Actually, I was about to name my article Sleepless in Seattle --thought it was pretty cool. But well, I wasn't really sleepless. I did manage to sleep well the night in Seattle and woke up pretty early in the morning. So yeah, the title needs to change.
Although I didn’t spend time in Seattle much but Seattle was the city I first arrived and it would most likely I spent 2 days and 2 nights there. Anyway Seattle was cool city.
We arrived in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the afternoon. We spent an hour at the immigration because of the long queue and processes.
We took a charter bus from the Gate00 according to Carla our colleague’s advice. It was very good and cheap, USD18 round trip. We were there only 2 persons on the bus—that makes we feel so special! *lol*
Seattle was so beautiful city in my thought. I like it there. But it was rainy day—no wonders why this city has been nicknamed “The City of Rain”. That’s the reason why I didn’t have a chance to tour around the city that much. We stayed at the Sheraton hotel, and we spent a couple of hour exploring the city a bit. We went to the shop around there and went back to the hotel.
The next morning, we spent all day meeting at Sheraton and we need to fly to Portland.
The way back from Portland, we need to stop by say hello to Seattle again and we stayed overnight there at Extended Hotel. The hotel is nearby the airport because we need to catch the early morning flight 6:00AM to go to San Francisco.
I was luckily to have a chance tour around Seattle and thanks to Thomas (My personal tour guide). He tooks me everywhere I want to go. J We had a chance to say hello to the original Starbucks!—now I understand why people sleepless in Seattle. Well, and just so you know Seattle is a birthplace of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee. But I didn’t’ see them anywhere so…
We also went to the mall in Seattle and walk around and around the farmers market. It was cold and windy; we found Italian coffee shop to sat down and drink hot chocolate.
We had dinner with Scott at the place near the market. One of the great benefits of travelling is that you got a chance to try on local foods which you hardly found anywhere.
So Seattle in my thought, I think it is a special city. I hope I can have more chance to explore next time around.
I finally came home after the trip to the U.S. Even I’m not in shape because of jet lag but I am fine.
I woke up this morning 4:00am since I went to bed 06:35pm. I drove my car back home after 5:45am. I arrived home after 6:30am and I found a gift box with my name on it. Immediately I opened it. It was Colin’s mum. In side there was a cute photo of Colin when he is a little boy playing something on the table. I reached inside the box there was cute card and lovely diary. I really love his picture when he was just a cute little boy and I just know he has blond hair. *lol* I looked at it thousands times already today. This is going to be my favorite picture ever! You really brightens up my day!
I love the sentence that says “If there is so much love you will find a way….”
Thank you Mayke, I’m so touched and I couldn’t stop smiling. You don’t know what that mean to me. Now my heart Is full of thankfulness. I hope you read my blog and I hope you don’t mind I post this beautiful things. :)
I know how hard to keep up our relationship to be a good one when we have difference time zone. We are struggling to be together. I can’t always be positive and I can’t pretend that I have a healthy relationship. There were so many times that I feel lonely. There were many times that I gave up when we misunderstood. I missed him a lot and miss the day we were together. It’s uneasy for me to ignore those feelings. So I’m grateful for every single thing in single moment that you made for us. Your ‘love’ and ‘support’ mean a lot to me.
So thank you, thank you and thank you. *hugs*
I’m back to work since vacations end. It seems I have a very busy week ahead of me. I’m still trying to find my way to handle the situation that him being away. I know it’s just another day that I am stress. Tomorrow I’m going to be just fine. Long distance relationships are never easy but I know there’s nothing going to tear us apart. The thing is we already are apart and it seems nothing worse than that. I've cried a thousand times over things that I can't change--hoping that someday it will. But tears and emotional wouldn’t help much with my situation—instead it makes thing worse.
Sometimes it seems like my long distance relationship will remain long distance forever. Sometimes it doesn’t seem a bad idea. I’ve been on my own for so long now. I don’t know how it feels if we can get our life together. But then it feels so great when I hear him laugh and how I love to look into his beautiful eyes. And how it feels to be in his arms. I know how lucky I am to have him
There’s always a feeling of guilt, desperate that stays with me. Even we already have conversations and we agree we should be together! But it seems like these are not really helping me from not being sad. How many times I remind myself how lucky we are to each other, even we aren’t in the same place.
I’m not a karaoke lover. I enjoyed sing a song without microphone and music. At least it is less annoyed—at least it isn’t as loud.
After a year I had a chance to go to karaoke last Thursday. I felt really old! At least the song I can think of isn’t that modern. How old is Rod Stewart and ABBA by the way?
Anyway, you probably know how Thai people crazy about Karaoke—and that’s nothing wrong. In comparison Filipinos are 10 times crazy. And I got use to it when I was there; people sing a song and dance. Believe it or not! About a half of the population has a karaoke box at home!!!
Anyway the karaoke was suppose to be Cool and Fun thing to do. At least when you feel lonely or being under pressure, But this Karaoke night isn’t going to be fun because we got stood up!
Somebody who organizes this party has already invited
around 15 people or so and they didn’t show up! And this party was supposed to be more likely a wedding party announcement… but the soon-to-be gloom appeared there only 15 mins and he just left!
There were only 3 people left in a big room, the room was quite more than a normal Karaoke room because that was supposed to be 15 people there. Anyway, we managed to sing and dance and ordered some foods.
After the party ends, its time to pay the bills! And the worst part was that who is going to pay the bill?
We stared at each other and silence.
You know I can't smile without you. I can't smile without you. I can't laugh and I can't sing— this song popup in my head in that moment.
There’s nothing worst that you know you have to pay something you’re not supposed to pay. It feel like you pay for your underwear and it doesn’t fit you ever!
Well, life doesn’t fit. Life is change. Life is Life.
After a while, a waiter hands me a bill. “Here you are…”
"Er.. right…" we'resupposed to pay this. of course we will. we have to!
Well, after the party ends, how fun? Imagine that this was my wedding party announcement thingy and there were only a few people there. That is still 10 times better than this feeling. A feeling that we got stood up and nobody care each other anymore in this society. They care only about themselves. And now that was a karaoke voice in my head.
I have just had a rotten day. The day that I want to just sit alone and cried. But I couldn’t… The day I felt so humiliated, embarrassed, disappointed, and worthless. And I still have that feeling with me all the time but I need to go on.
My parents tired to arrange my wedding without asking me. They asked my boyfriend instead. I know they’re conservative and I know they care about their image.
But what about me? I want to shout at them... like Er… Hello? Why are you doing this to me? I’m a human and I have a feeling. I can be pain and I can be hurt. I don’t think they listen to me.Even my relationship is good but I never ask for help! They don’t have the right to do anything about it!
We were happy and enjoyed out relationship—I wanted to stay a happy couple and then later we can see what this love has got to do for us, but what now!? Somebody stepped there and force us to married… Are you joking? If we are not ready why we need to? What marriage really means? A ceremony, people and cakes? Isn’t that loving each other is more important? Well, maybe not…
I feel a pang inside after we finished talking. I couldn’t do anything. It was like my whole world has turned around. It was a serious impact on us. How could I ask him if he wanted to marry me or not? How could I bear if he said that he doesn’t or I’m not ready? Should that be the end of our relationship? But if he wanted to I would think because of my family has been forced him to do that anyway.
What my parents should know is that they are not going to make me marry anyone by their behavior.
When you're living in both conservative and modern country. Where you can see both thing twisted. Especially when you are Thai woman, you are in between those tradition conservation and modern kind of things. And you are being confused all the time.
I really don’t understand why Thai parents forced their child especially their daughter to married before make sure if they love each other or they’re match. Also when the relationship won’t work anymore, a divorce considered tainted for women.
What would I say with my situation? Where the society has been banned a mini-skirt (because they think that the invitation for rape) but you can find coyote girls at many events and a lot of night clubs more than just bookstore.
There’s no easy way to handle that ever!
If I have to write about my vacations, first thing I couldn’t forget and it still scare me every night was that my sleeping walking and screaming just came back lately during my trip, and this time getting worse. I even broke the curtain rail.
I awake that night at the hotel and I seem to forget everything I did. I didn’t know what I did exactly but Colin told me that I screamed and we found out after turn the light on that the curtain rail already broken. I stood there for awhile and tried to think of what I did but useless, I can’t remember anything.
I just notice that I had a sore throat and my arms hurts so much, there was a little cut on my left arm and bruise on his arm as well.
We weren’t sure what to do … and I couldn’t fall asleep again after, I manange to sleep at last after 2 hours.
I did what I don’t remember and it was so terrible to have these symptoms back again. I wanted to cry—even I know that’s not being helpful.
Remembering, I use to send SMS while I was sleeping and I didn’t remember anything. That was terrible but this was worse.
The next morning, I told the housekeeper at the hotel that the curtain rail needs to be fix, then she asked someone to fix it, it took 2 or 3 hours to fix and they even need to changed the new rail. I really feel so terrible about this thing. Anyway, the hotel didn’t charge us for that, they simply thought their curtain rail was too old. :P
But well, broken curtain rail can be fix, but what about me? Can I be fixed?
08:00am OMG Woke up late—forgot to set my alarm. Run to bathroom. Get dress and do everything in 30 mins and left home immediately.
09:00am Good thing being late is that you don’t’ have to stuck in the traffic and you will probably arrived on time anyway! So there’s no point to work up early anymore.
09:20am Eating breakfast and Driving.
10:30am went to hospital but the doctor wasn’t there.
12:00nn visiting Joy and her baby at the hospital.
13:00pm the same hospital but to check my dandruff symptom. – had this 2 weeks ago, the doctor said nothing to be worry about it occurred because I don’t have enough sleep.
16:00pm back to work—can’t believe I had to stucked in the traffic for 1 hour. Grrrr
Sunday, August 9, 2009 8:30am Breakfast—Thai Cuisine and instant cappuccino! Nothing special. 9:30am Watching the DH last episode - Finally Mike and Susan are back together--this is not a spoiler coz you can tell from the start. 11:00am checking email and doing a Spanish homework. The bottom line I’m unhappy doing homework—don’t know why. I mean how could I turn homework into fun time? We should have “No Homework Policy”. 12:00nn Done with the homework and begin to understand a bit why a professor give the plenty of it.—Gracias professor. 12:30pm Talk to Colin on skype. -- discovered that Twitter isn't for normal people. it is actually mean "Twitter can't come between us"-- So stoped insist in using it now. Ugh... Getting normal people to adopt Twitter will be difficult! I knew it! 14:00pm Lunch time-- Kanomjeen with green curry soup 14:40pm Talk to Colin on skype. -- He likes google book more than twitter! Well, obviously!-- no more convincing today.
17:00pm Going to the market with dad, buying Somtum for my dinner! Market is always crowded! 17:40pm Went back home seaching for Swarovski Earring! Yay!-- found it left under the seat in the car--well, actually i said "chaiyo" thats mean Yay! in English! -- btw I’ve been searching for a long time finally!
8:00am - Going to school-- eating breakfast while driving. If that consider dangerous why would they have drive thru then?
9:00am - Reached the school, head spinning and sleepy—lack of caffeine indeed.
9:20am - Spanish class begin—so sleepy and woke up again while teacher asked me to read those sentences.
12:10pm - Left school and stuck in the traffic instead.Great!
13:30pm - Finally home! having lunch--Fried rice with eggs and coffee!
14:00pm - Watching Desperate Housewives Season 5
15:00pm - Take a nap…zzzzzz
I went to had acupuncture 3 times for past 3 weeks. It was weight control program and also heals my back pain. First time I went there I was a bit nervous… I mean I didn’t know how is it going to be? How do you feel like somebody put the needle into your body? That was how I felt. Anyway, I went together with my friend so I feel more relieve.
The doctor didn’t say anything much. After explaining where each needle was going to be placed and why. The needles were inserted, around 50 needles I think. After 30 minutes or so, nurse comes in to remove it out of my body.
Now, you might want to know how Acupuncture work? How effective it is?
http://www.weight-loss-professional.com/acupuncture-for-weight-loss.html
http://www.life123.com/health/alternative-medicine/acupuncture/acupuncture-weight-loss.shtml
