The Long Way Home » South East Asia http://gemmola.com/blog a blog created created (mostly) from an old iphone somewhere between Los Angeles and Denpasar Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:13:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Say goodbye, say hello. http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1467 http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1467#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:41:17 +0000 chantzis http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1467 We can’t really procrastinate any longer. Australia is too close to fit in another stop on the way there.

]]> http://gemmola.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1467 0 Marti awaits her coffee, Seminyak http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1465 http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1465#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:35:29 +0000 chantzis http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1465 A stinking hot walk to the coffee shop. The pictures say it all.

]]> http://gemmola.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1465 0 Bali… http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1458 http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1458#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:56:38 +0000 chantzis http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1458 Marti walks on Kuta beach.

Pocari was a wrestler. Apparently suggesting a drink is similar to his sweat is not a bad marketing exercise.

Kavli. Hearty, thick Kavli…

]]> http://gemmola.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1458 0 Ubud http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1454 http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1454#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:39:15 +0000 chantzis http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1454 We had a horrible coffee at the ‘world’s best airport’, Kuala Lumpur, before heading to Ubud where we found a latte BETTER than I remember Melbourne’s!

Flying over the equator.

A spectacular, and spectacularly wet, morning walk with Peter up a ridge between two raging rivers.

]]> http://gemmola.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1454 0 Full Circle http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1445 http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1445#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:10:36 +0000 chantzis http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1445 Just before leaving Australia in 2004,I spent weeks working on an architectural scene in Kuala Lumpur for my employer. It was a view of the centre with a newly constructed hotel by the new Sentral Station, with the Petronas Towers in the background showing close proximity of the hotel. Most of the scene was incomplete, including an absence of logos to the building top, electricity not supplied to the rooms, scaffolding, unfinished train station and more. I lived in that scene for days at a time, turning on lights (copying illuminated windows from elsewhere), creating the logos and attaching them, placing monorail carriages on the lines, and generally cleaning up a massive construction site.

Last night I found myself walking around this scene. Our hotel room looked over it and not much had changed – they seem to have completed what I did in Photoshop over six years ago. It was very surreal, like being a Lego man in a 3D version of a giant scene that I’d painfully worked over in 2D and knew every square millimeter of.

Nearly back in Australia, it’s been a full circle.

The Le Meridian and Hilton hotels and KL Sentral station. A new construction site has replaced a parking lot which I had tidied up so long ago on a Macintosh computer.

]]> http://gemmola.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1445 0 Kuala Lumpur http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1443 http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1443#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:02:46 +0000 chantzis http://gemmola.com/blog/?p=1443 Flying in to KL – still north of the equator (just) but not far from the southern hemisphere now.

Hotel view.

No Duratrans? You’re on camera too.

Roti for breakfast. Can we stay another day???

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