Chiang Mai to Hong Kong culture shock in the 5 hours I’ve been here is as follows:
- Pedestrians do not have the right of way. This means I can no longer run 20 feet in front of a full-speed automobile and expect it to come to a screeching halt.
- Toilet paper goes in the bowl.
- It’s xie-xie, not khop-khun-kaa.
- The hot pot place we went to for dinner was serving testicles of the ox, goose, and chicken variety.
- FRIGIDFREEZINGARCTICCOLD. I have goosebumps for the first time in 10 weeks.
Ah, home sweet home.
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
(Source: hereticnarrative)
fiddling with themes today
I’d say the approaching new year calls for a new look, wouldn’t you?
Attempting to woo through email correspondence. This feels like a You’ve Got Mail moment, except I feel nothing like Meg Ryan.
It’s about time for me to come out: I’m completely and unabashedly obsessed with this show.
More specifically, with Damon.
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via liquidnight)
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