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Continue reading →: India! Varanasi: How My Coolness Was Lost (and a little bit about burning bodies)
In every other country, no matter how hectic its markets were, busy its traffic was, and intensely-observing its people appeared, I thought that I still managed to keep my face on. The face that – as I imagined it – revealed the sort of “yeah yeah, I’m a foreigner, but…
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Continue reading →: We Don’t Need No
I’ll start this entry with an insignificant confession: I am already home, writing this at my kitchen while simultaneously innocently stalking my neighbours and eating a sweet curd product that doesn’t have a translation: google sūrelis and maybe you’ll get something comprehensible. In other words, I’m not in Thailand anymore,…
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Continue reading →: Cognitive Consulate Consistency
What’s wrong with people working in consulates? An alternative question: what the hell? If you remember my very first entry (which is still accessible for any passionate reader, hint hint), I was telling you how much shocked and appalled I was with what a woman working in the Thai consulate…
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Continue reading →: Bangkok and Hua Hin: Disregard The Title
My last days in Thailand were some of the best I’ve had in Southeast Asia. After a fun night saying goodbye to my friends in Chiang Mai, I spent six days in Bangkok with a two-day beach escape in Hua Hin. Yet as I am typing the names of these…
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Continue reading →: Isaan: What You Do When You Don’t Do Anything
For the ones secretly hoping that my writings will one day turn into a proper travelblog – please use our beloved Wikipedia or Wikitravel and see for yourselves what Isaan is. For me, it is a region in Thailand a 12-hour bus ride away from Chiang Mai, and a place where…
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Continue reading →: The Pyramid of Coolness
If there’s one good day for me to blog about this, it is today. (“Today”, conveniently, will be whatever day you’re reading this) It is Valentine’s Day and no matter if you want it or not, you’re sort of forced (although you deny that in public) to stop for a…
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Continue reading →: Koh Phi Phi Series No. 5: We Hit Turbulence
The last entry about my trip to the south will be on what happened to me at the very beginning of my travels. Well, nothing much happened, but it still sparked some thoughts that I can now share with you. If I was sharing my stories of almost dying of…
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Continue reading →: Koh Phi Phi Series No. 4: Nothing to Fear But The Blog Itself
Like a truly brilliant writer, I wanted to start this entry with a quote. After ten minutes of trying to choose the quote out of tens of potential ones, I admit I might not be a great writer. But I still want to tell you a story. It was January…
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Continue reading →: Koh Phi Phi Series No. 3: A Single View On Dichotomies
I am tempted to make this entry political and expand on how much, to my mind, any sort of dichotomy is a social construct that often serves to marginalise groups by making us except a division that does not necessarily has to be there. Minority-majority, straight-LGBT, moral (because legal) –…
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Continue reading →: Koh Phi Phi Series No. 2: On Diving (a hypocritical title)
My jaw dropped – though no-one around seemed to have had the same reaction – when one of the main speakers of the graduation weekend in my college attempted to inspire the students by saying something like this (I am paraphrasing, though it is close): ‘Always write down your goals.…
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