So, I'm chillen right now waiting for my girlfriend to call so we can go out tonight, so I thought I'd give a little update and say what's been up lately.

I got back from my trip to Thailand on Monday evening. Thailand was alright, though I have to admit it wasn't all I had hoped it to be. That's probably because I didn't really go out of my way to have that kind of time, but who knows. There's always next time.

Thailand gave me this shady feeling the entire time like someone was constantly lying to you or trying to rip you off, and that feeling basically never went away no matter where we went. Greg and I ended up taking tours the whole time, be them organized tour kinda things or just the Tuk Tuk tour around Bangkok itself, and it was just disgusting the ways they try to extract money out of you any way they can. It just made me feel used and dirty. The Tuk Tuk drivers, as you may well know, will take you on a tour of major spots throughout the city, and you basically get them all day for 20 baht, but, they of course stop at all the knock off suit shops along the way so they can get vouchers for free gas, which of course you never see and probably don't physically exist.

We got called liars straight to our faces in 2 of these places, it was funny, but I'm glad they did it cause it saved us from the possibility of actually spending some money on a suit. You would think that if a business actually wants your money, they would kinda, I dunno, maybe NOT call you a liar in the process of bargaining, especially when truth be told we weren't lying at all. Greg got a good deal last time he was here and whenever one of us told a salesman about that deal, and how we wanted it again, they just straight said, "Impossible!" To which we of course replied, "Are you saying I'm lying to you?" To which, much to our shock and disbelief, "yes, you're lying." But it was good cause then we got to slap them with "Has it been 5 minutes yet? I don't do business with people that call me a liar but I at least want my driver to get some gas out of this waste of time."

But then, at the end of it all, our Tuk Tuk driver, after taking us to an infamous ping pong show that involves neither tables nor tennis, says to the question of how much we owe him, "whatever you want to pay me," i.e. "way way more than 20 baht please," which in reality is less than $1, so, we gave him more anyway, just cause, what the hell the guy gave us a day of his time and he was funny to shoot the shit with along the way.

Anyway, we went out to Kanchanaburi on a tour thing the next day and had a good time meeting the other people that had been taken the same way we had and chatting to them and drinking a whole lot and never actually getting their emails or anything, despite them all being from places I'd like to visit at some point. I actually was never really introduced to any of them, and I learned their names by listening in.

Anyway, off to Saizeriya with Ty to wait for Saki to call. more later.