I'm back in Bangkok, AGAIN.

I left Australia on the 17th and I was much sadder to leave than I would have expected. The night before, Kylie's fam had a big old dinner with yummy curry at their house and I had a good time with all of them. I took off for Kuala Lumpur,and then Singapore without a prob. When I woke up on the 18th, I bumped into Leticia (or Lets from BnA) in the bathroom of my hostel. She was off on a visa run from Malaysia and we wound up spending the day at the BodyWorlds exhibit. My sister had told me about this exhibit after she had seen it in London. I dragged Leticia off to it and the show was pretty spectacular. Here is the link. I would suggest not eating at the same time...

I flew to Bangkok the next day and met up with Mel. Mel and friends went out to Face Bar, which is affliated with Face Bar of Shanghai where Kylie and I got legless. I wound up scamming a few free drinks off the manager and proceeded to split my right big toe open on a piece of glass when hopping out of the taxi. Well, I didn't realize it until the taxi drove off so one of the people at Suk11 drove me to the hospital to have it cleaned up. 1,400 baht later (and some major concern about the fact that my $$ was at Mel's place and that I was going to have to leave my passport) I was mended and back at Suk11, within 35 minutes. How's that for express service??

This morning I decided to go send my passport off for a Chinese visa. I arranged it through one of the dreaded travel agents on the Khao San Rd. I hate these guys, but I finally found one who didn't seem like a snake. Ake sent off my passport straight away and said if it didn't come back by Friday, he would change my train ticket free of charge. This is actually a good thing because I will have time to see if my toe heals well enough for me to go to Laos. It would really suck to have a gangrenous big toe in a place where the guidebooks suggest going back to Thailand for medical attention.