canadiangirl

Re: bra washing, I found an amazing net in Daiso Japan (60B) which is just for bras, it's like a laundry bag but has a hard frame that keeps the bras from getting twisted in the wash. I can't live without it!

sbk, on 2011-03-20 23:50:49, said:

Hi ladies, I've strangely had good luck at Big C and Tesco...most of the time it's hopeless, nothing fits properly but every once in a while I've gone in and found a perfect fit bra, which I've then bought in every single color since they are pretty cheap. Last time I got about 5 bras for 130B each!

Underwear I buy at Mark and Spencers in Central, and I've noticed they have Western sized bras too. It's probably worth trying.

The reopened Central World also has a La Senza, although I'm not sure if you can try stuff on (god, only in Thailand!)

Good luck, I feel you pain about the bras!

report: flew out sunday the 27th on an 11:55pm flight. Arrived at airport at about 7pm, because i was worried about delays and had a lot of stuff to ship home too. At 7-8pm, I waited about 5 minutes at immigration, and crossed almost immediately. Security was easy too, while it was much harder (and ruder) in Toronto for my connecting flight.

So...are delays getting better?

I've been on a lot of dates with guys where they drone on and on about their money, their cars, their whatever, in the hope of impressing me. If you're interested, like me, in having an equal, loving partner, and not some daddy moneybags, that s* is boring as hell and does the opposite of impressing me: it makes me think a guy has nothing else to offer than money and is insecure about himself. A golddigger would see things differently, I'm sure.

Hi Harvestmoon, I understand where you're coming from. I'm 33 and have travelled by myself a fair bit around Thailand and SEA and have experienced a lot of the problems you describe.

I found for loneliness, it often helps to always have a good book when travelling alone. If you don't manage to meet people, at least you can have the comfort of reading a good book in your room or in a cafe. Meeting people is tough...when I really wanted to meet people travelling, somehow I ended feeling needy and ackward and not really meeting people, once I stopped caring, I could meet tons of people -- it's one of those annoying paradoxes of human relationships. It does help to stay in a busy hostel with some kind of common space instead of a hotel. Don't be discouraged by people being in couples, too, often couples travelling for a long time together are totally sick of being alone together and welcome a third wheel/breath of fresh air!

As for harassment, here's where you have to be tough. Thailand just have epic amounts of people who are always calling at you from the streets (touts, etc), and it's super annoying. You can basically have to ignore them all, and make no eye contact with them. If any of them talk to you, you ALWAYS have a husband that's waiting for you. Don't be afraid to brush them off -- you don't owe them your attention. Eye contact is a big thing -- I used to get harassed SO MUCH walking through Soi Arab on my way to the B hospital...then I figured out to make eye contact with NO ONE, and I almost never get harassed anymore. I ignore men who try to talk to me on the street --- if they want women to be polite to them, they should find a more polite way of meeting them.

I was in Krabi a few days ago and I had exactly the same problem "hey beautiful girl, where you go", some of them quite aggressive and annoying, so I feel your pain. If we're being annoyed in the daytime (at nighttime, I just don't talk to strange guys at all) one put down in Thai that's not super mean but will make a guy's friends all laugh at him if he's in a group, is when someone pulls the whole "beautiful girl, where you go crap", you can say "oh pak waaan" -- like sweet talker, but with a bigger connotation of being insincere. This always make a guy's friends laugh at him, I find. :-P