Plans yet to be put into action

Well here I am again... I'll try to blog to y'all now about stuff seeing as I'm in a better mood and less tired then the last few days... for the first time I've really had to "make plans" and sort things out... tonight I get a 12 hour overnight but to Chiang Mai and today and yesterday I have sorted out my Vietnam and Laos visas (I know I can get the Laos one at some boarders but I wanted to avoid the faff... also it was nice to have like a task for the day:)... I've changed my on going flights to allow me more time in South East Asia (although I'm still trying to make sure everything has been changed properly as the e-ticket thing has become quite complicated seeing as Joe isn't travelling with me any more yet is still listed as the 'lead passenger' on some parts of the ticket... a technicality, I'm sure (I was travelling with Joe but he had an accident in St.Petersburg which required brain surgery and so (obviously) he had to return home... so yeah, if anyone was wondering why I hadn't mentioned my travel mate, that is why! ... I know it sounds kind of vague but a blog isn't really the place to chat about all that stuff in St.Petersburg (what happens in St.Petersburg, stays in St.Petersburg... and all that crap) ... but in the future I'll regail/bore people with the story on a strictly face-to-face basis (although I'm not sure where video calls on skype fit into the strictness of that!... anyway, back to today))... so it's been good to assert my own plans on this trip although I was initially very reticent and probably will still worry a little until I'm actually out of Bangkok and then out of Thailand and putting these plans into action:) ... when I said goodbye to my parents and thought about the planning I needed to do and the visas I needed to aquire I felt a bit lost for a moment... I felt like a (not another bloody simile!) salmon who'd swam downstream with ease and wondered what all the fuss and worry was about, only to turn and see that he was meant to be going the other way and taking the harder route (that might go down as the worst simile so far... that's it, I'm giving them up for life!)... but that soon passed and I took action and it now feels like things are progressing:)
 
... that is not to suggest that I've not enjoyed Thailand, I really have... Koh Chang was great and I had a fantastic time here with my parents... but I'm totally bored of Bangkok... I've spent too long here and the Khao San Road is getting to me a bit... ... ... 'No I don't want a bloody wooden frog', 'No I don't want a friggin' laser pen', 'Of course your meter's not broken', 'you said the wifi was free'... so I'm looking forward to experiencing some new places... also it seems that I might meet the Italian girls from Koh Chang up north which will be really great because they were nice and seemed to find it funny when I spoke English in an Italian accent (they'll regret their (probably) fake laughs soon enough:)...

... Although I'm not in the Hostel-de-sex-festival this time, it seems aquard experiences seem to follow me about... There was a quite "flamboyant" waiter in a resturant I visited with my parents... we were pretty sure he was gay... he bantered with us and it was all quite funny... the day after my parents left I bumped into him working in a different resturant I went to for lunch... he asked where "Mum and Dad" were and seemed really interested and talkative... about halfway through the meal I got the feeling he was quite strongly cracking on to me... whenever I wanted to order something the waitress would always call him down to serve me even though he was meant to be working behind the bar... he kept sitting down to chat and touched me a lot... on the upper arm... I started to feel very uncomfortable... maybe he just wanted to be friends... and if so, well I'm ignorant... but I felt incredibly uncomfortable... I've never eaten rice so fast in my life!

... As for my time with my parents, it was good... we spent most of our time in Koh Chang (and I'm sure I've already gone on about that enough previously)... we then returned to Bangkok and I showed them the giant reclining buddha, the weekend market, MBK etc etc... ... ... ...

... and there we have it... I'm burnt out with this typing game... it's all gone for another day... When I have more input and stimulus greater blogging results will follow... Without all the necessary ingredients a cake just isn't a cake, and at the moment I'm a pancake... hopefully Chaing Mai will provide all that's necessary to turn this blogging pancake into a delicious victoria-sponge of a journal (Shit, another simile... damn my obtuse nature!)...

Keep well people:)