Oct 28
As I said… I posted some new photos. Some of the scorpion incident, some of some scenery, some of me just being dumb. It’s all goods.
New photos start on the last image on page 1.
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Also, our hotel in Koh Phangan has been booked. We’ll be going to a Full Moon Party in Thailand. SO STOKED!
Oct 1
Today we saw 6 temples. One being the Angkor Wat. Another was where a few shots in the Tomb Raider movie were filmed. Got lots of great pictures. Also have an idea for a gift for you. This one I think you’ll actually be pretty stoked on. Still dunno what to get Holly or Grandma and Grandpa… but I have time to get it all figured out.
Cambodia is amazing. Never thought it could be this beautiful. Kinda of a shame we are only here for another day and a half. Although we got to see all the big sights here… the Killing Fields, the Genocide Museum, Angkor Wat and a few other gnarly temples.
Next we’re onto Bangkok for a day or 2, then into Laos.And just want to make sure you guys have deposited my cheque into my account. The bank machines here all accept my card and i haven’t had to use my credit card at all, except to buy some dirt cheap tailor made clothes in Hoi An. It was between 50 and 60 dollars. So no other charges should be on it.
Well keep having fun over there and I’ll continue having a blast over here.
Give you another update soonish.
Sep 3
Time for me to start packing as I head over to Victoria tonight and spend a week there before heaading overseas! Procrastination has definitely taken place… it’s 4pm and im still sitting around in my underwear playing on the internet.
[SinglePic not found]On the bright side, I got my podcasting software running again so there is a new mix up there! It was thrown together really quickly last night so I have something new to listen to on the road tonight. When I get back, I will make it much nicer sounding with less trainwrecks and such. Hopefully I’ll have some new turntables to play on, too. The ones I have now are way terrible.
I have decided to take down the mix because… well it was thrown together way too fast and it just sucked. When I get home, I’ll re-record it, and toss it back up.
Sep 3
[SinglePic not found] It’s that time of year again. My parent’s anniversary. Each year, we take a family picture with everyone in attendance and it’s situated somewhere around the house that has some sort of significance for the year. When we bought a new car, we took it in front of the car. When the house flooded, to took it in the middle of a gutted room. This year we took it in the backyard which is going to be ripped apart and re-landscaped.
It was also the last night I’ll be in Alberta for quite some time. Tomorrow evening we set sail for Victoria for a week and then off to Vietnam on the 13th. Won’t be back till December 22nd.
I’ll be posting as many photos as possible while away. I’ll also try to keep a bit of a record of the things we see so I can update on here.
Egg heads in the UK and Germany have discovered that listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music increases your levels of antibodies.
The scientists from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune system, decreased after a dose of dance music.
And the boffins reckon that their research shows music could be used to help aid patients’ recovery while in hospital.
Dr Ronny Enk, who led the research, said: “We think the pleasant state that can be induced by music leads to special physiological changes which eventually lead to stress reduction or direct immune enhancement.
“Stress reduction probably plays an important role, but the stress reducing effect seems to be different for various types of music.”
Dr Ronny Enk may or may not look like this dudeThe researchers tested 300 people, asking them to listen to 50 minutes of happy dance music.
They found that levels of the stress hormone cortisol, decreased significantly in those listening to dance music compared to the control group.
And after listening, the levels of the antibody immunoglobin A, the immune system’s first line of defence, were heightened.
Dr Enk added: “We did not use relaxing music, but rather exciting music that were joyful dance tunes from different centuries.”
[source: telegraph.co.uk]
Sick tunes to cure you
For shits and giggles Beatportal has compiled a list of tracks [check our picks in the player below] that we think would probably boost your immune system, based on this latest research.
