Sunday, January 30, 2005

Bangkok insight 2005

I'm back! What a holiday..I knew I was home when the auto-doors of Bangkok International Airport opened. Outside where the horrid traffic took place, taxi's waving for attention, honks coming from impatient drivers and the pleasant smile of the Thai people..Aaah, it was great to be back. I arrived at 10ish pm and wasted no time as I changed and went straight to the hottest club now in town called, Slim (S-iam L-ife I-n M-otion). Slim is a huge club located in RCA on Rama 9 road. The club boasts 3 rooms, a house music room, hip hop and a live band room.

The house music was great, the beats were perfect, most tracks were by underground dj's that weren't commercially well known. The hip hop room was packed to the brim with guys there to catch birds and birds there..to be caught. The live band room played popular Thai songs and it was great for me as I absorbed the Thai culture of clubbing to Thai pop music. As ever, Thai girls are to die for. I can't seem to explain but Malaysians or Singaporeans don't come close to their standards. They have a lovely facial feature, a very trim figure, and long long legs..Oh gawd my jaws dropped a couple hundred times while there.
The in thing over there now is to dress down..you know, like the ghetto fabulous look. And these girls pull it off brilliantly with their heavenly features..just heavenly.

Met up with my best mate, May and I got shocking news of his upcoming..engagement! Geez, to us, May was the ultimate player. No doubt about it. He was smooth in his operations and bagged a lot during his glory days. Now he's fallen head over heels for this equally wonderful girl and they seem inseparable. I mean what happened? You don't just lose your legendary status overnight right? No, I'm not jealous of May..but I still can't figure it out! I guess that's love, when it hits you, you get infected..the love bug. They both reminded me of my princess and I..how stable and in love we were. In fact, I did become envious at one point. But its a miracle, you'd say the same if you knew my man, May personally.

It was great to be back in Bangkok again. My lingo wasn't as sharp as it used to be, with a slight tinge of englishy accent involve when speaking. I could still pass for a thai..studying abroad! Haha.. I was really glad to see friends who seem to have vanished, but the truth was I had vanished instead. They were here all along. There's such a culture difference between Thais and Malaysians. The Thais seem more approachable, other than the fact of being friendlier but really.. I realized I missed the City of Angels so so much..

Overall, the break did me good. I went thru a lot of thinking and realizing. Life is what you want it to be, make it happen. Sometimes we need to take a break and look at things from another perspective. I'd be stale and I admit I have become, living here in Penang and not throwing myself in the race of achieving higher goals. Seeing the city again made me realized I'm still very much in my shell and I'm prepared for some major revamp this year.

I'd like to thank a fellow blogger, Ravi Vesely for his refreshing comments but most of all, his quote 'I'm trying to break the "cynical" habit when I observe the world, so my word for the year (and all the years to come) is 'Joy'.


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