Sawadee... Crap
Hello you wonderful Simian-reading denizens. I'm back from the 17 days of non stop travel, intense humidity and choking smog that covered, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei) and Bangkok (Thailand). A quick list of notable things before I write more:
- Stuffed myself on hotel buffet breakfasts every day with the self-delusional fact that 'eating well at breakfast will stave off hunger pangs for the rest of the day and one will stay slim on holiday', and still managed to have 5 square meals after breakfast.
- Had a dynamic shift in waist sizes in one day, from 31" at Dockers, to 34" at Replay and 28" from some unknown brand at a Factory Outlet Store.
- 2 massages, both which required me to don my birthday suit, and to turn over half-way which made me very conscious when the masseurs were massaging my upper thigh.
- Went to 2 Japanese buffets and ate 50 sumo wrestlers worth of sashimi and tempura.
- Woke up to the realisation that when trinkets as souvenirs fail to grab your attention, and you're more interested in the antique hat stand with mother-of-pearl inlay that one is inevitably older and hopefully wiser from not buying ornamental tat to fill up the shelves. Although I still managed to spend over 5 million rupiah on tribal baskets and a bircages in Indonesia and over 12k baht in Thailand on silk.
- Started out as a trip to pick up a t-shirt for OH since he hadn't brought many clothes along. 7 hours later we were sat in a bar having cocktails and bemoaning the fact we'd missed the Grand Palace in Bangkok again, for the 4th day running.
- When we finally made it to the Grand Palace into the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (jade, really) there was an almightly 'SPLAT' and OH turned to tell me how lucky it was that he'd just managed to avoid being shat on by a holy bird in the temple rafters, then noticing that I'd been covered all down one sleeve.
Holy shit indeed.
- Stuffed myself on hotel buffet breakfasts every day with the self-delusional fact that 'eating well at breakfast will stave off hunger pangs for the rest of the day and one will stay slim on holiday', and still managed to have 5 square meals after breakfast.
- Had a dynamic shift in waist sizes in one day, from 31" at Dockers, to 34" at Replay and 28" from some unknown brand at a Factory Outlet Store.
- 2 massages, both which required me to don my birthday suit, and to turn over half-way which made me very conscious when the masseurs were massaging my upper thigh.
- Went to 2 Japanese buffets and ate 50 sumo wrestlers worth of sashimi and tempura.
- Woke up to the realisation that when trinkets as souvenirs fail to grab your attention, and you're more interested in the antique hat stand with mother-of-pearl inlay that one is inevitably older and hopefully wiser from not buying ornamental tat to fill up the shelves. Although I still managed to spend over 5 million rupiah on tribal baskets and a bircages in Indonesia and over 12k baht in Thailand on silk.
- Started out as a trip to pick up a t-shirt for OH since he hadn't brought many clothes along. 7 hours later we were sat in a bar having cocktails and bemoaning the fact we'd missed the Grand Palace in Bangkok again, for the 4th day running.
- When we finally made it to the Grand Palace into the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (jade, really) there was an almightly 'SPLAT' and OH turned to tell me how lucky it was that he'd just managed to avoid being shat on by a holy bird in the temple rafters, then noticing that I'd been covered all down one sleeve.
Holy shit indeed.
posted by Marmoset at
2:36 pm
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