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| frrom tokyo, i cruised into
smoggy bangkok on thai international airways, my new favorite
airlines. their comfy (and spacious) seats and attentive staff
make flying a breeze. |
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| from what i heard, i'd envisioned
bangkok to be this polluted, run-down, sleazy city filled with shady
street merchants. it didn't disappoint. however, it does have a huge
number of internet cafes! |
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| after a while, you get spoiled
and don't even want to pay 5 baht/minute even though you know that's
less than 5 cents. in any case, i frequented many of these during my trip
to email sandy! |
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| shady street merchants, you ask?
well, here are some of the shady street vendors! fried bananas or those
little taco things for 1 baht each? oh man . . . |
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| an entire street with shops
where one can get internet access, make long distance calls (at approx 1
usd/minute), fax things, etc. |
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| i learned this little bowing
thing when i was there. and . . . added it to the beginning of a glowsticking
routine! sa-wah-de-krup!! ho ho ho . . . |
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| she claimed the dark stuff was
beef. i always thought of beef as coming from cows. must be a western
thing. |
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| thank god for my last
minute hepatitis a shot. i definitely would not have survived here.
(i barely did - cut my head, got hit by a car, breathing problems,
felt faint a couple of times, etc.) |
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| a neat looking christmas
tree in front of the emporium, where i bought a gucci money clip
with a fat, pretentious "g" on it. hahaha... |
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| song and mumbles. song is
mumble's cousin, and is a really nice guy. this is the ghetto room where
i stayed for the next two weeks. the floor kind of reminds me of that part in
dragon's lair, you know where you fight that knight? nevermind. |
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| his cell phone (one of them
anyway) is always ringing. must be more of those cute 24-year-old students
in his english class calling him for "after hour" sessions. hahaha...
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| anteater checking out the porn
in the lower right corner.
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| there was only one bed, so . . . |
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| 20 baht (50 cents) each as a tip.
they were pretty happy about that. |
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| the ghetto hotel next to the place
where i almost stayed. |
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| the parking attendent harassed
us so we pretended we were staying there. yeah right! ghet-to! (hm, wait
a minute, our checkboard-floor apartment was more ghetto than this. hmm..) |
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| cruising to get something
to eat. |
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| this is annoying, but you have
to buy food tickets to buy anything at any of the stands. then, if you
have change, you can then convert that back into money. how pointless! |
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| a traditional thai woman
laboring away. what the hell do i mean by that anyway? who knows . . .
it's 6:30am and i'm off to visit sandy today! wheeeee! |
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| dessert people. |
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| who have no idea that i'm posting
their pictures up on the web. oh if they could see themselves now. |
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| song has too many pairs of
sunglasses. |
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| no towels, so
sweaty shirts had to do. ewwwww!! |
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| while heading over to the
world trade center on new year's eve, as song would say, we had to
"oh-pen the bah-tuhl!". |
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| the driver. don't try this
in the us. |
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| song's girlfriend, pooh, as in
winnie the pooh. she's also really nice. they make a nice couple. |
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| err, that's
me.
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| song doing something
bizarre, probably something related to his car battery which the
anteater kept screwing around with. |
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| have you ever seen a drunk
anteater? |
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| me again, getting ready for
the parties in silom. five clubs in one night? oh man... |
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| song trying to figure out
how to fix his battery. |
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| traffic was moving really
slow, so i decided to go outside and talk a walk. just as i did that,
everything cleared up and everyone started speeding ahead. cars where
whizzing around me on both sides. i narrowly escaped death! |
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| mumbles drank a third of the
bottle or so. he has such a low tolerance. he needs to stick to girly
drinks, like wine coolers or something. |
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| because stepping on the roof of
your cousin's brand new car with your shoes which have been walking around
disgusting bangkok is not nice. |
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| getting ready to head out. |
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| must be a family thing. notice
any similarities in their outfits? |
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| song and pooh. i know i'm misspelling
her preferred misspelling. |
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