Journals of Rabbit

Another Buddha city

2006-11-30T17:57:00.000+07:00

Wat Si Saket

Broken Buddha behind a neglected gate

Taking a break from studying

Tunnel of light

Great company

2006-11-30T17:31:00.000+07:00

Jessica and I made a girltrip together. It was great and adventurous from the start. Took an overnight train from Bangkok to Nong Khai, there was a guy got stabbed on the train and collapsed nearby our seats. All went well at the end. Then, two snakes came under our table while sipping Beer Lao on the MaeKhong River’s bank. Umm...what was next? Local minor bike crash nearby the hotel... That was enough to make out the three before all the good things would start.

Beer Lao everywhere

At the Joma Bakery

On a local jumbo

Great local drink??

Thanks for the good company. Biking around the city and got lost, chilling in cafes and read for hours, teaching Jessica some Thai lessons for "he's eating white rice on a hill", prooving the locals that I'm not japanese (almost have to sing the Thai national anthem!), divining with a meditation session & local herbal sauna & Lao massage in the Forest Temple, etc...

If you go there, don't miss the banana shake and french baguette sandwich.

Vientiane memories

2006-11-30T14:00:00.000+07:00

Had a chance to to visit Vientiane last weekend. Interesting small city. Can't believe it's the largest city of Laos and is the capital.

Got to Nong Khai too early, waiting to across the border

On the Friendship Bridge

Local area, local people

Sunset at the Maekhong River

srehtorB

2006-11-07T22:52:00.000+07:00

"Srehtorb"

Reflection

....Brothers....

(photo from London - Oct 2006)

Ladykillers

2006-11-02T09:53:00.000+07:00

West side:

Had a chance to visit friends in Singapore. I was hooked up by two little lady killers. Especially this one. 7-month-old Anton. He's so cute and adorable. He's fascinated by mirror!

Look so alike his dad, apart from the hair which was so so much lighter (almost none!).

Pictured at Whitebait & Kale Restaurant, Sunday brunch.

East side:

I was having (veggie) dinner with Krish (almost same age who has almost too much hair) while his dad, tried to show us how to control a helicopter. Whose toy is this??

Pictured at a 24th-floor-penthouse in downtown Singapore.

So cool

2006-10-08T23:03:00.000+07:00

The Golden Land...Suvarnabhumi

Finally, I made my way to visit our brand new airport. It's so cool and impressive. and it is huge too!

Shiny metal & glass

The bluelight, reflections of the future

Hope nobody gets lost here. I will though...

Did you know? It has the tallest controlling tower in the world.

Donmuang Airport

2006-09-30T00:16:00.000+07:00

My last shot last Sunday of Donmuang Airport, after its long services. Now the new Suvarnabhumi airport is taking place. Heard of the hectic opened day? 28 Sep. Luggages lost, upset & hungry passagers....

Choices

2006-09-28T00:45:00.000+07:00

Inspirations from an outsider...

She walked into the room, with a glass of drink in her hand. He found her, looked at her shyly. He was with friends, she was with friends. She was aware at his stare and wondered if she should give him a smile. Never got that encouragement to do so. Two corners of the room were filled with nothing else but inner silence and coyly glance of each other. She chose to finally give a radiant smile. He chose to act in mystery, tried to find himself the piece he lost. Few hours had gone. She decided to move to another room, slowly walked out. The world goes round as its normal clock pace.

Life is a funny, confusing thing. At one second, one thing happens that could have a thousand different endings, depending on what you choose to do, how you choose to act. When you act, the thousand different endings multiply to a million endings, because now, everyone you affected by choosing the choice that you did, will now choose how they will react to it. It is like a stone being dropped into a pond. The ripples go ever on, and you can never tell exactly when they stop, if they ever do. So, on that one day in a million, no one knows what would have happened if she had not given him her most radiant smile. No one knows what would happen if he chose to not being so mysterious and start to know real her. No one knows what brilliant and terrible things could have resulted. But since they didn't, they both walked out into the cold, grey world, and went their own separate ways. What could have been an intimacy, was not. Because the stone was never dropped.

The Break up

2006-07-30T14:22:00.000+07:00

Went to see the Break up last night, I expected nothing more than just an ok and watchable chick flick drama for a quiet Saturday night. This turned to be an interesting movie since it reveals a fairly real-life view, the very human side, of a struggling relationship and its potential reconciliation. Several scenes made me nod and see the points. Not quite a romantic comedy one, I laughed, I cried, I smiled and at the end I left the theatre feeling a little empty.

It's impossible to swim in the same river twice. But one can be a smarter and stronger swimmer as you now learn the current. Cherish the breaking up. Life does not always go your way. And in that truth, it's a world of magnificent possibilities.

I better go to have a nap...making a lazy Sunday.

Asia discovery

2006-07-24T22:31:00.000+07:00

If there is a place where you can see mixed races & cultures & scenes and where you can feel time goes anti-clockwise, and where there should be endless excitement yet still a mysterious space waiting for you to discover, for me at least, that should be the Far East.

My favorite quote from a traveller's journey discovery.

"Being a stranger means being free and expereincing the weightlessness of the self. There is no longer anyone to tell you who you are -- and so you are no one. If Andre Malraux was right when he wrote that "Europe believes that whatever does not imitate its reality represents a dream," this explains what is so appealing about Asia, the chance to journey through a dream, to cut loose from your own identity and conscious will and abandon yourself to other forces; to immerse yourself in the murky waters of the unconscious and become invisible, even to yourself."

-Carten Jensen- from "I Have Seen the World Begin".

So true. To becoming nobody and let's observe what others and surroudings can offer...it makes life sound more tasteful.

Drawing skills

2006-07-17T22:22:00.000+07:00

Another idea of the host. Unless you drew a picture of yourselves, you weren't allowed to step your feet beyond the door. Ah....only creative people could get in. Jan decided to swop drawing skills of each other.

I started. Almost a little confused- da vinci code-sort of work, I managed to complete this mission impossible task. It wasn't too bad. He started. I found myself looked like a man (!)

Gallery 155

2006-07-16T21:04:00.000+07:00

Tess and her roomates, Ae & Morgan, turned their sweet home (address #155) to be a small but cozy photo gallery last Saturday night. Everyone had to bring at least a photo as a pass ticket to get in. What a great and fun idea! I went there with Jan to share our artistic sense. Here are what I was proud to bring along...

Viewed from my old condo, fire engines tried to put out a big blast of old shophouses.

Sangklaburi, near Burma border. The supossed to be longest wooden bridge of Thailand.

An early morning on a trip to samed, an accident of a big heavy loaded truck --- flipped over and headed up to the air.

Jazz and a raining night

2006-07-10T22:28:00.000+07:00

Grey sky had put me down over the weekend. My mood seems to somehow be a bit better today. Bangkok and, I guess, much of Thailand have been experiencing almost everyday's drizzle and gloomy weather. My plans this evening were to visit a spa for a review, then join an opening of a photogarphic exhibition "Virtual Bangkok" and head my way to a temple for the candle Buddhist day. All had to be cancelled.

I ended up driving in a bit of traffic with a jazz radio station on. Jazz music in a raining night....umm...not so bad... "Kisses in the rain". My favorite "Fly me to the moon" and others that I don't know. The warm embrace of tunes made me smile with myself (like a crazy girl) with lighthearted feelings all a journey home. I wish I already had a bag packed at the back of the car and was driving for a trip somewhere now....

Note to CW

2006-06-20T13:37:00.000+07:00

A photo shot of a good friend CW when he took me out for a nice Spanish restaurant in town. Good chat. Love to hear your stories. Barcelona memories did also ring my bell.

Just a note to thanks. Because of you, the warm uncle of his little

two angels (a beautiful thing I know about you)...I learn to know what I am looking for, I learn to let it go, I learn to let it fall and test patient, I learn to follow the heart not the head, I learn to look into the eyes not to hear only words. I've learned it from you.

"The heart doesn't know the reason" you said. My best wish to you who'll always be a good friend whenever we're in touch.
See you next party!

Vodka jello anyone?

2006-06-19T09:06:00.000+07:00

Here it comes the tough part...

The girls wanted to continue the night to Bed. After quite a few bottles of red wine, we headed our way to soi 11.

Koy waited there and with her best hospitality manner, she already prepared a set of vodka jello shots and another which I didn't know what it was.

Dear friends managed to ad how old I become on the screen! Umm...should I be glad?

Dangerous man! David determined his will, trying to get everyone drunk, especially the birthday girl. Mix shots kept feeding. The result? He pretty succeeded!

Only the crew would know what happened at that night. Mix shots, don't do this again!!

Gotta say - it was a great fun night after all.

Birthday party

2006-06-18T23:58:00.000+07:00

It was Nicholas' idea to organise a birthday party for me...not to be mentioned if he just wanted to emphasize how old I am. Very kind of him! It had started to be an exciting night already since we were all about an hour and a half late from the original plan. The private function room on the roof top floor with white chill-out lounge décor at the Bacchus wine bar & restaurant was reserved. Tea lights were set to make a cozy evening. Only awaited for us to arrive. Friday night, it rained and heavy traffic in Bangkok....Well, what else can you say.

The setting scene, Bed style alike, was great but not when it came out in photo. White sheet and bare wall reminded me of a clinic center.

Great food, good booze and lovely companies made the night very enjoyable and top me to the moon.

Dinner was just an easy part of the night. More to come photos and stories of one of my best remarkable nights! How? To be continued....

Snow Patrol "Chasing Cars"

2006-06-16T08:40:00.001+07:00

"Chasing Cars"

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Snow Patrol

Listen up

On the horizon

2006-06-15T20:47:00.000+07:00

In the middle of a journey, I was stunned by a remarkable scene of dawn on the horizon.

The red engine was flying hundreds miles above the deep blue ocean where silver sunlight shone on its glassy surface. The cloud spread over in the air. It seems here, on this horizontal line, the water is meeting with the sky.

Just like a big canvas. I couldn't take my eyes out of what was appeared in front me for a few sec. A little simple allure of travelling. Cafe Del mare music on my nano was mumbling through my headset -- "Let me...take you...to a journey".

Little paradise

2006-06-12T08:02:00.000+07:00

At least once a year I escape to this little paradise island, Koh Samed. Either with friends or just on my own. Laying down on the beach, reading a book, irresistably fell asleep when lightly breeze blows, then wake up again and jump into the sea. Absorbing the sunlight on its beautiful powdery white sand and turquoise ocean. I simply fall in love and return to my always-favorite-bay of the island.

A friend just asked to get together to Samed for this long weekend. I just realised it's been more than a year I last visited that place.

I used to have my little secret spot for quietly soaking myself into the sea on the candlelight beach. Not anymore...as it was turned to be a huge accommodation operation behind. I felt lost as a kid's treehouse was taken away. Losing its charm of visiting. I walked from beach to beach trying to seek a new spot. Though I found a new lazed around place which could may be a substitute. Still shame....nothing can be the same. That was the last memory. Maybe it's the time to go and check it out again.

Andrea's farewell

2006-06-11T17:30:00.000+07:00

Another good friend, cool chic Andrea, left the Kingdom to India - nothing to do with me(!).

We hadn't kept good in touch lately, only knew news through friends. And then all of a sudden she announced...I'm leaving to India for yoga & meditation courses(!!)

We all bless her well and wish her to come back to the city of angel soon.

We miss ya....

Happy day

2006-06-11T14:22:00.000+07:00

It is as high numbers as 57 million of Indian chidren under 5 are underweight for their age. Within this trip, I'm so glad that we did something for a little help for some of them. Can you imagine...3,000 Rupee (around 65 USD) can feed as many as 200 neighbourhood kids?...

I still remembered those innocent smiles, patiently waited for food to be served. Some were hurried up to eat so they could take left over food home to share with their families. We were all overjoyed to see that we had just made a small part of their day...

Cultural charm India

2006-06-10T11:22:00.000+07:00

I have to say that I fall in love with India. Though I haven't stepped my feet to explore it that much, my 4-day-trip to Gaya did kick my soul and made me want to go back there again.

Regardless of its presence in poverty of living, the country and people are so much rich in cultures to offer. Spiritual attractions are absorbing into everyday lives. I could just quickly develop enduring passion along the journey within this country. I'll be returning with a longer stay...

Sweet smile....every morning when I got out of the temple, this girl followed me quietly and only gave her sweet smiles....

the gang......

bus stop....

Young monk...when it comes to a religious season, many boys pretend to be a monk so he can be allowed into this place...that means an easier chance to ask for money.
I don't know if he's real or not...

Meditation place at night scene....

We did this!!.....
Big long orange material were surrounded on the wall of the Buddha's bodhi tree.

To holy India

2006-05-28T23:56:00.000+07:00

It happened again on my rushed steps t gate #1 at the Bangkok International Airport, my first journey to Gaya, the holy city of buddhism as it claimed. Ugrrr.....! As much as I love Thailand as it's my mother's land, sometimes I just hate it when receive unpleasant and unfair treats by the thais. Many times I've discovered the fact and started to question why farangs seem to get better services....?

The trip was fun since I didn't yet get on the plane. During my short trip on a shutter bus from the building's gate to the Drukair aircraft, I felt like I lost in space --- as I was surrounded by monks and white outfitted folks namely worshipper, majority (old) women! who were all heading up their ways to the same destination. I looked around for a second, then I thought...hmmm..right...this was going to be an interseting trip!

The opened heart secret

2006-05-14T23:13:00.000+07:00

Aurasoma...ever heard of it? Color therapy some may simply explain like this. I met with Tom and Christina at a spa exhibition the other week. Interesting truth that found, whether it was true or not, I was surprised to hear discovered comments about my hidden subconscious emotions.

The concept was that four bottles were chosen with my left hand (straight from the heart) from their wide ranges. While I was still cheering and joking around with Tom, Christina looked at them for few seconds and then she said - you had been emotional suffering, somebody hurted you and you couldn't let it go. I stopped smiling and those words just grabbed my attention. I looked at her and tried to find out what else she had to say.

My first choice was light pink at the bottom with purple on top revealing I have a lot of love & caring to give but don't know whom to give to. My next bottle was emerald green telling I am, above all, a happy person but I now have to listen to the heart, not the mind. The secret revealed itself to open my heart so changes would be made. And so on....from her.

With curiosity to divulge the love result, I ended up buying the opened heart secret bottle. Shake well before use to let the crystal-clear aroma mix their magic together then apply on my heart. Once the bottle is empty, I would find that thrill....

Interesting week

2006-05-06T02:03:00.000+07:00

Finally, I have time to write my second post. Well, the week has been hectic but interseting with many aspects of life. The openning May period brought me to a rousing outlook. Discovering self isn't easy...so as attempts to understand others. Truth that found though is blissful. Warm greeting and support from both new and old friends made me smile for being surrounded by them. Oh..am I just blah blah here!?.....

Many thanks to my dear folks who mean to me this week; CW, Pap, Jan, Nicholas, Dave, Laurent, Amy, Jane, Tom and Christina from Aurasoma..oh and mum (!). You all have stirred my life to the next level; the mix of good, bad, strong and weak to encouraged me today.