Gettin things done

August 28th, 2003 at 12:00am

Well I’ve had a few days to adjust back to Asia. I’ve now had 2 massages (1.5 hours each at $4/massage), one was good, one bad, and I’ve been having my fill of Thai food! You definitely cannot get any Thai food this good in Sydney or even New Zealand. How great was it to have the perfect green curry last night – topped with fresh basil just as it should be! Yesterday for lunch I had some fried morning glory, another favorite of mine. And the fresh pineapple, for 25 cents at half a pineapple, well it doesn’t get much better. Ok. Rambling about the food now.

What else have I been up to besides eating? Busy, busy, doing things like getting a haircut for $2 and a pedicure for $2, and buying lots of bootleg CD’s (sorry artists, but everyone is doing it here on Kho San Road). I also lined up a dental cleaning and had a dermatologist appointment at my favorite hospital Bumrungrad. Since I first went there 2 years ago they’ve gotten a lot of publicity in western publications about being this great medical provider for very cheap prices, and the foreigners obviously have been clued on, because I saw a lot more of them in the hospital yesterday. And the cost of a dental cleaning has gone up from $17 to $29 USD. I wasn’t too happy about that but still can’t complain.

Today I am off to Wat Po, my first visit there believe it or not, and I hope to have a massage and see if they really are the best in Thailand. Then I will check out a monestary and decide where I want to sit around and not speak for 10 days, or meditate as the Buddhists call it. Trying to decide between Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

And then…well I have a 60-day visa for Thailand and I intend to use it. What I really want to achieve on this return visit to the Land of Smiles is a cleaning out of the mind and body. See, when I was in Sydney and looking for work and facing the prospect of another corporate prison term, I thought, why would I possibly want to do that when I have just enough money to bugger off to Asia one more time and do all the things that I didn’t do the last time I was there? So that’s what I did. How often in your busy working life do you have time to meditate for an hour, yet alone 10 or 25 days?? Or fast for a day, or how about 14 days? Well, I realize fully that I’ve got to do these things while I have the time. I’ll figure out the rest later.

Wat Po

Chedis of Wat Po

Can’t remember what this is, but it sure is beautiful

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