It's weekend here in Bangkok, luckily I can manage to get sometime off work. Apparently managing to get away from work is not the tough thing to do because choosing where to go and what to do and who to be with is in  fact more challenging for me. I end up coming to Chiangmai just because of the consequence of my last visit (it was like 5 years ago). Still I remember how fascinating it was but I didn't get to see a lot of it when I was here. It was just like a detour for my north land trip. So I have decided to make the most of it this time.
 
Something have changed really including me that look a bit older or may be a lot haha.  There seem to be a lot of constructions going on around the city. But I still get the feeling of the last century, you know how it thrills me, the tram, the old buildings especially the temple. I don't personally think there is any where else in Thailand can be more romantic and captivating than this city. If you can manage to be here in autumn it can even blow your mind away and stuck in high perspective imaginations. The city sleeps when it should unlike some others in the world. I assume that the lifestyle here is pretty simple but there are a lot to see like the art gallery that presents contemporary art , the cultural which has substantiated to its self that history never die. Also I can not forget to mention botanic garden located just right in the middle of the city. The possibilities are endless because everything is in your walking distance.
 
The garden city, that's what  they call it which could not be more wrong, every direction I look is garden, I couldn't help but think that this might be the best possible place for healing and meditating. It's just like different air down here, not too humid and so easy to breath in. Even though, I am not a smoker I feel like my lung has just been cleaned.
 
I'm staying with an old friend of mine who happens to be just like my 2rd sister and lives in a house that is about 50 years old. They say that every house has their own quirks especially 50 years old houses which I couldn't agree more. I actually live in a tuna can house right in the city of Bangkok so when I first walked in this house I was like 'wow'. I could absorb its personality and details. I couldn't help but wonder what has been going on in this house which is significantly older then me. How many family have lived here? How much happiness and sorrow has it felt? But from what I can see now is one family trying to work things out living in this house which are my friend, her boyfriend and her dogie.
 
Before I decided to come here I was expecting to discover and be discovered, right now right at this moment still I have not yet been discovered, but amazingly I have discovered something which are my guts, my inner voice and my true instinct of what I want to be. It doesn't matter if I am found or not because I have found what was lost which is my self and I never feel happier. Thank you Chiangmai, fairy tales really begin here. It has begun for someone so will it for me some day.
 
Dedicated to P'Aye, thank you for your time, your hospitality, and for dropping your assignment just to be with us over the weekend. Ohhh also thanks to Ben for his rock'n roll driving it couldn't be more fun without it.
 

J-a-c-k