almost connected
Sunday, October 30th, 2005aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! it has been so difficult to get online lately and i think i have to come to terms withthe fact that i will probably not be able to post any pictures until bangkok. i have tried to upload my photos from about 25 different un-functional computers at this point. i think i will just burn cd’s and hope to god that they don’t break in my bag. ugh.
okay…. here’s what’s been happening as of late. on the 25th, we said goodbye to dani as she was flying to delhi that morning. jess and i walked around and checked out some new hotels. we had breakfast in some prostitute stomping ground cafe in our neighborhood (pham ngu lao… or something) and then i felt weird and sick. i passed out on some laquer “couch” in a “hotel” lobby and jess scouted out a new hotel for us. it was this super cute little place on a side street with a alcony and it was very clean. then we napped for a while and i recovered enough to eat sushi! it was our most expensive meal yet (about 10 bucks for the two of us) but it was worth it. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM sushi tastes so good! it was only japanese people there- businessmen upstairs and dates downstairs. then we walked around the dong hai neighborhood for a while popping in and out of bars but realizing that the best entertainment we could have was some snickers bars and vietnamese music video television (not mtv, actually, although they do have that). the next day we had breakfast at a cute cafe and then took a cyclo (bike with a cart) to the fine arts museum. the whole dowstairs was devoted to pierre cardin, some self-obsessed french fashionista who’s photos were mediocre cool. upstairs was the cool vietnamese art with many paintings depicting war stuff but also earlier works. next we went to china town by way of a local bus which was very fun. it was really the winds of sheer luck that blew us to the bus station-correct bus-the right stop-the market. we walked around for a bit and then jess started to feel sick so we decided on some massages at the institute for the blind. that was a total trip. [read on]