hello from the land of lady boys

so im in bangkok now, staying just a block away from the infamous khao san road. i really am not sure about how to spell anything here cause i just havent put in the effort but thats how you pronounce it anyway. were staying at a guesthouse thats apparently israeli exclusive so im having a bit of a bad time with the computer here cause it keeps switching back to hebrew... anyway i really havent done much here but i gotta say, its been a fucking hard time adjusting back to the heat.

and for joolia, i miss you already! who else will listen to an eclectic mix of ashlee simpson, the stars and the supremes with me? who else will eat that much food with me? no one, thats who. not that ive taken to eating less of course...

so i guess the biggest thing that i can write about is the drama that i endured on my way back here from tokyo. so i flew out of fukuoka at nite and arrived in tokyo around 11. the info desk at the domestic airport gave me instructions on how to get to the international airport so i went along my merry way. they said to take the train to a certain stop and then catch a cab from there so off i went. but when i got to the stop and hopped in a cab, i found out that a cab to the airport cost fucking $230-300us! and of course cab drivers dont speak any goddamn english so im sitting there writing the yen sign plus ? on pieces of paper and waving around my remaining 4000yen which is only $40. thats when the cab driver would kick me out of the cab. this trend continued for a little while till i almost cried. i think my heart broke, just a little. if its possible to get your heart broken by this kinda thing that is.

so anyway i end up going to the police box where they basically told me i was fucked cause the next train to the airport wouldnt leave till 5 am and it wasnt even 1 am yet. aha, but i still didnt shed a single tear cause im so macho. the police were pretty much entertainingly helpful. they radioed in another cop who could speak better english and after a long while of them "researching" what i could do, 2 cops ended up escorting me on a 20 min walk to a 24 hour restaurant where i could fucking sit and wait till 5 am. and the cops were hilarious, theyd wanna see my passport, wanted to know where id been in japan, where i was going next, how old i was (this was asked following some man-giggling and they said "im so sorry to ask, please forgive us....but we want to know your age. im so sorry!") it was a good time. and then they even drew me a detailed map complete with "you are here!" telling me how to get from the restaurant back to the train station. how lovely is that?! yeah and so basically that sucked balls realllllll bad. the whole trip fucking sucked but i dont even wanna think about it right now so you'll just have to believe me that it did. and so i arrived literally stinking and dead tired. i had bags under bags under bags under my eyes it was so shitty. and i knew i was comgin back to unbearable heat but i guess you cant really prepare yourself for it. like a fucking wall of fucking heat!

anyway bangkok is good times though. id been warned by some people that it totally sucks here but im enjoying it minus the scorching heat. the people here arent very friendly at all though and its not as cheap as i thought itd be but i gues thats how it is. khao san road is so insane it doesnt even make sense and youd have to see it to believe it. its all just restaurants, guesthouses, bars, stores, stalls and its just crawlign with foreigners. and all along the street people are getting their hair dreaded or braided into cornrows. you can even get dread extensions which i think is kinda retarded since every other minute im wanting to chop off even more of my hair caus its so goddamn hot (EUGENE YOU BETTER NOT EVEN BE CONTEMPLATING DOING THIS SHIT!). but i guess its the thing to do here, even if youre not a fucking hippy you have to look like one or something.

but yeah i havent really done anything cause ive been so damn tired and hot (and im sorry if im just ramblign but im on a time constraint and im really full and hot and cant really focus). what was exciting is theres a giant 7 floor mall or somethign thats got theatres, shitloads of stores and stalls and even baskin robbins yet again. i bought up all this clinique and whatever shit in japan cause i thought i wouldnt find it here, or id eat shitloads of baskin robbins cause i thought there wouldnt be any here but well whaddya know, there is! anyway im running out of time and i was hoping to write a spectacular post but im well aware this is barely mediocre. i'll try again next time! oh and as for pictures, joolia posted shitloads on her blog so just go under the links section cause who knows when i'll finally get my shit together!

oh and yes, ive seen lots of lady boys. and boys that are still boys but want to be ladies. and yes, you can usually tell they used to be boys. oh and for some reason, more than anywhere else ive been, everyone here thinks im thai. thai people will be like "why arent you speaking thai to me?" or "youre from canada? but you look thai". so poogene, you werent the only one. anyway im gonna start tryign to be more productive, tomorrow im gonna do 2 hours of a thai massage course so that should be interesting.