Bangkok again.

At the end of Koh San road there's a big fence covered with photos and messages for missing people. I'm sorry that I have to use comparison's to movies but it's just like that bit in 28 days later. Computer printouts, scrawled messages an photographs. It's shocking. Especially because such a large proportion of the missing are young children and babies. Still feel impotent about it all. Have given some money but fuck, it just doesn't seem enough.

Saw some BBC news coverage in my guesthouse the other day, it's crazy... I think all of you back in the world are getting a much better picture of what happened here.

heard 2 horrible stories:

• People are sunbathing on the beach in Phuket while the clean up is carrying on around them. It's fair enough I suppose, after all I'm still here on holiday (although not in any disaster zones) But there was this one woman interviewed who said she didn't care because she hadn't lost anybody in the Tsunami...
• A dutch couple tried to dive the coast near Phuket to search for stuff to salvage from the damage. Can't believe that people would be so eager to basically grave rob.

Leaving for Burma on the 7th and will almost definitley be out of phone and email contact for two weeks. I hear the internet access is severely restricted and they don't have phone coverage. Dunno why I'm doing this to myself, after all this is supposed to be a holiday but it seems I just can't get enough morbidity and suffering on this trip.

It should be interesting and Everyone who's been there recommends it, so I would just be kicking myself if I didn't try it. I hear it's very safe for tourists anyway. On the bright side you can deal directly with the locals on the black market which ensures that they are getting some dollars and hard currency always helps in a military dictatorship.