Thailand
Well, this is the last minute. My suitcase is packed and I'm anxiously counting down the final 12 hours. Soon, I'll be winging my way back to Asia. This time I'll be quite a bit south of Japan where I was last time. My mission is to find the cheapest gifts on the planet to bring back for my family. No, not really. My mission is to have a great time exploring a country I've never been to and never had a particular desire to see. I mean, Thailand would not have been high on my list of places to go if not for this class I took. I'm more of a Central and South America kind of guy. For a more exotic place, I'd go to Madagascar or Palau or Bonaire. I'm a diver and going to a place like the Great Barrier Reef has been on my list since I was about 10 and decided I wanted to be a marine biologist. Thailand will undoubtably be wicked fun (yes, I'm from the Boston area), but it there's something about what I know about the country that I don't like. It's kind of like the smell of something gross in the next room-I can't put my finger on what it is. It's probably just unreasonable prejudice injected into my eyes by Hollywood or something. Maybe seeing "The Beach" twice was unnecessary.
I'm going to try to find a net cafe while I'm there, but I don't really know how much time I'll have to do something like that. I'll post pictures if I can. If I can't, I'll do it as soon as I get back.
I'm going to try to find a net cafe while I'm there, but I don't really know how much time I'll have to do something like that. I'll post pictures if I can. If I can't, I'll do it as soon as I get back.
posted by Our Hero, at 4:25 PM
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One Night In Bangkok
by Murray Head
Bangkok, Oriental Setting
But the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
since the Tirolean spa had the chess boards in it
All changed, don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings
Or....or this place!
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother
(It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be looking at the board
not looking at the city)
Whattaya mean?!
You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get tied, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, sunshine!
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a muddy old river
or reclining Buddha
but Thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it
I don't see you guys raging
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens WE use would not excite you.
So, you better go back to your bars, your temples...
your "massage parlors"...
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
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