Gaps, patches and in-betweens

Stumbled upon old stuff from last year before the kids were here with me. Should have been part of the missing series, and should've come at least before They're Here post. The missing and the drinking Unbearable lightness of the head It’s not until the next day’s hangover affirming your diminished youth and braincells deepfried in beer batter while fired by nicotine, that you realize it is true the ability to gulp down gallons of alcohol and keeping it down the next day, is gone. At least until the next drinking spree when you will try to prove yourself wrong. Believe. The Anticipation. Trip. My untied shoelace, which wasn’t my doing or undoing Stumbled me into a waiting oblivion. Oct. 20 2007, on my first application for the visa of my kids, also applicable upon hearing that there was no need to change the visa had we.... ; almost always about visas and trips) Waiting to exhale. I didn’t even realized I was holding my breath until I called the Thai embassy a...

Boiling hot. Humidity is high. But that does not derail the whole of Thailand to celebrate my birthday. Well, firstly, their four to five day new year celebration. My family went around with our landlord's family for a water fight party in the whole of Chiang Mai. Everyone goes home soaking wet and laughing. The only way to escape it is to stay home. It lasts until tomorrow or the 16th. It's just like the San Juan fiesta in the Philippines only of course the San Juan "wetting" of people only happens in San Juan. By the time you get to the office you are already boiling mad because not everyone is wet, only those passing through San Juan gets wet. But here in Chiang Mai, there is no escape, no mercy especially from those just waiting on the side of the road with small or big buckets ready for splashing. Maybe that's why also the four-day splashing is timed well with a four-day holiday. Well, of course, it is New Year. It started out as a blessing of scented water s...