Simone on the move

20-22 December 2009

Caught the train back to Bangkok after a 2.5 hour delay, then a taxi to Stefan and Poi’s (Raf’s friends) house in the eastern burbs.

They were awesome and their maid made us a late dinner! Their maid lives with them, is a young girl from a poor family, she works about 4 or 5 hours a day (cooking, cleaning, washing), and the rest of the time she has free. She earns well, and they’re planning to send her to high school. Still, it’s weird, hehe.
The following morning I caught a taxi with Stefan to the nearest train station, and while he went on some business, I continued to MBK, one of the biggest shopping malls. I needed to drop my camera off at the Canon service centre there, and buy a new mobile phone. Camera will be fixed in 5 or so days…but I’ll be in Laos by then :( and got a new model of same phone I had, simple nokia with 5mb camera).

Then I decided to go watch Avatar in 3D on the 7th floor of MBK, so it was necessary to buy a warm hoodie (jumper with hood), which I need anyway for north Laos. They have the aircon up way too high here.
Was a long movie, so didn’t make it home till 8pm after 2 trains and a taxi.
Another friend of Stefan and Poi’s also arrived.

Avatar…I have mixed feelings. I enjoyed it overall, as a fun, visually nice movie. But I’m not a fan of silly fantasy things, or sci fi in general. Good that it was pro nature and pro indigenous peoples, but still…I dunno. Can’t be bothered thinking more about it right now.

The following morning Rafeena and I caught a cute little plane to northern Laos.