Miscellaneous Bangkok.

Here's some more iPhone pics. Thailand, for all my complaining, is a pretty fucking cool country to live in.

Taking a boat on the canal... not quite a ferry. For 12 baht ($0.42 AUS), you can travel down a lovely black sewerage canal to downtown bangkok, from the end of our street - maximum time 15 minutes. Fine until the water starts splashing in your face, and you feel the urgent need to shower.

Me and my Opa the day I turned 30. I wish my brain was this fuzzy. I mean medically induced fuzzy. I posted this one so you can't see my wrinkles.

Monk buckets, buy these, give to monks, buy favour...

live longer?

Actually I have no idea how it works, I think it's part of giving alms.

The Evening Food Truck.

Trucks abundant with food roll up at 6 PM everyday, and you spend maybe $4 bucks, which buys about 10 shopping bags, give or take, of fresh shit. Eat and repeat.

Inside the back of a fruit truck.

The local sausage seller. Right on our front doorstep. Well, more literally, just outside the compound's front gates.

Our next door neighbours reside in a shanty slum with no running water. They work in construction, get picked up every morning by utility trucks, crammed into the back and driven to their job locations. Dropped off at night the same way. Rinse and repeat 6 days a week.

Epidemic or Pandemic Fashion. Or daily wear for dealing with pollution. I don't bother myself, but couldn't resist the Hello Kitty face mask.

Illegal lotto. Purdy.

The hardware shops my Opa insisted on visiting on a daily basis. I went once, it was enough. Here he bought numerous things, which were about a dollar less than Australia, making his baggage many kilos overweight. The overall result being: the shit he bought here, more expensive than just buying it in Australia.

The animal section of Chuttachuck. The biggest market in the southern hemisphere, so I have been told. Many exotic animals, in small cages, looking freaked out, waiting to die. I thought skunks where native to North America, but who the fuck knows. You could also pick up different types of monkeys, parakeets, snakes, turtles, hamsters, squirrels, and other various weird and exotic shit.

For some reason the store-holders think dressing them up this way makes the produce more appealing. I'm pretty sure the ones who look 'sick' at the end of the day get turfed. It's actually quite horrifying entering this part of the market.

Fish which I thought would be dead by the end of the day.

JJ's as it's fondly known by the locals, is a never ending, all out shopping war. You could go there 50 times and not see the same store twice. And you would have to do it all before 12 pm, as the temperature on the ground rises to sickening proportions. Think Heat Stroke.

Feet suckers at Suane Lum Night Bizarre. It's fashionable, apparently.

Eating the dead skin off your feet. Personally, I'm not so adventurous. Suane Lum is certainly more civilised for those who like avoiding traffic and heat.

A bar called Livingstones, (I think) in the middle of Bangkok. It has a pool with a diving board, and the main bar is in the style of a revamped garage. Feels like a porn set.

My Opa loved local cuisine.

Fortune Town IT mall. I don't think you will experience anything like it in a western country. Buy pretty much anything you want in IT/Media/Computers etc. Can't get a licensed copy of Sims 3 though. Or a legal version of any game for that matter.

I have to say, these pics look way better as thumbnails. Anyways, that's my latest pictorial update for a white chick living in Asia.