My Trip in Thailand Begins

01/22/06

It has been three days that I have to run around between my apartment and the post office. I am still waiting for the last big four boxes of vitamins that I give them to my family. The bad thing is I am going to fly out tomorrow morning but I still do not know if I will get them in time.

Finally, I receive the notice from the post office at 6.30 pm but I am not sure if I will get them tomorrow.

I wake up at 6.30 am. The first I do is to call the post office. The supervisor knows right away when I mention my address. When I get there, they have separated my packages. I just mention about my address and they hand them to me right away. I think all the staff there must have known me by now because I went there everyday and had some fights with them all the way to the last day.

Nicky picks me up at 8 o’clock but I am still packing. Thanks to his patience, my packing goes pretty smooth.

It will take a day to fly back to Bangkok. However, I pack myself with all the investment books so I guess I will be all set during those boring hours.

This is my first time I fly the American Airlines. I have to say it’s such a painful flight for me. The food is bad and the seats are so uncomfortable. The only good things I can think of are its emptiness and the movie “In Her Shoes”. Since the seats are so uncomfortable, the emptiness really helps. It helps when no one sits besides me and I can stretch my legs. It helps when I cry while I am watching the movie “In Her Shoes” and no one see it.

Even though this movie is nothing new in term of the story line but something about family and the love between sisters (or brothers) always make me cry. Since I don’t have anything to do on this long boring flight and all those investment books start killing my eyes, I watch this movie twice. The effect is the same, I cry like crazy.

It takes me 12 hours to the Narita International Airport in Tokyo. Then it takes another 3 hours for the transfer. I fly out of Japan with the Japan Airlines. It’s crowded and the seats are still so uncomfortable as well. However, I find the Japan Airlines flight experience is pretty pleasant. Unlike the American Airlines, the food is great, then service is excellent and the products they use are premium.

It is totally different experiences between these two companies. I notice that almost all the flight attendants in the Asian flights are a lot younger and more beautiful than their American counterparts.

Don’t mention about service because those Asian flight attendants always trump those American ones.

I arrive Bangkok at midnight. My mom and my sister are waiting for me. I am very happy to see them again.

This one month trip would be a lot of fun.

Before I will leave this post, I want to share the poem from the movie “In Her Shoes” that Cameron Diaz reads for her sister on the wedding day. I find it so beautiful.

I carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)

I am never without it(anywhere I go you go, my dear;

and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)

I want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)

And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;

which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

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