A quick story I bumped into 3 women on three separate occasions that I have spoken to on previous visits. They still work in the same shops or area as before. They remembered me and they all said hello Jason how are you? followed by you look fat now!  I couldnt believe it I had only gained 4 pounds in the last 18 months as a result of being inactive from a knee injury and on crutches for 3 months. It appears Thai people are even more concsious about their weight than people in the UK. My brother who has lived here 16 years said that a persons weight is always then first thing they will comment on. Except they notice a few pounds in the Uk people leave it to 10s of pounds before they would comment. As I have said before between 50 of them there isnt enough fat to fry a bacon sandwich.. So very different in values and culture here compared to the Uk. In the Uk people get soo offended when you mention that they have gained weight, Its a big taboo. Anyway I was one of them and now feeling somewhat offended I will just swallow it and stop the cakes and chocolate. Oh well its a reminder how the Uk stodges many of us out with heavy food. I actually love Bangkok s range of street food and cuisine, there is fresh fruit on sale everywhere and a street meal is always healthy and delicious and never costs more than a pound.

Some camera info, My Canon 7D versus 5D Mk2

Camera tech stuff, Well I have had good use of both camera bodies and now I can honestly say that the 8 frames per second and 60fps hd capabilities were then reasons I purchased the 7D but the image quality is not there for me coming from a full frame 1DS mk2 full frame dslr. So in MBK shopping centre today I decided after a lot of thought to  part exchange and upgrade my Canon 7D back to a Canon 5Dmk2 as I have been missing having a full frame sensor at hand. I do not shoot many sequential  but my My 7d has killed off my Fish eye and 16-35mm wide angle lenses. Also with my 50mm and 70-200mm the 1.6 crop factor has been irritating me. So now all my lenses are as they should be. I will never buy a cropped sensor on a dslr again I have decided I would rather crop my photos myself. Whilst I was here I also purchased a water housing for my canon G1X to see what water shots and HD video we can get whilst in Indo. I learnt a big lesson after my Aquatech water housing leaked in Indo a few years ago and as a result I will not be taking expensive cameras in the sea again unless someone else is paying me to use theirs!!

Well here are some shots from my 5Dmk2 and a few from my Canon gX1 see if you can tell what came from where…