Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:43 am
During the summer holiday I went to Bangkok, Thailand.
Ratatouille just got released, and I just had to go watch it at the cinema on the highest floor of the big "Siam Paragon", but when I went to the box office that day all the tickets were sold out but the late night show was almost empty. So I took the sky train at night alone (I'm the youngest of my siblings and the only one who still enjoys watching Disney movies so nobody came with me) and got on all the escalators which I can hardly see since all the shops are closed, there were only a few movie-goers and the box-office lady and the guy at the concession stand of course.
I watched the movie and I enjoyed it immensely, but my cell phone ran out of battery, and you can't imagine how intimidating that would feel in a city as scary as Bangkok.
After the movie was over the security guard told me the escalators and the mall all closed and the only way I could go out was by going down a lift to the parking lot, when I was there the streets were pitch dark with people sleeping on the ground and hundreds of taxis quietly parked, when I finally reached the sky train they told me it was closed.
At that moment I remembered the video I saw of my Mother's friend's son who got killed for a ransom his mother couldn't afford, I played with him as a child and that video was haunting and probably made his mother insane seeing her son call for help while his head gets chopped. This happened to him in Bangkok.
I had no other choice, I had to take a taxi.
I was very nervous because If that taxi wasn't a good Buddhist, he would see me as a good target for ransom since my family were staying at a 5 star hotel, but he was a good Buddhist and I appreciate that, I can safely say that I'm not travelling to Thailand during the next decade or maybe ever again, what was I thinking going to the place where my childhood friend got assassinated ?
Ratatouille just got released, and I just had to go watch it at the cinema on the highest floor of the big "Siam Paragon", but when I went to the box office that day all the tickets were sold out but the late night show was almost empty. So I took the sky train at night alone (I'm the youngest of my siblings and the only one who still enjoys watching Disney movies so nobody came with me) and got on all the escalators which I can hardly see since all the shops are closed, there were only a few movie-goers and the box-office lady and the guy at the concession stand of course.
I watched the movie and I enjoyed it immensely, but my cell phone ran out of battery, and you can't imagine how intimidating that would feel in a city as scary as Bangkok.
After the movie was over the security guard told me the escalators and the mall all closed and the only way I could go out was by going down a lift to the parking lot, when I was there the streets were pitch dark with people sleeping on the ground and hundreds of taxis quietly parked, when I finally reached the sky train they told me it was closed.
At that moment I remembered the video I saw of my Mother's friend's son who got killed for a ransom his mother couldn't afford, I played with him as a child and that video was haunting and probably made his mother insane seeing her son call for help while his head gets chopped. This happened to him in Bangkok.
I had no other choice, I had to take a taxi.
I was very nervous because If that taxi wasn't a good Buddhist, he would see me as a good target for ransom since my family were staying at a 5 star hotel, but he was a good Buddhist and I appreciate that, I can safely say that I'm not travelling to Thailand during the next decade or maybe ever again, what was I thinking going to the place where my childhood friend got assassinated ?
So instead I'm holed up in my nice warm house 
I've been watching Gurgi and Pooh too much lately.......... 
I wish I were rich so I could build a homeless shelter for animals and people.
(I thought we had a "crazy" emoticon, but apparently not. So I settled for the frog!)