hello mr. taxi driver. this is your 4rse and this is your elbow. they are not the same. they are in fact, different. taxi drivers in any other city in the world know their territory like the back of their hand, but not in bangkok. nope. the problem in part arises because all of the streets have 2 names. the english version and the thai one. but even when we give them a map with thai street names and direction in thai on how to get to our hotel, they seem flabergasted. our last trip saw the driver stop twice to ask locals for directions and hand our map over to them to inspect. and all taxi drivers appear to be driving in some great bangkok grand prix that no one was told about. i'm not sure if we were wining, but boy was he trying to use as much petrol and brake pads as possible. nice, whiplashy kind of trip if you know what i mean.
this morning we went to the tailor recommended on the lonely planet forums by several members; - narry.com . interesting process. picked material for suits and shirts, measured up [loads of measurements taken] and then told them the style & features we wanted. 2 suits, 2 shirts, and 2 ties cost me about 290 euro, but i did select slightly more expensive material, you could have got it cheaper. heading back over tomorrow at 5pm for initial fitting, then back the next day for final adjustments.
we then headed to MBK shopping centre and bought a bag and t-shirts, etc. back to the hotel. went back out to the infamous khao san road to get some fake student IDs [ISIC]. now i can get cheap cinema tickets in liffey valley, etc. we then went to the cinema in siam centre to see shrek 3. was as expected; funny, but not as funny as the previous ones. may got to the cinema again as it is filthy cheap and really good seats.
i also picked up a replacement lense cap for my new SLR camera as i may or may not have lost my lense cap while streching over the mekong delta river taking a picture of a python.
