The Bangkok sex district was an incredibly depressing experience. I guess I had unrealistic expectations, brought up on Dita Von Teese and Suicide Girls but I imagined strippers that really enjoy theselves and play with the audience and go crazy because they love it. These girls had "exploitation" and "no way out" stamped on their bored faces and no amount of circus tricks could make it more bearable.
On a more cheerful note, we went to the city centre to look for evidence of recent riots. We found a burned down mall and some bullet holes and I talked to an American couple who live here and apparently the main basecamp was right under the skytrain line, exactly where we got off. A lot of people walk around in "together we can" t-shirts now. It refers to the peace and accord that came after the riots - how very Obama of them. Now, it's probably very typical for Asia but hey what do I know: I don't think one burned down mall makes much difference for the city. The street was literally one mall next to the other. Odly enough the burned down one was EXACTLY where Julian got his suits tailored so we had no idea where to look for another good tailor... Still, we hopefully found one and now 4 of us are getting suits done and let me tell you two of these will be pretty epic. Mine included. But I guess you will have to wait for photos. ^.^
Oh yeah. And it's my birthday. I guess it was a bit of a dissapointment with the sin city plan not quite working out (and we hit midnight in the street looking for the damn area) and I got a tiny bit upset but that will teach me to expect perfection, seriously... I'm in bloody Bangkok! :D
- Eva
