December 26, 2004

linklube asia

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Nood­le­Pie on great form with these WONDERFUL pho­tos of Viet­na­mese des­serts.
Great BBC cove­rage of the tsu­nami crashing into Sri Lanka this mor­ning. The worst earth­quake for 40 years!
[UPDATE:] Evelyn Rodri­guez was on Xmas vaca­tion on Ko Lanta island in Thai­land. Any­body know if she’s OK?
[UPDATE– MONDAY:] Got an e-mail this mor­ning from Evelyn:

I am in Phu­ket hos­pi­tal. Got slam­med
bad in Phi Phi island but nothing stitching couldn’t fix. (Free email
at the hos­pi­tal.)
I will blog more details as I have a lot of con­cer­ned peo­ple sen­ding
email.…really appre­ciate the check-in.

She’s OK but she still took a knoc­king, it seems. Here’s her blog entry on it: “Slam­med by Tidal Wave, But I’m OK”:

We were on a boat tour when the cap­tain dra­ma­ti­cally vee­red off course (we were hea­ded to remote Bam­boo Island) and was fran­ti­cally tal­king on his cell phone. Their English was very poor so it was not clear what was going on. Long story short, we got on the beach but were too low when the tidal wave struck. It crea­ted a flash flood effect and I was in the middle of rapids con­tai­ning debris, wood and all mat­ter of buil­ding material.

Glad she’s alright. Damn.

3 Responses to “linklube asia”

  1. Brett says:
    December 26, 2004 at 8:23 pm

    Hugh…you’ve got good connections…can you pass on (post) anything you hear about Evelyn Rodri­guez? She was on Ko Lanta island in Thai­land. Hope­fully she’s safe. Thanks.

  2. Tom Guarriello says:
    December 27, 2004 at 4:39 am

    Jesus, that gave me a chill. Sure hope Evelyn’s OK in the midst of this mas­sive tragedy.

  3. nick parsons says:
    December 31, 2004 at 5:38 pm

    Does any­body know how the young Doc­tor is on Phi Phi?
    I was there in Octo­ber with my wife and found him to be very obli­ging and kind when he trea­ted her for Anaphy­lac­tic shock bought on by Jelly­fish stings
    If any body know his name and pos­sibly a con­tact email address I would be gra­te­ful
    Many thanks Nick Parsons