Sabai dee mai ka? (how are you?)
Trip Start
Jun 12, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 01, 2006
Bangkok,
Thailand
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
hope you're all good!
the
girls i was with didnt really feel like waiting 1 night for me to hear
from my bro if he's coming or not, and went ahead and bought a bus
ticket to Chiang Mai for the next day. so the next day i heard from my
brother that SAID HE'S COMING TO THAILAND TO TRAVEL WITH ME FOR A
MONTH!!!
so the girls left, and i stayed in bangkok (things happen
exactly as i want them to happen... i felt like i need to stay in
bangkok for longer..and here, my wish came true)
so i called a
couchsurfer friend, and she came to pick me up, gave me a place to
stay, took me, showed me around her bangkok (not the lonelyplanet
bangkok that everyone knows. i saw bangkok from a local point of view!
which is so much better) and im still here, at her house. for a week
now, waiting for my brother to arrive (tonight)
in the past week i did so many things, i already forgot what i did... so im gonna try to remember
i
went to at least 745785 malls in bangkok. all kinds of
malls...fancy(gucci,lamburgini type), and not so fancy (illegal burnt
software, computer games, and fake hardware)
met 2 other couchsurfers for lunch - foreigners that moved to live in bangkok.
went
to a movie (the Alibi) - after all the commercials before the movie
starts there was a msg on the screen "please pay homage to his majesty
the king" so everyone stands up for a min (in the mean time there are
pics of the king and music) at the end they all bow their head and sit
down, and then the movie starts!
i went to get a facial - free! my
host (miss bee) had copuns so we both went to get one. it was something
like an hour of cleaning face, putting something else on it (like
scrub, mask, all kinds of creamsetc) i think they put no less than 1
kilo of cold cucumber on my face and eyes.. and whenever the mask was
getting dry, they massaged my legs, hands, and shoulders! ahhh!! it was
great.
i took my first ferry ride on the Chao Phraya river!
i
ate, ate, and ate... 4 days of nonstop pad thai. but im done with that
for now.. i changed to other stuff.. for example noodle soup in the
morning, and guava fruit at night.
i went back to the guesthouse i
was staying at with the girls, and helped around..just to kill time and
not money till my brother comes.
yesterday we went to the Phyathai
babies' house - an orphanage for kids under 5. before that we went
shopping.. we bought 3 packs of diapers, 2 huge bottles of baby powder,
2 baby shampoos, and 2 big boxs of baby milk...our donation to the
orphanage. bee also donated lots of stuffed animals. we got there and
we only went into one baby room ages 1.5-2 years old. at least 20
babies were in that room. as soon as i sat down a baby came over,
turned around, and sat on me. also, took over my cellphone! that baby
had one leg shorter than the other, what made us think the reason she
got abdoned :((
those babies just lerned to walk, and are the cutest
thing ever!!!!!!!! we played with them..and they just come to you,
climb on you, put their heads on you and hug you. its the saddest
thing.. and they dont let go. if you try to put them down they will cry
and look at you with sad eyes. i think they are just so trained to do
that to people. this one baby boy came to me and i played with him, and
made him laugh..whenever i put him down he would make a face "hey why
you put me down" face. follow me and cling on me till i picked him up
again. when it was time to go it was so hard.. we needed to run away
and do it quick.. before they cry too hard and break your heart. after
that we walked around the "village" and saw even smaller babies (less
than a year!!), but they were sleeping.. the 3, 4, 5 year olds were
outside eating chocolate.
we left there and went to eat..kinda hard
after seeing those babies. after that we went to a thai movie called
Gang chaneekube. of course before the movies starts you have to pay
respect to the king.....the movie was cute, i enjoyed it.
well thats all i remember for now..
see you all soon
maya
