i hate when i get behind on blogging but sometimes just feel overwhelmed after a few days have passed and i feel like i have to catch up. however, i just thought about it and it's my blog, so i really can do whatever i want. i was pushed to update by bryan though, so here i am on saturday looking at my little book where i record what i do everyday and trying to figure out some themes to write about that might be interesting.
Food:
food is always a good place to start. ive had some fantastic food over the past few weeks. last night, poo,p'nui and i went to the Chiang Mai Food Festival. This yearly event lasts for a week and is roughly equivalent to a Thai County Fair, complete with a stage (there was a traditional Thai music/dance competititon last night), games, rides, and of course, food. I think there were maybe 30-40 food stalls there from famous restaurants in CM selling really yummy Thai food for very little money. We had two whole fish prepared in different ways (one with peppers and herbs that was broiled and the other that was grilled and covered with salt), yum woonsen (a sour/spicy noodle salad with seafood), sweet pork jerky, and more. p'nui and i also drank a pitcher of singha beer and i turned really red (surprise, surprise) but wasnt really drunk. after eating, poo played a bunch of the games that they had there and was able to shoot a stuffed animal to win a prize. it was kinda funny - all these guys were watching her load this wooden gun and shoot because she was all dressed up and is really little. when she won her prize, they were all like, we want to play too! but none of them won anything. lol.
other food ive been eating lately includes khao soi (this noodle/curry dish famous in Northern Thailand), young bamboo shoot soup, beef curry, Chinese pork dumplings, Chinese scrambled egg with tomato (best hangover food ever! i used to eat this after partying all night in Beijing and found out they sell it downstairs in the Taiwanese restaurant for $1), different kinds of yum (spicy salad), toast with butter/sugar or sankaya (this Thai spread), and more...i love Thailand, especially for the food. :)
Bangkok:
last weekend i went to Bangkok and got to meet up with a bunch of friends and see my uncle and aunt. since everything revolves around food here, these are the meals i had there:
friday night: dinner at the nai lert park buffet with poo, p'nui, and two ppl who picked us up from the airport. (poo had to go to an ID fellows meeting in Bangkok and was staying at the hotel across the street from my uncle's apt, so i just tagged along for the ride)
sat: i had two dinners - one with sarah and ken, who were in thailand for their honeymoon, and then again at this resort in nonthaburi where i sang lots of karaoke and ate leftovers with nan, krit, and about twenty other girls.
sun: brunch at kuppa with amalee and some of her friends (celebrating her bday!) - i just had bread pudding though, and then real lunch with my aunt and uncle at MK (sukiyaki), dinner at the airport with p'nui
work:
work has been really picking up lately. poo and i are working hardcore on our crypto study since she's leaving for a course in bangkok in two weeks and will be gone for two months. i have come to greatly appreciate the electronic medical record since charts here are basically pieces of paper stapled together and are hard to get info out of. will update more re: this project later.
i had a bit of a run-in with hopkins ppl re: this interview project i had planned to help out on with iv drug users. this will be the subject of a separate post (the next one) because i actually have to go work on that project now. i know this wasn't the most exciting blog, but it's a start...just trying to get back into the swing of things again. :)
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