My darling sent me this today and I almost teared up eh.


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I've accumulated 2 garbage bags full of empty cans and bottles which have taken residence in my trunk for over 2 weeks now. I was supposed to take them to the Albertsons but I keep thinking that instead I will get the whole heapful to some worthy less-fortunate family or homeless person, often found going through the recycling bins in the alley ( Read more... )

Caught up in my own selfish world of discovery, I can sometimes lose sight of what's right in front of me. Coming back from Asia, it's been so nice to come back to this:


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May 7, 2005 5 pm Flight from Bangkok Leaving AsiaThere is so much to see in Thailand and given I only had 9 days to see it all, I think its only fair that I call my journey a scrapbook of impressions ( Read more... )

The afternoon I arrived in Hong Kong, I was unshaven, unshowered for 48 hours and looked like someone who was hiking through the muddy hills of Sapa just the night before. By that night, I was staying in a hotel that cost me as much as a week’s accommodation in Vietnam, drinking $10 martinis and hanging out at an exclusive model members-only club ( Read more... )

April 15th - Flight from Hanoi to Hong KongIt is appropriate that in our last morning in Vietnam, sitting in a restaurant with Jay while the airport taxi has been waiting for me back at the hotel, that I finally find a restaurant that has real Heinz ketchup, not the local sweet stuff that tests my gag reflexes ( Read more... )

6:30 pm - 2.5 hour flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong ( Read more... )

Thailand, the white man's wonderlandEverywhere I go in Thailand, I see farang. It's not like I'm not sured to seeing white guys with asian girls - Aside from all the cross-racial dating I see in LA and Vancouver, I saw rich ex-Pats courting young asian mistresses in Shanghai, I met Frenchmen in Vietnam who had married their Vietnamese girlfriends ( Read more... )

My second haircut in Asia was done by an androgenous Thai person. He/She actually did a good job. For $8 USD at a pretty trendy place...they even shampooed my ears. I've now had my ears shampooed, cut and massaged by a blind woman ( Read more... )

It's midnight in Bangkok. Its so hot, my crack is sweaty.