It’s just wild-everyday it gets more insane. Today they put the tires on the tracks of the skytrain and shut the whole system down for several hours.
Last Friday, after the Thursday’s splurge of violence, the government vowed to “crack down” within 48 hours. Obviously, this did not happen. The past weekend was one of the quietest since I have been here. I understand the military is in a hard situation because if they make a move, it’s pretty much guaranteed there will lots of bloodshed and then everyone will be more unhappy and they will get the blame. But enough is enough, right? No one in my office can get to work without car searches and waiting in what was already bad traffic. My class will move to its third location this week.
Now the protestors are starting to lose their marbles. They are so paranoid about when this crackdown is going to happen. Today, when walking home from work, they were on the bridges with their binoculars- I assume looking for troops. They have decided to stop wearing red-I guess to blend in?
The local bangkokians are also losing their marbles, waiting for the government to do something because their lives have been held hostage. Now they are gathering to “take matters into their own hands”.
Meanwhile the redshirts took a couple of garbage truck hostage in order to block an intersection..so now they won’t get any trash pickup….F*NG disgusting, especially when you remeber that they don’t have restrooms.
On a lighter note, I went out to a food crawl last night with some nice coworkers- life must go on. Cabin fever sucks. Bangkok is really good at compartmentalizing issues. I was taken to an open-air diner that has awarding winning pad thai –SOOO flipping good- it was wrapped in a fried egg. We followed that up by a trip to the local pizza joint (first pizza since I left the states-long overdue) then to a local thai post dinner hangout. The big dessert item was toast! Who knew? But it wasn’t just normal toast- the fresh bread was topped with the most delicious sweet flavors- we sampled three: a condensed milk custard like mixture, cream corn blended with coconut milk (sounds weird but good), and a fruity jelly. Yummy!
