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I’m back in Thailand now, got stuff all over my room and trying to sort them out isn’t an easy task. My room is full to the brim, there’s no where else I can put books in. I think I won’t be buying any books (or anything at all) for a long long while.

I’ll work extra hard after this, I already taken too much time off.

Still have a few photo left to post too.

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Everyone: How is America?
Shari: COLD X_x

That’s about to sum it up so far, I’m staying with Kayay who is in Seattle where it is very hilly (me likes) and very windy (me no likes), the temperature was somewhat between 50 - 70 F which is fine and dandy until I converted it to Celsius, holy mother of god, that was 10 - 20 C! THAT is the lowest I have ever been in, and this is supposed to be summer…

I don’t want to think about my WINTER trip to Netherlands later this year @_@

altho cold weather does have its use, I finally got to wear big long coats, jackets, and SOCKS! without sweating all over myself <3

A ghost in Italian RoomKayay , who also cook and feed me *shame*, took me to eat around the town - seafood, steaks, italians, sushi, junkfood, BBQ. I like all the food so far, I wish I took the picture, but I forgot most of the time @_@ I don’t know if I can say all food is good, because if I like it then it’s good enough for me, my standard isn’t high XD (don’t take it wrong way, Seattle XD)

one thing I noticed tho, that surprised me the most, strangers talk to you all the times, salesperson, shopkeeper, waiter waitress etc. They talked to you more than necessary, and by necessary I mean like salesperson or service person in Thailand who wouldn’t strike for small talk or talk at all unless it’s absolutely necessary, and Thailand supposed to be a land of smile eh? maybe they only smile to foreigners and people who looks rich.

I also got to visit alot of animal shelters, mostly cats, and holy smoke, these cats are BIG, I tried to pick up one that was listed as ‘extra large’ and almost topple over, I haven’t seen such big cats before, it made Thai cats look anorexic.

and don’t make me start about dog, most of the ‘large’ dogs are heavier than me, rather frightening, I wouldn’t want to be lone in the same room with any of them, they could kill me bare.. er.. paw. XD

beside animal shelters and restaurants, I also went to Seattle Art Museum, Market, Malls, watched cat show, attended Medieval Faire, I’d have written something about those, but I think, photos do a better job :D

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arrived safely, if not smoothly @_@

The shorten version: I got grilled by the border security people for hours and I was the last from the morning flights to leave tacoma airport.

The long version was that, they told me they needed to do the additional checking because my passport is new, and I intended to stay long, and they probably think that I’m here to stay. While other people just had to scan their finger printes and taken mugshot, before given the permit stamp, I was given this giant red plastic card and got shifted into kinda back room and into what was looking suspiciously like interrogating room @_@, it was probably that, except that there wasn’t any shouting and flashlight in the face, just alot of questions and looking through all my stuff, I mean, ALL. The officer went through stuff in my bag, my wallet and my suitcase, and actually went to check sixkillerbunnies.com, checking my cellphone and reading the diary I wrote on the plane, much to my embarrassment, I think, only because my story are added up and consistent that they allow me to enter. all the while I keep thinking about the case that the guy who got strip search at border and was only allowed to enter for one day, if that happened, I think I’d breakdown for sure, it was so scary, but thankfully nothing like that happened. The officer was polite but firm and explained to me that he understands that these stuff are private but he has duty to go through them, and it will be only be between me and him and it won’t leaving this room, I actually don’t have much problem with the said diary spreading around since I intended to post that here anyway, but it’s good to know that they are still being courteous and considerate.

When they finally let me enter and I walked out of the area, I found that a few more officers there heard about me and remarked about me being artist, it was so weird and kind of fuzzy at the same time, fuzzy enough that I wanted to leave the airport as soon as humanly possible, juggling the giant suitcase that costed me 50$ for excess baggage with me.

I think I had enough excitement to last for months, now I’ll enjoy quiet day, surfing endless cable tv and practicing cg on 22″ wide screen LCD monitor :D

bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport.

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first, out of the blue, my wacom went wanky, it’s not totally broken, it has what I called ‘wiggling spot’ where the line will jiggle no matter what, I can still work on it but it gave me headache and I had to give in.

400$ short later, I got new wacom and went on my merry way.

then, probably a week later, my bro’s pc broke. which enough to send me bonkers, because I was using his pc to connect to the net, the only ADSL modem I had doesn’t work with mac, after it was sure that I couldn’t salvage his pc at all, I was left without internet connection.

shari - internet = dead shari

good thing that problem is easily fixed by just buying a new router, 100$ short, but I’m whole again.

new family member, wirelss router, the ‘babyluv’I should have gotten it ages ago, but I keep pushing it off because the old set up still work, I have a mantra of not fixing what’s not broken ^^;;

my bro’s pc remain broken tho, and it is somehow my responsibility to fix it, ah, the cost of being older.

The bad luck not ending there, today I woke up intend to play some L2 after all the works done, while I was downloading patch, my pc froze, and I can’t do anything but forced restart (read: pull the plug), and it just went downhill from there, I end up wiping the xp partition off the hd and reinstall it on other hd, it works now, but, it smells like something is burning, none of the fan is working except for processor fan, I think I need new case if not whole new pc.

bonus pic: my bro’s pc

what will break next?! (don’t answer, please T^T)

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