City Lights

My mom and I brought my grandma to Chiang Mai for a few days. My grandma's village is soo country and little. They are surrounded by rice fields and corn fields and teak farms and rubber tree farms and cows and pigs and chickens and buffaloes.

So we took her bowling. It was so funny to see her bowl for the first time, she looked so out of place, but I think she had fun. Also, we taught her how to use the elevator yesterday. Sigh, soon she'll be off hailing her own taxi and club hopping. lol, jk.

King of Pop

Michael Jackson is dead. It's so hard to believe and it's so weird. It just seems like singers and actresses and celebrities never die. Especially Michael Jackson.

For the past few years it seems like so many celebrities have died an unnatural death...must be all the botox.

Off to Phayao

My aunt was picking peanuts with her sister-in-law when I got there

xoxo
Grace

Shopping yesterday

Yesterday when I was in a good mood again I went shopping down Nimmanhemmin Road to get a new dress for tonight. They were a bunch of really cute boutigues and vintage, but most of the dresses were too big or too short or too long or not my style.

I found a pair of leather pants that fit me perfectly, and I've a secret desire to own a pair ever since I saw the young Lily van der Woodsen in the Valley Girls episode of Gossip Girl. They were a steal for 390 baht but my mom would buy it. That really depressed me.

We took a break and ate dinner at a cafe type restaurant, but my vegetarian lasagna was...not up to par, to say the least. Then my mom's friend came and my friend (the one who said my hair was messy) and I went walking around the city.

I almost steped on two cockroaches! TWO!!! 2!! I almost vomited from fear and disgust.

In the end I bought a dress after dinner, but now I'm having second thoughts about the dress. Oh well, you can't return stuff in Thailand

Update

Well, I finally got to get my hair washed an blown out. You know, life isn't so bad when your hair isn't messy.

I had lunch at a little hole in the wall restaurant on the ground floor of my building. A lady came and talked to the owner about the owner's dog, Cookie. Oh, I heard cookie is gonna have some babies. The lady seemed so nice I almost felt bad that I glared at her in the elevator this morning. But you know, bad hair days happen. And I guess I owe it all to that friend who told me my hair was messy. Because then I would have been walking around the city with messy hair. And I wouldn't have gotten a blown out.

And now we're going shopping again!!! I need a new dress because some friends and I are going to the theater tomorrow night. I'm not excited!! I've never watched a thai lakorn before.

... at the lakorn.

A thai lakorn is like a ballet. It's a story told by dancing and music, except it's thai dancing, not ballet.

Sorry, bad lighting...

Then we met up with some old friends

Ugh, what a terrible morning

I am not in a good mood. Today is the day where I go renew my passport, then go to that school to help take care of the kids.

I had my hair in a pony tail and I asked my friend if I should leave it up or let it down.

She said up. But you know, I don't like having my hair up. But she said when it's down it looks messy. messy. MESSY. ugh. messy, what a terrible word. It means there's a mess. And messes need to be cleaned up. I hate cleaning up.


So then I had to find my community service log. Well, it wasn't there. and then i went to the embassy with my messy hair. I told my mom i need to go to a salon and wash my hair.

We didn't go to a salon. So I walked around the American Embassy with my messy hair a a scowl on my face and looked meanly at everyone who stared at my messy hair.

And I canceled the school thing. Children can't respect people who have messy hair. What a terrible morning.

I am expecting

My aunt is coming with her 3 month old baby to stay with us for a few days. I've been so excited because I love babies. Its like when I was little when I played house. But this time the baby is real!! So I can't drop it like I use to.

The little baby is so blurry because he never stops moving!! I told my aunt he reminds me of a blob because he always squirms like a jellyfish. I will try to get a cuter picture.

Grace

Chic Human Beings in Korea

Oh my gosh. You don't know what trouble I had to get through to find to a computer with internet.

I had a four hour lay over in Korea which was no problem because there are so many designer stores:
- 3 Berburry
- 2 Chanel
- 2 Salvatore Ferragamo
- 2 Dior
- 3 Hermes

Then, I was standing in front of one of the Salvatore Ferragamo while waiting for my mom to go to the bathroom. The Korean girls were like not in comfy clothing. All of then were wearing scarfs, a girl in a fedora, all were wearing heels, a girl in a shirt dress and a floppy hat, one in cowboy boots, shift dresses, baby doll dress, OMG!

I felt so underdressed. So on my way back I will wear the most uncomfortable and chic thing I can find to go shopping at Incheon Airport. Because I was wrong. It is way more important to be fashionable than comfortable.

-Grace

Sometimes it's not about the journey, but the destination

eek! I don't mean to sound like a Twilight fangirl, but Oh em geee. I am leaving tomorrow. It's so sad but not really.

I read somewhere that back in the day people wore their Sunday best to ride in planes. Guys wear ties, women wore dresses and children looked like "porcelain dolls". Now, I'm not wearing anything fancy, but until I can find a fashionable and comfortable (pssh) riding on a plane outfit sweatpants will have to do.

-Grace