Dead time thoughts

They're setting up some kind of stage here at the train station. The backdrop is a white wall and because it got dirty while in transit or in storage, there was a guy painting the backdrop with white paint and a roller as they were setting it up. That made me chuckle.

There's a 20ft or so television screen playing tv and music throughout the hall and the bands that we see look just like american pop music did about 5 years ago and korean pop music about 3 years ago. I guess that's the way pop culture spreads.

I saw a thai singer yesterday in a music video that looked so much like Mariah Carey I actually thought it was her until I realized she was speaking Thai and walked up to my tv closer just to double check.

I'm not sure how the Thai natives afford to eat here in this part of Bangkok. They must all be people who profit off the tourists because the prices are exorbitant if you're really Thai. 881 thb for a train ticket has got to be a lot of money for them. Maybe there's like a secret handshake that they do at the ticket purchase window that allows them to get a phat discount off the price.

35 thb for a good soup meal like tom yum goong. That's only 1 dollar to us but unless you're profiting off the tourist industry that's probably an hours worth of work here in Bangkok.