you've set on me, but you are not the sun.

What's that? You all want to hear about my weekend? Fabulous. (Joking, you guys can totally skip it- it might be long)

This blog is slowly turning into Richelle's weekend adventures, but anyways, we didn't have school on Friday which was really great. Thursday after school, Monica, Joanna, Namwan, Sam, and I decided to go to Kao San Road (haha, again). We got bombarded by all these guys trying to sell us stuff- at one point this guy was trying to sell a "sensual massage" to me and it really was very disturbing. Also some Indian guy asked Joanna to marry him, but Sam came up with a simple solution:

Oh, god, he's going to hate me for uploading this, but basically when anyone tried to come up to him and sell him stuff (from clothes to girls), he would talk in a gibberish and make really strange hand motions. I mean, really all he had to do was say no to them, but this made things much more interesting for all of us. After getting ID's done, we sat and sheeshed for a while. I took a lot of really funny videos, but I think I'll save them. 

1. Our lovely couple: Sam & Namwan  2. Joanna & I (oh god, please, please ignore my face-
this was the only clear picture of me). 3. Monica & Sam
4.  The light above our table

Sorry for the lack of pictures- my battery died towards the beginning of the night. I really need to remind myself to charge my camera before going out. After we left, the girls spent the night, and in the morning Mika, Tkom, Micah, Grace, and Katy came over for our clothing swap. It was pretty fun, and I got to get  rid of a lot of my clothes to clean out my closet before leaving for college. We ended up eating at McDonald's and then came back to my place where Mika, Namwan, Micah, Tkom, and I just hung out and assembled our Killjoy costumes for superhero day. We went to the mall and low and behold, we found "laser guns" that would fit the costumes perfectly with just a little spray paint. We also took one of my old pleather jackets and taped it up so it would look like Gerard's Party Poison jacket. It looks so fucking awesome. My friend, Mika, is one crafty girl.

Saturday morning Mika and I decided to go to this huge market which has the most amazing vintage stores, food and dessert stands, and strange people, and the best part about JJ market is that everything is extremely cheap. I bought so much stuff, it's not even funny. But my excuse is that I'm leaving Thailand very soon and I'll never find anything this amazing nor this cheap ever again. Anyways, we started the morning taking the sky train to Mo Chit and rocking out to Danger Days. I tried hard not to dance the entire way through. JJ was so damn crowded, and we spent almost the entire day there. Some memorable moments: salespeople being extremely surprised when they found out I was Thai/Taiwanese (the majority thought I was half European or something which is quite flattering, but I don't know, it might have been what I was wearing), spotting real life gas masks, this guy selling kebabs to us trying to flirt with Mika but failed miserably, finding this shop of amazing handmade necklaces (the man selling them was incredibly friendly and was really passionate about his work, Mika & I each got one), eating coconut ice cream, finding this amazing record store, and getting lost in a desolate area of the market and a very, very scary encounter with a group of guys (I swear to God we would've been kidnapped or raped or some shit if there weren't two old ladies walking in front of us- this guy tried to grab me and I was freaking out, but kept my calm and kept walking). BE FUCKING CAREFUL WHEN YOU'RE OUT- NEVER BE BY YOURSELF. Anyways, here are some of the pictures from our trip. (If you're wondering, the B to $ conversion rate is about 30B = $1

1. The amazing coconut ice cream and free coconut juice 30B 2. Kebab 20B
3. Mika's new hat 4. OMFG HEAVEN IN MY MOUTH

Jeez, I just realized how touristy these pictures look. Well, I guess I'm allowed to be touristy in Thailand once in a while, because I haven't been to this place in a very long time.

I won't spam you anymore with pictures from the trip, but I will show you the things that I bought because this is my blog and I can do whatever the hell I want.

1. Vintage plaid shirt: 90B/$3
2. The Drums tank top: 160B/$5 (I was really psyched about finding this, but Mika & I were on a band tee ban. I convinced her it was a tank top and not a tee though. I wish I could have gotten the Morrissey and The Libertines one. I also wanted the Ian Curtis one, but I already have a tank top with him on it.)
3. Camera bag: 420B
4. Handmade necklace: 150B
5. Vintage oxfords: 320B

We bargained all of these down to these prices. It's so great, because shopkeepers are really nice to the locals, and we definitely got a better deal. I think I'm going to go on a shopping ban for a while. And also I'm running low on the extra spending money I got from Chinese New Year. Anyways, I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I'm still kind of sick, but it's gotten a lot better. Last night I felt so terrible as I have gotten my first rejection letter from a university I really worked hard for and wanted to go to, but maybe it happened for a reason, and maybe this isn't the path I'm supposed to take. So many people, both friends and strangers even, were so kind and really helped me get through last night. Faith has been restored, and I don't feel as down as I felt. It's amazing how you can hate people so much, but then you are able to love people even more. 

Caring Is Creepy by The Shins