kids smile and wave or chuck their flip flop at you (i walked in the middle of some game they were playing).

2. Mr lover man... SABAH - Since leaving Kuala Lumpor, after going to their independence celebration which was surreal as the cheeky girls (bad transelvainan pop duo sisters for those lucky americans/ candains not in the know) took to the stage to sing 'Ohh touch my bum' the prime minister arrived in the ceremony.... (i have a photo to prove it)... I headed to Sabah, which is in Borneo (still part of Malaysia) where I climbed Mount Kinablao. I didnt realise how cold it got up on the mountains and ammused many a malay by strolling past them in a teeshirt. It was supposed to take 6 hours to climb the first part, i did it in 3, not bad huh for a unfit, drunken steve-o-

3. Dead Uncle Tan's - After the mountain i headed to uncle tan's, a naturist who is now sadly dead. He run a jungle trekking organisation which was fantasic! The malaysia government is wisely ripping up all of their primary rainforest and planting Palm Oil (it makes soap and cooking oil) so this small strech of jungle has all the animals crammed into it! Good for photos and safari's, not so good for the animals. I see loads of different monkeys and nicely had a tree frog jump into my eye on a night trek!

4. 3 Days on a bus - I deceided that my time is swifty running out so i spent th