Loi Kratong

this week end in Thailand was the Loi Kratong festival
it's the celebration of the goddess of water and it is meant to apologize with her for the use we make of her element.
What you do is to compose a flower with leaves or anything else natural and put a lit candle and some money on, maybe a hair or something personal (not too grose..) and let it float on the river or the sea, that flower will take away your old life and will bring the goddess the apologies and the wishes for the new life
now isn't that just poetic?
I sent her a bread flower for the fishes and asked happiness for all my friends in need of joy, it joined the chain of lights floating in the river,
then I got drunk aha
photos coming soon ;o))

tell me something sad

hugh I think I had a sushi overdose!
cant stop laughing ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

slept a lot lately.... 

chris (malaysia)

chris (malaysia), originally uploaded by piccola ala.

some of the fairytale characters hanging around here

miew 

japan and malaysia together for a laugh 

I have got a new friend! 

uhsnee is married! 

what I see 

laokao's victims 

lightenings

Imagine a storm in the middle of the night a huge scary thunder and suddently a lightening falls nearby and for a very short dwarf second everything lits, the roofs of the houses the rain the streets, the trees, suddently the night reveals itself and then ....dark again, finished, till the next lightening....
well metaphorically speaking this is what happend a couple of nights ago, suddently I got everything clear, JUST EVERYTHING ok its not the first time that it happens to me but everytime its an event! plus I have to confess that it was long it did not happen again....so I finally understand what I am doing here, of course I knew it before leaving of course but I mean NOW the purpose is absolutely running into my veins (no worries no hard drugs are implied...;) its deeply rooted into my thought... I had the brilliant idea to write down stuff right after the very moment and of course yeah the lightnings are just a dwarf-second long after they leave the darkness as dark as before but i have a good memory (still ahaha)
I am not going to catch a cold (remember? the net cafes and their airco) by writing down all the stuff I got clear but I wanted to leave a record of the very first ZEN moment of this journey.
by the way I kind of make up my mind to go to India finally around April, Pat, my very good Thai friend is coming with me (yhiiiiiipppiiieeee) and that makes everything easier, plus we are hanging around with genial Dudu the japanese guy that is probably coming with us too and he is an indian cowboy alreay for 4 years, (kind of hard core traveller you meet at the park in Bkk, the japanese ones beats them all, trust me ahaha) so all this came up when I decided to go anyway what the hell, yeah like this , good news is that he has 'interesting' contacts in Bangladesh where we are going to spend a night hihihihihi, I keep meeting the same kind of people everywhere I go, it must be genetically disposed...mama what did you do to me..?
well some practical stories
today and tomorrow there is a theatre festival in the park and believe me its BABILONIA over here!!! any kind of performance and pubblic, I was not able to play my pois for more then 5 minutes without somebody coming asking for juggling infos :o)) maybe I'll give classes back in the nederlands ahahaha
for you guys in the cold just breath in breath out and the winter will go before you know, like my trip (sigh sigh)

first day in Bangkok!

well well lets see if I can use this thing without waisting too long i front of the screan, these net cafes have a hell of airco which make me freeze sick...so if I got it right this is going to be posted and published, so everybody will see how bad my written English got! sitting in BKK which is bangkok actually,arrived this morning at 07.00 am, in Europe it was 01.00 am so basically I am up since a looooong time! my friends are here and waiting for me to finish this damn thing I dont know why I am doing as I am not sure anybody will read anyway...well the news areI landed and it was RAINING!I felt like crying! but it was danm hot as usual. I arrived in the guest house where I always go and jumped into Husnee arms, got into a room, got out in 5 minutes passed the dangerous and adventurous alley with the guard dos who hate me, maneged to pass without getting biten rang the bll of Pat and shouted out his name till the neighbourghs came out pretty pissed off and open the gate, just when Pat was getting out his room to see if he was dreaming or it was really my voice....got into a tight hug and jumped in to see Miew just out of the shouwer, its good to be here, feels like home, I dont know it seems I feel home everywhere I go :o)) for the moment I dont have plans but to rest and wash of the western dust, to realx and have some more or less healthy fun (now, well I am writing that! I cannot deny in the future ahahahaha)next news when I recover from the cold I cought in this net cafeps I feel ZEN