yes, the time has come to leave the days of having maids come in every day to make my bed, give me fresh towels and wash the dishes. now im on my own and must fend for myself...yet again. and I LOVE IT.
i knew since i arrived that i could only stay at good ol' Evergreen Place Service Apartments from the beginning of august-the beginning of december, so i have always been on the look out, wondering where i would wander to next.
my dear friend mariha, who is an apartment finder extraordinaire, helped me discover my new home, KT Mansion. it is about 2 sky strain stops further away from my work, which is really only like 10 minutes more of a commute--not bad at all. two of my friends live down one of the sois right next to mine, and another lives the next skytrain stop over. so it is nice to have my friends as neighbors. and it is cheaper! it is about a little over a $100 cheaper to live here! so it is nice to have some more money to save...or travel with..
it was an adventure living in Evergreen with international students who wanted to make the most of their few months in bangkok. i loved the girls i lived with, they were all chill and we never had any fights or anything. they were sweet to me, but it is nice to not be woken up by them coming home late and seeing random boys on our couch when i walked out in the morning on my way to work. ahh...but i will miss those wacky days a wee bit.
my goal for my new place was to make it homey, a place i wanted to come home to because i discovered living in a hotel isnt exactly ever homey. so to aid the homey factor, i put up all my posters of pictures of my lovely friends, a colorful collage one of my friends made for me, and picture frames...pretty much the room screams sherri once you amble in.
the colors and one of my favorite parts, the bedspread, also add to the sherri-ness. there isnt much variety of cheap bedspreads in bangkok, but i actually found an original one. it is green and blue with flowers and fairies on it. i always wanted to be a fairy, so it makes me happy whenever i look at it. the ruffle around the edge goes a little too far, but other than that it's all good.
my room consists of a small neon green table with two modernistic chairs. i have a black wooden armorie, which matches my TV stand, and vanity desk. my bathroom is old school thai style. the shower is a removable head above the toilet. so there is no shower curtain. so when it is time to shower the whole bathroom becomes a shower room. so it is sort of like i have a walk in shower. hehee..
the only odd part is i dont have a window. no, surprisingly that doesnt mean i live in cave. there is a window in the random storage room where the a/c sits and makes tons of rattling noises. and frosted windows in my bathroom that let in light. but i dont really mind the non-window. the sun always wakes me up anyways, so i thought it would be sort of nice to not have a window for light to stream in at 6am. but oddly, i still wake up automatically at 630-645 everyday, even though my room is totally dark. i have only slept past 645 three times these past 4 months of living in bangkok. what is up with me? i think i might have eternal jet lag or something.
oh, but there is one more odd part. i live right next to Dunsit Commerical College, which means the shortcut through the college closes at 930pm every night. so the other night i walked with my friend home, and then went toward my place, i arrived at the gate a little before 930 to discover it was already locked. i felt like someone during the holocaust who missed curfew and was stuck oustide the ghetto until morning. im not even sure if ever they really did that, but that is what it felt like.
but luckily there is more than one way to get home. but it took an extra 15 minutes of walking fast down a random soi, instead of 2 minutes through the nice safe campus. oh wells! i will learn my lesson...maybe.
so we shall see what adventures lie ahead of me in KT Mansion. woohoo!
Friday, December 7, 2007
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Sherrie, this is Uncle Rich. I like your blog.
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