Sabai dee mai ka? (how are you?)
hey guys
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
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
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