Sunday, 28 June 2009
· Filed under bangkok, thai
I like to see how people wear, because it generally has to do with many things of them: what they think of current fashion, and how they want to present themselves to others.
Here in Bangkok I see a lot of interesting things. Sometimes it’s a lot more interesting than seeing people in Tokyo.
In Tokyo I enjoy looking at people trying to invent their own ways of clothing, living. You get to see another side of people from the famous “cos-play” (costume play, trying to look like cartoon characters etc), “gos-rori” (I don’t know its background but they dress like typical French dolls). They are all in search for their own style.
In Bangkok, I get to see people trying to copy what they think is cool.
Typical thing, of course, is fake Louis Vuitton:
I never quite understood why people like LV, let alone its copies. I even wonder if people here know what Louis Vuitton is, its history etc.
I don’t know why this person chose these shoes. To hide something around his toes maybe?:
The recent Japanese fashion of curling hair also reached here, but I think she did too much. And too much does not mean too beautiful:
The last one… I am sure she wanted to be fashionable, but when I see how this belt actually works, it does not look pretty anymore:
I will continue all this “fashion watch” as long as I live. I hope to see more changes in Bangkok. Clothing is not copying, but being secure, protection.
Thursday, 25 June 2009
· Filed under life
Ci sono i giorni in cui tutto sembra bello.
Non so perche’. Senza motivo.
La luce sembra piu’ brillante.
L’aria sembra piu’ pura.
La gente sembra piu’ felice.
Non so perche’. Ma e’ cosi’.
(in English)
There are the days when everything seems pretty.
I don’t know why. No reason.
Light seems brighter.
Air seems purer.
People seem happier.
I don’t know why. But it is so.
Friday, 19 June 2009
· Filed under life, thai
This is a typical statue in Thailand in shops, just like the “maneki neko” (statue of cat) of Japan. It is a statue to get more customers.
As far as I know, in many countries in Europe and Americas this hand means “Go away.” This hand in many countries in Asia means, “Come.” Anway, this statue calls on many more customers to come.
People offer things to these statues (In Japan people never do this by the way). But I never had mobile offered to it.
This statue, which I found in a hotel in Hua Hin, has a mobile, although it’s just a toy (Can you see the little red thing on left?). I wonder why. They want more mobiles perhaps?
Monday, 15 June 2009
· Filed under bangkok, life, sapientia
We wished to have a dog. We cannot have a dog at home, but now we have a lizard:
In the picture actually is not our lizard, although s/he visits us almost every night. Ours is inside our apartment. We call him/her “JJ,” cos in lizard in Thai is “jinjok.” S/he eats bugs, poops on our floor and we clean when we see it. S/he is always around our fridge.
I find her/him cute. It’s such a small thing and yet life seems a bit different.
A month ago I got some fish therapy:
Fish eat dead skin of my feet. 200 Thai baht (about 6 USD) for 15 minutes. I wanted to try because I never had the chance to, although was always interested in.
First minutes were tough, cos it was ticklish. After a while, it started to feel great. Peace of mind.
People lived with other animals (cos people are animals after all) as long as its history. I guess people now are too apart from them, and probably miss them. That’s maybe why I felt so good about it.
