After Panote’s convocation was done, I spent the last day getting lost in Shinjuku and nothing was worthy mentioned. Then, I arrived Bangkok on the same day.

I felt that Bangkok changed a lot. Actually, I would say people there were weird for me. I had feeling that the life style there was luxury but many people didn’t have enough money suitable to that kind of life style as I could see people walking around with a digital SLR camera, in which it costed at least the salary of at least 2 whole months,  and using it just like a compact one and people using iPhone or something equivalent. I wonder what their logic of using something like that without solid purposes and reasoning.

The people there were still somewhat nice as long as I didn’t talk about the local politics.

The food there was good as always but it was funny that I didn’t have much authentic Thai food as much as I wanted. I believe that my tight schedule kept me away from eating it. And somehow I had quite a lot of Japanese food in Bangkok. Weird, wasn’t it?

My meetings with people wasn’t go as I expected. Althought I haven’t talked to my friend a lot via IM, we surprisingly ran out of topics within 20 minutes with my female friend, less than 5 minutes with my grand mother, my uncles, my aunts and my teacher. 1 hour with my best friends. Most of the conversations were somehow adult-like serious. Not much jokes with each other. I was happy to meet them but I was disappointed and I missed the childish feeling in the conversation with friends. But the meeting with my old friends, who used to be DSCC’s executive members together, was great even though it slightly disappointed me as we missed a half of them and Panote, who struck in Japan.

I was right to visit my family in Bangkok this time. I was able to witness the moment that my sister (my cousin) got accepted to Mahidol University with miracle and no effort. I was able to talk with anyone in my family and my mother-side cousins. It was a great moment.

In the end, it was a meaningful trip as always. I was able to witness many things I haven’t seen before. I was able to test my own (current) limit as if I lived in Japan or Thailand. I was able to meet many people I know or I haven’t met. It wasn’t really a fun trip but it wasn’t a bad trip.