hello people, i put all the previous messages into 2002-2003 section. you can go check them out. reading those messages make me think of the old time, whether i liked it or not passing time doing nothing, only i can assure you is that it was boring! do the same thing all day everyday for many years....
what happened with me last year, 2004? i completely didn't write anything at all. how could i? well...let's recap.
since april 2003, almost the same time Leslie Cheung committed suicide, i have been getting to know F4. since F4 was spotted to showbiz in 2000, there were lots of thing for me to follow up. i took all my free time reading articles, listening to music, searching pictures and watching vcds. everything about them was my sole interest. among them, it's Ken that interests me most. i joined his thailand fans club since june 2003 which you can find the link at entertainment page. since then, internet is my buddy! fortunately, Ken showed up at bangkok the very same month i joined the club. four of them kept coming to thailand for their commercial shooting. the girls went wild!
to me now, 5-6 months were very long time. i shouldn't have spent them without doing any good. at least i worked with the company. everyone complained about the boss didn't spare any doughs for us. i lived with my family money and not from what i earned. definitely wrecked.
in october 2003, the day 6 - 10 i went to singapore. the first time for me at singapore and it was awesome. with my friend, two girls explored the island of Merlion for 5 days. we went everywhere we could, ate everthing edible and shopped those our money allowed. the funniest thing was when we went to indian restaurant, didn't catch up what the owner said, still we got the food! and then 23 - 31 i went with my brother, my uncle and her daughter to southeast australia. the most unbelievable thing happened to me during this trip was 'i didn't understand australian, not a word'. my english listening skill dropped down to zero or even minus zero. i was trying to set my ear ready for like 2 days, it didn't work out. i gave up. let my uncle and brother did the talking. this trip was as great since it was the first time visiting the english speaking country.
the shooting went on and i rarely went to work. lazy me as you should already know. eventhough i got to see my all-time favorite actor everytime i work, it seemed not exciting anymore. after i made a decision, in march or april i'm not sure, the year 2004 i moved to pattaya staying with a family of four girls. there, i worked less, killing time by reading and watching movies, but most of all time i spent accompanying the girls. been living there for 2 months then i quit.
the right time i left pattaya, before i started working with my brother, i went with my sister to hongkong on June 19 - 21, 2004. it was my first time in hongkong so i made the most of it. it was very short period visiting only the popular zones. as i experienced walking along the street in singapore before, hongkong was a piece of cake.
being an office worker almost a year now. i couldn't believe it myself. life ever since is so plain and boring, go to work in the morning and back home right after work. most delightful thing during work is 'internet'. my freetime is only after working hours. once in awhile, i leave the work and go traveling. during 2004 half year end, i was giving my brother a hand in business. once in my life time, i feel needed. whether true or not, i'm needed.
on october 20 - 23, 2004 i traveled again. this time i went to singapore for the second time. the best of this trip was visiting 'chinese cultural museum' at china town. it made me feel 'chinese' in me. my grandparents were chinese moved to thailand more than 60 years ago. i'm thai living my life thai-chinese style. what i saw in that museum reminded me of my childhood. all the stuffs like kitchen wares, wooden bed and chairs, stationary and the mosquito net!
i just think, what good is memory!
right after singapore i flied to salzburg, austria with my uncle and his family, october 23 - 31, 2004. it was 11 days trip since we crossed the time zone. this trip was definitely the best. europe, land of the dream. the weather is fine and the scenary is super beautiful. one thing while i looked around, i saw the trees on the moutain. i clearly understand the western arts, paintings that i studied for 4 - 5 years. eventhough the gothic architecture is not my most interest, i found other to please myself, the shoenbrun palace.
i already told you that my life is plain and nothing exciting during my time working with my brother's company. one thing that keeps me alive is traveling. so, the year end 2004, for the second time in my life celebrating the new year in foreign country, i was in taiwan.
leaving bangkok on december 31, 2004 and counted down entering the year 2005 in subway! nice experience. this trip, i went with a friend to visit the other studying there. this trip was the most chilly, no rush, no particular destination. the weather was coldest at night of 31. and it was first time i saw Ken for real at his first album press conference. i should have felt excited, the fact is i didn't feel anything. it was just looking at a singer. no happy no sad, nothing at all. i think i just don't like him that much. but what i call lucky was i went to handshake with Wang Leehom at taoyuan and said 'i'm from thailand, hope you go to thailand soon', less than two weeks he went to thailand promoted his 'shagri-la' and i handshaked him said 'i was at taoyuan'. since the first day till the last day, january 7, 2005, for 8 days i never went to bed before 1.30am and never got up before 10am. that's the life i want.
through out the story you read, it seems that i do noting but travel. let me remind you that i work eight to five, my ordinary life. my free time i spend watching movies and playing internet. travel is also one of my favorite hobbies.
traveling non-stop for the particular reasons. in febuary, the day 18 - 20 i went to singapore, once in a lifetime stayed at the novotel clarke quay hotel. nothing to do since i've been there twice. 26 - 27 i went to hongkong again. it was the perfect trip of all. previously i didn't have a chance to explore the island, so this time i spent all my time walking around kowloon and hongkong. thanks to my friend hanged out with me till late night. for the first time i was absolutely alone by myself in other country. it was awesome!
now the time Ken came to thailand for the pattaya international music festival 2005, 18 - 20 of march. i went to pattaya watching him singing 6 songs for the concert, also freebird was here. the music was great and Ken was so energetic. it worths watching. it was free though. 2 weeks later, his fans club arranged the meeting, i joined the party as clip director. screaming was what they did most at the party.
april 7 - 11, 2005 i set off to hongkong again. my sole purpose was to attend the french impressionism paintings from musee d'orsay exhibition. there were 52 masterpieces, one of my favorites, the absinth, was there. still i can hear the professor explaining the story of this painting from the arts class. one of hundreds that drew my attention to arts. seeing the real paintings is like understand the artists. my knowledge grows inside me. it's exactly the same understanding when i was in europe.
the third day i met up with my brother and his friends. their interest was shopping, so we only had meals together then went seperately. since i love walking in hongkong than kowloon, i spent my whole 2 days at hongkong island. the second time alone even more fun. you wouldn't believe how many miles i walked. i couldn't believe it myself. i got lost that's why. what regret most was i didn't take more pictures of my journey. i printed in my heart. thinking of it often hope it won't fade.
i stayed at bangkok during songkran festival. it's good time to rest for awhile. a week later i went to hongkong again, april 22 - 24. my friend needed me as tour guide. hongkong still has more things i haven't seen. this trip was nothing special, i just took them around. the luckiest i had a chance to see Daniel Wu, who was supposed to be at shanghai, for real for the first time. i first attracted to him by watching 'around the world in 80 days' during my flight to austria. so that i bought his movies back to thailand and follow up since.
and here i am, celebrate my birthday at bangkok. the month of may, i contact my long lost venezuelan friend. he wrote back an email with pictures of his family. i take this as the most beautiful birthday present for me this year. thinking of time i was in vzla, he and his parents had been my good friends taking good care of me. i can still remember everything we did together as clear as it happened yesterday. these days, he got his own family with 2 lovely kids. i feel very happy. 10 years of seperation, memory is most valuable.
ok guys, that's all that happened with me during my disappearance. it takes me 3 days since i started writing on may 10th and finish it today may 13th. i write everything that i want you to know. guys, enjoy your life. bless you all.
missing all heaps,
it's been 16 months i didn't write any! hope from now on i can write more and more. do you guys still remember me? well, i'm back from the cave!
la bonita 13 may 2005
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