This guy was being blessed with incense and prayers at the local thai massage parlour outside my guesthouse at 8 am this morning. Preparations for the Chinese new year are underway today all over Bangkok. I’m thinking of heading to china-town since I’ll be much happier milling about the decorators than the revelers. I’m not much into crowds and it’ll be nice to see the place all done up.

And yes, I’m still fine. The iced-latte has not married me to a toilet yet so I think I’m in the clear. I’m still jet-lagging so last night I ate dinner at the guesthouse, read a couple hundred pages of harry potter, and crashed by 9:30. I must have slept hard cause I never heard the visitor I had who nibbled his way into a packet of emergen-c that was in my camera case. Silly of me to leave it open and lying on the floor but who knew that a mouse (I prefer to be optimistic) would be interested in it. I now have the emergen-c, vitamins, etc.. packed in double zip-locks nowhere near the floor. yuk! and after I built up my guesthouse so. It really is a nice place compared the dumps I’ve staying in on Khao San road.

I’ve only spent a few days here but it’s hard to imagine another couple weeks in Bangkok. I’m chompin’ at the bit to head to Nepal despite the unrest and have corresponded with a place on the outskirts that provides ayurvedic treatments. I’m thinking it might be a good way to spend a week over the elections since it’s certainly gonna be a tense & chaotic time in Kathmandu.

sawadee kaa

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