a can of sardines

argh! i spent 15min typing and then the stupid comp hung! grr.. its damm slow n 2.5 times more ex than ayutheya. All the internet shops here claim to be 'fastest internet in sukhothai', but it seems like they are competing to be the slowest instead!

any, summary of what i typed (too lazy to do it again)
- read your comments
- yahli i was thinking this is prob how you feel in germany too!
- and now i understand why the woman i saw in borobodur last year was so unfriendly. It's hard to balance between a 'i may be a lone woman traveller but don't mess with me' look, and a 'I'm friendly and harmless, be nice to me' look. And the former is somehow easier (and safer!) and gets a bit hard to break out off after a while...
- complaining about unfriendly/condescending farangs
- my day in sukhothai old city and cycling through the very deserted countryside alone looking for isolated wats.
- the idiot songthraew driver who tried to bully me.

and now to the sardines part. I was hanging out last night n this morning with two japs (they only just met on the road too) and one of the shop assistants. All interesting ppl. too much to type. The local guy was using the analogy of a dog n a can of sardines. where dog=him, and sardines=me. He pushed the can towards me. No way i'll open the can for him. But one of the jap guys was very easy to talk to. In fact it ended up only the two of us drinking and talking after the other 2 went off to various clubs with other women. Asked a lot of questions abt s'pore (which he really liked, apparently) and chinese history n literature. I was very very pai-seh to be unable to really answer his questions well.. esp the chinese part.. he's also on the move indefinately. very interesting. Unfort they left for changmai today after being here for 5 days (what can you do in 5 days here?!). I think he got a bit drunk...

extending stay in sukhothai by a day to go Si Satchanalai tml. Didn't move guesthouse. too lazy plus paiseh after making friends with the shop guy. But the day has been spolit by the stupid driver..

And i somehow lost the chain, lock and key to the bike i rented in the old city. sigh.. backtracked so many times to look but no gold. Very tired from the day of cycling now.