words cannot express

the feeling in my dress.

OK, so god knows what that was. I've been absent for quite some time, having been sold into slavery of a particularly immoral kind, locked away only to be sold for my beauty to a balding Thai businessman.

Actually, that was a lie, and not a particularly convincing one at that. I'm fine, haven't been abducted, shot or otherwise violated.

I have been working my arse off to try and get this piano piece working. It'll never be accurate or anything, but it's sort of working now. I've got till Saturday with that one.

I've also had my first few gigs with the staff band, Red Sleeve. We played at a nice pub in town and actually it was really rather fun. I'm just about to get my hands on some photos and videos of the event, so this is a placeholder till they arrive.

In other news, Thailand is pretty much as it ever was, the sun shines, the grass is brown and crusty and the tarmac is melting.

Dom

pianism

Hey there all,

Well, no updates for a while, but with good reason. School is proving to be fantastically busy, and is just like any school anywhere, so no special Thai things to mention. Sure, the staff may be different, but as I have mentioned before, this is an International school, so everyone speaks English. With this in mind, it's very hard to experience anything of the country you happen to be living in if you spend your whole time among other English speakers in what could only be described as a very sterile environment.

OK, so I do have one bit of news, I committed virtual suicide by agreeing to play one of the pianos in the two piano reduction of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. You'll know it, it goes "O Fortuna *boom* *boom*" at the start.
It's not easy.

Not at all.

Damn.

Dom