Posted on 30/8/2006

bangkok- My Metropolis

the post worth waiting for is FINALLLY HERE!!!!

WaH KAO shiiioooooook AARRRRRHHHHHHHH!! I spent 3 of my short shopping life's most fulfilling days in BANGKOK! It truly truly truly is the world's shopping capital - or at least MINE... Now I'm back, I can't wait to recount the wonders I experienced there. One great is that the Thais are Soooooo warm, hospitable and friendly, they made my visit there even more enjoyabe! "A land of smiles" without any doubts.

And the whole city just exuberates colours! Be it the food, the traffic, the buildings, the scenery, the merchandise, the people, yes, PEOPLE (in many sense) bursts forth with COLOURS. Bangkok is SO my kinda paradise!

The COMPANY:


On the right, my uncle and sponsor.

On the left, my cousin.

In the centre, her mum, my Ee ma.

Living the Good Life:

Baan Sathorn Apartments! It has a grand apartment lobby, with its own bellman!

The living room 23 storeys up

And oh my gawd, U can tune in to the CCTV network and observe wads going on in the lobby!

The view from the living room

The swimming pool! -With THREE jacuzzis and A paranamic view

See how cute can my uncle be with us!

Dammit! I uncle said I'm so afraid of heights, I dun dare to jump higher!

-_- they ba gak hao de lor.... wait for me to leap first then they leap together =(

See lar! this is the only pic that has us together - UNDER WATER LOR

The Places:

The "Ducki Suki" place

We met up with my uncle's friend's from PARIS but whom are of Vietnamese background and has family in Thailand. I hope i got them right. Hahaha, Quite a mouthful, I know. So anw, dinner was their treat for our first night in bangkok :) The contacts that my uncle has all over the world is astounding!

DA food was OH MY GOODNESS. HAHAHAHA... If I wasn't still groggy from the 2 hour taxi ride to gawd-noes-where-this-place-was, I would have had fourth servings instead of just thirds.... hmph!

Suan Lum Night Market

Maboonkrong Shopping Centre

Heheheheh no pics for this - coz too busy searching for and buying all the stuff my friends requested for. But just as a short note, half of my returning luggage's weight came from here. And oh ya, i also spent half of my budget here! Power man!

Temple Visit

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Flower Market

The amazing thing is that ALL types of flowers can be found here and they're going for just 30 baht - for TWO BUNDLES!!! That's like less than 2 sing dollars!!! MAN!!! Sunflowers, carnation, roses, giberas (i'm not sure how it's spelt) - u name it they've got it!

THE STUFF:

There's actually lots more... but those are clothes or stuff for my family so no use posting them ;)

my escapade with the moon

wooooo... i got home at around 5 today!

went on a moon gazing adventure. I left the house at 4.30 or so.... and spent the rest of the day at dear Pat's house. Had OH MY GOODNESS food cooked by Auntie! It's really OH MY GOODNESS.

Hahah, den as we waited for time to pass, i watched kim sam soon for the first time.

which i really regret.

not watching it before - it's soooo hilarious :D

Den i jumped up from the couch at 1.32am and saw a message on my phone that read, "How? Seeing now?" - sent at 1.15am

Waaaaaaaah Siao! I was like, start already meh!?

"Pat, we GOTTA go man!"

Chiong all the way the cheers to buy top-up card, only to find that it was "Out of stock, u can go to 7-eleven..."

then chiong all the way to Pat's fav park.

then we waited.

for the magic to happen.

and kah hwee to arrive.

we lied down at the kiddy-slides and stared up at the heavens, as i struggled like hell the scratch the foil off of the top up pin.

and struggled like hell to key in the numbers correctly in the dark and quickly so i dun miss out on anything that was happening.

as i kept my eyes peeled at the "man of the moment", my two companions and spontaneously-turned body guards kept theirs peeled at the 2 suspicious men in the back ground.

hahaha! yup this guy encircled us in the playground and got on everybody's nerves....

suddenly, it was over.

so was my escapade for that day.

off we went- first to kah's hse for a pee. literally. then to pat's hse for my luggage. and finally back to the retreats of my room.

the floor made a surprisingly good bed and that old hard bolster made a surprisingly good pillow in the cool of the night.

finally picked myself up.

from the floor after 1.30 this afternoon.

met up with kailin shups n wanyi for dinner at ajisen and went to shup's "green colour" house for kim sam soon... hahah, lidat oso song

life's simple pleasures

dead beat

now

it's 2.46am of another day...

a big new free happy unsual life

The author: Nina Wise
The book: a big new free happy unusual life - self expression and spiritual practice for those who have time for neither

Page 119

One Sentence at a Time

Extract:

...

We can all benefit from giving our pyshces a metaphoric campfire around which to tell stories. one evening, instead of going to the video store and renting a story in a box, turn down the lights, lay back, and start: "Once upon a time..."

the practice
Sit down with a friend. get comfortable. taking turns, build a story one sentence at a time.

For example:
X begins: "five more weeks of work," geraldine thought.
Y cont's: the phone had been ringing all day.
X: she had left people on hold for minutes listening to Muzak and company advertisements.
Y: so by the time she had actually talked to them, they were and irritated and mean.
X: "five more weeks of work," she thought.
Y: salmon fishing in alaska.
X: last year, she had been the only woman on an eight-person trip.
Y: there, she had seen the black bear.
X: thats what everyone called him.
Y: he drove an eighteen-wheeler and smelled of cheap cologne.
X: he made the trip from missoula to anchorage three times a month
Y: and told her witty tales about his family.
X: she liked the way his eyes twinlked and was never one to care if a man had a family
Y: "five more weeks of work," she said as the phone rang again.
X: "then i'll be heading for alaska."

begin by keeping the stories brief. if you have some time to play, make up a few stories. then experiment with longer ones.

remember, don' t get attached to how u think the story should develop. follow your companion's input, allowing the partnership to have its own creative life independent of your personal wishes for the direcition the story could take...

... what makes collaboration so delightful is the element of surprise. let go of preconceptions as you work, and allow the story to unfold with your full participation but free of your control

Page 139

Depression Party

My friend sheilah called and told me she was toohhhtally depressed. "me, too," i said, happy to have company. the one thing i cannot stomach when i am miserable is for a good friend to call and tell me how fabulously happy she is because everything in her life is going so well - she is having out-of-this-world sex with her husband and has just won a pulitzer prize and her parents, whom she adores because they have beem sooooo supporive of her career as an artist her entire life, are celebrating her success by buying her a house in tuscany and she has just lost 10 pounds. that, i cannot stand. so i was pleased to hear that sheilah was in the dumps, and we spent a half hour on the phone complaining about how our relationships were crumpling and our careers were going nowhere and how we gained five pounds by eating celery and only on very rare occasions dropping into the see's on fourth street where they give you a free chocolate even if you are just browsing the truffles.

"We have to doooo something," sheilah, who is a jazz vocalist, crooned. we thought about going to the ocean but since we lived in the bay area and it was summer that the beach would be dripping with fog, which would make us even more depressed. a movie? couldn't bear the thought of sitting in a dark room with people eating popcorn. finally, we landed on the notion of throwing a party - a depression party.

We told our guests to wear black and we served black food: black caviar, black sesame crackers, black bean dip, black coffee, dark chocolate. we had black plates and black napkins and black candles. and when anyone asked how you were, you had to say you were terrible, horrible, awful , and complain about all the disgusting, demoralizing, deflating, disease-ridden events happening in your life: traffic school, tragic romance, global warming, finacial disaster, unending colds, flea infestations, root canals, career dives. after only a few minutes of kvetching, poeple started to feel much better and when asked how they were, they were desperate to say, "fine i'm having a great time," but we wouldn't let them.

Finally, we could not utter one more word of bad news, and giddiness welled up inside us, and we put on loud music, and we danced.