Five Faves! – The Jan ’07 Nong Khai It List
Here are my current Top 5 Very Favorite Things in this glamourdise that is Nong Khai…
1. Melty grilled ham and cheese sandwiches from 7-11
2. A’s Italian boyfriend Antonio playing tres Parisian songs on his accordion from their back porch, which is basically my backyard. It’s like living in the Amelie soundtrack – perfect for French movie star like me! I mean, moi.
3. Spending an entire day laying around hopped up on cold medicine (yes, I had another cold last week), reading back issues of US Weekly and eating mini candy bars while listening to Smog (Charlotte’s care package ruled)
4. The katoi who works at the open-air kitchen I pass on my way to get fruit every morning (it is so cool and so typical that the tallest, most masculine asian in Nong Khai is a transvestite – I call her Lola)
5. Long, sunny afternoons spent reading Don Quixote* – I love this book! Why didn’t anyone ever tell me it was laugh-out-loud hilarious? I am beyond pleased that – according to the back of the edition I’m reading – it was “voted Greatest Book of All Time by the Nobel Institute.” Those guys must be a lot more fun than I’d assumed because this book is non-stop slapstick humor and all sorts of silliness.** It’s less like trudging through 1,000 pages of 17th Century Literature and more like giggling through a really long book version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (voted Greatest Movie of All Time by the Sandy O Institute).
* The cold medicine, the katoi and the book (damn, now there is a title just waiting to happen) have all combined to create a recurring daydream about how Lola and I become bestest girl friends and roam all around Nong Khai having the most fabulous adventures.
** And The Sandy did decree: “Whosoever shall send unto my email inbox a smartypants literary analysis, let that person’s name be stricken without delay from the Book of Friends.”
Tags: Nong Khai, Thailand
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