since everyone's doing lists...

1. i've been working here for 2 weeks already but have no idea how to say please, thank you, or any numbers in thai. i do, however, know how to say "fried rice", "fried rice with chicken", "fried rice with pork", "fried rice with beef", "fried rice with crab", "fried rice with chicken and one sunny side egg", "beef hor fun", "beef hor fun extra sweet sauce", "chicken rice extra rice" etc. after all isn't that more important.

2. apparently bangkok is just the first two words of the city's full name. its full name is krung-dēvamahānagara amararatanakosindra mahindrayudhyā mahātilakabhava navaratanarājadhānī purīramya utamarājanivēsana mahāsthāna amaravimāna avatārasthitya shakrasdattiya vishnukarmaprasiddh. my colleague told me that there's a song you sing it to so it helps you remember.

3. a meal at macdonalds here can buy you 6 meals by the roadside. which are much more yummy

ok it's 6pm and my brain has stopped functioning, brb.

- joel, bangcock