February 10, 2007

  • One week in bangkok…

    And off I go to thailand…thanks for the well wishes all!

    Bangkok, Oriental setting
    And the city don’t know that the city is getting
    The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
    Show with everything but Yul Brynner

    Time flies — doesn’t seem a minute
    Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
    All change — don’t you know that when you
    Play at this level there’s no ordinary venue

    It’s Iceland — or the Philippines — or Hastings — or –
    or this place!

    [COMPANY]
    One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
    The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
    You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
    And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
    I can feel an angel sliding up to me

    [THE AMERICAN]
    One town’s very like another
    When your head’s down over your pieces, brother

    [COMPANY]
    It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really such a pity
    To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

    [THE AMERICAN]
    Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town –

    [COMPANY]
    Tea, girls, warm, sweet
    Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

    [THE AMERICAN]
    Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist
    Whose every move’s among the purest
    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

    [COMPANY]
    One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
    Not much between despair and ecstasy
    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
    Can’t be too careful with your company
    I can feel the devil walking next to me

    [THE AMERICAN]
    Siam’s gonna be the witness
    To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
    This grips me more than would a
    Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

    And thank God I’m only watching the game — controlling it –

    I don’t see you guys rating
    The kind of mate I’m contemplating
    I’d let you watch, I would invite you
    But the queens we use would not excite you

    So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
    parlours –

    [COMPANY]
    One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
    The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
    You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
    A little flesh, a little history
    I can feel an angel sliding up to me

    One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
    Not much between despair and ecstasy
    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
    Can’t be too careful with your company
    I can feel the devil walking next to me

    And because i shant be around for valentine’s day,

    Cyanide and Happiness, a daily webcomic
    -J

Comments (3)

  • Where did you get that tune?  Is that from a musical?  Or has all the crab I ate affected my brain?  Hokkaido was AWESOME!!  The food was DELICIOUS!!  The sculptures were cool too. 

  • haha!  aww, poor ash…

    Have a safe trip!!!

  • So unfair. How do you manage to squeeze in all this travel? Is this Spring Break? Take lots of pictures, and spare a thought every now and then for your poor, wretched friend stuck in Oklahoma.

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