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Day Four
Was a complete write-off, so we're going to forget it happened. XD Stayed in all day, fell asleep at 4pm, setting my alarm for 6... alarm didn't go off, woke up at 11pm thinking ... fuck. Went back to sleep, got up at 3am, that's that. XD
Day Five
WAS A SUCCESS. Not only did I find the river, I also managed to find the SkyTrain, and I found Siam Centre and MBK. :D
Today has been a bit of a musical mystery, if I'm honest... in a good way.
So, I got up at 3am this morning (I'm so hardxcore. x_x), had breakfast at 7-ish and set off just after 8. After going the right direction and nearly weeping for joy when I found the Rama 8 bridge, I realised I couldn't actually get to a boat from there. >_> Backtracked a bit, found the right turning and finally made it to the boat station. Hallelujah, it's only taken me what, 96 hours? x.x
Anyway, sat and waited for a boat turn up, which it did eventually (was about 9 by this point for those of you who care), and one of the guys on the station who had been watching me waved frantically for both me and the boat so that I'd end up on the right one, which was nice.
So, off I went and eventually landed at Taksin with no problems, although the conductor was mocking me for the silly waving XD Found the Skytrain no problem and OMG REALITY. NORMALITY. HUMAN BEINGS. Sweet Jesus, it was amazing. it was like stepping onto another planet, almost. Not being funny (# that's what I want #), but the class of people on the street, and the class of people on the Skytrain is RADICALLY different.
Got on the train, got to Siam, got off the train - first mistake, but not a big problem, because it gave me a chance to wander through Siam Centre and watch the alien landscape transform into something I vaguely recognise from my last trip to Bangkok, thank god for that. I crossed over into a second mall and found LoFt. Sweet, sweet LoFt. This is where the musical madness begins - YUKI was playing... as much as her voice burns me, I nearly cried when I heard it, because it was like coming out of a dream to hear something so familiar... yes, I'm a geek, shut up. XD
Came out of LoFt and went in search of the Skytrain again, and as I did, I passed a TV screen with Maroon 5 on it. :'D I covered my eyes and had a moment (because I refuse to believe they have faces, god dammit.), in fact I suddenly developed an interest in Nike sportswear in front of the screen and stood with myback to it pretending to be eyeing up the trainers. XD; I went into Boots and bought some green tea... well, I thought it was just standard green tea, but it is SWEET @_@ In fact, it sort of tastes like soap. xD Never mind, beggars can't be choosers so I drank it anyway. (And it was buy one get one free, so I couldn't really argue for 25B.) (Then of course I remembered that tea makes me thirsty. OWELL. XD)
Aaaanyway, so I came out of there and went out onto the walkways and FINALLY there was MBK :'D~~ I was so pleased with myself at this point I managed to fall down a flight of steps and land on my feet. XD Oh, I am the epitome of elegance, I swear.
I started looking around for the hairdresser's I went to last time, wondering which floor it would be on, and I turned a corner and THERE IT WAS :'D~~~ Soooo... in I went at 11am, and THREE HOURS LATER (I hardly even noticed @_@ the time flew by) here I am with purple hair :'D~ They wouldn't do blue, sads. :< They bleached my hair twice and turned me into Draco Malfoy, which was scary. XD ... and Hey Ya started playing, by which point I was getting a bit fed up of broadcasts all over the world telling me in a roundabout way to chill out and go with the flow. XD (Oh, and what's the chance of hearing the same Backstreet Boys song twice in one day in a foreign country...? @_@)
Uhm, so after that... I bought the Tackey & Tsubasa BEST album. XD Mainly because it amused me by how long it was, and partially because the two songs I really love (Kamen and Samurai) were on there, so uhm... how bad can it be...? (DON'T answer that question. XD) and then I went to find food, even though I wasn't hungry because I promised I would eat today >_<;;
Went up to the Fifth Floor Food Avenue or whatever they call it and had delicious katsudon and miso soup :'D I didn't finish it all, but it was very yummy.
I had to get some money out of my bank account though - found an ATM and took out 2000B, just to check it worked, but it seems that pretty much all ATMs here will accept my card, so that's good. I don't epxect to spend much more from here on in, elephants and hair were my big spends, and that's all. XD
Afterwards I decided to set off home, hopped on a random train and thank goodness it was going to the right place, cus I was fairly cream-crackered by that point. Back to the pier, hopped on a boat, blah blah blah, planned to go to the 7-11 I saw on the way out this morning, but once I realised there were 4 lanes of rather determined traffic and a walled low flyover in the way I gave up and bought a bottle of coke from a street vendor for 20B. XD
Aaand now I am home and with so much pain in my feet I'm not sure I'll ever walk again :'D (<- May be a slight exaggeration xD), and if you've ever wanted to know what 81 mozzie bites in a small space looks like, come and have a look at my knee. :'D
And so, here I sit, on my balcony having a merry little fight with the internet and all is well. I just nearly kicked my pillow off the balcony by accident. Huzzah for being such a refined individual. xD
As for tomorrow... who knows. XD After today anything I do is going to seem fairly feeble, so I might do something lame just for the hell of it. xD
Much brighter days ^O^~
~hori
xxx
Was a complete write-off, so we're going to forget it happened. XD Stayed in all day, fell asleep at 4pm, setting my alarm for 6... alarm didn't go off, woke up at 11pm thinking ... fuck. Went back to sleep, got up at 3am, that's that. XD
Day Five
WAS A SUCCESS. Not only did I find the river, I also managed to find the SkyTrain, and I found Siam Centre and MBK. :D
Today has been a bit of a musical mystery, if I'm honest... in a good way.
So, I got up at 3am this morning (I'm so hardxcore. x_x), had breakfast at 7-ish and set off just after 8. After going the right direction and nearly weeping for joy when I found the Rama 8 bridge, I realised I couldn't actually get to a boat from there. >_> Backtracked a bit, found the right turning and finally made it to the boat station. Hallelujah, it's only taken me what, 96 hours? x.x
Anyway, sat and waited for a boat turn up, which it did eventually (was about 9 by this point for those of you who care), and one of the guys on the station who had been watching me waved frantically for both me and the boat so that I'd end up on the right one, which was nice.
So, off I went and eventually landed at Taksin with no problems, although the conductor was mocking me for the silly waving XD Found the Skytrain no problem and OMG REALITY. NORMALITY. HUMAN BEINGS. Sweet Jesus, it was amazing. it was like stepping onto another planet, almost. Not being funny (# that's what I want #), but the class of people on the street, and the class of people on the Skytrain is RADICALLY different.
Got on the train, got to Siam, got off the train - first mistake, but not a big problem, because it gave me a chance to wander through Siam Centre and watch the alien landscape transform into something I vaguely recognise from my last trip to Bangkok, thank god for that. I crossed over into a second mall and found LoFt. Sweet, sweet LoFt. This is where the musical madness begins - YUKI was playing... as much as her voice burns me, I nearly cried when I heard it, because it was like coming out of a dream to hear something so familiar... yes, I'm a geek, shut up. XD
Came out of LoFt and went in search of the Skytrain again, and as I did, I passed a TV screen with Maroon 5 on it. :'D I covered my eyes and had a moment (because I refuse to believe they have faces, god dammit.), in fact I suddenly developed an interest in Nike sportswear in front of the screen and stood with myback to it pretending to be eyeing up the trainers. XD; I went into Boots and bought some green tea... well, I thought it was just standard green tea, but it is SWEET @_@ In fact, it sort of tastes like soap. xD Never mind, beggars can't be choosers so I drank it anyway. (And it was buy one get one free, so I couldn't really argue for 25B.) (Then of course I remembered that tea makes me thirsty. OWELL. XD)
Aaaanyway, so I came out of there and went out onto the walkways and FINALLY there was MBK :'D~~ I was so pleased with myself at this point I managed to fall down a flight of steps and land on my feet. XD Oh, I am the epitome of elegance, I swear.
I started looking around for the hairdresser's I went to last time, wondering which floor it would be on, and I turned a corner and THERE IT WAS :'D~~~ Soooo... in I went at 11am, and THREE HOURS LATER (I hardly even noticed @_@ the time flew by) here I am with purple hair :'D~ They wouldn't do blue, sads. :< They bleached my hair twice and turned me into Draco Malfoy, which was scary. XD ... and Hey Ya started playing, by which point I was getting a bit fed up of broadcasts all over the world telling me in a roundabout way to chill out and go with the flow. XD (Oh, and what's the chance of hearing the same Backstreet Boys song twice in one day in a foreign country...? @_@)
Uhm, so after that... I bought the Tackey & Tsubasa BEST album. XD Mainly because it amused me by how long it was, and partially because the two songs I really love (Kamen and Samurai) were on there, so uhm... how bad can it be...? (DON'T answer that question. XD) and then I went to find food, even though I wasn't hungry because I promised I would eat today >_<;;
Went up to the Fifth Floor Food Avenue or whatever they call it and had delicious katsudon and miso soup :'D I didn't finish it all, but it was very yummy.
I had to get some money out of my bank account though - found an ATM and took out 2000B, just to check it worked, but it seems that pretty much all ATMs here will accept my card, so that's good. I don't epxect to spend much more from here on in, elephants and hair were my big spends, and that's all. XD
Afterwards I decided to set off home, hopped on a random train and thank goodness it was going to the right place, cus I was fairly cream-crackered by that point. Back to the pier, hopped on a boat, blah blah blah, planned to go to the 7-11 I saw on the way out this morning, but once I realised there were 4 lanes of rather determined traffic and a walled low flyover in the way I gave up and bought a bottle of coke from a street vendor for 20B. XD
Aaand now I am home and with so much pain in my feet I'm not sure I'll ever walk again :'D (<- May be a slight exaggeration xD), and if you've ever wanted to know what 81 mozzie bites in a small space looks like, come and have a look at my knee. :'D
And so, here I sit, on my balcony having a merry little fight with the internet and all is well. I just nearly kicked my pillow off the balcony by accident. Huzzah for being such a refined individual. xD
As for tomorrow... who knows. XD After today anything I do is going to seem fairly feeble, so I might do something lame just for the hell of it. xD
Much brighter days ^O^~
~hori
xxx