And yet another Bangkok lull.

Dear Readers,

Happy Halloween! I can’t believe it’s been 1 year since my amazing, ridiculous night in Shibuya. And I have to say that this night had some similarities to last year, but overall gave me a huge opportunity for reflection.

So, I didn’t expect to go out today, and was quite happy to just sit at home and watch whatever was on the TV line up, and do some tidy up work, and/or unpack a few things. But meeting Jeab yesterday for MJ’s concert, we were in the whole ‘yeah let’s go out’ mood.

In yesterday’s loud dinner environment, Jeab shouts, “Let’s go to a place called Red docks, its suppose to be nice and lots of expats + english speaking ppl there” Ooooh, sounds nice right?  I asked what type of music they played, “It’s an art gallery, no music”

WAaaaaaaaaah, aw shit. no offense, but I bloody hate those art gallery things. I went to No Space when the exhibition was about the condition of Bus roof tops in Bangkok, and he stood at a bridge and took photos of buses driving by. Granted, Bus roof tops here in Thailand are rusty, ghetto colours, mismatched paint jobs, so I guess it is interesting. But to pin it on a wall, sell it for 3,500 – 18,000 baht? Are you serious?

Anyways back to my story, ugh…Art gallery…art exhibition again a place where I totally speak on different levels with the people there, I wasn’t looking forward to it, but thought, hey, Jeab really wants to go, okay let’s go. Party flyer said – HALLOWEEN! 7pm-12midnight, and listed all the bands that were playing la la la…

So in my true Halloween spirit, I threw on my Kimono , Jeab helped me with my makeup, and went as a Japanese kimono lady (You could say I was a geisha, but I’d prefer if you didn’t.) I even tied a pillow at my back. (Grego will give me the photos to upload later.) And it was nice to go as a Japanese person – in tribute to my fabulous Halloween of 2008!

Anyhoo, what is the whole point of dressing up in Bangkok. At 9:30-ish (it’s always good not go so so so early.) we managed to find Rain Dog – which is this house turned gallery turned live band place situated in this deep dark alleyway along side the highway. And as I am driving…approaching the Rain dog sign…we hear music…but we don’tsee anyone there.

Stacy: Jeab, look at the empty tables…there are EMPTY TABLES
Jeab: Let’s go inside anyways since it is nice to see the art gallery.

So I took off my kimono because i REFUSED To walk in an empty room looking like a fool.

Picture this setting:

 an open air rundown house…with funky furniture…good retro music playing…a ceiling fan swinging,….turn your eyes to the left to see  empty chairs and tables, turn right…again…empty chairs and tables…and look ahead beside the bar…a waiter, sleeping in 1 lounge chair with his mouth open.

FABULOUS. One look at that I just walked straight to my car.

I was still in a good mood, determined to have a good time, and then as events unfolded…it turned out, we had no clue where the Halloween parties were! And I looked to my left, and saw my one friend, and it really hit me like..Wow, look how my life has changed in the past 2 years. I’ve morphed from a social butterfly to a natural born loser?

No wait, I take that back, I know I’m not a loser, more like, I don’t even know where the HALLOWEEN Party is! Geez what is wrong with me! You know what I mean? It is so different. It’s not that clubbing is the best thing in the world, and I can tell you, I’m quite tired of it, but I guess there is a huge social aspect lacking.

Maybe it’s 3 am and I can’t articulate my feelings, but in short. It was damn damn depressing!

Jeab made it up to me by taking me to ZENSE which is such a beautiful lounge place at Central World Plaza. Would recommend it to anyone. But it wasn’t the same. And I’m the ONLY on in the whole lounge wearing a costume ( I basically had my sheer tank top underneath my kimono so I couldn’t take it off.) and I don’t mind sticking out like a sore thumb at all. But I guess, today was just one of those days that I could add to my “Days where Stacy feels she doesn’t belong list.”

And so I guess my conclusion to this Halloween is that, it left me feeling a bit down and about.

Hermitising yet again,
Stacy

 

On the topic of complimenting a lady..

Dear Readers,

So Mom and Dad left on Monday, of course I cried because it was so sad, won’t see them until December..(or so I thought, turns out I have to go to HK first week of Nov now! It’s a long story..)

Now, Greg and I are like the dynamic duo, and on Tuesday, I had so many errands planned, but our driver called in sick! So Greg was my (driver) assistant, and accompanied me to all my meetings.

I don’t know if I can say it enough, that I really really love my baby brother.

In the car, we are listening to his music, and there are two songs which are his current faves, “Sexy B*itch” and ” Baby by Me”

I just can’t help but laugh at the lyrics of “Sexy B*itch”

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She’s nothing like a girl you’ve ever seen before.
Nothing you can compare to your neighbourhood hoe.
I’m tryna find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful.
The way that booty movin I can’t take no more.
Have to stop what i’m doin so I can pull up close.
I’m tryna find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful.

Dam girl.
Dam you’se a sexy bitch.
A sexy bitch.
Dam you’se a sexy bitch.
Dam girl. ”

***

Is this guy Akon for real?

Can I write an open letter to Akon?  That there are alot of words to describe a lady without being disrespectful?
Gosh, his lack of vocabulary is really frightening. Ahaha. And when Andrea and I were speaking about it over the phone,

Andrea says, “You know what I want to know, I want to know how he knows the neighbourhood hoe.”

haha! Hilarious. The standard of RnB hiphop lyrics these days. Then in the car Grego played another song, again by Akon, and the song went something like, shake your jiggle tiddies? I forget what exactly, but I remember rolling my eyes and just sighing.

Oh wait i just asked greg, it’s a song called Hynotised and the lyrics are “Booty keeps bumpin’, titties just bouncin’ up and down..” *thumbs up*

Oh and the cutest episode was 50 cent’s newest song Baby by Me,

Me: Aren’t these lyrics really ghetto, like have my baby and be a millionaire?
Greg: No Stace, it’s a sweet song, it’s like…have a baby..girlfriend by my side, and feel like a millionaire…
Me: Really? why does he use the word baby, not shawty (sp?) or not babe?

Okay basically Greg was really patient like, no Stace, it’s a sweet romantic song, then okay made me feel a BIT better because I gotta admit, the song sounds good (argh!!!). Then when we got home, we called Doug (our hiphop expert) and Doug said, “No it means, have my baby and be a millionaire”.

Hahaha, Greg is so sweet! To think it means girl by my side. Wah, I know he isn’t so innocent, so that interpretation was so off in terms of his standards.

This is all alot of laughs and chuckles for me, but when I come to think about it, I have to say … (let me see if I get this right..) “Damyumn! That’s Ghetto son!”

I mean, seriously, every body is liking this Sexy Bitch song, I can’t imagine going to the clubs and dancing to it, like people pointing and singing “You’se a sexy bitch!”

If someone ever did that to me, I would say, Thanks, So I’ve heard…and I’m hotter than your neighbood hooker apparently!

It is really scary if this the linguistic trend. Whatever happened to, “I think you are lovely.”, or ” You have a great smile” ….. maybe I have to just keep my radio tuned to my golden oldies, retro, and soft music I suppose!

Right now, ” I love you for sentimental reasons” – Nat  King Cole, such a nice gentle song!
Alright, I’m off to fix dinner, thanks for stopping by!
Stacy

Rest In Peace Stephen Gately

Dea Readers,

I was so shocked when I saw on BBC that Stephen Gately died. I screamed, “Noooooo!” Oh my goodness, so so so so sad.  I haven’t had time to read what really happened to him until today.

And here I am sitting in my room, getting all emotional and teary eyed reading about it. He passed away becase of an inherited heart condition.

www.stephengately.co.uk

I really love Boyzone and all their happy songs. They all are wonderful people and I am so sad and sorry that Stephen died! It is really heartbreaking. He was the first Boyband member to come out in the open and say he is Gay, really helped pave the way for Mark from Westlife to come out too, because I guess at the end of the day, we fans, we don’t care about whether they are gay or straight, we love them for their music, the joy they bring into our lives and the wonderful people they are.

Boyzone is always on my playlist, when the songs come on it is instant sing-a-long time! 🙂 One song I used to play over and over was ” Love me for a reason, ” and I love the part when Stephen sings “Kisses and caresses are only minor tests  babe, of  love turned to stresses between a woman and a man..”

To donate to Stephen’s cause: http://www.justgiving.com/StephenGately/

Rest in Peace Stephen Gately, and thank you for the wonderful songs and memories.
Stacy

A trip to the cinema

Dearest  Readers,

So I am not a fan of the cinema. I love movies, but  I prefer watching them in the comfort of my own home. (Because I laugh outloud, and I gasp, and scream and make several exclamations during most movies)

 So, maybe I watch less than 5 movies each year in the theatre, all the rest is via my cable subscription and through DVDs. 

Today, I went to Empourium to watch THE UGLY TRUTH, with Jeab. And I have to say, it was firstly, quite a disappointing movie, but secondly, it was a huge eye opener for me. Eye-opener in the sense where, I am sitting in a room filled with people, and when I exclaim, or laugh, it’s all silent, but when the whole crowd laughs I’m like *smile* or “….???”

It is so odd that the laughter is mismatched or delayed. And I remember talking to Marcus about this once, is it because of the subtitles maybe? Or they don’t get the American-cultural references?

Today I found the whole crowd laughing at Katherine Heigl’s expressions – a true sign of a good actress, that she doesn’t need words to express emotion. (I really like her, watched her since ROSWELL!!!)  Or they would laugh at overtly obvious XXX jokes (not my type of humour)

At any rate, now, whenever I go to see a movie in Thailand, I really feel like, “wow…I don’t belong here.” and I wonder, so if I was back in Canada, would I be laughing with the group, or … also be out of sync?

When you go to see a movie, do you laugh at all the appropriate cues?

After the movie, we went to have dinner at this small Kebab place opposite Capitol Club, it was nice and homey, and the restaurant owner (Iranian) was so welcoming, and shared Persian Tea, Shishia (sp?) and homemade cookies with us after dinner! very friendly, and the food was authentic too.

At Jeab’s place, we watched this movie called Feast of Love (with Greg Kinnear…i LOVE HIM.) and instead of Thai subtitles, we selected Chinese subtitles.  And I gotta say, man oh man, are the chinese subtitles super off or what. There was this part of the movies, where the couple just finished s*x and

the lady asked: “So where is the ladies room” (as in where is the bathroom)  Chinese subtitles wrote “`你的女朋友在不在’（is your girlfriend here?)

Wah…

Really lost in translation. Frankly, I’m super impressed with my chinese subtitle reading ability (60%) but it is really funny how it is so off! So maybe the thai subtitles are bonkers.

You know, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT concert is coming up, the tickets aren’t expensive, just 160baht. But I’m thinking…is it worth going to see? Because what if the whole cinema is just really quiet and deadbeat. I’m really not looking forward to that. I rather wait for the DVD to come out, and have a dance party at my house, sing-a-long, you know the whole works.

Wow it’d be so nice to dance and sing along in the cinema though. I wonder if I’d be thrown out….
Stacy

The downside of positivity

Dear Readers,

Did I ever tell you that it is one of my life dreams to be a show host. One of my favourite channels is – Travel & Living, and everytime I watch their shows, I think – That’s so me! I like the cooking travel shows the best, like Kylie Kwong (not her cooking, but I like the concept of the show, travelling through China and discovering dishes) and I love Anthony Bourdain!

Anyways, recently an opportunity came up – Host for History Asia – and I submitted my audition reel.

Jayme did this! Isn’t she a superstar? She filmed and edited it, I think with the right proper materials/equipment she could really go far. This was filmed using our Sony T200.

My mom was the director too, helping with the shoot. We filmed at the national park nearby, it was super sunny!

Anyways there is a downside of positivity. My parents, my whole family were super positive, they loved the audition reel and they thought I would TOTALLY BE SHORTLISTED. I even got a new passport so that I could travel to the audition city! And all my darling friends were super supportive as well,  and we naively thought that at least I would be short listed!

Sigh…

I guess I’ll achieve my dream another day.

Too bad it’s not today though,
Stacy