going to the elephant village @ LPQ!
"Mae Boun Nam's beautiful trunk is always in motion: sniffing, feeling and sensing, replacing the use of her eyes. Blind in her right eye for many years, Mae Boun Nam only recently lost vision in her left eye.
Her mahout, Mr. Sao, can be seen bobbing his feet energetically against her body as he guides her along the forest tracks. ("Yes," Mr. Sao admitted. "My legs get very tired! Absolutely!") With his guidance and with the information gathered by her trunk, Mae Boun Nam finds her way through the thickest jungle, and down to the water's edge.
To watch Mae Boun Nam make her way forward is a beautiful thing. Her trunk seems to tap the ground like a blind man's cane, before curling upwards to take stock of the surrounding trees and foliage. If she comes across something tempting, even Mr. Sao's adamant calls and bobbing feet can't get her moving. Mae Boun Nam lives in the moment and takes her treats when they present themselves. Mahout and elephant are are a wonderful sight as Mr. Sao serenades the jungle with traditional Laos songs and Mae Boun Nam sways her head in rhythm with his music.
Sometimes, this lovely elephant can be found resting with her forehead against the trunk of a tree, stealing a power nap between customers. This happens after a night of restless sleep, when the insects keep her awake and set her ears to listening and her mind to wandering."
10:13 AM
Saturday, December 05, 2009
ive been waking up fromdreams and feeling so
sorry for myself for them.
damn, am i really this sad?
i guess its weird because in real life
im quite used to being good at coping.
its almost like i have some sort of
social responsibility to be alright.
well i guess these days
i really feel apologetic towards
people because i neither want
to hear good or bad news from them,
i really don't want to hear anything
from anyone hahaha.
i think their personal emotions
pose too much negative externalities
on my personal emotions, esp since
i don't (I THINK) subject them to
that kind of emotional burden.
i guess its kinda selfish and terrible
hopefully it'll just be a phase
because i really would like
to be a Great Person Everyone Loves.
10:29 AM
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
attempts to hold on to wealthare futile and tragic.
im currently grieving over my
80 bucks lost to my forgetting of
monday's driving lesson,
just while i am grappling with
inevitable expenditures like the
1XX bucks lost to salvaging my
dying skin and 2XX bucks gone
into fixing ugly hair.
on top of the XXXX bucks that goes into
my travels in dec and jan!!
i think there is quite an urgent
need to engage in some sort of
stable income generating activity
next semester otherwise i will forever
be living in the grief of depreciating
bank balance and impending joblessness.
oh my god scaryz to death. how???
1:15 PM
Monday, November 30, 2009
i think people who opentheir lives to public scrutiny
are madly brave.
unimaginable things could happen
somewhere down the timeperiod and
then all that
openness might just blow out of
proportions.
even explanations to the inner circle
will always be subjected,
again, to doubt, disapproval and
further need to justify i.e escalating
into unhealthy feelings for person to person
relationships.
i think the more conservative
policy is to keep it in,
privately implode and talk about it
maybe 30 years later to a random shrink.
people have become more explicit
these days in the asking of questions
and i guess to be socially-appropriate
i will have to devise some sort of socially
appropriate answer that isn't too far off
from reality.
6:08 PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
재범 COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!4:01 PM
