noodle quest 2006

so i am in new york and have been since wednesday afternoon. it is definitely culture shock- in some ways. i mean none of it is truly shocking- it just all feels so different. from the people, to the wealth to the energy, everything about new york feels more different than it ever has. everything just feels os specific. i feel much less attaced to this space and am taking the things that have always offended me about new york much less personally. everythign feels very interesting- i am in travel mode and this is definitely probably the strangest place i have been on the noodle quest.

i really haven’t had any time to just chill in my house. between seeing friends, eating, walking, doing, looking, sitting, thinking, traveling (philly briday shower), etc. i have just been so busy. i am really looking forward to nothingness in my house. strangely i can’t stop the urge to kind of look at craigslist for a job but really i want to give myself at least a few weeks of downtime to see friends and settle in to this space.

mmm cheese and coffe are really good. damn new york has really good food. also all of my friends are pretty nice to. and my family is so amazingly loving and crazy. new york is really very thought provoking for me right now. i am very pleased with my energy right now. i am really moving through teh craziness in very peaceful way and feeling very happy about it.

thoughtfully yours,

mali-marissa…

p.s. bridal shower pics to be posted soon and also the pics from dan and i’s trip to koh tao.

noodlequest has been split into parts like a two-pronged fork:

hey readers, friends, family and otherwise. jess left for cambodia on tuesday and since then i have been hanging out with chai dan (best known for his role in the short but wildly succesful indie film; “chai dan; the boy on the moto with the cigarette” available on google video) for the past week. it has been really fun and relaxing- just eating a lot of noodles and watching movies. we saw “memoirs of a geisha” which was pretty rediculous as expected. i have been reading my most amazing book a lot called “spontaneous healing” by dr. andrew weil which is making me really excited for my plans to get involved in alt. medicine in some facet when i get home. the other day i was alone in the huose and two small birds flew into the kitchen! for some reason even though they were really small i felt really scared by their tiny little pointy beaks and i had to scream a lot which eventually prompted them to leave the house.
tonight i am taking a bus to chaing mai where i will hang out for a few days before heading to my massage course on the 12th through the 24th. this will be another long gap in blog updates as i will be out of internet access in the mountains. how will i survive? we shall see….
some new photos are up on shutterfly (link; “MY PHOTOS” to the right of the screen). these photos are from luang prabang, laos and bangkok. a whole bunch of the ones from luang prabang were taken by some super drunk dude at the wedding i went to with my friend tia in the small village 2 hours outside of LP. i was a little nervous that this dude left with my camera for an hour but happy that he documented because my presence was invasive enough and i felt uncomfortable taking photos myself. also, it always intersting to me to see what another person sees, feels is important/beautiful to document and enjoys capturing, so i am very happy to have those photos.
i have gotten a whole mess of e-mails from jess and truth be told i am not exactly sure where she is. she took a bus from bkk to poipet, the thai/cambodia border town and then shared a taxi with four super nice cambodia ladies to pnom penh. they then invited her to dinner, and told her she had to stay at their beautiful home with them for a few days, so, jess being the kind of accomodating human she is, decided to take them up on their hospitality. since then she got in contact with a man named sim dara who she has been talking to for a while that runs an organization called “APCA” where i imagine she is now based out of. HOWEVER, i feel that you, my readers who have followed with me every step of the way have the right to know more details about this two-pronged portion of the noodlequest. you MUST all write to jess and tell her IT IS HER DUTY to post on the noodlequest about what she is doing. JessicaMaffia@gmail.com is where she can be reached. i suggest sad, desperate, tear-filled tones to the e-mails you write so that she will most likely comply. WHY?!?! why does she treat the noodlequest like a bastard child whom nobody wants to claim resonsibility for or give love?
maybe we will never know….