Do you like Tacos?

So hey, I know I'm in the middle of finishing my blog posts about my trip in Malaysia, which should have been finished by now but it's not because I have been busy showing my Malaysian friend, Daniel, who took me in as a guest at his house in Malaysia, around Thailand. So far, we've visited so many places already including Emerald Temple, Dawn temple, Grand palace, cruised along the Chao Phraya River, went to Pattaya and *&%@#$@#@!#@!# then came back to Bangkok completely "sandy" and "exhausted," went to Ayuthaya and showed him the ruins of Old Siam.

A lot has happened in the past ten days alone and it's been hard to just sit down and get your mind ready to blog...yes, that's my sophisticated way of putting how lazy I am into words.

So today, I feel like writing some mindless rambling like I always do instead of writing about actual events that happened like my trip and Daniel's trip organized by my Thai friend and I.

What's my mindless rambling about??? What it's always been about!!! Nothing and everything, the world and the universe, girls and girls, politics and international relations, more girls, and people of the world...mainly girls.

So what do I talk about that topic?

They're awesome of course...and also as much of bitches as ever. I really just lost my train of thoughts after writing to this point but I do know what I feel right now. I feel like a man about to jump across a river so deep and so strong that if I fell I would get pummeled through the current. It would take some time again for me to recover and get back to the side of the river like I did after falling in my leap last time not too long ago. Maybe I'm just getting used to the current and perhaps fond of it since this time, I feel more...brave if I may say. I want to take this leap and I don't care too much anymore whether I would fall down again or not. That's....my story these past few days... Aside from the Bangkok and Malaysia trip part.

Malay Day2

This is gonna be a short one because I have to catch a bus early morning tomorrow to go to Pattaya with Yekseng, Safe and Apinun. Also, for my fellow bloggers who never seem to slack off blogging like I do namely Yousaf and Andrea, sorry I haven't been following your blogs so much lately because I've been having a hard time staying home let alone in front of my laptop lately.

Day#2 July 21st, 2011.


Today Daniel and I woke up early and walked out of Tune Hotel, downtown Kuala Lumpur. (A cheap hotel recommended for backpackers especially for those who stay for longer than 2 days since the rate keeps decreasing rapidly and it has all you need as long as you're the kind of person who don't expect to stay in the rooms all day long anyways <Internet for 24 hours is 12 Ringgit>)  We were picked up by Daniel's father and we also picked up another Malaysian friend of mine named Cedric. After that we went straight from KL to Batu caves. I don't remember how long it took us since I fell fast asleep on the car but it wasn't long till we arrived. It was a magnificent sight to see and since it's a lot different than all the Masjids and other Islamic architecture you can find in downtown Kuala Lumpur, it was truly unique.

Daniel and Cedric

After a hot and tiring time at Batu caves, yes I climbed those stairs to the top, we headed to Genting highland, an area famous for its hotels and casinos. We drove all the way up, had lunch at a nice Northern Indian restaurant where I got to talking a lot with Daniel's dad,  and spent some time walking around and sightseeing a lot of things before we decided to come down with the cable car and head back to Kuala Lumpur. At night Daniel, Cedric and I went out to Low Yat Plaza as typical geeks like ourselves and spent some time window shopping there.

Truly Asia

For months, I've been seeing Malaysia tourism advertisements on TV back home and it always ends with the line, "Malaysia, truly Asia." And after visiting Malaysia, specifically Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Ipoh, I could not agree more.

I know my reader(s) my want me to start the 30 day challenge now, yeah you Yousaf, but I decide not to. Firstly I must write about Malaysia first when the memory is still fresh on my mind. I enjoyed my Malaysia trip a lot and here is how it went down:

Day#1 July 20th, 2011 ***Dramatic sound effect

On flight to Malaysia, cute air hostesses on MAS, I start to hear the Malaysian accents on the planethat I hadn't heard for about a month since I left Hong Kong. The plane was small and shaky which is understandable for its total price of course. The weird thing was the landing. I still don't really know what happened but the pilot descended the plane and grazed the ground once before taking it all the way back up to turn around and finally descended for a second time ending in quite a bumpy landing finally.

 The Vegetarian Flight meal which I luckily obtained without prior requesting before flight.

Airport signs that I can't read and Lau Yek Seng picking me up at the airport.

It took about an hour after the plane landed until I went out to be picked up by my Malaysian friend and his dad. The immigration was flooded with people. I happened to meet a Thai Namdhari guy there coming to see Chelsea play the next day and we spent the hour talking about stuff. Apparently he knew my brother...which is not weird at all. Cuz all Indians know each other...right?

After getting through to the airport, it took an hour more coming in Kuala Lumpur and finding the hotel that we booked. The hotel was cheap and had everything we needed so it was ultimately a good choice. The fact that we heard later that it used to be a hospital...wasn't as creepy as it sounds. My friend's dad left and Daniel and I went for a walk around town sightseeing so many places. We got on the metro coming off but a few stops later headed to Chinatown. We ended up stopping by at Merdeka Square first and took some photos of the scenery and also Sultan Abdul Samad Building.

After that, we headed to Central Market Annexe to look at the stuff they sell and also got lunch there. We kept walking and finally reached China town.

Mee Goreng At Central Market

KL Chinatown

Day 1 is finally over and I'm too sleepy to go on...zZzZZ, time for me to go to bed, and after five long nights, MY BED.

What does it mean to be a friend?

It is not a complicated question and many of the questions as simple as this one are the ones hardest to answer.
"Do you love me?" "Why don't you understand?" "Who/What are you?" "Why are we here?"
So why does this question matter to me?...Another good question.

What does it mean to be a friend?


You can ask this question to ten people and get ten different answers. And the answers are usually interesting because not only does it help you define what it means to be a friend, it also helps you understand a bit more of the person you asked.

A friend is someone who:

• helps you when you're in need.
• lends you money without asking why you needed it.
• you enjoy talking to a lot.
• would bail you out of jail.
• you can't go out clubbing without.
• listens to all your crap.
• you can always share a meal with.
• hangs out with you all the time.
• added you on Facebook.
• gives you good advice about life and love.
• gives you crappy advice about life and love.

and many many many more reasons.

As someone who has yet to seen the world at its worst, I dare not define 'friend' too naively, but I do remember the words of a wise man I met in California.

"A friend is someone you trust." 

A simple and powerful answer for a simple and powerful question. So maybe I still need more life experience to judge a person whether I can trust them or not, but now I do know one thing. It is simple to befriend with people. All I have to do is be trustworthy... To myself, to my friends and everyone.

I'm a friendly guy.

Visited Bangkok

My childhood was spent in a small town near Bangkok city, about 50km away called Nakhonpathom. It's a lovely and quiet place and I would call that place my hometown any day even though I was actually born in Bangkok. As I grew up, I have visited Bangkok many times and eventually I moved here in my high school years. But every time I see it, I can only see it as the city that's full of traffic, malls and everyone going somewhere. I have only seen Bangkok through the eyes of my father who grew up here and my siblings who have to go through traffic to go to their work and school, which is of course understandable because I'm only a Bangkoker.

Tourists always see Bangkok differently from how I do and I have envied them for that. I have friends who loved their time visiting Bangkok and recently I have had the opportunity to take one of my friends from Indonesia on a trip around Bangkok along with his family.

Somtam นัว in Siam Square Alley#5

It's a blast! Finally I think I get to see Bangkok through their eyes and how enthusiastic they are to visit this grand city. In the past few days, I have visited parts of Bangkok that I usually don't go to like the deeper part of Chinatown, inside Grand palace even though I go past it every other day and through the canals of Chao Phraya river. I had a pretty great trip planned out for my friend and his family and it was really fun tagging along with them for the ride. I visited Pattaya and had a great time there after taking them to the famous Khao Keaw Open zoo and Sriracha tiger Zoo. Taking them shopping at Khaosarn road, MBK center, and Chatuchak market was also awesome and the girls sure loved it. Having great Somtam @ SomtamNua in Siam square was also nice and I think I'll take my Malaysian friend there once he gets here.

A Graffiti I found and liked the most in Bangkok