Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2011

LIFE @ BANGKOK



Finally I want to write something. Actually I wanted to do so for so long, but I didn’t get any time for it or you can say that I just didn’t want to write because there are so many things to write and actually I couldn’t even begin with all the new experiences because I am afraid that I might end up spoiling the feel. But now I can give you the glimpse of all the many wonderful things and experiences of here. There are so many things to tell. This post just gives the gist of few things of many.
The uniqueness of Bangkok is evident to anyone who has spent even a night in this city. It offers some of the craziest, wild and unforgettable experiences that one can seldom have.  And if you have 2 months instead of few days I bet you will see many other aspects of this city, other than sex and nightlife.
From Delhi to Bangkok
As I entered the Delhi airport, I was like on the top of the world. That was the time I had imagined several times and in several different forms. Ready to go on my first flight ever! A little excited, a lot of ecstasy and not at all scared. For the first time I knew that plane journey can be really boring. The flight was empty and there were not many people. So I got back to one seat behind where this one really cute Bangkok NRI was sitting. I don’t know doing that was odd or not, but the 4 hours journey became fun and the whole time we two were talking. When the plane was about to land, the view of the Bangkok city was really see-worthy. The whole city lit with lights and looked like a jungle of buildings. The landing wasn’t much exiting like take off.
I entered a completely different world as soon as I stepped out of my plane at the Bangkok airport. The airport was very big and it was nice to see completely different people around, mostly white skin, cute and beautiful. The best part was I could see so many uncovered sexy fully waxed white legs right from the thighs to foot. Outside the airport it was humid enough to sweat my whole body. Just outside there was smoking zone where I was standing waiting for taxi and I could feel all the smoke suffocating me. There, I couldn’t even speak to anyone as most of them didn’t know English. So it was a big problem for me there to ask anyone from which exit gate should I leave, where can I get a taxi and more. Even the taxi driver didn’t know English and so I couldn’t even tell him my destination. It was a total chaos. I was in a completely different country, away from my parents, alone, without any phone connection and I had limited cash in my pocket. So I first bought a sim from the airport first and called a Thai friend, who also didn’t know much English but atleast he did help me by talking to the Taxi driver and finally I reached my apartment. The very first night at dinner I got a glimpse of orgasmic meat and fleshy food with every dead animal screaming “Welcome to Bangkok”.
The apartment


My room
 I am living in an apartment which costs me 3000 Bahts per month and it is a spacious apartment with all the facilities like AC, Fridge, Washing Machine, Dining Table, Kitchen, Microwave, Coffee making machine and what not. The whole apartment has wooden floor and it is so clean that we don’t even are supposed to wear slippers inside the apartment. The house is guarded by 6 dogs, sorry 3 dogs and 3 tigers, who roar at me every time I leave or enter the house.
KMUTT University and my lab

First Floor,Library
The university is smaller than IIT, but the buildings are mostly 7-8 floors. The library is really awesome. It has 5 floors, a cafeteria inside, really comfortable couch for studying and sleeping, an entertainment room where you can watch almost any movie by asking them for its DVD, has separate cabins for group studying, or individual studying and what not. Actually I was surprised to see a movie room, a piano and a big chess in the library until I read in someone’s blog that first two floors are entertainment section. In short, the library is supercool and is a good place for hangout and studying both.

My Lab
My lab is like one of the labs of cool guys. Fully Air conditioned with high speed internet connection, and free snacks and coffee anytime. I am not supposed to come lab at any specific time, and so taking its advantage I wake up at 11 or sometimes 12 and reach my lab at around 1-2 after having my lunch to be back by 5-6. Only once my professor comes and sees what I am doing and discuss if he really had anything to.
Thai language
The initial days at the university were one of the memorable moments of my life. We used to hang out with some of the really cool Thai buddies who used to teach us Thai. There I made a bunch of good friends and spent a lot of good moments. Many hangouts, lunches together, bakar sessions, sarcasms, light flirting and the best part was the mixture of people from different countries and we learnt a lot about each other.
Thai Food 

Khaopad gai (Fried rice with chicken)
If you are a vegetarian (like I was before coming here) then I bet you will scream, possibility is that you will even vomit on seeing the food here. Every square inch of the streets and sidewalks is covered by street food chains all offering a variety of meats like pork, chicken, shrimps, fishes, squids, frogs, and others, many kinds of fruits like banana, mango, papaya, different kind of noodles, curries, desserts and many varieties of spicy foods. Khaosan road even offers you some crabs, scorpions, insects, beetles, grasshoppers. And I bet they taste delicious with soya sauce. You can make any food spicy here by adding a little of something in anything. You go anywhere near any food shop your nose will be filled by the aroma of singeing flesh and meat. I generally have every kind of food with meat except pork. The food here may cost you as low as 30 bahts or as more as 400 bahts if you are dining in a big restaurent. Generally my lunch costs me around 40 bahts which includes khaopad kai(fried rice with chicken) with a soft drink or ice tea. Pure vegetarian food is hard to find here. Here they have funny style of drinking anything. They fill a glass with ice, pour water or any soft drink in it and drink it by straw. I have even seen people drinking hot coffee or even beer using a straw.
There are a lot of departmental stores like 7-eleven, Tisco Lotus, etc. there are more than 1000 7-eleven spread throughout the Bangkok where you can buy any general item ranging from your readymade breakfast and milk to alcohol. So you don’t have to walk more than 300 meters from any place.
Transportation
Transportation here is cheap if you don’t consider taxi. Short distance means of transporation are tuk tuks (also known as krapong in thai), motorbikes, vans(mini buses) and buses. You can go anywhere in downtown using the bus and the routes and the bus numbers are clearly mentioned in google maps that too pretty much correct. Most buses are air conditioned but there are also non AC buses but the difference in rate is very small. Some buses have a flat rate of 7 bahts or 12 bahts for going anywhere and some charges on the basis of your destination. The buses have different color like red, green or yellow and actually they have a meaning like which is AC or which charges a flat rate or something. If you want to go within district tuk tuk can take you anywhere for a flat rate of only 5 bahts. Buses, vans and tuk tuks run all the time from 5 am to 11 pm. If you want to travel after 11 pm you have to take a taxi as there is no other alternative. Sky trains is also a good option. It connects major parts of the Bangkok and while travelling in these trains you might get to see a clear view of Bangkok. And from any tall building you can see a panoramic view of the entire Bangkok and it looks like a jungle of buildings.
Thai Culture
Thai people are very peace loving and they have a strong culture, somewhat similar to India. Like they also had similar stories like Ramayana where a demon kidnaps someone’s wife and then he kills him… and blah blah. People here are very nice and kind and far better than Indians(sorry to say that!). They mind their own business and never interfere in other’s life (pretty much opposite then Indians..eh?). People don’t make eye contact with anyone while going on a street or somewhere, especially with the opposite sex, as it is against their culture. Even the college couples never show any physical touch in public like walking hands in hands or kissing. They are very much cultured and sensible. People are really polite and have a habit of saying sorry and thank you every time. Here both men and women work equally hard, you will see more women than men in the shops or any restaurant. Obviously here is no gender bias and women are equally respected. Thailand is also a home for homosexual people and they are treated equally good with no criticism. There are many places in/near Bangkok like Patpong, Pattaya etc where you hear a male voice calling you and you turn up to see a women!

Monday, November 1, 2010

A MESSAGE TO ALL MY FRIENDS





Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart. And we are never ever the same.

Who really want me as their friend? I know I am weird and everything seems so stupid to me. I don’t care. I never did. And I never will.
It’s pretty much how life works. Isn’t? I make friends and then lose them and make better new friends. Some try to dominate me and others are dominated by me. Me? I know I am weird. Pretty much! But who doesn’t wants to be different? Atleast I do!
Truly speaking I have never gotten upset about people coming and going out of my life. It’s not that I don’t consider my friends important or don’t respect them. I am very faithful towards them and can put my life at any stake for them. But it’s just that I have gotten so much used to going and coming out of new people. Infact who doesn’t want to make new friends?
Those who know me know I am a prick, a douchebag and a nerd. I know making friends is important, very important. Yet I never try making new friends. It’s just that I like talking to people I feel like or the one of my type. I don’t make a “Hii, Hello” relation with any senior just for the purpose of getting any help in future. Everyone knows that all seniors, who are my friends, are because of the bond that we share and not because of any fake greetings we exchange.
When I meet people for the first time, I don’t understand why they take my sarcastic comments personally and get angry. Anyways it didn’t even bother me. But it did to them. I hate doing friendship with such geeks.  And you can clearly see my lips muttering “FUCK YOU”. I want people to take my joke just as a …………. JOKE. Nothing more and nothing less!
I don’t think that I need to sacrifice my true identity just to be friends with you. Do I? I think that as a friend you should accept me, my good as well as bad qualities. If you decide to exit my life then it really is no skin off my back. I'm not changing for anyone. I was told by someone a few days back that I am "not the guy I used to be." Well, obviously you didn't know me well in the first place. Then again, you all are not the people I thought I knew either so I'd say we're even.

PS: I love kids. They are so innocent, cute and honest. Needless to say naughty!
PS: Song of the day “ Jaane kyu log pyaar karte hai”. Awesome song. Really !
PS: I have feelings too, you know!


Tuesday, August 3, 2010

FRIENDSHIP IN RETROPECTION


This post is dedicated to all my friends whom I met at some point of time and had shared some good memories.
It was 1 in the night and I was lying on my bed trying to sleep. My cellphone beeped. I picked up the phone and read the message. It was a message from one of my friends with whom I haven’t been in contact from months. Probably from a year. It read “when a very sweet and close person goes too far from us, we may say or not say, but our heart says to their heart: u made me alone. Gud nyt !! ”
I don’t know whether what the message read was true and she meant it or it was just a message which you can get anywhere on any site on internet and people keep on forwarding to their as many friends as in their list just to utilize the full money of their message pack. But that message has raised a hellnuma lot of questions in my mind, not just about her, but about all my friends. For next 30 minutes I wasn’t able to sleep and was became preoccupied thinking about the time when we were friends. How occasionally we used to text and ring each other and suddenly. And suddenly all of a sudden both of us become preoccupied with our own jobs and even since day we didn’t even bother to contact each other. No calls and no messages. Even no “hi” on chats. That message reminded me of all my friends since my childhood, my school friends, my coaching friends, my college friends and other whom I met circumstantially. I was wondering how all of us drifted away with the flow of time without even knowing where the flow is seperating. I opened my contact list on my phone and tried reading all my contacts and to wonder there were dozens of friends whom I haven’t been in contact for months.
Ask from yourself. The people with whom you used to talk, call, message or chat two years ago, with how many of them you still are in contact with. Don’t count the number of “yes”. Count the number of those friends with whom now you are not in contact or perhaps haven’t asked about their whereabouts. It is obvious with time we make new friends and our friend circle keeps on increasing. We mix up with our new friends but ofcourse in the corner of our heart there are the memories with our old good friends which keeps the feeling of friendship alive. And whenever you introspect those memories it rejuvenates.
I happened to notice all those friends and tried finding the reason by we haven’t been in contact from months. With some of them I lost contact after summer vacations. Some of them changed their numbers. Some became busy in their exams. Some became busy with their job. We got preoccupied with our new friends that we didn’t wish to contact our old friends and soon lost the contact. And all of a sudden I wished to talk to all of those friends who made me feel special at some point of time. I thought of calling all those friends tomorrow to ask them how are they doing, to tell them I still care.
The next day I called all my friends my school friends, my coaching friends, everyone whom I can contact. And let me tell you everyone was surprised why all of a sudden I called them for without any reason. One friend even messaged me after my call saying “Sahil, you are impossible!”.
Was my act that silly?
I don’t know but I felt a little more complete after calling them. Yet they responded indifferently, and they weren’t that open with me as they used to be, but still it felt good. And I was happy for this little feeling called friendship.
PS: Call today all such friends if you haven't think of doing that in months.
PS: Happy Friendship Day.
PS: @all my friends: love you all !!