Everything in its Right Place

  The Travel Diary of South-east Asia Here continues the series for anyone who is interested about my travels over a year ago. I spent three months in South-east Asia. Though true to the actual handwritten diary in terms of events which I recorded on my trip day-to-day, I have changed the names and where possible gone into more detail for each day with the luxury of having a laptop this time around! For part seven click  here . Part eight concerns Hua Hin and the meeting of Marianne. 2nd - 3rd of February 2019 - Bangkok > Hua Hin, Thailand What on earth has just happened?      So I should state that during my trip I’d been speaking via Instagram to someone I’d met only once back home called Marianne. To be honest in the drunken haze I was in the only time I’d met her left me barely able to recall her, but she was also in Thailand doing her TEFL. After a few messages, I’d decided to take a detour down to Hua Hin where she was based to see her.    ...

                 Oedipal War *Contains spoilers*      I don’t feel like I can shake off this film. I watched it yesterday and vivid snippets of it keep haunting my mind, which I’m sure was director Denis Villeneuve’s intentions. Villeneuve certainly doesn’t reinvent the genre of war thriller or anything here, but he certainly approaches it with a nuance which feels fresh, and a twist which sticks around with you almost with as much vehemence as something like Oldboy (2003).      Incendies opens with a masterfully shot opening scene, reminiscent of other war films like Apocalypse Now (1979), where nature is impeded by the violence of war to the sound of The End by The Doors. Here we see a beautiful landscape and a smooth movement of the camera as Thom Yorke’s voice fades in and we head into a disturbing house where child soldiers are being created by a mean looking militia. ‘Come on if you think you can take u...