thank you in different languages: not with correct spelling but pronunciation: )
cantonese: doh je
thailand: kapunka
cambodia: ah khun
bangkok was rad.


no i didn't see a ping pong show....
but the guys on the street, every three or four of them make this popping sound with their mouth, followed by "PING PONG..." even to chicks! my friend rachel told me she saw one of the girls do a dart show, where i guess they throw a balloon up and well, you get the rest. i didn't wanna pay them my money, they seemed way sleezy and i guess it just seemed more appealing leaving it to movies and shit where stupid westerners go to thailand.






the beaches of thailand are beautiful. koh samui, koh chaing and koh larn are all amazing. the city of bangkok is huge and sprawling, and it's hard to explore everything and not get stuck on koh soan road, you may know it from that little leonardo dicaprio movie which popularized thailand.... well don't go there, go to one of the islands and experience real thailand sans hoards of pretentious backpackers. there's a stark contrast between the attitudes and sights of thai islands and bangkok. it almost bummed me out.








hong kong was wild, the city is all built on a hill and it reminds me of home in san francisco. they even have an escalator that rivals the subway as the preferred method of getting around- it goes throughout the city and up to the midlands in the hills, just a giant escalator that stops at various platforms where you can get off and explore. and nighttime people crowd around in the streets drinking and dancing and singing. everything is extremely expensive, comparable with new york- a pack of cigarettes was nine dollars, and i'm used to paying .75 cents in cambodia. you can see the difference though, with the lack of development but frugality (is that a word? ) of cambodia, then hong kong's developed yet affluent population with sky needles that climb into the clouds...
cantonese: doh je
thailand: kapunka
cambodia: ah khun
bangkok was rad.

no i didn't see a ping pong show....
but the guys on the street, every three or four of them make this popping sound with their mouth, followed by "PING PONG..." even to chicks! my friend rachel told me she saw one of the girls do a dart show, where i guess they throw a balloon up and well, you get the rest. i didn't wanna pay them my money, they seemed way sleezy and i guess it just seemed more appealing leaving it to movies and shit where stupid westerners go to thailand.



the beaches of thailand are beautiful. koh samui, koh chaing and koh larn are all amazing. the city of bangkok is huge and sprawling, and it's hard to explore everything and not get stuck on koh soan road, you may know it from that little leonardo dicaprio movie which popularized thailand.... well don't go there, go to one of the islands and experience real thailand sans hoards of pretentious backpackers. there's a stark contrast between the attitudes and sights of thai islands and bangkok. it almost bummed me out.




hong kong was wild, the city is all built on a hill and it reminds me of home in san francisco. they even have an escalator that rivals the subway as the preferred method of getting around- it goes throughout the city and up to the midlands in the hills, just a giant escalator that stops at various platforms where you can get off and explore. and nighttime people crowd around in the streets drinking and dancing and singing. everything is extremely expensive, comparable with new york- a pack of cigarettes was nine dollars, and i'm used to paying .75 cents in cambodia. you can see the difference though, with the lack of development but frugality (is that a word? ) of cambodia, then hong kong's developed yet affluent population with sky needles that climb into the clouds...
MAY 2013










































