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The traffic is inside you, grasshopper
click image to enlarge After sitting on the dashboard of a Bangkok taxi for so long, who else could aspire to such calmness? (Notice the bits of gold foil someone has pressed onto him – it’s not just for the big statues at the temples!)
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Much pain! Much sadness! Mommmmyyyy!
I am still convinced that this child loves me.
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Some Japanlinks for today
… just because I feel like it. FREE SASHIMI FESTIVAL IN CHIBA TONIGHT! ………….. Thanks, Peruvifucker! I’ve already been harassed by the popo once because of this guy. It only takes one asshole… ………….. Racial profiling blows up in faces of dumbass Japanese cops “…but captain, I thought she was a gook whore!” ………….. Stunning Scientific Discovery: Getting nuked may pose long term health risk! ………….. Shades of Cryptonomicon In other Filipino news, T had to call off his kiteboarding trip to Borakai because of unstability thing. I approve: Getting caught up in civil unrest in a country where every strapping male’s hobby is making long knives out of truck…
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Kaen Player
“The Kaen is the oldest form of the free reed family, the great great grandaddy of the harmonica and accordion. This type of instrument goes back to at least 1100BC (the harmonica and accordion only go back to the 1830s).” (read more about the kaen and hear a sample here) This guy was playing on the street in front of the Shangri La; he played pretty well. The kaen makes such a beautiful sound on the city street. I dropped a 10 baht coin in his bowl and listened for a moment before walking by.
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Some Random Memories – Widespread Panic Edition
Note: There is no hope of remembering the whole trip in order, so my travelogue is going to be patterned after the trip itself – wildly chaotic, but hopefully enjoyable. – The day before we left Bangkok to Nam’s hometown, the door of the safe in our room got stuck and refused to open. Contents: Both of our passports and airplane tickets, most of the dowry in cash and gold jewelry, our wedding bands, my camera, my laptop, my Omega, etc., etc., and just what in the hell do we do now. Several calls down to the front desk only to be assured that “someone was coming up right away”…
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Django Saves the Princess
The actual wedding may be over but we are still dealing with the aftermath. I need a spark! Just a little boost… This was perfect: Gypsy jazz version of Super Mario Bros 2 song
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Random Keitai Thoughts
This is just wrong. It was very refreshing to carry around a no-nonsense phone for a couple weeks. No camera, no egg-spaceship styling, no blinky blink LED distractions. I bought the cheapest Nokia with plan for unlimited usage from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and it worked just fine except for the interface, which was from like 1972 or something. It took like five presses of various buttons just to see numbers I received calls from! The best thing about GSM phones, though, are the size. I remember when my Docomo phones were that small! I’m telling you, I’d choose a non-camera phone in a second if it were a…
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Photos shall follow
Gotta upload a bunch tonight before my 2GB allotment on flickr for this month runs out… You know, a ring is a very strange thing to have on your finger all day, if you aren’t accustomed to wearing one. My fingers are constantly playing with it, like little dogs straining at their collar.
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Numbers
Some numbers may be just the thing to get my company-controlled brain really working again after two full weeks of respite. – Rating of the wedding on scale of 1 to 10: 9.7 – Rating of the trip on scale of 1 to 10: 9.5 – Total number of digital photos taken by myself and my brother: Approx. 2500 (8 GB worth) – Total number of film photos taken just at wedding: 17 rolls – Total number of edited hours of wedding video taken by T: 3 hours – Total number of edited hours of wedding video taken by hired videographer: Unknown – Total number of dancers at our wedding…
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Too busy…
Getting married tomorrow!
