toons revisited...

Ok back from movie. Toy Story 3 IS good as ever. The same old cast are back, among some new wacky characters. A great watch to end the day.


Alright, back to storytime from the land of smiles.


As usual, it's shopping gala for the woman. Baby bought some good steals, being especially proud of her cosmetic heist. Even for a makeup fool like me can say that if you don't buy them there, you are s.t.e.w.p.i.d. Most of my steals are food. Cheap food is what GSS should be all about man. Who needs cheap clothes?


And lucky for me, I was spared the atrocious monopoly of broadcasting brats to be able to catch World Cup live in the comfort of my bed, complimentary of the ever kind and generous Thai media body which didn't think of joining the profiteering fray, unlike our local "Singbell and Starcub", if you know what I mean. Plus plenty of beer to go along of course. Drink, drank, Goooaaaallll!!!


There was Discovery Channel as well. I caught an episode of Ghost Lab. Sweet stuff, so I thought I could do some experimenting on my own, since I heard so many accounts of paranormal activities in this part of the land. So one fine night, while baby was sleeping, I logged into Youtube and loaded epsiodes of Ghost Lab, made sure everywhere was dark and eerie, placed my laptop on the desk with a wall mirror facing me, plugged in my earphones and I'm set. Perfect setting for paranormal activity. So I watched the episodes, hoping maybe something might happen in the room as well.


**After 2 hours...**


Ok, nothing. Maybe ghosts and beer don't mix. I was drinking while watching LOL. BORING. I slept soundly that night without even a dream. BUSTED.


Down the road from the hotel was a condominium. A portion of the sales poster read, "Starting from 12 MB". That's 12 million THB. Which is about a little more than 500K SGD. Goodness. With that amount here can only buy a 5-room flat probably? There, it's one freaking condo unit. The best thing is, the building's 34 floors high and get this: it's 1 floor 1 unit. KNN.


So you see why I can't blame myself for being afraid to return to SG. Damn it. I really don't see why I had to give 2 years of my life to the country for naught. Now that I'm back, it's hermit mode for a long time while I endure the wihdrawal symptoms. Totally not cool. Even baby felt sick upon landing...tsk...see? It's not just me.

the hottest days and the wildest nights....

9 freaking days in a foreign land...woot...the longest I have stayed.

Coming back, GSS stands puny beside BKK.

Photos will come later. Basically baby was there to work, I was there to play LOL but of cos I have to carry a fair share of her ...oooppff...heavy...uugghh...equipment. Lucky never exceed allowance.

Touchdown at Suvarnabhumi brings familiarity. Everything outside the terminal are as normal. None of the suspicious people in red or yellow. Very good. First things first, haggle taxi price to hotel but I think now they more organized. They even have counters to serve you. Funny sia, taxi uncles trying to be like check-in counter staff. I call it a cartel. Obviously lidat they can control price better. Somehow I rather these people not get smarter...tsk.

We got ourselves a serviced apartment. The room was so big and got better amenities than a standard hotel room. Nice. I spent a good time figuring how to work the washing machine while baby is away at work. Success. Ironing was a failure though. The bloody iron was leaking black rust literally. Spoilt hardware is a definite no-no. I gave my best impression of Mr Bean's disgruntled face to the room service staff when she came by. Success. New iron delivered immediately.

Buildings in BKK are typically short so at the 11th floor I had a good view out the window. Very good for panaromic shots.

I had pretty much time to myself while baby was away. Though I feel like exploring on my own, it doesn't feel right that I'm doing it without baby. Not as if I'm backpacking alone. I reckoned I will just walk around the area which was just fine since I'm not really keen on haggling prices to travel around. There's so much more to see when I'm not on wheels.

After baby finished her work at her event, we spent the evenings mostly exploring night markets. Imagine once, I was actually mistakenly thought to be a stall owner by some ang-mo, asking me "how much?". I was like "WWHHHAAATTTT? No no, me not thai but you gimme money I take, kap koon krap!". Well he wasn't apologetic at all and just turned away looking for the owner. I had to make sure he saw me rolling my bloody eyeballs at him before I bumped his shoulder purposefully and walked away with a fuck-care face.

I wanted so much to try the famous mango rice at Siam Sq but it got burned down. There's another outlet at Central World but that whole bloody building got burned down too. WWHHHAAATTTT!!! It's like, you got the whole of BKK to burn but you just had to burn down that mall. WTF. If you had wanted to make a statement, why don't you just burn yourselves up? That will really say something, ain't it? Mango rice gone, not cool.

There's lots more to say but I'm off to watch Toy Story 3. To be continued...

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Dusting the cobwebs...

Woo...in a blink of an eye, it had been almost 5mths since I last posted.

In this time, I had made a do-or-die decision. Or more like a not-an-option card that I have to play. If I don't do it now, it might be too late for me to do it in the future. If I do it now, then I better do it good, otherwise I could just plainly die and hope everything resets itself. Blah.

It should have been done long ago anyway. If I hadn't been procrastinating and maybe were a little bit smarter, I could have been different.

Better later than never, so they say. This will be my last break. I guess I won't be giving myself anymore chances after this. Do or die.

Anyway, lame Reds screwed up my trip yet again. I really don't understand what those dumb fucks are trying to do. One moment they self-claimed to be peaceful protestors, next moment people started dying from grenade blasts. WTH is wrong with you people? Rally so many protestors also no use. What kind of changes are there? In the end also use violence...den might as well just go all out to war with the government in the first place...dumb asses. Waste so much time. I could have gone for my vacation and back.

...I want to go BKK arrrr......

COE went down...yay
Property went up...boo
Public transport fares so-called going down...ok
Electricity up...knn
Battlestar Galactica still closed...if you already went there, well sux to be you
ERP revised...Eh all you souvenir shops, time to pack all the Merlions and put out the ERPs

I bought Toto recently. I believed that I will not win anything. I have absolutely no idea why I had to put money down this time. Let's see if I come even close on today's results. Quite cool that a $3.50 receipt can make me feel some anticipation.

Baby's waiting for me. Signing out.
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