Cambodia

Might As well share some Cambodian photos

The ancient city of Angkor Wat

Big Brother is watching numerous times in-fact

Remind you of Tomb Raider anyone?

Stay tuned in for more snaps from around Asia, New Zealand, Europe and even maybe Australia

Transport in Thailand

"What is the easiest why to transport heavy machinery from island to island" i hear you say.

Its not to take it by road then car ferry or even put it on a proper boat for moving large machinery.

ITs to...

Drag It Across the Ocean

As you can see i've begun posting some of my recent holiday snaps and i hopefully will post some more of the good, weird and wrong ones as i see them

Why You Always Use Sunblock

We all know the damage of what the burning ball of hydrogen gas can do to our bodies if we dont use protection.

Last holidays when i was in Thailand i was out most day in the sun without my shirt because thats what the ladies want and i'm not one to disappoint am i :P

I got the usual talk from my mother "James remember to put on sunblock"

Which i did but i missed some spots.

Can anyone guess where i missed?

You would not believe the amount of shit i got from my dad and surprisingly it didn't hurt or peel but i did get alot of flicks to my burnt nipple

Uncovered

Welcome to the next edition of Expanding Your Octaves With James Hastings

As you have probably noticed all of the albums i have commented on so far are covers and i'm continuing on in that theme for the last week.

You all would have heard of Ministry of Sound that is a very popular brand now that started out as a small nightclub in london city.

They are mostly famous for their "resident" DJ's who release numerous CD's per year.

This CD "Uncovered: A Unique Collection Of Cool Covers"

features these usual Dj's but also some famous faces as well covering all well known songs.

We see these famous songs with some very strange and cool versions

Some of the most famous songs include (Name of song- Artist covering that song) I would tell you who the original artist was but CBF going up to the studio to get the case, but i will tell you if i know it off the top of my head

Riders On The Storm- Yonderboi (The Doors)

Use Somebody-Pixie Lott (Kings of Leon)

Rebel Rebel - Seu Jorge (David Bowie)

Bettie Davis Eyes

Ms Jackson-The Vines (Outkast) Better than Original

Toxic- Yael (Britney Spears) Better than Original

Call Me (Blondie)

Live & Let Die- Duffy (Paul Mccartney)

Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)

Magnificent Romeo-Basement Jacks (The Clash)

Blue Monday-Flunk (New Order)

Ghost train (The Prodigy) AWESOME

Horse With No Name- A Human (America) Very Good

Plus Much more

Absolutely stunning arrangement of songs

And my personal Favourite To Cut a Long story Short - Cazals

Because of the awesome rift and awesome drums later in the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUPBz0GNq8

Check It Out

What I Learnt Today

I learnt numerous things today some good, some bad and some utterly useless.

I learnt that a kiwi guy managed to shoot a nucleus through a gold plate. Thats right a New Zealander, but lets not mention his theory because that doesn't matter.

I learnt that some people are way to easily offended at one simple action that includes using a triangle button and the delete function which was automatically fixed.

I learnt that the only maths i can do this year is for something i dont know what it is used for or what it means and dont know how to do it properly.

I learnt not to host a movie night which coincides with after ball party

And finally the most hurtful thing of all that Brandon is too homophobic to go to the ball with me

PS; Brandon dont EVER mention the river cruise in a public place again its for eyes only

To end with one of my favourite quotes from the late Sir Edmund Hilary "I climbed that mountain, jeez it was big"

Jazz & 70's

Welcome to the next edition of Expanding Your Octaves With James Hastings

Now i'm going on the route of different and unusal music and to follow up on the bossa nova genre the same record label have put together, jazz versions of hit songs in the 70's.

Some of them are awesome such as Smoke on the water, Stairway to Heaven and have you have seen the rain.

My personal favourite is Stairway to heaven and hopefully this link works but if it doesn't dont bother me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAY8xb5WUto

Keep reading for the next installment

Because Its Japan

It wasn't that scary but me and conrad were going to put our hands up but with all the japanese people being tiny i didn't think my hands would fit under the brigdy thing it went under so i was worried for the remaining life of my hand

Conrad's first time giving birth as well