December 2008
5 posts
Homecoming
Just got back to the hotel about an hour and half ago. Nothing like 14 hour work days, but at least I was getting paid for it. I am flying home tomorrow night and I cannot wait. Not that Thailand hasn’t been great but Christmas is next week and I have got to get a fill of 24 hour “A Christmas Story” or the holiday isn’t complete. Thailand has been kind of lame the last...
COMS
Creepy Old Man Syndrome will hereforth be referred to as COMS and that is all Thailand is. A bunch of creepy old men being serviced by young Thai women. Not necessarily sexually serviced(although there is a lot of that) but paying attention to them and back rubs and ugh…it creeps me out. I sat there tonight playing pool with one of the bar girls as a guy got a massage and he looked like...
Gotta looove that exchange rate...
Welp, just got to Thailand a little while ago. First thoughts, Thailand has a very beautiful landscape for as poor as all their people are. Grassland and coconut trees everywhere. If anyone ever has a chance to take Thai airways…do it. The seats were super comfortable, 3 meals with wine. After the meals they came through the cabin with Courvoisier, I felt like I was in a bad rap video. ...
If you build it they will come...
Funny thing about that line from Field of Dreams, he wasn’t talking about a baseball field in the middle of a corn field, he was talking about an airport in Thailand, and that is exactly what they did. They came, in droves, to protest against the corrupt prime minister; who knew anything political could be accomplished without a war. Anywho, it worked out for the best, now instead of...
November 2008
3 posts
Apparently large scale riots are now called...
Off to a smashing good start as they say across the pond. Emily was about to drop me off for my flight to Frankfurt when I saw I had a voicemail, it was from someone with Lufthansa saying due to the “strike” in Bangkok, the flight would not operate. Everyone knows that the “strike” is corporate talk for the large scale rioting that is happening in Bangkok but I guess they...
T-Minus 24 hours
This is going to be my account of Thanksgiving in Thailand. No turkey, no football, no family, so we are gonna make the best of it.
“We’re not outcasts…….we’re trendsetters.”
– Ryan & Jared, circa 2003