Time to wrap up this holiday. Today I got my photo of reclining Buddha, and some more curry, so all is done and time to head for Helsinki, and St. Petersburg.

 

We spent the last night in Siem Reap by pleying pool and drinking beer. One of the working girls in the temple bar wanted to show us some club, but it was (yeah, suprise suprise) a lame girl joint so we had a pizza and went to leep. Our bus trip to Bangkok was fun too, our airconditioned bus with the toilet was missing the toilet and airconditioning and it was also overbooked. The backbacks were piled on the corridor and some people were sitting on extra plastic chairs on front. The road was still under construction so it was real rumble and shake experience between the neverending rice fields. Border was quite painless, and we arrived to chaotic Bangkok traffic around 9. My hotel reservation didn't go through, so we got another one from a tourist joint and jumped into taxi. Our hotel was close to the siem square, where all the big shopping centres are. I'm such a bore these days that I wanted to avoid hotels where handjobs are included, or the overcrowded backbacker ares. Pizza, quick thai therapy and sleep.

 

Second day was extremely hot. Started off by two hours by the pool. After that we went to Chatuchak weekend market. It's a huge area where everything is sold from fake clothes to art and endangered animals. The pop art there was actually very nice; as my huge and extremely expensive art collection is already stashed away to some storage rooms in Helsinki no much point to grow amount od crao I have. Next stop was Chinatown and its amazing market strees, from gold to loads of stuff unknown to me was there. We walked to the river and got into boat heading north, just stopped by some riverside restaurant for some beer and curry and headed back to hotel. Even thou it wasd Saturday in Bangkok I just retired to Henning Mankell and slept like a baby.

 

Yesterday was serious shopping, we stayed close to the hotel and I invested some billions to brand products and fakes (fakes for others, originals for me). There are some really impressive malls, the siam paragon being the coolest I have ever been. Added to that MBK is a place to visit. Can't imagibe what you couldn't find in those. We also went to see Mummy III in Siam Paragon; good fun. We headed for Patpong area for dinner, and of course found our curries on a gay street. Nothing bad with that, good food. We sat afterwards on the only terrace without the prostitutes for a few beers and breathed in the sweet fumes of sin. We tried to follow the groovy guide's club tips and found nothing but closed joints. One taxi driver took us to "good disco, many people" and actually did that. I was 1000% sure he takes to some sleazy brothel, but it was a quite normal disco with local and foreign crowd called Boss. We got drunk, showed some cool moves, met some ladies and men who look like ladies. One girl wanted to take to some karaoke, and we jumped to Tuk Tuk and drove around hald of the city to some small bar. No karaoke, more beer, no other foreigners, loads of weird discussions and photo shoot sessions. We were back to the hotel around six in the morning.

 

When I could walk I went to take a photo of the recling Buddha and climbed the golden mountain. One friend of a friend offered to take us for dinner. And I wonder where Jari is, haven't seen him today. At least he got to the hotel =) That's it. I might write again when I have my next holiday, meanwhile you can follow my more business related blog:    http://www.tietoenator.com/blogs/blog.aspx?path=31196,31199,32752 Be cool.