Squareface @ 31°North

Experiencing an amount of inertia when it comes to blogging. The notes in my phone are piling up from the random things I want to blog about, and I don’t know how else I should put them down other than yet another post about random things. (Not the 25 random things about me ok don’t [...]

[Read more →]

10 Jan: Flight to Nanning (Guangxi)
14 Jan: Flight to Shanghai
15 Jan: Flight to Seoul
20 Jan: Flight to Jeju
22 Jan: Flight to Seoul
24 Jan: Flight to Shanghai
25 Jan: Flight to Singapore
9 Feb: Flight to Kuala Lumpur
11 Feb: Flight to Shanghai
Tired. Aging fast with all the packing and unpacking; checking-in; immigration checks; security checks; rushing to boarding [...]

[Read more →]

Bought a HOLGA 120GCFN camera in Bangkok. Approx. 80SGD.
Didn’t have good shots for the first roll though Barely any lomo effects.

And only six shots were processed, when I was expecting sixteen. The rest were apparently too underexposed.
Nevertheless I think it’s a pretty fun toy Wish [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve visited Bangkok three times this year, twice with the same person. There’s something there that wins you over to visit again and again, to look at different places in each visit, get more local each time, to explore the sois and sub-sois, to go around without taking any photos because it’s the experience you [...]

[Read more →]

The inadequate airport was stretched to accommodate the thousands of passengers streaming in every hour. I think that’s a good word to describe it, stretched.
A “Vietnam-war-era” airport trying it’s best to work like an international airport, but only handling around 40 flights a day, while the closed-and-caused-thousands-such-inconvenience Suvarnabhumi airport could have handled 700.
On our tuktuk [...]

[Read more →]

Keywords: Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok protests, U-Tapao, PAD, Thailand, foreigners, stranded, refund, accommodation, meals, hotels, ATTA refund, TAT, what to do, things to do
If you’re still stuck in Bangkok and will be for a while, I hope this helps.
Getting out
If you already have a return ticket, contact your airline’s office. If they don’t pick up the phone, [...]

[Read more →]

BANGKOK - Rampaging anti-government protesters forced the closure of Thailand’s main international airport Tuesday as a second day of demonstrations in Bangkok descended into violence with 11 injured in clashes.
Airport closed. Flight back to Shanghai scheduled on Saturday night. Wish us luck.
Bangkok airport closed as protests turn violent

[Read more →]

Never knew sleeping at the airport is an acquired skill.
And the skill you need is knowing where the best seats are at respective airports, or be quick to locate them at an unfamiliar one. Whether you get yourself a couple of hard seats or cushioned ones determines the quality of the night’s rest and your [...]

[Read more →]

He said police had set up checkpoints across the city.
“This is in response to the rumours that there will be a series of bomb attacks in the city after the royal cremation,” he said.
Read about the latest violence in Bangkok protest.

[Read more →]

It’s only mid-November and this place is freezing. It’s one to ten degrees celsius today, even with the sun.
So tomorrow we’ll be off to where the sun’s heating system is on, full blast, year-round, and drown our stomach and intestines in coconut milk from curries. And whatever else.
And, as this reporter put it sarcastically on [...]

[Read more →]