This is kind of a common question when meeting people. However it looks like I have a keen ability to fool people (yeah, I’m used to it for a long time). I hardly met many people that could guess I was French. Most of the time they think I’m German as it looks like I have a slight German accent in some sentences (French do think I’m english though until I speak French, ‘ah, tu parles francais ?’ …). I do keep a slight French accent by my inability to pronounce most of starting ‘h’ and people start noticing it once they know I’m French. Today is a first however, my english buddy for the last 3 days told me he thought I was South African as it looks like I got an accent from South Africa. Now, that’s interesting.
I went to an internet cafe in Koh Tao with my laptop. Next to me there’s the owner unmounting a desktop computer. After a few minutes he comes to see me with the computer power supply unscrewed.
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This is not the name of a dive site but rather what looks like a diving day where the camera does not work. 2 pictures. 
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Chumphon is one of the major dive site in Koh Tao and there is virtually good visibility guarantee (30m+), so this is no big news that we are often diving here. Major attractions are sharks (if you’re lucky), the pinnacles are covered of anemones and thus there are plenty of Pink Anemonefish, and you find the usual suspects around here.
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Been there, done that. I woke up a bit early this morning as we left at 7AM and we were the first boat on SouthWest Pinnacle (appart from the liveaboards) 8). Excellent dives with those guys from New Way. Excellent spirit aboard as well, this was so much nicer than Ban’s, really !. I highly recommend it. On the bad side this @#$& camera is working erratically and I have huge problems making it work correctly (well switching it on at least) as corrosion is affecting the batteries compartment. It did not work for the first dive. The broken zoom mechanism does not help as well. 
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