Right, now I'm sitting in Laura's apt and feeling the reflection of myself at the beginning of the year. But it's not the same, she is already adpating better than I am. She has nunchi, which I never had. Never will ( Read more... )

This is what I thought it said on My LJ page ``you have no syndicated feelings``. Actually, it said ``feeds`` but my version sounds like a good putdown, doesn`t ( Read more... )

It`s been raining every single day since I got here. I`ve been told this is good because before I came it was stifflingly humid. Go figure. I`ve been haunting bookstores, getting excited by the prospect of many books in English and the thought that soon I can read any book I want available to me care of the public library system. I`ve also ( Read more... )

I saw Anna last night in transit to the airport. A few brief hours of human contact but they were good ones. I think I'm just going to take it easy in Tokyo, just relax. If I want to sightsee, I will. But I won't force myself to do hardcore sightseeing. My last day in Hong Kong it was raining and I just wanted to sleep and read 'Gone with the ( Read more... )

I'm on a plane to Seoul today.

In 10 more days I'll be on a plane to Boston. But first there's Tokyo.

Now that I'm gone and there's no chance of bad luck rebounding on me I can say it: I don't really like Hanoi. I hate every corner having some grinning guy beckoning me to take his cyclo or motorcycle and yelling at me "taxi lady!" over and over again. As if I might suddenly go, "Hey! That's a good idea, maybe I should take a taxi. I never thought ( Read more... )

When I first came to Southeat Asia I said, there ain't no way in hell you're getting me on a motorcycle. In Cambodia I was lucky because we hired a guide with a car. Then we took a bus trip to Halong Bay. But in Hue, well the only way to see the royal tombs was by motorbike. I was so nervous last night. I knew I should do it because Joy wanted to ( Read more... )

Last night we totally got ripped off at the internet cafe, the guy charged us a $1 for half an hour and didn't even count our money 'cause I think we was worried a local would rat on him if they saw how much he was charging us. Now we're paying about 15 cents, the usual going rate ( Read more... )

We're already in Vietnam. Cambodia is but an image of the past now. The differences between Cambodia and Vietnam are striking. All the roads in Siem Reap are dirt and people are so poor and have no land that they must build houses that look like a good storm might flatten them in an instant on the edge of the river or on the river itself. In ( Read more... )

I'm off to see the world. Right now I'm just experiencing the business lounge of the Hanoi airport on a layover to Siem Reap. But an hour on the internet for $1? It's an experience worth having. Especially as I wanted to update LJ last night again but these drunken French men were posting their pictures on the internet and loading them onto the ( Read more... )