sawatdee kha

it’s almost 5:00 am here in Bangkok (6 am in Manila) and i’m sitting here at the airport waiting for my plane 7:20 am to chennai.

the driver must have been too excited to see me, he picked me up at the hotel at 3:20 am! good thing there’s free wi-fi connection here and i charged my laptop last night so i’m all set. plus i just ate a huge bowl of thai seafood noodles (i wrote down it’s name somewhere so i would remember, but i misplaced it…)

i’ll probably remember bangkok for the noodles.  the last time i was here in 04, i ate mostly noodles too.  and spicy shrimp soup.

i’m crazy about noodles! Too much!  There are days when I practically dream about noodles and I bug my husband until he brings me to my favorite vietnamese restaurant.  But noodle-crazy as I am, I only realized yesterday that I was eating noodles the wrong way the whole time. And I wouldn’t have found out if I didn’t venture out of my hotel just before it got dark and found a local noodle shop and, guys, the search is over.  I have died and gone to noodle heaven.  (I was pretty sure before that Noodle Heaven was somewhere in Vietnam. Well, maybe….) but Yum! and to think I was a little scared to enter the restaurant because it didn’t really look touristy. i mean it was clean, but it was just a little hole on the side of the road.  but the kuripot in me won. i mean, what could be more authentic than that shop. and what could be cheaper? haha.and I was so sure I wouldn’t really stand out as a tourist because I look like most of the people there. i think two things gave me away, though. (1) my crazy sign language for “beef noodles with just a little bit of chili, please” AND (2) i eat noodles like a foreigner. almost everybody was just staring!   but now that I think about it, I don’t really think there’s a right way to eat anything.  I enjoyed it and that’s what counts.  maybe they were staring because of the pure bliss written on my face. whatever.

so all in all it’s been a good layover. "haunted room" and all…at the same time, it’s good that my room was awful.the only reason I ventured out  in the first place was that I didn’t like my room.  naturally, a geographical-idiot like me would never dare walk around a strange city all by myself because it’s a given that I would just get lost.  but really, my room was just uncomfortable so I decided to just walk around a bit and just walk one direction.  obviously, didn’t get lost! although, i didn’t see much because my hotel seemed to be surrounded only with hospitals.  (which made it even more eerie!)

anyways, it was a good walk. my room still felt weird but i didn’t feel nor see any ghost. i bought a wi-fi card at the lobby but there was no signal in my room and the only place i could use it was with at the very expensive coffee shop. boo!and to make it worse, there was nothing good on tv! The only channel i could understand was Star Movies, and they were showing all B movies last night. there was a news item about the philippines on the russian channel something about gma.  i was hoping it was about her ouster. that would have given me a good night sleep. anyways, i did not really understand what it was about, I’m sure they were just commenting on how evil she is.

thank heavens I saw Jewel in the Palace (dubbed in Thai) and finally fell asleep, until i was woken up at around 3:20 because my pick-up car has arrived.

anyways, i think the my gate just opened so…see you in chennai!
be happy everyone!