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January 2006

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• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Backpacker soundtrack for SE Asia

  01.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  1. The crappiest trance Eurohits from the last 5 years.
  2. Jack Johnson, on repeat, forever and ever, in every CD store and every restaurant you pass on the Khaosan Road.
  I promise I’ll write about Bangkok itself, the good bits, soon.

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

  01.15.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  After a few days in the heat, and with beauty-salon touts papering our sticky bodies with flyers, Nazma decided we should go for facials. Now before the more manly readers out there start their lambasting let me tell you: it was feeling like my pores were soaking up every diesel fume in Bangkok; plus the [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Clear-baggin’ it

  01.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  In this heat one ends up spending most of their day guzzling cold drinks. You can buy an icy soft drink anywhere on the street for 10B (28cents). To keep the bottle deposit, the vendor will pour it into a little baggie full of ice, and in the afternoon sun, this is the only way [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Not much between despair and ecstasy

  01.13.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Arrived in Bangkok and we are staying off-off-Khaosan Road proper, and what a difference a few dozen meters makes. Fewer vendors and generally a less ferocious and seedy atmosphere. We’ve reverted to the “the-bathroom-IS-the-shower-stall” situation, but that’s okay: even having an attached bathroom is a luxury. Hell, even having a room is a luxury–we were [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Right on

  01.12.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  So we leave the country for barely over a week and you lot swing the country to the right by 10 points! You know, there’s a nice selection of anti-Bush t-shirts available: maybe we should buy a bunch and do airdrops over BC and Ontario-outside-of-Toronto.

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Entrada a Macau

  01.12.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hit Macau for about an hour before we had to get to the airport for the flight to Bangkok. It was interesting seeing what Hong Kong might have been like if the Portuguese had taken over more real estate in the South China Sea 400-odd years ago. Very reminiscent of a European city with its [...]

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Kung fu and bird flu

  01.11.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Some last impressions to sum up Hong Kong:
  Nazma met the extended family on both my mother and father’s sides for the first time. The meetings weren’t the nerve-wracking trials-by-fire that we might have expected: they were incredibly gracious and even openly fawning at points. A little Cantonese goes a long way, it seems. We also [...]

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Eat till you cry (but bring your own tissues)

  01.10.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  You’ll never go hungry in Hong Kong, but we nearly did, just from paralysis-by-indecision: too many options and we were frozen. On every street corner there’s little vendors with their habachis doing up street-meat skewers. Think Richmond Night Market x 1000. But don’t ask for sweet-and-sour chicken; Nazma went on a short-lived hunger strike because [...]

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Walk of fame

  01.06.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Went out last night for some night-market action. Hong Kong by night is a neon mess but the faded, decaying gargantuan signs have a real charm and romance about them. I almost suspect half the stores don’t even exist anymore but the signs stay on for sheer inertia. This guy seems to have a problem [...]

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Hot showers and cold fronts

  01.06.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Switched to the business hotel this morning and had our first hot shower in a couple of days. We’re now right across the road from some kind of school, as far as we can tell: bizarre Big-Brother-type pronouncements come out every few minutes over the superloud PA telling the students to finish their worksheets before [...]

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