Life-long learning

Some things I have recently learned while living in Bangkok:

• Asian Elvis impersonators are very cheesy.
• So are Asian Tom Jones impersonators.
• Kids letting off bungers (loud, explosive fireworks) outside your apartment building on a regular basis becomes rather annoying after a while.
• It's quite possible to convince yourself that ordinary Aussie wine tastes much better than you always thought it did when it's "imported" and you pay three times the price for it.
• If you like street fashion parades featuring large transvestites, come to Bangkok.
• Phone companies being difficult and incompetent is a global phenomenon.

Some things I am expecting to learn in the near future:

• How to scuba dive using nitrox (oxygen-enriched air).
• Whether it's possible for me to visit a Thai island without getting rained upon mercilessly.
• If voting in an Australian election is as rewarding and thrilling when you're not attacked by "how to vote" people.
• What it's like to take 150 year 9 students away for a week of rafting, trekking and mountain biking.
• How much sleep one can get on an overnight train whilst surrounded by 150 year 9 students.