Flight Plan + Warm Up

Yesterday, I went to see Flight Plan with Jenny. Aside from being absurd and relatively predictable, it was somewhat entertaining. I still think The Island was one of the few well-thought out movies that came out this year.

I went to Warm Up last night. I was flying solo as Jenny was slow to get ready, but this worked out to my advantage. I worked a number of groups. I spent some time with different groups of Thai, Chinese and I managed to invade a table of Japanese girls so I could get my JapanaMeSe on. Good stuff. I can kind of communicate half-ass in Chinese now. I start Korean lessons next month and I'm trying to figure out how I can develop my Northern Thai (dialect). I was feeling lazy for a while, but I feel a productive phase coming on. Not sure how long it will last, but I'll make the best of it.

Exams and Doom

So I did fairly well on my exams. I got 100 on my Enviro. Probs in SE Asia. It was pretty easy. As for Translation, I got a depressing 89. I forgot a couple terms, but for the most part, that test wasn't difficult either. It often doesn't seem worth my time. I'm not sure if I've 'learned' anything in Env class, but it is interesting. On the other hand, I've learned lots of terms and theories concerning translation, but most of it seems pretty obvious to me. Oh well. I'll always have my language schools.

I need to do some journaling for my creative writing class, so I'll probably be posting it all here as I dislike handwriting.

I saw Doom yesterday. It was ok. Kind of entertaining, but it just wasn't Doom. They changed the plot too much. Ah well. Might see Flight Plan today if I have time.

Boat to Rayong

This is a pic from the boat trip back to the mainland. This is one of the girls I met on the island.

Boat to Rayong 

Bangkok Vegetarian Festival

Vegan squares. No clue whats in 'em, but they were good!


Jeh Festival 

Vegetarian Festival Bangkok

This was a great night! Coming back from the island, I stayed in Bangkok for a night. We went out to eat and were very pleased to find that it was jeh-licous!

Gi-normous veggie signs. Dancing girls, hundreds of shops and stalls selling lots of good eats! October is a good month to be vegan.

Lack of Updat'ion

I have been having a really hard time writing anything lately. Just the past few days I've been struggling over my post about what I did last weekend. Its coming along rather slowly.

I have too much work to do for my writing class. Its really stressing me out.

Mid-terms on Thursday and Friday. I don't really have any clue what to expect for Environment class. I suspect I'll just have to write an essay about what I think about stuff. I am a little worried about translation as much of the theory involved is very ambiguous. I often disagree with the teacher on how to classify certain words and such.

I was planning to go to Vietnam for a few days next month because Air Asia opened up a new route and its extremely cheap, but I'm thinking my 2-days/month job kills that plan. It also happens to coincide with the wedding I was considering attending in Japan. I may have to try and weasel my way out of that job. Hopefully, I can meet with the girl and discuss it with her tonight.

Island Adventures

Last weekend I went to Koh Samet (an island east of Bangkok) with Jeff, Joe, Jieab, Teuy and Joe's friend Spencer. We took a bus Thursday night to Bangkok. After arriving in the morning we roamed around Bangkok early in the morning for breakfast before jumping in a van to take us to Ban Phe. After lunch there, we hopped on the ferry to the island.

We swam and relaxed and went to some party later in the evening. The first day there seemed to be no girls at all that weren't part of a couple. It was a bit of a bummer, but things picked up in the evening. We had dinner by the beach and it was pretty fun.

Anyways, after a bit of drinking I managed to make friends with a bunch of girls who didn't have guys with them. If I ever manage to get the pictures of me with all the girls, I will certainly post them here.