YTuesday, 4 September 2007
And so you died. I was keeping an eye out in the papers but nothing came up until I drove by that road again and saw the 'Fatal Accident' sign. I hate to say this but you shouldn't have rode a motorbike. This was the first time i saw a person die and it was quick, gruesome and scary. Just another km down that road, another 'Fatal Accident' sign has been put up. Motorbike vs car again. One of life's lessons that hasn't sunk in for many. I myself have to be more careful on the road too...i can't take all those near accidents lightly. Now i'm damn scared and wary of motorcyclists apart from my paranoia of reckless taxi drivers.
On another note, I have just came back from bangkok yesterday. Can't say it was a very fantastic trip since i was in a perpetual bad mood. Only the shopping and food was good. We met up with uncle john who moved to bangkok 10 yrs ago for who knows what reason. And now he speaks thai so fluently. He brought us to a really nice authentic thai restaurant set in an old wooden house that is quite a tourist attraction apparently and yet still serves very good authentic thai food. And he ordered lots of cool dishes that we wouldn't typically order if we hadn't gone with him like minced pork and olives with chopped lime, red onion and peanut all wrapped in raw kai lan. The moment i put it into my mouth, there was this whole explosion of flavours. Salty, sour, onion garlic hot, bitter from the lime skin. Delicious. He also brought us to china chao to this little cramped-by-the-road stall to eat aboling. That was the best best best aboling I've ever eaten. The skin was very soft and thin, the black sesame was thick and tasty and the ginger tea was strong but not overpowering. Perfect. I guess its worth it to move to bangkok just for the aboling and all the other cheap things.
The air in bangkok is just damn terrible. It's been a while since i last went so i guess i wasn't exactly prepared for the waves of smoke and the layer of smog in the air. I have to save my skin now. Traffic is bad as always and the poor draining system means clogged roads when it rains since cars can't travel on the flooded bits. It rained for a very short while on sunday. It wasn't even very heavy rain. Not the thunderous pouring you get here. And yet the road across our hotel was so flooded our taxi had to take a detour. All along the street there were people scooping water and sweeping water out of their shops. It really made me thankful of Singapore's wonderful drainage system.
And now i am terribly sick of singapore and of being home and of being nagged at by unpleasant people. I wanna go backkkkkk.