| Tuesday, January 02, 2007 |
| Bangkok again, again, again... |
Merry Christmas from Jack Sparrow and the gang!  I had no intention of being back in Thailand for another Christmas, but needed to come back to Baan Unrak orphanage, so here I am again! I left on the 21st, and had some of the Bitchu-Takahashi bitches (Marilu, Jen, and Dimple) for company at the airport and on the plane. Annabelle and I met up on Khao San Road, where we celebrated winter holiday by eating most of a gingerbread house in our hotel room. Maybe not quite as good as Mom's legendary Christmas Party fare, but at least we had electricity when we ate it. (1st world? 3rd world? Where am I?) I met most of my trip companions on the Friday, and we spent our only full day shopping for presents for the kids.
 At Wat Po that day with Steve and Colin, I wandered into the photo of some pretentious barefooted fake-dreadlocked backpacker. Sensing death rays aiming at my head, I turned to see him glaring at me in disgust, probably because I was wearing footwear, had showered that week, and will never understand the REAL Thailand like he did. I apologized, and he said in an affected American-who-wishes-he-wasn't accent, "Don't smile, get out of the f**king way!" We could have pointed out that anyone who respected the REAL Thailand wouldn't swear in a temple, but the dreads must've affected his brain. And now, I can use this as a catchphrase when anyone dares cross my path. The temple was already closing, but the monks let us in to take photos. Hope that Buddha in a mirror isn't blasphemous, but I bet my ponydreadtailed friend will say otherwise.
At the bus station in the morning, we had a reservation *maybe* and were meeting a Thai girl from the orphanage to help us *maybe*, but couldn't figure out what to do at the station once the taxi drivers had finished running up the meters by driving people in circles. We spoke no Thai, the bus attendents spoke no English, and we were all confused. I was terrified that I would manage to screw up one of the simplest yet most important tasks of the trip (getting everyone there) but it worked out just fine. Alicia was a star at sorting it all out, as nothing about the city seems to faze her. Not much else to say about Bangkok, other than that it is still dirty and crowded and there is more to see than you ever could hope to. Left Bangkok, made it up to the town, and that is where more stories will begin. |
posted by Raychaa @ 11:03 PM  |
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Aloha!
Ah grand, you got Jack Sparrow pictured, nice one!
I remember having snapped him, but then I had that unfortunate incident where I lost all my photos of my entire holiday..
I'll just be skulking around Bibo and Blogspot to collect some memories. Already forgot about the pirate, arrr..
See you around in Japan Japan
=m=
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Aloha!
Ah grand, you got Jack Sparrow pictured, nice one!
I remember having snapped him, but then I had that unfortunate incident where I lost all my photos of my entire holiday..
I'll just be skulking around Bibo and Blogspot to collect some memories. Already forgot about the pirate, arrr..
See you around in Japan Japan
=m=