Past Few Days

I spent yesterday, my class-free day, wandering around Centralworld, which is (another) big mall in Bangkok, one I hadn't been to before. It's like all the other big malls in Bangkok - full of Western brands, Starbucks and McDonalds, with the strange addition of the Playboy brand of clothing that's popular here.

Something cultural and interesting will be posted soon, but that will be somewhat delayed as we are still having internet problems...actually more specifically, we had internet problems yesterday in that the cable stopped working. It's working this morning but expires at noon. Not sure yet whether we will renew it - that depends on our other two roommates who aren't here. But the internet is ridiculously bad, slow, and inconvenient for how expensive it is.


Today, I have my muay thai class midterm. Which doesn't really matter since I can't transfer it, but what the midterm is performing a Wai Khru Ram Muay, which is basically the ceremony of giving respect and then a stylized dance. It's kind of hilarious, especially watching the group of us who have never tried it before run into each other all over the ring. But I was walking by MBK the other day and they were having a muay thai fight between two little kids (apparently there's free Muay Thai in an outdoor ring there once a week - I'll have to go back next week and see). I caught the beginning of that fight, and saw the two little kids doing the wai khru ram muay. It was cute.
As for me though, I've only tried it once before, and that was two weeks ago. Soooo...we'll see how badly I bungle this.