" 4-day week end and other blathering "

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after seven consecutive days of selling ice cream at the bangkok thai red cross festival for the advertising/doing good for people-in-need/making merit, i am going on-location up to chiang mai with my production team to shoot segments for our show.

yesterday i had a thought, and i had to remember really hard to write it down all day, as a co-worker had earlier in the day borrowed my pen. anyone that knows me know that being as over-prepared as i tend to present myself at all times, i had just but one pen. which was just silly.

as i got to actually finding a piece of paper, i found it really hard to remember to remember what the thought was. so, buttons!

in any case here is the thought, which turned out to be two:

1) if you take some time to really look at them, then think about it, toes are really weird, if you think about it. smaller cloven miniature versions of your fingers, complete with matching joints and seemingly symmetrical in terms of length. i love them, but from time to time, they're very strange and rare things.

toes.

if you think about it.

2) shoes can make or break a whole look.

you have these guys, with their three-piece suits on walking around looking like 20's gangsters with their dapper-selves, and then you angle your view down to a pair of silly bubble-gums. what's the point of being clever, if you cannot put it together proper?

i say, although fashion itself has strict guidelines that are made to be decimated by trends, these fellows needed some technical cliff's notes.

you follow the line of a woman's spine from her neatly cleated hairline, complete with well-placed hairclips, fashionable clothing with over-sized clips and dangles, and matching fake prada side bag. your eyes fall onto her shoes, and they're just not flattering at all. you almost feel like crying that she would ruin her perfect ankles with such horrid footwear.

some people just need my help.

i did however find the best-looking couple in all of thailand yesterday; beautifully dressed and holding hands like there were two swallows nested in their palms. it was sweet to see so much blind devotion and potential happiness. i almost fainted, but i decided to fall in love with both of them, just before secretly blazing my jealousies through false smiles after making eye contact.

it's a query how i can stand anything any more these days.


on a side note, although completely relative, (PUNS!) it's me brudda's birfday, so:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG!!!

um, how old are you again?

dat's family!!!

(insert accordion music and yodeling here, complete with mountain women and tiny boys dancing full-of-joy and beer)

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