Countdown to Oz?

My time here is running short. I leave on the morning of the 8th. Everyone's fighting to be the one to send me off at the airport (or maybe it was just one person who asked if they could come along!). I suppose I should start packing soon. I may actually need to buy a suitcase after all. I'm not such a big fan of luggage, but I got to take lots of crap with me so I don't have to buy it over there.

I think I'm going to need to go to Bangkok for one night this week, but I'm feeling lazy to do so. I keep telling my ex-girlfriend from Phitsanulok that I will visit her.

I don't have so much to say at the moment, but I did upload a few pics that should bring some fun stories out of my head soon. In the meantime, here is Jenny, Gai, and Pop. Sorry if its slow loading. It is a large pic, but worth seeing.


Geocities is pissing me off. It can barely handle any traffic. I am going to need to get more webservers.

Girl on Girl Action and other Possibly Interesting Happenings!

Today's picture is a shot of me passed out in New Orleans over 4th of July weekend sometime during the late 90s.


Arctica 12:18am Jenny and Pop's friend um, Gai (Chicken!) felt each others breasts at the table while I wasn't looking. I glanced over to check on Jenny's giggling as their hands were coming off. Bah, I suppose its the only really disappointing thing thats happened to me so far this year so I'll survive. But for future reference Jenny, I prefer to be included at least visually next time! Ah shit.

So based on the above information you might discern that I hung out with Pop again last night. I went to Arctica with Jenny and Pop called to see what I was up to. She came along with her friend. It was fun. Following Jenny took me home and we arrived to find that my (?ex?)girlfriend waiting outside with my clothes (she did some laundry for me). She had a not-so-friendly look in her eyes. She handed me the bag of stuff and then drove off without a word. I walked in the gate and a bunch of girls who live 2 rooms down from me peeked out the window and invited me in for some whiskey. About 25 minutes later, x-gf came back with my shoes. This time she was willing to listen, but not so much talking. I told her we can be friends or whatever until I leave for Australia, but I made it clear that I don't want her waiting for me to come back. I'm not sure I got through on that even though I said "I don't want you to wait for me to come back!" 3 or 4 times. So she ended up sleeping over because I felt guilty as usual. I really tried hard this time. I can't have all these girls waiting for me to come back. When I return I plan to change back to my less stressful 1-girl-at-a-time style.

Today - Jenny, Pop and I went to have lunch at Khun Cheurn (คุณเชิณ)the kick-ass veggie place. After lunch we went to Central (mall) and sang karaoke for 2 hours. Next, we went and took some pictures! The Thai girls love taking pictures. I hate taking them, but its cool to have them. I'll post those tomorrow after I scan them at school. A few nice shots I'd say.

Another side note - I ran into the teacher with whom I had a grading issue and he said he will fix our grades. That reduces my stress level quite a bit!

I bought more clothes! A sweater, jeans and 3 nice fake-designer tshirts for 1500 Baht ($40ish). I need to stock up for three seasons in Australia and I certainly don't want to buy clothes there.

Sorry about the new template. I'm not sure if I like it yet, but for some reason I have yet to determine, none of the other templates display my profile and links correctly.

The Source of My Motivation?

I've been on a strict eating regimen for a week or so now. I've also started taking creatine again and I've stepped up my workout routine at the gym. I want to gain 3 kilos or so of muscle. I've also been very productive about studying both Thai and Japanese. I've increased my daily vocabulary intake. I feel good about things right now. I'm still a bit nervous about going to Australia, but not really. Mostly I'm worried about Pop. I'm infatuated for sure. I'll drop all these other girls of late in a second for this one. I've been taking 100mg of Zoloft every other day. 50mg was no longer enough for me to reap the benefits of it. I figured since the stuff stays in your system for a fairly long time, I could use the same amount of medicine and still get something out of it. Its working so far. I find that when taking drugs, I become immune very quickly to the effects if I take the same dosage for any length of time. I'm not sure where this recent burst of productivity has come from, but I'm guessing its this one particular girl. Is she the true source? Possibly, but I think it is more complicated than this. Sure I can get mushy about girls now and then, but mostly I don't like having a lot of emotional baggage/responsibility. I just can't handle that stuff well and it tends to detract from my ability to function in daily life. I know I will be sad to leave her. 見初める - misomeru - to fall in love at first sight.

My sleeping schedule is still pretty messed up. I'm forced to take naps sometimes. I'm exhausted often.

Speaking of her, while I was out with Kumiko and a handful of people who just graduated from Chiang Mai University, Pop and a friend of hers came out to meet me. After we went to another place and had some food. We made plans to eat and go sing some karaoke on Sunday. ตืนเต้น! (ตีน - wake up, เต้น - to dance, wake up + dance = to be excited)

Kumiko came back from Japan and gave me a fantastic Doraemon manga book for learning various types of vocabulary. Great stuff! Its hard to find books in Japanese that I can actually read.

For Japanese homework, I tried to tell the story of my previous post. It's probably not 100% correct, but I gave it my best.

女狂い (Girl-Crazy)

私は最近きれいな女の人とデートをすることが多い。しかしながら、去年全
然違った。その時は彼女がいった。でも私達はもう終わったので、女狂いだ
ろう。よくディスコへ行ったり、遊んだりしたが、だけ少し引っ付いた。で
も正月来悪くなるかもしれないと思う。一昨日の晩可笑しいことが出会った。
友達とビールを飲みに行った。彼女は僕の部屋に連れてくれた。アパートの外蚊がたくさんあったので、いっしょに部屋に 入って行った。それから、四方山話した。ややあって、他女の人僕に パジャマコールをして、「かぎを忘れてしまった！」と言った。だけど、かばんを持っていったが、鞄の中にめしかえがあったので、彼女はうそをついたかもしれません。彼女に目は僕の道に着いた後で彼女一目は僕の部屋を出た。何しろその時う後ろ暗い事が分からなかったので、困っているの人は助け出さなくちゃ。こんどことが少し可笑しかった。二目のは一目のに止めて、僕のアパート名前は聞いた。それから、一目の人は二目の人をアパートに送れてあげた。その日はとても面白かったが、いちばんびっくりしたのは夜の後で彼女二目には整然と僕のお手洗いを掃除した！もう二年間住んだのに、時にはタイ人は全然分からない。

I suppose I could go on, but I got a bit more homework to finish.

Ugly Strippers and A Most Amusing Event

I had a most unusual evening yesterday. I went out alone and met up with a friend of mine at bar I used to frequent. We played pool while I pondered where I might go that night. My friend jokingly suggested Star 6, a strip club that I had heard of but had never been to. I figured we could go check it out as I always like to check out places I haven't been.

It was extremely dark inside and this was probably for the best because most of the "women" were pretty busted. Now there were a few nice ones, but nothing close to the girls I see at school every day. At one point a girl came out and shot darts into balloons that were hanging from the ceiling above the catwalk. Another girl opened a few coke bottles in a rather unpleasant manner. And there was one really stupid show with a girl putting lit torches out in her mouth. The not so grand finale was a shower show, with some frighteningly man-like beast taking a shower in semi-see-thru clothes. Blech. Serves me right for going into some shady dive like that!

Now on to the funny part. We went on to another place after that to get some food before we went back to my place. While in my room another girl called me saying she had forgotten her keys and needed a place to sleep for the night (of course I found this story a little shady when she showed up with a backpack with a change of clothes). So the first girl who is quite understanding left when the second girl called me to let me know she was almost there. I said goodbye to my friend and waited outside for the keyless girl. Two minutes later the first girl returns with the new girl on the back of her motorbike. The second girl stopped my friend and asked her if she knew where Suk Wat Court (my building) was. The first girl said yes and offered her a ride. I didn't realize until the next day when my friend (girl #1) told me what happened. Crazy stuff 'eh? An amusing side note, the 2nd girl took a ridiculously long shower in the morning and after she left I discovered that she had cleaned my bathroom. Toilet, sink and all. It sure is bizarre, but I'd say life is pretty damn good.

All this stuff going on lately has been quite a boost to my self-confidence. What this results in is minimized anxiety. Good stuff I'd say. I managed to go around to a bunch of chemists asking for Zoloft. It is usually very hard for me to do things like that. It also allowed me to pick up some things at school as well go harrass my advisor about a certain grading issue that has caused me to become enraged.

A Japanese girl I met a while back sent a couple pictures from one night we hung out. I'm including one of the better shots as todays completely unrelated visual companion to my hopefully amusing ramblings.


From left to right, Yumiko,Gateaux,Kumiko,Me. We are at Arctica in December. It was actually quite cold that night. Very odd for Thailand.

Sleep and movies

Yes its true! I managed to get some sleep. 8pm to 3am followed by watching Closer, Mr 3000 and the first half of Ray. After that I slept again from about 8am to 11am. Pop picked me up around 12 and we went to have lunch and watch Seed of Chucky. It was quite fun. I'm feeling pretty good about things. It will be sad to leave her. Had I only met her earlier. Ahh well, mayble she'll wait for me?

As for the movies, here are my thoughts:

Closer - The rather twisted plot seemed rather pompous and pointless to me. I didn't find it the least bit interesting, but I will always be able force myself to sit through any movie with Natalie Portman. Great cast, dumb plot.

Mr. 3000 - Somewhat amusing, but there was a side love story that made it seem much cheezier than necessary. Mildly entertaining.

Ray - Only halfway through, but I'd say its very good so far.

Seed of Chucky - Well it was fun to watch. I remember when Chucky movies were supposed to be scary, but the last couple have been more about gore and jokes. I can't really complain. It was a spoof on itself.