Another good nights sleep. I have been going to be much earlier than normal or since my arriving to Thailand and I welcome this but as a consequence of going to bed earlier I have been getting up earlier. I prefer this schedule.
This hotel sucks and I feel trapped having searched for a
bargin hotel. This place looked great online but it was false advertising.
I’m getting my first exposure to Aljazerra news. It doesn’t
seem like a radical new organization. From what I can tell it’s like CNN but
better, much much better. Aljazerra seems to give a fair and balanced reporting
on a variety of topics. This is more than American news does.
It is the end of a pretty good day. One of the good things
about this hotel is the movie channel and the movies they play. Tonight I am
watching Sparta, The Last Stand of the
300. It is a great lesson about how the few or the one, can stand against
the many. I find this inspirational.
This place (Bangkok) has the feel of a giant ghetto. I spoke
with someone about it, the poverty. It was Mike, the gentleman in the train car
next to mine when I traveled down from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. Mike said the average Thai person is probably happier than the
average American. I didn’t want to believe that but I can’t get those words out
of my head. After thinking about it for days I agree. I think he was right.
One of the many things the people here have in common
with Americans is their worship over their cell phones. I can’t help from
noticing they stare at them just like Americans do. Cell phones here in Thailand have the highest priority in peoples life (just like in America). I see people riding down
the street on motorcycles and talking on their cell phones. That's not safe. That’s the kind of
reverence the phones have, in America and in Thailand. Even people that look
poor have cell phones.
It seems an incongruity to see a Mercedes driving down the
street here in Bangkok. Firstly because of the poverty and second, the danger in damaging the car becuase of how crazy people drive.
There’s all this poverty and you see a car like that. It just doesn’t make
sense.
I think there’s a fair amount of gay action going on in the
mens locker room or I am misreading the reason guys are hanging out in the
locker room. On two different occasions there have been guys in the locker room
just hanging out. Not showering. Not doing anything. When I walked into the gym
today I noticed a kid, Caucasian kid between the age of twenty to twenty five.
He was wearing an oxford button down shirt with a pair a gym shorts. He was a
fat little turd of a kid. He was obviously not working out. He offered me a cup
of water while I was working out. When I was done working out he followed me
into the mens room. If he wasn’t a cock sucker what was he doing?
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