Welcome to the first collection of hopefully many in the series of weird photos from Taiwan. This old dude was a busker at a shopping district in Taipei. Note the surgical facemask with a hole cut in it....practical yet elegant. His glasses were made of cardboard. Must have been disposables......

Nothing to add here really......

From one cock shop to the next...........

This dude had finished a hard day's work standing next to a sign and he was taking it home the safest way possible...on a scooter. As long as there was a tailwind he'd be ok.

Berjaya Tioman Island Resort off the east coast of Malaysia was our perfect getaway. No phones, no computers and no gyms (guilt factor - zero). The pool-bar got a good workout though!

Competition was furious for the best "seats in the house" and we got 'em every day. Pool-side and beach-side day beds - we were in heaven!! We became resort-savvy very quickly.
TIP: Sneak in before the pool opens and mark your territory with a few personal items.

When you've got a good spot you keep it. We did move during the day though... to the pool bar and back :)
(You can see Rengiis Island in the background... where we did some snorkelling.)

One of the *insert adjective here* sunsets we enjoyed whilst on Tioman.

Monkeys are to Tioman Island as possums are to any campsite in Australia. Raiding rubbish bins was a far more delicate operation for these mammals however. They seemed to live happily along side the resort guests rather than be a disturbance. This one was called Monica - she enjoys long walks on the beach and sipping pina coladas at sunset. She also enjoys flinging poo.

A small lagoon within the resort complex was home to an extended family of the rarely spotted wide-screen monitor lizards. These things are big!

In a futile attempt to work off some of the Long Island Ice Teas, we took to the water in a double kayak around the resort and near by Rengiis Island.

The snorkelling was like being dunked in an over-stocked aquarium!! The water was beautiful and warm and crystal clear and the amount of sea-life was breathtaking (pardon the pun). We hope the photos do it justice.

We finished our holiday in Singapore to visit my (and soon to be Rich's too!) family - where we ate, visited the night safari, ate, shopped, ate, saw some sites and ate some more. Here we are posing in front of the Merlion - the symbol of Singapore.

This is my HB2-4 class on their last day. Most of them were great but a few of them were little turds.

This is Hedy. She was so upset that it was our last day. It's hard not to get attached to your students when they are this cute and affectionate.

Cheeky Felicia and snoozy Ruby. I'll let you figure out which one's which......

Little Hedy again being very sweet.