Ants Attack

Bangkok is such a vast city. It is essentially Asian, which means polite behaviour and skin-deep smiles. To a traveller it offers restaurants, shopping malls, tourist attractions, bars, nightclubs, accommodation and even a little culture. Restaurants, malls and bars have been our focus in the beginning of our journey. It doesn't take long to get acquinted with a neighbourhood and its peculiarities, though travelling outside this small area is always a new adventure.

Traveller's Friends.

Here are a few things we've experienced of late in Bangkok:
- Being talked to by a local who isn't after our money
- An Indian doctor (MD) whose English pronunciation is nearly flawless
- A girly waitress with a growth of hair on the upper lip
- Poverty on the streets
- Huge yet crowded shopping malls
- An enjoyable haggling session with a tuk-tuk -driver
- A boobbutt by a waitress of 45 hot seasons on Nana Plaza

In addition to these, events in my sanctuary have taken a turn for the worse as the ants that used to be by the doorway have began a massive onslaught initially on my meager food supply but now against my laptop as well. Those little buggers keep running under the keys of the keyboard, inside usb-ports and cooling holes. I must have killed at least a hundred of them just today, yet they keep coming.

On hindsight I realize it was a mistake storing jam and peanut butter on the same table where the laptop is located, but in my defence there aren't many options to go around and I did try to keep them well away from the computer. Alas, to no avail.