sometimes it's fascinating to try to remember what kind of pictures you took because when it's finally developed you can compare your ideas to what you actually got. sometimes you think you took the most amazing photograph, but your best photograph is the one you barely remember taking.

-two monkeys, a mama and a baby, tenderly hugging each other in a collage of forest trees
-a monkey butt
-rice terraces off of bud
-creepy plant heads in a tree at the temple
-a view of a volcano from the plane
-these amazing banana palms that grow in the shape of a fan
-an altar in a midst of tropical plants
-a view of the rice fields from the plane
-my mom doing her laundry while my brother drinks coffee
-the special lime tree my in aunt's backyard
-the monsoon, although i feel this is the least likely picture to turn out
-my aunt descaling fish, another picture that is least likely to turn out
-volcano lake agriculture!
-a big pile of red chili peppers and a naked baby next to it
-a very large ordained tree
-an even larger ordained tree
-buddhist monks hanging their bright orange laundry

discovering bits of new things everyday about life in bkk: today i went to the bangkok art and cultural center, which has a small and okay free art library. not that many great books, but a super quiet library (e.g. amazing for studying). a cool exhibit on asian masks and bunch of cool thai soft sculpture/textile artists as well. i established a relationship with the man i buy my grapefruit from every morning. he is very nice and works right next to sky train. i also ate noodles for all three meals today at different great places within a block of the studio. my first noodle dish was bahmee moo (egg noodle soup with pork), yen-tha-foe (thin noodles in red soup with crispy wontons, fish balls, and thai broccoli), and sen-lek-tom-yum (thin noodles in tom yum soup). i studied thai at a really pretentious bicycle coffee shop, but it had a cool pyramid bookshelf. oh yeah, and i've been terribly sick with some shit cold fever that won't go away, but this song really keeps me alive: