Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Leaving Bangkok

Yesterday, I finally left Bangkok. I was very glad for a few reasons.
First of all, I've been having trouble keeping to a day schedule, doing far too much sleeping during the day that I would like. Since I'm alone here, I have nobody to push me in the ass in the afternoon to go somewhere or do something. So it's easy to pass out and wake up at some weird hour. The fact that the bars/restaurants nearby are open very late doesn't help. I'm hoping that as I enter Laos, since the night life is MUCH LESS active, I'll find it easier to sleep at night. In any case, perhaps I shouldnt expect working at night for the past few years to not have any impact whatsoever either...

Second, Bangkok has been really depressing me. I really don't like the city. It's deplorably polluted, walking for more than 2 hours brings trouble breathing and sore eyes. Then you have practically everybody that tries to rip you off or offer you services. It gets really annoying. Finally, because I stayed in the tourist hub of Bankok, there was just too many tourists and the locals were too familiar in how to deal with them. To be fair, there are other parts of Bangkok which may be better, but I don't think the pollution will be significantly less.

For these reasons, I've been very unproductive in my stay in Bangkok and as such, taken very few pictures.

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