And would you like eggs with your fried modem?

Howdy ho blogland! No, I have not been on hiatus and I have not been fried into an indiscernible lump of Coco Puffs (it's all I seem to eat these days because everyone knows that sugar is good for you) amidst the hot, sticky heat that is Thailand's April Songkran weather. I unfortunately cannot say the same for my modem. Who would have thought it was possible, but I actually FRIED my modem. I guess that tends to happen when you use your computer too much and occasionally forget to shut it down for days on end. Because of this, my computer has been emitting funky smells (think of it as a ceaseless computer fart), and it refuses to allow me to connect to the Internet. =( But hmmm, I guess this really proves that I'm a certified Net junkie, huh?


In the meantime, my dad's laptop has served as my sole doorway into Internetland. However, seeing as how I inherited my net junkie genes from him, my Interent forays have been rather limited lately, since I have to pry his laptop away from his net junkie fingers every single time I want to get online. But since my last update was nearly a month ago, I decided to update my blog... after much pushing and prodding from Stuart, Akira, Noi, and Chanta, who coincidentally stumbled across my Friendster page on Friendster and messaged me to update already. Small world indeed, Chanta!


A lot has happened since my last update, and because randomness is my middle name, I apologize in advance for any digressing. And please excuse the inevitable spelling and grammar mistakes. I only have a short while to type this before my dad finds out that I have surreptitiously unglued his laptop from his left side when he wasn't looking. So, here it goes...



- Aparna's back from Oxford! Paddy's back from London! My mom's back from her trip to China, Japan, and Korea (she got me a beautiful Qi Pao from Shanghai)! Songkran is here! And since Songkran falls smack in the middle of April, that means that April's sticky, humid, heat that wraps its fist around you is here too! Oh joy.





- Paddy got me the Lost in Translation DVD and I got him the Fan Chan VCD. Gift-exchanging is fun and Fan Chan is THE cutest movie on earth! Even if you've never had the typical Thai childhood, I'm still sure that everyone can relate to this movie. I know I did.





- I love Coco Puffs! Coco puffs with sugar-and-condensed-milk-laden roti makes for a very bad combination! Wheee!


- I have way too much SSSSUGAR in my system at the moment!! Can you tell???


- Okay, I'll quit it with the exclamation marks. Even I'm starting to annoy myself.


- Speaking of annoying things, do you know what else annoys me? Tata Young! Hehe, well, actually not really. But to be honest, I used to hate her guts. I used to think that her songs were boring and that she was nauseatingly arrogant and over-confident, especially during that whole Paradorn hooplah thing last year. I still think she's rather conceited, but since she's released her first English album - titled "I Believe" - I have to admit rather shamefacedly that I've been caught toe-tapping and car-singing along to her songs once or twice in the past few weeks. So her music sounds like pure bubbly pop music a la the same vein as Stockholm-manufactured A-Teens, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and Blue, but who cares? It's good bubbly pop music. Just don't, um, tell anyone that I listen to it.


-My dad and some other folks have invested in a posh boutique hotel resort/spa down in Phuket along Kata Beach. Besides having its own private pool, each villa will also have a distinct theme and style. I saw the designs that the interior design team drew up, and they were amazing. They made the place look like paradise. Construction has commenced, and the hotel should be completed by January 2005. Do you know what this means? Frequent trips to Phuket! Yay.



-I was lost in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code two Mondays ago. I bought it on a Monday morning and stayed up till the wee hours of Tuesday morning following Sophie and Langdon's quest for the proverbial "Holy Grail", and finished the book just as the sun started to rise. Despite the amount of controversy surrounding the subject matter of the story, it's still one heck of an absorbing read. I loved the cryptology and history that was thrown in there, and I highly recommend this book to everyone.


-Maroon 5's "This Love" song has been plaguing me for the past week or so. It refuses to leave me alone and I fear it is permanently ingrained in my head.


-Speaking of addictive songs, since the advent of MMMBop back in May of '97, apparently anyone who has spoken more than 3 sentences with me in person can tell you that I am an avid Hanson fan. Go ahead, laugh, chortle, and snicker all you want, but a faithful Hansonaholic I will always remain! Sure, my teenybopper tendencies have diminished immensely since my squealing, Bopper magazine-buying days, but I have to admit that any news from the Hanson front still gets me excited. So since my favorite blonde boys are going to be releasing their first album in four years this coming May, this is some pretty exciting stuff for me. The next time you hear Penny and Me on the radio, you can rest assured that somewhere across the world in Bangkok is an overgrown teenybopper singing along to the song (and maybe squealing... just a little).


-Stuart was right - Holy Pizza makes yurmy pizza. I took Gug and Siri there the other week, but unfortunately they don't agree with my taste buds. The horror! How can you NOT love a place that has pizzas with names like "The Vatican", "Hot Pants Pizza", and "Spicy Esarn"? And how can you not want to go back to a place that labels its bathrooms as "confession boxes" and has signs in the ladies' restroom saying that throwing any sanitary napkins into the toilet is a sin? Aw well, I guess I have to find someone else to go Holy Pizza-ing with me from now on.


-As a city full of diversity and quirks, you tend to have a few odd moments here and there in the city of tuk-tuks and smog. However, the odd moment that Gug, Siri, Caro, and I experienced the other week at Pantip Plaza gains automatic admission into my personal top ten list of all-time odd BKK moments. Here's what happened: In a fervent quest for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, the girls and I ended up at Pantip Plaza to see if we could procure some good *cough* pirated DVDs. Seeing as how it was Pantip Plaza, of course we were able to find "The Passion". What we didn't expect to procure, however, were obscenely RUDE stares and greasy smiles from all the guys who sold DVDs there. Since none of us look like your regular, average Thai girl, they all approached us with odd combinations of "ni hao", "konichiwa", and "annyong!", evidently mistaking us for Taiwanese, Japanese, and Korean tourists. Gug and I lost Siri and Caro in the crowd at one point, and so they went back to Siri's place and waited for us in the lobby. Meanwhile, Gug and I managed to find a really good deal for "The Passion" at this one store on the second floor. After much bargaining on our part, we were finally able to lower the price from 200 Baht to 150. One of the guys offered to give it to us for free in exchange for our phone numbers. Um, yeah right, I don't think so! They kept giving us these super sleazy stares, and Gug and I quickly grew increasingly uncomfortable after a short while. We decided to go to another store, but guess what? The guy followed us to the new store and kept urging us to give him our numbers. He said that his boss really wanted it and pointed to some slick-haired guy hidden away behind an opened newspaper. Gug and I unconvincingly but politely told him that we didn't have phones. Since life has a funny way of playing tricks on you, my phone decided to ring at that precise moment (thanks to Jip). Ha. Ha. No phone indeed. Anyways, to make a long story short, we finally managed to get "The Passion", and in the end the guy lowered the price of the DVD to 100 Baht even though we didn't bargain that far. In addition to that, we found out later that he had stealthily slipped us his phone number (like we're really going to call a sleazoid like him), which we subsequently lost after that. Heh, whoops.


-Terrorists really suck. Especially the ones who have been wreaking havoc and bombing the bejeezus out of southern Thailand lately.


-My favorite Sanrio frog, Caroppi, has an infamous Korean fetish that has finally rubbed off onto me. She recommended this great Korean film called "The Classic", and upon watching that, I was them compelled to watch "My Sassy Girl" and a couple other Korean films. Damn you Caro! Because of you, I've also been listening to a lot of Se7en and BoA lately, too. Between this and my tendencies to fall secretly in love with Thai and Taiwanese boy bands like D2B and F4, I guess I might as well accept the full-fledged FOB in me.


- And finally, after dozens and dozens of pages of applications and essays, not to mention the many anxiety-ridden days spent stressing over admissions interviews and how to temporarily disguise the scatterbrained retard that I am, it looks like I might be continuing med school in the UK come this January. Hello, did you hear me? I said THE UK. This is the land of Jude Law, Orlando Bloom, Ewan McGregor, and David Beckham we're talking about here. Oh my, be still my beating heart.


(I think I'm having heart palpitations.)




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