Come, Fly With Me

May

 

My May was spent polishing off my Bangladesh trip, lounging around Thailand for 10 days and then a week-long training session in Hong Kong.

 

I’m hoping that my Bangladesh days are behind me. 2 months has never seemed so long.

 

Sign for garment workers at a factory in Dhaka.

 

I was very pleased to get back to Bangkok.

 And my timing could not have been better.

The Miss Universe pageant was held in Bangkok. After pulling a few strings, Miss Canada took first place.

 

Natalie Glebova

 

And she’s smart too. I attended a party with many of the “Miss” ladies, and have some pictures, but they’re all pretty blurry. Couldn’t keep the damn camera still..

 

In Bangkok, little old ladies wheel cart loads of dead and delectable crickets and cockroaches around to be used as snacks. Rumour has it that the suppliers go into fields and spray pesticides all around and then go and collect their killings. 

 

I prefer the free-range cockroaches.

 

Beer drinkers will experience the worst hangovers of their lives in Bangkok. Another rumour has it that formaldehyde is used as a preservative.

 

Yes formaldehyde, the stuff that your biology teacher kept frogs and fetuses in.

 

FYI: Drinking more beer will not preserve brain cells. It just doesn’t work that way.

 

Typical: The Anti-Corruption committee in Thailand have arbitrarily allotted themselves a raise.

 

In Hong Kong: The Hongese have a special relationship with the mainland Chinese, and it’s not really a friendly one.

 

I think they feel more special.

 

And so they should, they have far more neon signs on the island than they do on mainland China.

 

It’s important to know the cycle of 12 animals because the big question people ask me is: What’s your animal sign? (As it turns out I’m a pig. Naturally.)

 

I’ve seen some strange things on restaurant menus but my big question is: What is a “drunken chicken”?

 

See you next month,

Lars

 

“Each land, each boundary I cross, I strip away another illusion.” Alexander The Great