by
crowpied
@ 2007-11-03 - 10:46:21
sawadee my Friends!
Jeeeeeeeeeee where do i start? well, i am seating in Bangkok, in some lovely "Hippy/bono" internet cafe where tomorrow i am intending to live for a while, the reason being like most of u know, planning was never really my thing and while it has is disavantage ( which i found out as soon as i put foots in Thailand) it is also a great way to change plans and get to places u never dreams off...as today.
well, i shall cut 4 days, seems like months already, since i have arrived in Thailand, got here late afternoon on wesnesday Thai time.
having change little travelchecks at the airport, i still had no idea where i was going to stay that night! so i pick up a bus with a name i liked at the time for destination, call Siam center.
figured it out if the word center was in it it could only take me to the heart of the action, finding a hotel would be a peace of cake, yeahhhh, was i wrong, well, indeed, while Bangkok does not have a center as such but many, i did managed to get to a pretty busy place think " Leicester square" !
it did not took long for a Tuk tuk cab ( a hybrid of an motorcycle and sofa on 3 wheels to kindly offer his service...
and god he did!
never trust a tuk tuk, they will promess u the world and more jewels then i have shags!
still, mine could have been worse in a way, i shall never know if he was high or simply excentric is the word for insanity in this case?
except for the fact he decided to cut short a road (and beleive me the traffic in Bangkok is pretty chaotic, to put it middly!) and drove on a pavement, the poor engine jump in the air and i was almost catapulted with my backpack and else off the bleeding moving thing....upon the road! we got off lightly, he loose some kind of sign which i guess at the time used to be his sign with the word taxi on it, these days more like a plastic thing, we had to pick up after being more trash by some passing cars, still, that thing could have been me, this was pretty much my first impression!
this guy tell u there are going to take u to some cheap hotel and instead take u to some doggy agency where they do send u in some hotel, which is rather expensive for Thai price, still, at least for 5 days i had the blessing of luxury, meaning, air condition, double bed, private bathroom and big morning breakfast, still, i pay far too much well, about 9 pound the night, i have find room today for 3 pounds max!
i am moving to the heaven of the backpacker in bangkok, khao san, well almost walking distance enought not to have to mix too much with a huge bunch of travels who behave at time, well, like me i supose after too many!
i was rather suprise to actually really enjoy Bangkok amd not to be overwelmed at all by it, despise some problem such as the terrible pollution, bad smell in some area, i have to say, i truly enjoyed the contrast of the traditionnal and western world there.
there is so many lovely market, if u like food stalls some nice ones and some not so nice, i won`t even goes there, let just say Bangkok is FULL OF DOGS! i love dogs but...
those are not bad looking stray dogs to be honest i remenber seeing far worse animals in north africa, for the reason, Bangkok streets are fills with food all over the pavement made as gifts to spirit house and buddha and the obvious left over, everyone eat outside at anytime, could be 3pm, as it could be 4 AM it will be the same, it won`t take you long before you find a place to eat for 20 pences!!! that what i call nice, i just pay this to eat the traditionnal Thai meal call PAD Thai, for that price.
i must admit the beauty i find here is due to their beleives of not harming any living things, i see all kind of weird things, such as most house as a goodluck have pot with live goldfish or else? and turtles, cages fills with song birds, one of the strange but exiting paradox of buddhist beleive, catching and netting the bird the same morning to sell it the same afternoon for beleiver to let him goes off flying, as a gift to the buddha.
Raphael i have some nice and exotic idea to redecorate my flat when i comeback.
saddly my dear Bitch Andrey you were right i do not think if i decide to move here my poor Minx and Moby would survive much longer! a couple off days ago before i find out never I MEANS NEVER to touch a dog or let him lick you here, i saw one lying peacefully asleep next to a stall of food, ( there is my point) i gently call him, no replied, pock him to find out Rigid Mortalitis had took tolls of the dead creature hours before! it has to be see to be beleive there is a ratio of 1 to 1 dog by peoples but still, i have to say, most do look reasonneably happy and fed, not skinny, well there are neither the look of perfect health it has to be say!
i was going to forgot, i did went wondering around at night late and find out as a rough guide did mention that we have millions of rats crawling the streets, as i nearly walk on one in my sandals and freak the light off me by running off to my own horror meet more of it kind, to play with four more rats!!! almost afront of me, there are also so used to peoples they don`t really care, well, i know now and do look very closely where i walk those night!
talking about night time, well, on my first night the tuk tuk driver took me to a brothel, yeaps Bangkok is Bang cock indeed, so many LadyBoy, but the attitude here is...so what?! superbe.
no asshole when it come to sex gender etc...
yes while i do intend to find spiritual path but i did wonder some place at night and find a lovely place call Silom , the Soho of the city everything goes, cross dressing, transexual, gay/ lesbian heaven but....watch out Thais peoples has i find out fast enought
like you and me, or should i use the word they use to call us " THE TICKET" i met some lovely boys who mention how lovely i was,how much they like your cock ( forgive my french) and anything anyone would love to hears and indeed after a while you will as i have been warns falls for it!....i means you are the king.
until, you wake up as i did after drinking wisky ( the cheapest Thai drink, a bottle cost in a supermaket for 1L a mere 2 pound ! beer and wine being the most expensive, so i shall refrain all together i think after my last drunken night ( 3 night agos) , i did end up in some gay club, more wisky, more lovely boys coming to me, telling me they love my money, i means me of course...all i can say i don`t remenber going home???? now i do not want to sound to paranoid but after hearing numerous testimonies like mine even today, it would not surprise me, if something felt inside my glass as i was gone!!!! truly and really mashed up!
some Thai boy was indeed in my room and i must say remenbering having sex with him, but i also remenber having more cash that night then what i had left after, never mind that will teach me...pain can be indeed a good thing!
as for my plan, well Bangkok is truly for me a lovely smelly place which i feel like staying more then expected it + the weather is very hot and humide, still, this new place ( area) i found where i am sending this email, seems so chills, nice peoples around too, lot of hookers, i even, find some true ladies lovely as to find my head turn around?
i have met a very nice scottish man this morning who has spend the past 30 year traveling the world and spoke with him, for 2 hours he told me of some wonderfull place to goes and i think, i will do the islands later when it is truly hot as the moonsone is still here for 1 month the lastest, so instead i am taking off from Bangkok to Chian Mai in the norht west ( the old city supose to be jewels for the eye) -staying in a monastery there for a week or two, pure detox, no food after midday,lies and gossips, stealing, killing or harming and most of all NO SEX!
THEN WILL POP OVER TO CHANG MAI then goes to Chian krong take a boat to get on the mekong river to Louang phahang in Laos and then i am not sure really.....
saying this December is ideal for NePal and as some of u knows, i feel this longing to goes there threkking, i think Dominic it would be wonderfull if you do give me those tips when you were there, sound like a great journey you did, the road of nepal to Tibet, sound like what i need it would be great as december supposedly still great weather and the sky cristal clear to see the mountains, himalaya i am coming to see you!
anyway, i am truly bloody tired will send this email later and post it in my facebook so you can always keep in touch there too, and i will leave a online journey there too.
i filmed some interresting footages not sure this will take my carrer off to the BBC but....
Ah Dear Sharon i think you were right, shall i ? i hope you will take the time off and come, you will love it here so much....come soon. will carry this email later as i am off taking the sun and have a nice cold shake, chilling out ( yeaps i know i am a kucky bastasd...love me too).....
