Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
tonight
i was at q-bar with some friends, it was supposed to be "hip hop night"
haha fucking ha
two indian guys playing black eyed peas and pussycat dolls is not hip hop
shame nobody knows what hip hop is anymore
but, i blocked it out and had a pretty good time anyway
the only thing that almost ruined the entire evening was three fat british girls in their late twenties. had probably booked a holiday to phuket that included a few days in bangkok for shopping. drinking heavily and being heavy is not a good combination when surrounded by petite, pretty asian girls...and when they noticed that all the guys in the club were only interested in the petite, pretty asian girls, something just snapped. they starting talking so much shit and pushed and bumped people in all directions. i was so close to making some rude remarks and maybe get them to completely lose it and get into a big fight with everyone, cowboy movie saloon style.
but i feel a slight, slight, slight, very slight bit of sympathy for the foreign girls who come to bangkok for holiday or work or whatever. very few guys give a shit about them and that must suck something awful. its like when superman is near kryptonite, his loses his powers. thai girls are kryptonite to foreign girls, they just have to back away, there is no point in trying
haha fucking ha
two indian guys playing black eyed peas and pussycat dolls is not hip hop
shame nobody knows what hip hop is anymore
but, i blocked it out and had a pretty good time anyway
the only thing that almost ruined the entire evening was three fat british girls in their late twenties. had probably booked a holiday to phuket that included a few days in bangkok for shopping. drinking heavily and being heavy is not a good combination when surrounded by petite, pretty asian girls...and when they noticed that all the guys in the club were only interested in the petite, pretty asian girls, something just snapped. they starting talking so much shit and pushed and bumped people in all directions. i was so close to making some rude remarks and maybe get them to completely lose it and get into a big fight with everyone, cowboy movie saloon style.
but i feel a slight, slight, slight, very slight bit of sympathy for the foreign girls who come to bangkok for holiday or work or whatever. very few guys give a shit about them and that must suck something awful. its like when superman is near kryptonite, his loses his powers. thai girls are kryptonite to foreign girls, they just have to back away, there is no point in trying
Sunday, October 22, 2006
from a different planet
went to the book fair in queen sirkit convention centre yesterday with a friend, and was struck by a familiar feeling...
it happenend a few times before, not too common since bangkok is such an international city.
first time was when the staff at pla dib (bar/restaurant where i work) invited me to come with them after work to a place they know. under the expressway near our soi there is a snooker club and outside there is a "restaurant" consisting of some tables and chairs and an outdoor kitchen. they serve the spiciest food i have ever tried to digest, from the northeast region of thailand called "isaan". they love to put lots of chillies in the food, leaves my mouth burning for days. but they managed to cook some stuff especially for me that i could eat without tears rolling down my face. after eating we went inside to play snooker, which turns out to not be snooker at all, just normal 9-ball. the people in this place were mostly cab drivers having a break from pretending to be michael schumacher. they didn't try to kick me out or anything but it was pretty clear i needed to be with my friends or else i would not be so welcome...
thais have a love/hate relationship with us foreigners. they love that we come here to spend money on their services but hate when we take up too much of their space. so they have these dark little places that are impossible to find unless you are thai...and they can relax and not think too much about us.
anyway, as long as i behave well and don't act like i own the joint, they don't mind, cause i was invited by my thai friends after all.
i can without a doubt say i was the only foreigner they ever had in that place.
i felt the same feeling when i decided to take the scenic route for my first visa-run. if i had been hanging out with other foreigners, they probably would have insisted i take one of the organised bus trips that leave kao san road every morning to take people to the border and then back.
i hate doing what everybody else is doing so i found out what other ways i could do the trip and decided on the train. it's a little bit slower but takes you through the countryside with the rice fields, and the farmers are so close you could snatch their hats as you go by
loved that trip, and was the only foreigner on the whole train. little kids looked at me like i had just stepped out of my space ship, visiting from a different planet.
and couldn't stop talking to me even though i couldnt understand much of what they said.
i wouldn't swap this for that bus packed with sexpats for any sum of money.
the feeling of walking around the convention centre was the same but as im not a big book reader and don't read thai yet, one hour was enough. before i had a chance to get bored i took the subway home.
it happenend a few times before, not too common since bangkok is such an international city.
first time was when the staff at pla dib (bar/restaurant where i work) invited me to come with them after work to a place they know. under the expressway near our soi there is a snooker club and outside there is a "restaurant" consisting of some tables and chairs and an outdoor kitchen. they serve the spiciest food i have ever tried to digest, from the northeast region of thailand called "isaan". they love to put lots of chillies in the food, leaves my mouth burning for days. but they managed to cook some stuff especially for me that i could eat without tears rolling down my face. after eating we went inside to play snooker, which turns out to not be snooker at all, just normal 9-ball. the people in this place were mostly cab drivers having a break from pretending to be michael schumacher. they didn't try to kick me out or anything but it was pretty clear i needed to be with my friends or else i would not be so welcome...
thais have a love/hate relationship with us foreigners. they love that we come here to spend money on their services but hate when we take up too much of their space. so they have these dark little places that are impossible to find unless you are thai...and they can relax and not think too much about us.
anyway, as long as i behave well and don't act like i own the joint, they don't mind, cause i was invited by my thai friends after all.
i can without a doubt say i was the only foreigner they ever had in that place.
i felt the same feeling when i decided to take the scenic route for my first visa-run. if i had been hanging out with other foreigners, they probably would have insisted i take one of the organised bus trips that leave kao san road every morning to take people to the border and then back.
i hate doing what everybody else is doing so i found out what other ways i could do the trip and decided on the train. it's a little bit slower but takes you through the countryside with the rice fields, and the farmers are so close you could snatch their hats as you go by
loved that trip, and was the only foreigner on the whole train. little kids looked at me like i had just stepped out of my space ship, visiting from a different planet.
and couldn't stop talking to me even though i couldnt understand much of what they said.
i wouldn't swap this for that bus packed with sexpats for any sum of money.
the feeling of walking around the convention centre was the same but as im not a big book reader and don't read thai yet, one hour was enough. before i had a chance to get bored i took the subway home.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
todays youtube
i love star wars
yes, i'm a nerd and i love star wars. there...i said it
i don't like the latest 3 movies (why did they make them if they were going to suck so much?), but the old ones rule
found this on youtube today, they have so much funny stuff there
yes, i'm a nerd and i love star wars. there...i said it
i don't like the latest 3 movies (why did they make them if they were going to suck so much?), but the old ones rule
found this on youtube today, they have so much funny stuff there
Monday, October 16, 2006
First Post
welcome to my blog
been wanting to do this for a while but never really had the time...
now there is plenty of free time to kill
BAD MOVIE
saw the worst movie i have ever seen last night on star movies (they show a lot of crap), i have seen lots of bad movies in my life but this one takes the price. its called "hammerhead: shark frenzy" (here they gave it the name "sharkman"), it's about some crazy guy who attempts to combine human dna and shark dna, and its truly awful
please don't see it...ever
been wanting to do this for a while but never really had the time...
now there is plenty of free time to kill
BAD MOVIE
saw the worst movie i have ever seen last night on star movies (they show a lot of crap), i have seen lots of bad movies in my life but this one takes the price. its called "hammerhead: shark frenzy" (here they gave it the name "sharkman"), it's about some crazy guy who attempts to combine human dna and shark dna, and its truly awful
please don't see it...ever
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