in Bangkok
So I'm in Thailand... woohoo, new country, always exciting. Arrived last night and been hangin out with the Thai MC (AIESECers) and lovely Weaw (who I met in AP conference back in 2004 in Taiwan)... She took me to an awesome coffee shop last nite that had a very flavoursome robusta blend on offer... the coffee here is sooo much better than Singapore, best so far in Asia I would have to say...Am having a capuccino now in a swanky internet cafe... the shelves are all covered in Design/Architecture books, they sell camera equipment, have a jazz-house DJ and the PCs all have massive 20+ inch LCD screens...
So yes, impressions of bangkok so far... well it's disorganised and chaotic in a similar way to Malaysia and very very dissimilar to Singapore. Now I see what people say when they talk about Singapore seeming more Western than Asian. You can see the chaos in some places but mostly it's all so clean and sterile there.
The chaos is great but the linguistic differences are really problematic. I don't think I've visited a country with this little English proficiency and surrounding since China. Not saying that's a bad thing but just difficult to get used to for me with no knowledge of the Thai language (too scared to try cos it's tonal and so hard to pronounce, scared I will sound STUPID)
The pollution is pretty bad but... the food is damn good! Weaw's mum cooked us breakfast today which was smashing... and the chicken rice I had last nite was way better than the ones I tried in Singapore, HA! Still craving good laksa though...
Aight, signing out... will update more later.
posted by LX @ 6:47 PM
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