Back in Thailand.

9th day of March

After a pretty tough goodbye with Sunshine and Just, I walked into boarding area G only to find that it is the top floor of boarding area A. Gee, boring. Can't even sit on the aero train as my boarding area's not C. :(

Bumped into... Justin! Gee, haven't seen him for awhile though he's John's housemate. But erm.. crap le, haven't even seen John around. :P So we chatted, flight got delayed a bit, got into the plane together and 2 hour 15 minutes later arrived at Don Muang. Such a beautiful and LONG airport! The plane cruised past a golf course of some sort with flower covered trees and after a very long time reached Terminal 1. Collected my luggages and met Bro. Siam who's my host for this trip. Got into his very nice and comfy car and headed south to Bang Na.

Bang Na means a lot of paddy fields and it is also home for Assumption University (AU). AU is the best looking university probably in the whole Asia. Welcoming anyone that passes it is a Roman bridge. On the right lies the chapel with a lake with designed horses galloping in front of it. The chapel looks like something from a European mag! On the left lies another lake with real life geese chilling out by it. Driving around the campus we passed by archs with designs crafted around the edge and gorgeous paintings. And we finally reached the junction where the academic building separates the Cathedral of Learning front the roads leading to the dorms.
St. Michael's hall also has the overseas effect that gave me a numb dumb sort of feeling after a mere glimpse. I walked to the foot of the Cathedral of Learning and tried to contain myself from going hysterical. The very, very tall building is beautifully crafted to look like a cathedral but plays the role as classrooms to AU students. (* jealoussssssssssss) The basement of this building lies an arcade of shops to cater for the students needs be it for food or for entertainment. Semi circling the Cathedral of Learning is actually St. Michael's Hall. At the other side of the building where St. Michael's Hall does not circle is a Thai traditional architecture to welcome guest as important as the Royal family of Thailand. This place just makes me feel as though I've left Asia for some European country and am walking the grounds of a European university but then again, I wasn't.

The dorms: Queen of Sheba for girls, King Solomon for boys and King David for professors and lecturers lie in a U shape with King David's dorm as the one that separates the boys' and the girls' dorm. Next to the dorm lies tennis courts, more arcades with coffee houses and 7 Eleven, their own very huge stadium with up to date sports facilities and more historical statues. Separating Queen of Sheba and King Solomon's actually a basketball court and a museum that houses the works of students. Immense, beautiful, worldly recognised, hotel- like dorms, convenient facilities... well how much are the fees, I wondered. Not that much, I found out. Just about RM 30 k plus for a bachelors' degree. (My dip. and degree comes to a total of RM 50 k and I study at SEGi, gawdddd!!!) The room costs RM 350 per person with internet facilities, air con and most probably house keeping.

Note: Colleges back home should just sedar diri and improve themselves le OK? Stop giving us lousy facilities and demand our lives for them!

Feeling the pinch that colleges back home are cheating the students crazy.. I left university 'heaven' and we continued our journey to Sri Racha. Sri Racha is pronounced Si Rah Chah. The name Sri Racha means Honour the King or Majestic of the King, something like that. It was pretty dark when we arrived and I left my stuff in the room I was supposed to sleep at and picking another brother up, Brother Manit and 2 teachers Jacob and Praksit we headed to Pattaya Tai (South of Pattaya), the red light district of Chon Buri (City of Water), the province south of Bangkok. Passed by Pattaya Klang (Centre of Pattaya) and endless roads before we reached.

'Follow the red light and you find.. old white men with young service girls.' Gee. Pattaya is a modern, hip, americanised sex pit with more white people than Thais! The streets are splattered with endless pubs and stalls selling cut-throat priced items. Had dinner at Sizzler's of Royal City shopping complex.

Dinner was:-

1. Killing my diet
2. Extremely rich and yummy!!!
3. Lots of CHEESE!!
4. Buffet at the salad bar with a generous supply of cherry tomatoes, potatos, numerous types of salad, yummy desserts, cheese cheese and more cheese.. and many more. :)
5. Pork Ribs too sweet for me.

Life's a bliss. Went for a walk, took a few pictures of hamsup old men and young chicks flirting.. and headed back 'home'.

Never felt so alone before. No music, no movies, no sound. Entered my dorm for the night (it's air-conditioned, btw) and took a shower before I went to bed. The room's nice, just a tad lonely.

:) Can't believe I'm back in Thailand after 6 whole years!