Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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12:16 pm - Excerpt from Thailand this summer
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I found a piece of paper from my Bangkok-stranded-in-the-airport experience this September. I was probably hungry when I wrote this, and DEFINITELY pissed off. This is what it says:
Airports are like weird community spaces. International spaces. They need to be organized like the real world, which they are not. Airports cater to those spending 2-3 hours in them, but what about those whose lives take place in airports? Travelers. Businessmen. Backpacking students. Those who (unfortunately) spend hours in one airport alone waiting for the next flight.
Airports need to reduce their duty-free shopping. Shopping is not exactly the real world. Airports should prioritize movie theatres, showers, gyms, spas and salons for travelers. I'm in Bangkok - one of Asia and the world's biggest travel hubs and it seems that the international terminal does not have such services. You can't even buy clothes here which is a real shocker because Bangkok has tons of shopping, and I need a new pair of underwear seeing as there is no laundry service either and I am stranded here for the night. I need to entertain myself - it's $3.25 to use the internet for 20 minutes. Not gonna happen!
Oh, and there's a Muslim prayer room in the airport, but there's no shower or laundry service. For your information.
I was planning on getting my legs waxed once I got back to Ho Chi Minh City - now that's not going to happen either because Thai airline company rejected me at the border for not having the "proper" visa. Can airline companies even DO that?! AKA: the worst bloody fucking nerve-wrecking situation that could happen to me right now. I don't even want to talk about this. The image of glory that I once held of Thailand has rapidly faded in the past week. Very little good has come out of this trip. I should have avoided this country entirely. I should have learned from The Beach and Brokedown Palace not to come to this tourist trap of a country.
Notes on Thailand:
Too many Western men with young Thai women. Neither of them speak in each others language. The men seem to be European and barely know English themselves sometimes. The Thai women just don't know any English unless it has to do with pussy.
Concrete jungle = Bangkok. Ugliest city I've ever been to.
TRANNIES. Never seen so many trannies 6 days in a row, straight.
Girls are chubbier than those in Vietnam, but they wear disgusting amounts of make-up
People are so fashionable that they're post-trendy
Phuket is dirty. The islands are amazing but polluted. There's so much more to see on the southern coast except it's lathered in tourists; the garbage-laden waters and the floating motor oil doesn't help
There's tons of cool ancient history and stuff in this country, no doubt about it. There are beautiful artworks filled with details, gold trims and regal colour palettes.
*Note: I could have left the airport but I never did. I was frankly sick of Bangkok. The shuttle bus from the airport probably took around 30-40 minutes and was expensive. I was severely broke by the end of the trip and had run out of bhat (local currency).
current music: wildbirds and peacedrums - there is no light
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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3:53 pm - I never write about dreams.
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I had a dream that I was two days late for a flight from Vietnam. Then somehow I became stranded in Amsterdam's airport. I got onto a plane out of panic and desperation that was flying Ho Chi Minh City-Amsterdam-London. I had no way of getting home from Amsterdam because the immigration officers did not believe that I was let onto the plane from Vietnam.
Weird.
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
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1:29 pm - Tattoos
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I'm pretty sure I'd never get a tattoo EVER but I love this artwork so much that I would consider for a millisecond to permanently ink it on my body (in black and white). Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Stella:
current mood: procrastinating
current music: fever ray - if i had a heart
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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12:56 pm - That's TOO rude, son
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
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11:53 am - yayyyyyyyyy
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happy birthday jamie!
also...i just got a job. finally! i am a notetaker for students with disabilities. i go to class with my laptop, take notes and then email the notes to the student. sick pay and sick hours, but i wouldn't mind having another job right now or more hours. apparently one job isn't enough for me.
I DUNNOOOOOOOO.
fever ray in ONE week.
i saw miike snow play on wednesday. it was a pretty slow-moving concert with a weird crowd. more on that later.
p.s. i desperately need adobe creative suite, particularly indesign and illustrator. i am torrenting illustrator right now, we'll see how it goes. i need this for my work!!!
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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11:54 am - rant rant rant
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things that are currently pissing me off:
-future shop...you've had my laptop for 7 days already, and what for? YOU COULD HAVE ORDERED THE PART BEFORE I SENT MY COMPUTER IN. NOW YOU'RE TELLING ME I HAVE TO WAIT 7 MORE DAYS. never buying any thing from future shop again. worst service ever.
-ministry of transportation ontario...YOU lost MY g2 license in the mail and now you are asking ME to pay you $10 to "replace" something i never received in the mail because it is MY fault that i didn't get it?
-ministry of health ontario...health card renewal is a total waste of time and money.
-osap...i just want the goddamn grant already, i really don't need a loan right now. too much paperwork...driving me insane...i don't...get it...
-york university students...you are getting stupider and stupider as each year passes. and you're dissing jared diamond on top of that because he uses SCIENCE to prove things!!!!!! GOD FORBID a man who is way smarter than you'll ever be.
-random russian people that keep adding me to livejournal...i have no idea who you are. probably a bunch of robots. if you're not going to talk to me then please stop adding me. there are 15 random russians on my friends-of list that all write in cryllic...who the fuck are you???!?!! please stop adding me unless you are actually going to communicate with me.
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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10:58 am - procrastinating
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top 10 most listened to artists and songs on my ipod this time around:
justice - DVNO
digitalism - pogo
lykke li - i'm good, i'm gone/dance dance dance
emily haines - reading in bed/nothing and nowhere
bob marley - could you be loved
hot chip - ready for the floor
besnard lakes - devestation
the knife - one hit
plants and animals - a l'oree des bois
belle and sebastian - piazza, new york catcher
honorable mentions:
fever ray - seven
frida hyvonen - i drive my friend/scandinavian blonde
the count and sinden - beeper
blonde redhead - misery is a butterfly
familjen - det lilla livet
fleet foxes - heard them stirring
it kind of changed from last year. kind of.
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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1:26 pm
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Trippy fact of the day: In Vietnam, the girls laugh like "hihihihi" on the internet, whereas guys laugh like "hahahaha" on the internet. And from what I remember, if you're confused, you're supposed to go like "hxhxhxhx".
Oh man.
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
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10:20 am - Vietnamese fortune teller
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So I went to a Vietnamese fortune teller on Friday with my local friend Tina and this is what she had to say about me:
-I will be rich
-My husband's family will be richer than mine
-I will have a foreign husband who speaks several languages
-I will have three sons
-I will die when I'm 80
-I love my family
-I am respectful to my parents
-I am good at communicating and I should have a career in communications
-My health is good overall but I suffer a lot on specific days
-I have a big, warm, caring heart
-There's more stuff I can't remember...
Oh, and I paid $4 to get my fortune read infront of the big pagoda in district 10, which is pretty freaking sweet.
Oh, and CLICK HERE to read about my new adventure in the hospital!
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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