Phuket airport arrivals this year are mostly filled with Japanese tourists I have the impression.
Now that's great as our resort does cater for the Japanese, and I don't mind at all joining our Japanese breakfast buffet :-)
But apart from more Japanese tourists flocking in, it's relatively quite on the Phuket beaches this year.
Not that it has anything to do with the troublesome political news we hear from the capital Bangkok.
Nor has it to do with the tsunami: Patong beach looks as gorgeous as ever:
And Hat Patong Road looks as busy as before:
It's more about higher oil prices making it too expensive for travelers to fly into Phuket. We all know that the Japanese have a good currency, so for them Phuket is still manageable.
On top of that Japan has re-launched its Narita–Phuket services.
Since this trend continues, I am taking up Japanese classes in order to accommodate the Japanese travelers even better. It's quite embarrassing only to be able to say "ohiogozaimas" to the Japanese Phuket airport arrivals in the morning...
What's the difference between Federica Pellegrini Seychelles sexy bikini above and her "NASA fastest swimsuit ever" Olympic picture below?
The black swimsuit is the one designed for speed from NASA. But you notice also blue swimwear... That's right: Federica is wearing her normal swimsuit under the NASA Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit. Why?
Because the LZR Racer swimsuit can sometimes break very easily... Maybe somebody needs to tell those people at NASA that women prefer to be seen inside their swimsuits!
Having said so: if you have no idea where to go on your next vacation and you have a lot of money to spare, then have a look at one of the resorts in the Indian Ocean at the east of Africa.
Amazingly but true, some of these Islands are part of France! Which only goes to show the facts of Seychelles islands: they look like paradise for the French so they intend to never give up these colonial Seychelles...
Look at the Seychelles island pictures below and you will understand what's at stake...
Map of Seychelles islands
A map of Seychelles of Africa:
The 115 Seychelles Islands form an archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean. The closest well known travel destinations nearby are:
the islands of Madagascar and Maldives in the south west
Zanzibar at the west,
French paradise islands Mauritius and Réunion at the north (there are a few gorgeous Mauritius Seychelles cruises to choose from, again be prepared to fork out lots of money)
Comoros and Mayotte at the north east
Webcam Seychelles
If you want to know who is strolling around at the beach of the Seychelles, they have a webcam on the beach and also at the market.
Enjoy these sexy Guo Jingjing pics in bikini, lots of springboard diving photos and 2 sexy in red Guo Jingjing pictures.
Above one of the Guo Jingjing pics during the women's three-meter springboard preliminary stage last Saturday. I do prefer Guo Jingjing's swimsuit over the one piece bathing suit of Wu Minxia (back)... No wonder Wu Minxia changed to her other swimsuit during the finals (won by Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia gained bronze) :-)
My favourite of the Guo Jingjing pictures: Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia winning the women's synchronised 3m springboard in the Beijing Olympics 2008 (again after their win of 4 years in Athens!).
Guo Jingjing in a bikini
Since we are so used to see divers only wearing one piece bathing suits, have a look at Guo Jingjing's favourite bikini.
Guo Jingjing bikini pictures
Guo Jingjing bio
Sexy Guo Jingjing photo at the pool
Date of birth: 15/10/81
Horoscope: Libra
Place of birth: Baoding, Hopeh Province
Height: 163cm
Weight: 48kg
Guo Jingjing took up swimming when she was six-years-old at the Baoding Training Base.
1988: Diver, Baoding Training Base, Hebei Province
1993: Hebei Provincial Diving Team
1992: National Diving Team
Guo Jingjing springboard diving
2000: Sydney Olympic Games - 2nd 3m springboard/synchronized springboard
2001: The Ninth World Swimming Championships - 1st 3m springboard/synchronized springboard
2002: The 13th World Cup - 1st 1m/3m springboard; 2nd 3m synchronized springboard
2003: FINA Diving Grand Prix (Australia) - 1st springboard/synchronized springboard
2003: World Championships - 1st 3m springboard/synchronized springboard
2004: The 14th World Cup - 1st 3m synchronized springboard; 2nd 3m springboard
2005: China's Guo Jingjing wins the gold medal in the women's 3m springboard with a score of 637.77 at the 23rd Universiade in Izmir, Turkey, Aug. 18, 2005 (see Guo Jingjing photo below).
More Guo Jingjing pictures
Guo Jingjing sexy in red again
Guo Jingjing shooting her own private video, I love the back of her one piece bathing suit.
Guo Jingjing relaxing at the pool
Guo Jingjing jumps gracefully before diving during the women's three-meter springboard final at the "Good Luck Beijing" 16th FINA Diving World Cup on Saturday August 16.
The typical Guo Jingjing pics with her "show no emotions yet" expression. Congratulations Guo Jingjing!
Liu Zige (picture above) just won the women's 200 meters butterfly final at the Beijing Olympics 2008 today. She beat her teammate Jiao Liuyang (picture below).
But more important is that both Chinese swimmers beat the former world record: Liu Zige swam a 2:04.18, 1.22 faster than the old world record, and Jiao Liuyang swam a 2:04.72.
Why is everybody so fast?
We can see on the picture that Liu Zige is wearing a Speedo swimsuit, but the main reason for all the records in the water is the pool.
Imagine you jump into a bath: how much waves do you make? A lot!
Now imagine you jump in a pool: how much waves do you make? Much less!
The Chinese Olympic Pool in the WaterCube is even bigger than the pool you just imagined.
The Chinese Olympic Pool is deeper than any Olympic pool before and it has 10 lanes in stead of the usual 8.
This means that there is less water turbulence as usual, hence you can swim faster as there are lesser waves to bother you.
Add to that great swimwear and years of training and you could be the next word record holder ;-)
McCain could have used Paris Hilton stockings to beef up his campaign: at least there will be something substantial to look at and nobody would hear what McCain is jabbering about...
But oh, no, McCain had to compare Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears...
Maybe McCain should start with buying some glasses as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are from the female gender, where Obama is not.
And once McCain has glasses that can show him these simple differences, maybe he is ready to see that US citizens hardly are able to buy houses these days. And it does help to have a house when you do need to educate children about family values.
But maybe the McCain people are too busy watching porn that they needed to justify that by comparing 2 sexy blonds with Obama.
Sadly but true they must be living still in the pre Paris-Hilton-in-jail era, as these days Paris has changed her image in a much more substantial way.
Which can't be said about Britney nor about the so called solutions McCain and Obama are trying to sell to the American people.
So all in all, I have no clue what wrinkly white-haired guy McCain is comparing in the first place... Maybe I am now as smart as McCain?
Why do we need McCain when he repeats Obama?
McCain isn't even original. Obama already said in 2005:
"Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame."
"I've already had an hour and a half. I mean,
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse."
Paris Hilton in a bikini
Paris Hilton put on a gorgeous monokini: it looks like a bikini, except the top and bottom parts are connected in the middle.
Wearing the right attire, she then made an intelligent Paris Hilton Video where she not only throws a shot at the white house, but also solves the energy problems the world is facing:
In stead of going for the "if you don't choose my idea, you are against me" idiocracy (without capital I) resulting from a 2 party democracy, Paris Hilton clearly states that people should start considering all options.
Not bad for a blond in a bikini, is it?
View the complete Paris Hilton tape below:
Lesson learned today from Paris Hilton : stockings are too hot for the beach ...
Have a look at these sexy Olympic beach volleyball swimsuit-clad cheerleaders try out from 12 months ago at Chaoyang Park in Beijing one year ago. You will be able to see the real event in a few days from now! Can't wait...
One world, One dream
And in my case I would add my favourite: one piece swimsuits :-)
Now don't think these one piece bathing suits are oldfashion: have a look at this sexy swimwear from a Chinese Olympics fashion show held in May this year.
The worst of all Olympic swimming trials must go to this one piece swimwear: although very original and colourful on the left, I guess the choice of material is really not flattering the model... Impractical, not aerodynamic and by all means I wonder whether this girl just had a mastectomy of some sort...
At the left a swimsuit using the colors of the 2004 China Olympic swimming team.
You need some little fishes for the dolphin Olympics? Then use the one piece bathing suit below: if you swim fast enough, I am sure you will be able to catch some little shrimp and other small bait to keep the dolphins happy after performing their stunts ...
They must have heard my comments because they quickly added a Dolphin Olympics 2 makeover. A big improvement at the top but the skin-colored bottom... as if you have some extra belly fat hanging out...
My favourite one piece swimsuit would be this slimming black, well fitted, sophisticated and sexy bathing suit:
Can't wait to watch the 2008 Olympic beach volleyball though :-)