noodle quest 2006

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….