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Here is what a normal pig-tailed macaque at Khao Yai looks like: Here is what a mysterious pig-tailed macaque, who came out of the forest and jumped onto my car while I was sitting in it half asleep at 6:00am waiting for my assistant, looks like: WHY THE HECK IS HE COMPLETELY BLACK! Really dirty? Half chimpanzee? New species? Genetic Mutant? I have no idea. But he's recently become the talk of the park!

I have NEVER seen a spider like THIS before!

Chet

What is ‘potential'? It is a perceived forecast of results that is generated both internally by the athlete and externally by peers, parents and experts. It’s not a guarantee. It’s not really REAL. Because it's not something you can hold and touch; it is always something you struggle to grasp, and this inability to pinpoint exactly what it is can be both a curse and a blessing. Getting this balance in sync is the entire name of the game. Hope is an emotion that you tend to push aside...I don’t have to rely on hope. 'Great things happen to people who make great things happen to themselves.' Simon Whitfield said that after he won the Sydney Olympics in 2000. We train too hard to hope that we can win.

I decided to rent out my 'open concept' basement these past few weeks. Without even posting, it seems a nice, tidy, quiet tenant has already moved in with her daughter. She fits in perfectly - 'cept when she bumps her head on my floor boards and makes me jump.

Did two things this week I never thought I'd do... #1 - drive the motorbike through monsoon rain. #2 - drive the motorbike up a muddy/gravel hill during monsoon rain. At some point, you just can't get any more wet... and I reached 'some point' about three days ago when the new daily mantra became: If you wanna go home, it has to be done. No Fear.

Walking in the forest today in sweltering heat around 10:00am, Surasack said to me: "It's very hot, in two or three hours, it will rain". 12:06pm the rains came... HARD! Walking out of the forest today in the pouring rain around 12:45pm, Surasack said to me: "Remember I told you, in two hours it will rain. I'm just like your younger brother." :)