busy

after getting back to Singapore from Europe I had one week at home then fly back to California to visit with my family for a week. It was nice to be home to see Mom and the rest of the family. The week went really fast which means I must have ejoyed the time with them.

Then then past weekend I went with a few friend to meet an old college friend- Joe- in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He had arrived in asia a week before and was traveling around to different places... in Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. A few days in Phnom Penh was enough and though it was interesting to see I wouldn't recommend it as a vacation if it's the only stop in Cambodia... I'll have to post more pictures and descriptions in another post... the highlight was renting bikes and riding around the city in some of the most infamous traffice in SE Asia.

Now I'm at the airport getting ready for my last trip - in likely a long time since I'm almost out of vacation time (and good thing work's not been very busy right now which has allowed me to take so many trips at once). I'm going to Boracay, Philippines for 5 days and it should be the most relaxing trip so far... just laying on the beach and hopefully it will be sunny.

It's been very strange to be away from home for so many weekends in a row- this will be the 8th one and I'm actually looking forward to a more relaxing weekend when I'll just stay home. It's been a strange set of circumstances where so many trips have come together all at the same time and I'm lucky to have a job flexible enough to let me take so much vacation at once (but I guess it's better to take all at once when work's not busy then to take it when it's really busy).

Tain Cups

I've made it back from Tain, Scotland, and the Europe vacation earlier this week and have been pretty jetlagged since. Usually it doesn't affect me so much but for some reason this 6 hour change ahead compared to Europe has been killing me. I guess the good thing is that I'm still not adjusted to Singapore time yet as I'm leaving for California tomorrow (this Saturday). I'll spend a week at home in Visalia visiting with my parents. I'll have to get the rest of my pictures together from this trip to post and I still need to put up the pictures from the trip to Bangkok a few weeks ago with John.I didn't realize just how small this little town would be. Somehow when I was reading on the net about it, the population of 3,700 (people) didn't register with me.... I was thinking 37,000 for some reason and I was still thinking that was small too. The town was pretty quiet with not much to do but play golf or tour whiskey distilleries- neither of which I had time to do since I was in the studio from 8am to 8pm every day.
Here are some of the cups I made while at the Glasstorm Studio in Tain. I took a few back home with me as well as some simpler tumblers. I'll post the other pictures later on