Bangkok Week 130 December 23, 2010 AHHH!!! I'm getting excited! View fullsize Our cute office Christmas tree. Nicely decorated, but sufficiently professional. View fullsize On the other end of the spectrum, we have the decorations put up by our building management. View fullsize This is marvelously tacky, gotta give them that much! View fullsize They even managed to find the creepiest Santa in Bangkok. View fullsize But there's room for Christmas, any where you look. View fullsize Special Friday night dinner out at an authentic Southern Indian place. View fullsize All-veggie menu meant lots of things to try. View fullsize Too much for two? Never! View fullsize In Bangkok, Santa comes by skytrain. View fullsize Pink ice dessert - still #1, even on a cool winter's day. View fullsize Even better than a candy cane! View fullsize Couldn't round up my siblings and Santa for a photo, so these guys had to stand in. View fullsize Another marvelously tacky display outside Paragon - a matrix of giant pink bells! View fullsize A perfectly natural pine tree! View fullsize Finally! About to ride a new 4-car train myself!!! View fullsize Woah! Cool new real-time system map (implemented years ago in Bejing -- http://bit.ly/gVNrHV). View fullsize Grab straps are yellow, not red. Poles are unpainted. Row seats are single pieces of plastic. Overhead lights in the nooks connecting the cars. Oh yeah, and 4 cars! View fullsize The poor guy being dragged around on my escapades. View fullsize 4 cars! Whazzuuuup. View fullsize On Saturday night, privileged to land tickets to VIVA! Thailand's "first and only pop-opera band". View fullsize Okay, apparently we got there a bit early -- even though it was 5 minutes till showtime. View fullsize The group comprises 3 guys and 2 women, all of whom still look young. This was their opening night. View fullsize They sang pop versions of classic opera songs, plus an assortment of classic rock (e.g. Queen) and Thai pop. Fun! View fullsize On Saturday night, the walkway outside MBK was hopping with illegal vendors. View fullsize MBK's suitably tacky Christmas and New Year decorations. View fullsize Note: A gang of Santas making their escape up the side of the mall, to their getaway helicopter on the roof... cause that's normal! View fullsize Retro shirt overload. View fullsize Rose! The newest addition to our family. View fullsize An entire display made of drinking straws. Hope no one's thirsty. View fullsize Rose and older brother Long John watch as dad does some work on Sunday afternoon. View fullsize Our Bangkok family! View fullsize Thai-style holiday fruit cake. Although here, it's not a seasonal dessert. View fullsize Uh oh! It's time again to put a lot of junk into two small bags. View fullsize Done! Catch you on the flip side (of the Pacific).
