Viva La Revolution
Sep. 20th, 2006 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanThat's French for HOLY FUCK, just in case you didn't know.
Yesterday I took part in a discussion about whether or not to go see the Royal Palace that afternoon or later. We ended up seeing it that afternoon.
Good thing too, considering it's apparently surrounded by tanks.
Yes, Bangkok has chosen the day of my departure from the country to attempt to oust Thaksin. Which would be great except that I'm going to have to drive right through the city to get to the airport in seven hours.
I attempted to call the U.S. Embassy and ask for advice, and was put on hold for so long that my money ran out. I then decided to head to ye olde Internet cafe to see what the Embassy website has to say about the situation. Which is...nothing, although they've got several useless links to the shit bush has spewn from his mouth recently. Way to lose at life, embassy.
Thus I find myself refreshing the NYTimes homepage and reading what the Japanese news media has to say about the situation over the shoulder of the woman next to me.
All I can say is, I better get out of here tomorrow, because I don't have enough money to buy another $1,100 ticket back home.
That will be all.
PS: I should have known something was up when I stopped into the Tourist Information Bureau this evening and found it full of police in full riot gear. Unfortunately, I've spent too much time in South Korea.
Yesterday I took part in a discussion about whether or not to go see the Royal Palace that afternoon or later. We ended up seeing it that afternoon.
Good thing too, considering it's apparently surrounded by tanks.
Yes, Bangkok has chosen the day of my departure from the country to attempt to oust Thaksin. Which would be great except that I'm going to have to drive right through the city to get to the airport in seven hours.
I attempted to call the U.S. Embassy and ask for advice, and was put on hold for so long that my money ran out. I then decided to head to ye olde Internet cafe to see what the Embassy website has to say about the situation. Which is...nothing, although they've got several useless links to the shit bush has spewn from his mouth recently. Way to lose at life, embassy.
Thus I find myself refreshing the NYTimes homepage and reading what the Japanese news media has to say about the situation over the shoulder of the woman next to me.
All I can say is, I better get out of here tomorrow, because I don't have enough money to buy another $1,100 ticket back home.
That will be all.
PS: I should have known something was up when I stopped into the Tourist Information Bureau this evening and found it full of police in full riot gear. Unfortunately, I've spent too much time in South Korea.