Tuesday, 17 Apr 2012 | Views [158]
It might have been inside the in-flight magazine on my return from Phuket where I read about a common Songkran sentiment; the first day is amazing, the second day is not so much fun, and by the third day, you're sick and tired of water being thrown ... Read more >
Friday, 13 Apr 2012 | Views [155]
It wasn't until I was leaving Shanghai for Bangkok that a German guy I’d just met told me I’d be in Southeast Asia for Thai New Year. He said, "Get ready to get wet." Since then, I’d discussed Songkran with a few other people;... Read more >
Thursday, 12 Apr 2012 | Views [261]
I'm quite tickled by the way a lot of place names are pronounced here. Although Phuket is not said as it’s read, the bus terminal I left for Cambodia from is called Mo Chit (the "C" is given an “S” sound) and the islands I took a boat ... Read more >
Friday, 6 Apr 2012 | Views [163]
If Phuket was pronounced with a short "u" sound (which it's not) it would complement the mentality of many visitors here: “Aw Phuket, man, I don’t care what it costs…I’m on vacation!” Unfortunately, I’m not able to ... Read more >
Wednesday, 4 Apr 2012 | Views [247]
So far, I've learned that when someone in Southeast Asia tells you "Ten more minutes" they mean twenty, and so on. What I didn’t know when I wrote my last entry was that we would actually make the remaining 7 hours of what turned out to be a 12-... Read more >
Thursday, 29 Mar 2012 | Views [318]
It's been a long day. Awake at a quarter 'til five in the morning for my journey to Bangkok, I spent my first hour at the airport standing in the wrong line, although I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why the ticket agent I went to couldn’... Read more >
