Selling clothes and some new vocabulary!

Ahh here is another shot of the waterfall on Doi Inthanon. I'm with Moon and her cousin. Her cousin couldn't speak English or Thai, so there wasn't much communication there.



Well, I am currently in the process of posting an auction for one shirt on Ebay. It is the slowest, most horrible web site I've come across in a while. It pains me to think how many people make their living waiting for Ebay to load. Of course, I am attempting to jump on the boat, but I will certainly make good use of the loading times (writing this post for example).

I had this crazy dream last night where my sister attempted to kill me. I was in a boat or something and she was shooting at me. I took one hit in the leg! What!?! As soon as I finish the plans for my dream recorder/player machine, I can get to work on making some wickedly insane movies!

I went for a walk last night and ran into an old friend who opened a massage shop near the infamous Night Bazaar in town. After a few beers I discovered that she has two stepdaughters who happen to live in Melbourne. She gave me their numbers. During the evening I picked up some new Thai words as shown below. Good stuff.

ภาษาไทย -

เนรเทศ - to exile (pronounced เน-ระ-เทด)

สัญญาณ - signal

สถานการณ์ - situation

Debauchery....

I managed to be slightly productive yesterday. I bought two large plastic containers for the purpose of storing my things when I leave. I also managed to find some reasonably priced undershirts! I'm excited anyways.

I checked out some shops here and I found some really good cheap clothing! I need more clothes for Australia. I'm fairly sure I will see three seasons or so during my term there.

I got invited to go camping in some far away national park this weekend. I can't decide if I will go or not. It would probably be good for me to take a break from the night life, but I'm not sure what to do. The other option would be to goto Bangkok. Sting has a concert there and there is an animation film festival! I am due to visit a few girls down that way anyways...

I want to goto the Mtv Asia Awards in Bangkok!! I've spent a fair amount of time searching, but no luck as of yet. I can't find contests or anything.

I'm attempting to sell some clothes that my friend designed on Ebay. We hope to start a business of sorts in the near future (after I return from Australia).

Thai people like to take pictures of each other. They also like to drag their friends into those damn photo shops everywhere and make them suffer through various poses as the computer voice babbles incoherently while your picture is taken every 6 seconds!! Argh. Well, here you go. You were warned. Don't let them take you in those scary shops if you can avoid it. Noom, Jenny, F, myself and some guy?



If you've survived this long, it would be wrong of me to leave out all the debauchery! Last night I went out with Sven. We started at this one pub near my place before heading to Warm Up. There was an Australian DJ and he was quite good. There was also far more amazing girls then I had ever seen before. Possibly because it wasn't as crowded as usual? Afterwards we went to Fashion House and it was pretty fun. There were so many girls and I attempted to talk to a few of them, but I was feeling pretty anxious even with the amount of beer I had consumed! I managed to get one number from a girl named D who is studying for her masters at Payap. It was a blast. After that we went to Forte for a bit, but we were both too drunk to drink anymore and I had harrassed enough women for one night. From there we went to the famous noodle shop near my place. Then off to sleep!!

I slept about 4 hours, but I feel pretty good today. No lesson today. Brain isn't fuctioning at full power today.

Nothing terribly exciting today I'm afraid..

I went and saw National Treasure last night. It was considerably more entertaining than I expected it to be. The premise was relatively interesting even if bit far out. I'd say it was worth the 90 Baht ($2.25)! Alas, the characters were a bit too generic.



Today's picture is of myself and Andrew (the only American who has visited me in Thailand so far...) at Doi Inthanon (tallest mountain in Thailand). As you can see we are completely comfortable and feel at home under the scruitinous eye of the camera.

The wait is over...

Thank you for your patience. I shall be rewarding it with something particularly special, a picture of me! Anyways, my friend Andrew drew this a few years back. I'm not exactly sure when, but I suspect 2001ish.

I went to Warm Up again last night with Sven. Gateaux met up with us later and we went to Fashion House(disco), then Forte(Late disco, not good, but open until 4am) and finally Easy (very big place to go eat until 6am - sells beer). I flipped out a bit on my friends due to some stress lately combined with a moderate level of inebriation. I managed to calm down and eventually worked everything out. There have been some things driving me crazy lately as far as my friendships with people. Perhaps I have unfair expectations on what a friend is? With the exception of those people I've known a long time, I cut ties with people very easily if I feel they are disloyal to me or if they waste my time. Am I too harsh? I think perhaps that the problem is that I am always so sure I know what everyone is thinking and that they always have motives behind everything they do. I suspect that this is largely due to who I am and how I think. It is hard for me to comprehend that most people do things all the time without really thinking about it. I can't do the simplest things without first playing out all the possible outcomes I can think of first. I'm not sure if this is a side-effect of my anxiety problems or the root of the entire matter. I just finished my first box of Zoloft. While it has helped my general mood considerably, I don't think it has done anything for my anxiety. Also, I'm afraid I will need to raise my dosage to continue benefitting from it. I also worry if I am allowed to take Zoloft into Australia with me. We shall see. I still have so many things to do before leaving in February. I haven't even bought my planet ticket yet!

日本語　- Today's Japanese lesson includes an idiom! Try to contain your excitement please.

貧乏くじを引く - Binbou kuji wo hiku - to draw the short straw (lot)

僕の命はいつも貧乏くじを引く。　It is my fate to always draw the short straw.

貧乏（びんぼう）poverty, impoverished

命　（いのち） fate, destiny, decree


Caustive Verbs! -- To make the caustive form in Japanese you just add saseru! No problem! Of course, as in every single grammatical rule in Japanese, there are always exceptions. But that is part of the fun you see.

Ex. あのう誰か武れっとさんが全部ビールを飲まさせてくれたんが。
　　　Um, someone let Brett drink all the beer...

For group 1 verbs, change the ending sound to the あ-line and add seru. 聞かせる - to make/let someone hear.

For the え-line verbs (group 2), drop the ru and change to saseru as 食べさせる。 This means to make/let (someone) eat.

する　来る become させる and　こらせる respectively.
　　


ภาษาไทย -

ระหว่าง - between (as in "I will arrive between 2 and 3pm today)

ระหว่างทาง - on the way to ..

Not so Happy New Years...

Well, New Years wasn't so great. I went out with a few friends and it was pretty uneventful, but not bad. After that I met up with a few English guys I befriended recently. We went to Warm Up and it was obscenely crowded. An uncontrollable sea of people. It took around 30 minutes to get to the back room. Once there we were stuck for a while. The countdown was pretty bland. Ah well. The worst part of the evening was that two of my "good friends" neglected to answer my messages. I think I'm done with them for a while. I don't understand why everybody feels the need to be so shady sometimes.

I'm all set to throw some more pictures up, but stupid Geocities has a much lower limit than I had thought. Pics will need to wait until tomorrow before I can post them. I'm sure all of you loyal readers can wait until tomorrow.