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by: Hoon

6 days in siam

Day 1
3 p.m. ----  Refillable wine and choice of liquor aboard Thai Airways. Seems primary goal of flight attendants is to get passengers drunk. Not complaining. Food is scrumptious with my white wine. Three hours to Bangkok. Giddily copy down critical Thai phrases from in-flight magazine, Sawasdee, to my notebook while stewardess refills my glass.
 
Paeng maag – Very expensive!
Hong nam yoo tee nai – Where is the restroom?
 
Cannot find Thai translation to “Yes, I would like to live in your beach house and eat sweet mangustin all day for free”, so decide to fend off invitations from fabulously wealthy Thai men who cannot speak English for now. Should any come, I mean.
 
6 p.m. --- Bangkok airport looks and feels bigger than all our runways put together. Meet fellow media folk and attendees to Travel Mart. Affect air of bored nonchalance to blend in. Fail. Whip out camera and begin clicking at anything that moved.
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