Swatting Butterflies in Nonthaburi

Posted by Stuart at 11:00 PM on September 23, 2002

It's been a few days since I have written anything in this journal, mostly because I haven't really been doing anything exciting here in Bangkok. I spend some time every day online looking for a job. I have also been trying to either swim or go to the gym every day. See, I told you my life wasn't very exciting :)

I had a fun night last night, though. I traveled up to Nontaburi, a neighborhood in northern Bangkok, to visit my friend Tiw. I met him as he was getting off work and he and his co-workers and I walked a block away to a restaurant for some Singha beers and Thai karaoke.

The restaurant they picked was on the corner of a small back alley, and was open-air on both sides. I sat there with them for a few hours, watching the occasional rain shower and the motorcycle taxis splashing through the puddles in the street, feeling the cool breeze blowing through the shop, listening to Thai pop music, drinking my favorite beer, and swatting the mosquitos (which Tiw, with his limited English vocabulary, insisted on calling "butterflies") that were feasting on me.

Ok, so that wasn't necessarily very exciting either. But again, it's the simple pleasures that I have found so enjoyable here...