*Everyday at 6:00pm the national song comes on through speakers in the cities and everyone stops whatever they are doing, stands up straight and listens.
My first time seeing this was in the bustling train station in Bangkok... I had no idea what was going on, it was crazy. EVERYTHING and everybody stopped.
The second time I was at the Sunday market in Chiang Mai (think Portland Saturday Market, but bigger, denser and more crowded). The flow of people came to a complete stop, the song was played and then we continued on. It's really neat.
*Lots of people think I am Thai.
Many will come up and just start rambling to me and I say "konnichiwa" they quickly realize how American I am. But they don't believe that I'm Japanese either, "oh, but you look like Thai!". My cooking teacher said my eyes don't look Japanese and my skin is too pale.
*Thai's think pale skin is more beautiful. Most of the lotion sold has "Skin Whitening" properties.
*I'm still not used to the fact that they drive on the wrong side of the road here, a little scary at times.
*There are dirty stray dogs everywhere and a lot of them have rabies.
*They rarely eat with chopsticks = ( . Fork and Spoon.
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Hope you made it down to the South ok. Long trip, but I rant into a couple I knew from myanmar and they had a 28 hour bus ride to KL ahead. That's crazy! The anthem is interesting eh? If you go to the movies you'll see a beautifully composed film of the king as the anthem plays. Some awesome propo, especially as he's planting the trees.
ReplyDeleteIt was great to see you...beware of chicken on the stick miss vegetarian =)