A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that life seems to thrive around here and you can't even imagine the extent to which this is true. I often see rats and cockroaches whenever I walk around Sukhumvit; hell, the other day I had finished having dinner when, soon after a cockroach went up one of my friends' leg, we saw two rats running around. As one of the girls put it, "welcome to a third world country".
To be fair, most of the time this statement is a bit of an exaggeration but it's impossible to go around the fact that:
- the air pollution in this place is such a problem that I'll soon have to start sniffing eucalyptus;
- it's not uncommon to listen to racist remarks, which would make a red traffic light blush;
- if in your free time you read more than eight sentences per year, you read more than the average Thai.
But nothing is perfect and that's why we should just focus on the bright side of life.
After a few days trying to put the pieces of a puzzle together, the time came to... get some perspective. On Saturday evening, I went for dinner with Mai and Boom and had a really nice time. At the end of our suki meal, I also discovered that each of us had ingested 542.3 kcal worth of energy, 40.2 gm worth of protein, 34.2 gm worth of carbohydrates, 25.7 gm worth of fat, 1.1 gm worth of dietary fiber, 1.1 gm worth of sodium, 114 mg worth of calcium and 4.7 mg worth of iron - very... precise, isn't it?
On Sunday, I went out for drinks with Ben and Leon and had lots and lots of fun. It was hard to have to go to work only two hours after falling asleep but still - it was totally worth it.
The other day I watched "Skyfall" with Liana - this was the very first time I went to the cinema in Thailand and was surprised by the fact that we all had to get up in order to pay respect to the king just before the movie started.
Somewhere along these experiences, I managed to complete he puzzle - wherever you go, whatever you do, it will be the people around you giving meaning to your life. And that, my friends, is the bottom line.
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