Wednesday October 31th, 2006

I am preparing myself to get ready for the next trip to Brisbane, Australia. While my visa and airplane tickets have not got yet, everyone in the company seems to have no worry about this. Da helps me a lot on packing and she is good at it. I myself could not do better than her and I always put too many things in one luggage. My luggage which bought 5 months ago was broken on the day I was flying to New York. Specifically, the handle that was broken when I was managing it in a small taxi boot. This was disappointing me since I was just bought it from a shop at MBK for 2,500 baht. The seller told me this kind of luggage had been bought by Sornram, Thai movie star that I didn't like and actually I didn't care if Paris Hilton bought it before.
In the meantime, I was spending time for self-studying, reading newspaper, not much talking with the others but Da and today was her last day. I am not a talkative person and she neither; but we are not shy talking with people or strangers. So, when I realised that today was her last day, I felt being lonely and didn't want her to leave.
Anyway, things seem to be in a good shape after 2 disaster years. Before we went to New York, we had never had time to relax and enjoying life. We had to work and we didn't satisfy with our job. Da was busy all the time and occasionally she had to work on weekend. Me, I had to work upcountry, Lam Chabang, commuted from BKK-Chonburi every weeks for 6 months. Then I realised that no matter how much money I could make, happiness was more important. Eventhough it was quite strange for a freshy couple that one is flying to Australia and will be staying there for a month; flying back to get married and probably going there again for another 3 months; I would not do something like this again after this trip. I really want to settle down, being home with Da and our pupies, gardening, doing some woodworks, and getting some rest.

Thailand

Traffic problem in Thailand has not been solved up until now. It is even worse than 4 months ago. I remembered that 4 months ago, I could easily find myself in the BTS if I arrived to the station before 8 AM. However, these days, after 4 months, the station I always set off is crowed all the time! One day, I asked a BTS employee who on her duty is to remind us, the passengers, that due to a lot of people using the BTS so please step inside for the others that why it was so crowed these days. She admitted that it was true but she didn't know why.
Not only the number of people in Bangkok I have noticed it is increased but also the number of cars. It is a nightmare. We spend 4 hours round-trip everyday for 50 kilometers commuting from home to work. Bangkok government is busy constructing more that a thousand routes around the city hoping it would cope the problem. Our King once said that having more roads could not solve the traffic problem and I think that is absolutely true. I personally believe that we need a good transportation infrastructure and consciousness of the group rather than individual. Not having only self-confortable but think about the environment, the poorer, the others, etc.
Anyway, I do love my country but loving does not mean I am blind and do not see the problems, our weekness, strengthening. The taxi driver I took back from Suvannabhum Airport to my home told me I would not understand the poor because I were rich. Money has nothing to do with that, I thought.

Piggy-Faced-Bread Recipes.

Ingredients for 4 people
1. 0.6 - 0.8 lb of ground pork
2. An egg
3. One tablespoon of Chinese white soya sauce
4. Four Parsley roots
5. Two tablespoon of water
6. 1/8 teaspoon of salt
7. 1/8 teaspoon of pepper
8. Five cloves of garlic
9. Ten slices of white-bread
10. One red chilli
11. Vegetable oil

Method for piggy-faced-bread
1. Beat the egg and mix with ground pork. Blend it with the prepared Chinese white soya sauce, chopped parsley roots, salt and pepper, garlic until they are mixed altogether.
2. Divide a bread into 4 quaters.
3. Put a tablespoon of mixed ingredient prepared in step 1 on top of each cutted bread.
4. Pour the oil into the frying pan use the lowest temperature.
5. Fry the bread until their colour are yellow and pork is cooked and get them out of the pan.
6. Cover the plate with napkins and put the bread on top because they will be oily

Method for salad
1. Blend a cup of vinegar mixed with 1/2 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of salt.
2. Slice three small of cucumbers, 2 red onions, and 1 red chilli and put them in the salad made in step 1.

How to eat?
Well, I am sure I don't need to tell you about this :P

Serendipity.

The restaurant was on 60th street between 1st and 2nd avenue and it was crowed all the time, indeed. Whenever we walked pass it there were people waiting outside the restaurant so we decided to be one of them. Inside the restaurant they decorated it in teenage style in my opinion; yes, I am not considered to be in that age any more.
Six of us, Chalie, Nathan, Sam, Samantha, Dee, and me went there at one night; Samantha successfully reserved a table after telling them we were staying nearby - it was funny that they refused her at first and changed their mind when she gave that reason. Local people had more privilege, I thought. I wanted to order a beverage but when I saw Sam's milkshake which was enough for all of us so I had changed my mind. In the end, we couldn't finish what we ordered; not because of there were many but each was too big for one person. "Because they are smart". Said Chalie. "They serve you a big one and they can charge you more". He went. I agreed with him but at some point I was thinking of the different between "smart" and "ethic".

Thai Airways: Love you as much as the sky.

One night in Bentley hotel was over and we were going to JFK airport for our direct flight New York - Bangkok TG 791 at 12.00 PM. It is a Thai Airways but it seemed to me like some of air hostesses were likely to have serviced those who had foreign looked (being able to speak English, blond hair, etc). It was bad, indeed, being treated like that. It was not clear actually, the way they serviced us but according to many sources we have read so far about Thai Airway, they don't want to service Thai people, comfirm us that it is true.
So, if you are a Thai Airway's hostess, please keep in mind and take this into account seriously. Everyone on your plane who fly at the same class they have paid equally. Remember that in your brain which is not nicer or more beautiful than the others that your act tells everything. Whatever you are thinking, we, the passenger, know. Think about it, even when she dropped my fork, she didn't even offer an apology.