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Published: July 15th 2007
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I was awoken early this morning at about 4.30am to a considerably loud and eerie chant, I looked out of my window to discover a mosque. I swear it wasn't there yesterday. I failed to to get back to sleep so i drew up my next tactical manoeuvre.
I decided it was time to move on from Thailand for now and apply for my Vietnam visa. It should take a few days to process and once attained I will head for Cambodia where I can pick up the visa at the border and then cross through Cambodia and move on into Vietnam from there.
That being the case I've got a few more days to kill in the hub of South-East Asia. Most of today was spent at Mah Boon Krong aka MBK. I'd been before but only had a glimpse at the place. It's pretty much got everything anyone could ever want. It has wholes floors designated to specific items. One floor has more mobile phone shops than you could shake a stick at.
It's downfall is that it's like Queensgate or Lakeside at Christmas time, amusingly it's like this everyday. But people seem less weary
here of there general sense of direction more than most places I've been to in Bangkok. They like nothing more than not looking in front to see where they are actually walking and bumping into one another....constantly. I'm just glad my foots a lot better now otherwise I would have been crippled by the hoards of directionless public. One thing that really still gets me is when your in such confined spaces and someone decides to fling an arm up into the air nearly ripping your face off in the process. So far I've only experienced a few elbows to the ribs and foot stampings and it appears that this is all perfectly acceptable due to the absence of any form of apology. So I also spent the rest of the afternoon walking around stamping on peoples feet and digging people in the ribs...actually no I didn't, that's I lie, but I like to pretend I did, I actually went to watch Die Hard 4 instead.
This was a unique experience in itself, to start with I was in the neck breaker position in the second row from the front as this was the only seat left in the
vicinity and I also found myself positioned next to a Thai girl who would be talking on her mobile phone throughout the film.
But before the brainless yet easy watching main feature was to begin the audience were treated to four trailers. The first being The Simpsons Movie that I eagerly anticipate. The second, third and fourth were trailers for Thai films that left me just about as confused as the sugar coated garlic donuts of Ko Samet.
(As I write this part in a bar in Bangkok some arrogant Germans have just sat down at the table next to me, one taking a chair away from my table without asking if anyone was actually sitting there, which they wasn't but that's not the point. Worse still is that the guy that took it and is now sat closest to me is up there with smelling of one of the worst smells I've had the displeasure of smelling in Bangkok, and that's a shit load of really bad smells, the guy seriously needs to learn about soap.)
Err...anyway, where was I? Oh Yeah, the Thai movie trailers. They all in some way or another appeared to be
ladyboy orientated family comedies. The first involving an undercover ladyboy cop, the second was some sort of ladyboy mafia chick-flick and the third definitely involved ladyboys but I had no idea what was going on, it involved a scene where some guy cops off with a piece of fecal matter...confused? Yeah me to!
(It's started to rain here now in Bangkok, I wish that stinky ass German would go and stand out in it for a little while as my eyes are starting to smart, I don't think it's likely though as he's looking rather petrified.)
Luckily with Die Hard 4 I pretty much knew what I was going to get. And ladyboys were definitely not the order of the day.
(The smelly German just sparked up a fag and all his smoke is going in my face ... grr !!!)
Before the actual feature began though another small trailer was reeled with images of the Thai King, at this point everybody stood up to pay their respects. I couldn't see this taking off back home.
(I've just noticed on the other side of the bar a guy from Ko Samet that I know for
a fact snogged a ladyboy with a receding hairline, he claimed he was to drunk to notice that she was a he ... of course you was mate!)
Anyway after about half an hour into the film I started to hear some really childish noises from the front row followed by the peering heads of children no more than about 5 years old emerging over the backs of the seats. Who the hell takes their children to see Die Hard? They were obviously getting bored and restless and were starting to kick off. So as well as mobile phone girl I had this to contend with.
But as a whole in regards to the film there wasn't to much to take on board so these little in-house distractions didn't compete to much with the film's toss storyline. It's all about the action with Die Hard and that's mostly what was received. Never going to beat the first Die Hard though it has to be said. And you will always be pushed to find a better bad guy than Alan Rickman!
(As I finish up the guy that snogged the ladyboy has recognised me and looked directly at
the floor in instant shame .... hahaha! And as for the German guy he is still stinking up the gaff, think I'm going to have to evacuate)
Godspeed.
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John Duncan
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peas
The pea snacks you have in the photo are my favs. they are squid flavour, they do a wasabi flavour but that taste awful.