Sounds like my weekends here are dwindling already, everyone keeps threatning me and saying the last few months go the fastest. I totally believe it, JANUARY is almost over!! Holy Cow!!
I was looking at a calendar trying to budget the last few weekends with some friends...between now and the date I'm leaving ***(I think/hope/cross my fingers/pray-I still dont have the ticket yet!)*** I've only got 3 free weeks left! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!
The bucket list goes on, but...whats a girl to do chai mai? Only so much time in eight months...I really shoulda been packing more in.
Goi and me had an epic girls day out randomely after work. We decided to go 'su kong' or 'shopping' at Ramhamhaeng street market just down the road. Several hours later with several bags and an ice cream cone we made it home looking like twins as always, somehow we always seem to end up looking like twins. Well sorta... she still always looks like the cool Thai chick and I'm her giant farang-barbie, haha. After that we went out to BBQ! My personal favorite. You sit around a personal fire/pot/grill thing and roast your meat with chopsticks and add veggies and stuff. You have to eat a lot too because they actually charge you for whatever food is left ON the barbecue after your done O.O Later, Goi and me still weren't tired so we stood on the street corner, and decided to take the next bus and find out where it went (its always a gamble in Bangkok, bus route maps don't exist and the numbers are sometimes subject to change...one time we got on a bus and two blocks later it broke down, woops!) So this time we ended up downtown near Siam/Na-Na...a little sketchy at night, easy to witness Bangkok's infamous nightlife and almost everyone speaks English because its a tourist or 'farang' district.
I'm pretty sure I saw a purse snatcher, unless the man was holding the purse for his girlfriend AND playing tag? Haha, good thing my wallet was safe.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tam-Ahan-Thai
I've pretty much dedicated the last weeks to cooking or 'tam ahan' in Thai. We've all been doing some budgeting to save up for some more travel...my time here is already over halfway through! Kind of a sad and exciting thought at the same time.
Cooking however has been more of an adventure than I could have ever expected. First P. Yuwana, a friend from work, wanted to cook with Goi and me on Sunday so we made quai-teow-jiin this noodle dish with a bunch of spicy toppings, it was definitely a group project.
After Sunday Goi decided to make mien soup and eggs, and then it was my turn to surprise them with some form of Mexico meets Asia. Finding ingredients here was a pain and it ended up being more of a Thai dish in the end anyway...a bit of a letdown. It was rescued from some salsa I received from the states (shout-out to Zach and Kayloni!)
After those three dishes though we've been haunted by leftovers the last week, we cant seem to get rid of ALL the remaining ingredients at the same time, haha. So I've been buying random new Thai vegetables I've never tried and trying to cook and combine them with whatever we've got left, somehow creating more leftovers to combine into the next day...and so on. I THINK tonight should be it. Our last dish I got to make these freakish green-beans that I adore...theyre super weird looking and a bit tougher, but taste the same:
Cooking however has been more of an adventure than I could have ever expected. First P. Yuwana, a friend from work, wanted to cook with Goi and me on Sunday so we made quai-teow-jiin this noodle dish with a bunch of spicy toppings, it was definitely a group project.
After Sunday Goi decided to make mien soup and eggs, and then it was my turn to surprise them with some form of Mexico meets Asia. Finding ingredients here was a pain and it ended up being more of a Thai dish in the end anyway...a bit of a letdown. It was rescued from some salsa I received from the states (shout-out to Zach and Kayloni!)
After those three dishes though we've been haunted by leftovers the last week, we cant seem to get rid of ALL the remaining ingredients at the same time, haha. So I've been buying random new Thai vegetables I've never tried and trying to cook and combine them with whatever we've got left, somehow creating more leftovers to combine into the next day...and so on. I THINK tonight should be it. Our last dish I got to make these freakish green-beans that I adore...theyre super weird looking and a bit tougher, but taste the same:
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| The Chinese Long-Bean |
Friday, January 14, 2011
hola
It's been super busy at the office just catching up on all the projects that built up while everyone was gone but with the help of a little caffeine its been productive.
Shockingly I even managed to put in a little time on the ol' website and finished that up, you guys can feel free to take a look and gimme some feedback! :)
Saturday, January 8, 2011
moewan glap krungtep!
She's back!
FINALLY back at home for longer than 2 days...I think?
Last week after returning from my three week backpacking extravaganza, I unpacked my travel gear only to find I was going on another trip the next morning for Thailand Mission Video.
We went to the East Isan region of Thailand, still somewhere near the south to a little village near the Cambodia border (which I was dying to cross! but that'll have to wait till February...)
We got to go to a small village and video/photograph these stories of locals an how they came to know the Adventist Church there, really interesting stuff. I photographed the first day but they had to go back the next morning to get some b-roll of the same stuff again so I stayed back near the church to get some design work done. I couldn't help laughing at how weird it looked, I was sitting next to this little church in the middle of the country side with my mac laptop plugged into the one outlet they had at this table in the middle of this field, there were cows mooing behind me, I was wearing mosquito repellent and a bird pooped on my power cord! HAHAHA, all in a days work right?
Later after the video team got back we drove to the next village about a 3 hour ride away...super remote actually. It was really awkward at first because we kinda felt like celebrities, little kids followed us EVERYWHERE and stared, hid in bushes etc. I kept hearing noises behind the windows of the church members house we stayed at and thought they had rats or robbers but they were neighbors spying on us!!! Then later everyone wanted us to come to their house, eat visit and chat and it just took forever to video anything. Kind of frustrating but thats the dynamic when you're out here, haha. Later I figured out just WHY it was so strange to them tho....after church we were all at a members house waiting for lunch and everyone was outside chatting. These two old men motioned us over and we were talking with them...one grabbed my arm and gave me a palm reading!! O.O Kinda freaky I'm not gonna lie, but he was pretty vague and the rest I couldn't understand because he had no teeth and spoke a dialect of Issan thats kind like British English to American English...sometimes confusing. All smiles. Then the second man told me he was 96 years old and that he was so excited because we were the FIRST white people he'd ever seen in his village! This place had been untouched by foreigners for at least the last 100 years or more...we were the first they'd seen. I was SPEECHLESS.
We left last night and it took a good 3 hours to get out of the village because villagers would say goodbye, then one would hop in the car with us and say they'd help us out, but make us stop at their daughters house or something to show us off, then the daughter would hop in the car, take us to her daughters...etc. Finally at like 10pm we started to drive off and had to give the car a once over to make sure no Issan locals were somewhere inside, hahaha.
We got back this morning and it feels so weird to be in the 21st century again!
FINALLY back at home for longer than 2 days...I think?
Last week after returning from my three week backpacking extravaganza, I unpacked my travel gear only to find I was going on another trip the next morning for Thailand Mission Video.
We went to the East Isan region of Thailand, still somewhere near the south to a little village near the Cambodia border (which I was dying to cross! but that'll have to wait till February...)
We got to go to a small village and video/photograph these stories of locals an how they came to know the Adventist Church there, really interesting stuff. I photographed the first day but they had to go back the next morning to get some b-roll of the same stuff again so I stayed back near the church to get some design work done. I couldn't help laughing at how weird it looked, I was sitting next to this little church in the middle of the country side with my mac laptop plugged into the one outlet they had at this table in the middle of this field, there were cows mooing behind me, I was wearing mosquito repellent and a bird pooped on my power cord! HAHAHA, all in a days work right?
Later after the video team got back we drove to the next village about a 3 hour ride away...super remote actually. It was really awkward at first because we kinda felt like celebrities, little kids followed us EVERYWHERE and stared, hid in bushes etc. I kept hearing noises behind the windows of the church members house we stayed at and thought they had rats or robbers but they were neighbors spying on us!!! Then later everyone wanted us to come to their house, eat visit and chat and it just took forever to video anything. Kind of frustrating but thats the dynamic when you're out here, haha. Later I figured out just WHY it was so strange to them tho....after church we were all at a members house waiting for lunch and everyone was outside chatting. These two old men motioned us over and we were talking with them...one grabbed my arm and gave me a palm reading!! O.O Kinda freaky I'm not gonna lie, but he was pretty vague and the rest I couldn't understand because he had no teeth and spoke a dialect of Issan thats kind like British English to American English...sometimes confusing. All smiles. Then the second man told me he was 96 years old and that he was so excited because we were the FIRST white people he'd ever seen in his village! This place had been untouched by foreigners for at least the last 100 years or more...we were the first they'd seen. I was SPEECHLESS.
We left last night and it took a good 3 hours to get out of the village because villagers would say goodbye, then one would hop in the car with us and say they'd help us out, but make us stop at their daughters house or something to show us off, then the daughter would hop in the car, take us to her daughters...etc. Finally at like 10pm we started to drive off and had to give the car a once over to make sure no Issan locals were somewhere inside, hahaha.
We got back this morning and it feels so weird to be in the 21st century again!
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