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About the GrumpyQueen

A.K.A Gatekeeper

I love food, don't deprive me of it.

I'm not Princess, I'm Queen

I can be quite grumpy and when I am, I hide here, my dungeon for reflections, ramblings and ranting.

Whatever I write are opinions, and may not be the whole truth. Do not read it like the Gospel.

I hate as vehemently as I love
I already know I'm crazy, be my friend, it's safer

Different is not bad, just not the same as the rest

If you don't like me, it's probably mutual
But I'm nice, really :p

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Back from Thailand

It was a disastrous yet fruitful trip. Fruitful cos I bought so many retro stuff, so pretty, I like them! The last time I went, I just grabbed whatever's in sight, ended up with so many different styles and stuff I haven't used till today. Thankfully, most were in basic colours and easy to match patterns.

Oh yea, I fell in my hotel toilet! I was trying to sit in the tub when I slipped, fell and hit my rib cage against the bathtub. OUCH! Then I had to figure out how to move myself to a comfortable position without aggravating the injury or causing myself more pain.

And as I lay there, unable to shout out because it hurts too badly, I seriously thought I was going to die. I was just scaring myself with all the scary thoughts, thinking about my new clothes, how I'm never gonna get a chance to wear them, about how pathetic it is to die naked, in a bathtub, in some foreign land. Maybe they're gonna cremate me, maybe they're gonna bring my body home. If they bring my body home, what will they dress me in? Will I be in the cargo compartment of the plane or in the cabin?

Lest you think I'm some bimbo, no I'm not. I thought deeply about life too. If you knew you were gonna to die in 1 minute, what is one thing you'll want to know? I already know what I wanna know and I'm determined to find the answer to it.

And I lived without toner and a comb for 4 days! Toner cos it was in a bottle larger then 500 mls and the custom officer had to chuck it. Comb cos I took it out of the bag to comb my hair minutes before leaving and did not put it back.

This time, I didn't emo much 'cos I only saw 2 beggers. I suspect they might have been killed off because they made me emo the last time. :p Or maybe they just got richer thanks to my mindless shopping the last time and stopped begging. Muahahaha!

No la, seriously, I think we were prob staying in the more high class place this time 'cos the hotel was surrounded by high class shopping centers and the rooms had no windows. The designer is just so sick, who the hell designs a room to deprive the occupants of a view?! No matter how ugly the outside is, at least it's better then staring at the wallpaper! Thank goodness I was only in it when it was time for bed, else I would have gone crazy.

I still couldn't bear to waste food there. I kept chuffing food down my throat, telling myself that there are so many poor people around. Slimming theories went out of the window, since the hotel had so little window, okay, door!

The thai shopkeepers are generally nice, despite being offered ridiculous prices by shrewd tourists like us trying to save a few baht here and here. But there is one, who I think deserves to be poor. It was close to closing time when we spotted the shop with pretty shoes at low prices. We went in, tried on a few pairs and asked for our size. The shop owner, without looking at the model just went "no size, only one pair."

Ok FINE! It may have been the last pair for this shoe but what about the other designs? There were at least 5 pairs in front of us! ALL OF THEM LAST PAIR MEH?! Our taste so good is it? I mean they may not have the size we want but surely there must be other sizes right? Cannot be all last pair right?

Then I spotted a pair I liked in a corner. It must be their stock corner la, I dashed across the shop to grab it. The shopkeeper at that corner SHOUTED at me! She told me to go to the shelf if I was gonna see the design.

1) Most of the shoes on the shelf do not fit me.
2) That particular pair looked like it was in my size

So, I decided to be nice and explain to her that I wanna try this pair for the size but she kept insisting that I try the one on the shelf. Fine! Maybe it was in my size too so I made my way to the shelf and tried it on. TOO BLOODY SMALL!

I turned to her looking quite angry and said, "too small, I want that pair, I wanna try the size!" Then, she grudgingly gave me that pair. Wah! I wanna buy shoe must see your face colour is it? Thankfully, the shoe was too big for me else I would be forced to make a difficult decision. To not buy it because she pissed me off or to swallow my pride and just get it.

After a while, I got pissed off and joined my dad and sis outside the shop. At last, they drove my mum out by telling her "Madam, closing!" because she was still happily choosing away.

So even though they had cheap and pretty shoes, I still think they do not deserve to prosper. If I had my way, I won't send those cockroaches to India anymore but to their shop! I mean, they could have nicely told us it was closing time and we would have left! No need to use such despicable methods to drive us out right?! Or they could have pulled the shutters down a little and just let us buy till our hearts content right? 3 girls, 2 of them with a fetish for shoes. If only they knew how many pairs of shoes we could grab at one go...

Oh yea, and on the flight home, I was half expecting to go into those tunnel like thing that connects to the airplane but no! We got ushered to some tour bus which drove for something like 5 mins around a few planes. At last, it stopped at the plane we were supposed to board and we had to climb up into the plane! Sounds so budget airline right? But we were flying on Thai Airways, which is NOT a damn budget airline!

I would have understood if we were on some other airlines belonging to other country, maybe the enemy of Thailand if she has one but this is Thailand and we're flying their airline! How can they give such a pathetic boarding gate to their own airline? Last year, we took a Swiss airline and they didn't make us crawl our way up to the plane with our baggage and all!

And parked alongside our airplane were other airplanes belonging to other airlines. So I figured maybe they didn't like the pilot, maybe the pilot stupidly went and parked in the wrong place which is impossible cos then they would tell us to just go to another gate, not the original one. Or maybe the pilot's retiring soon and wants to learn how to park at different places for the fun of it. Or maybe they thought it was a good experience for us to stare at the plane in the face, because we're gonna depend on it to reach home safely after all. Maybe they wanted us to check for dead birds in the engine?

But at least they didn't make us load our own luggages in the cargo compartment, else I would jab the idiot who dares to make that suggestion with AIDs blood!

I thought the thought of someone who's late for his/her flight scrambling up the steps with their hand luggage is quite hilarious. It didn't happen la, else I would have laughed so hard, I'd roll down the steps and break my neck.

So anyway, am tired. Off to bed with a sore rib.

11.11.07 9:54 PM

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