For my last day at Microsoft I figured I'd post some pictures I took of my morning commute. It's a lot of walking, and since I go to work relatively early by the standards of Bangkok and the office I work in, there are few people. Thus, the pictures turned out even more plain than I expected - but after posting so many pictures geared towards showing the interesting and unusual, perhaps this is a better representation of what daily life is like here.
I won't explain anything - hopefully the pictures more or less tell the story.
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that's a sweet photo essay. i had a friend who never took photos on trips, but always made sure to take photos of the views out of her apartment windows, on the theory that the most routine sights are the ones you least want to forget.
best of luck on further endeavors!
thanks, ingvar! it was actually hard to take a lot of these pictures, because they were so ordinary. i had to force myself to look ahead and snap a picture every minute or two. i remember my family asking me when i got here to just take a picture while walking on the street to give them surroundings to put me into context when they thought of me. i just finally got around to it.
someday you'll have to make your way to asia to see for yourself!
i like the hyacinth ditch next to the road. you had pictures of it before, but i didn't have much of a way to frame it. it's neat!
Bangkok looks like a very comfortable and civilized city. Not at all like I imagined it after seeing JCVD's "Kickboxer".
yes - the hyacinths are growing in the canal. Since the canal water level waxes and wanes, there's a lot of mud there and flowers, bushes and trees like growing there. They have to chop out the growth every now and again to keep the plants from clogging up the canal.
Bangkok is both comfortable and civilized, but I have heard the kickboxing matches can get a bit rowdy. We didn't go to one in person (no one to go with who was really into it) but I watched a ton of matches on tv. Those are some really tough dudes.
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