Pickles n' Tickles by JJ

WHILE I was at the store earlier, paying for my purchases, a lady popped up next to me and kept staring at my cheap NaRaYa  purse (right) I got from Bangkok months ago. In her hands, she was slowly unzipping a black and gold  Prada . It wasn't even her turn to pay +  she was supposed to wait  behind me, not next to me. Never mind if my US$5 NaRaYa came out of a pony-fur Gucci , she still gave me the dirty look because if I went around with a printed cloth purse, the  Gucci could be a fake, right ? Much like the looks I got from the runners with shoes on when I was out on my barefoot runs recently ! Not that I was bothered by any of it :)  So yeah. Going  back-to-basic with my feet and in my efforts to try the Stoxen Human Spring Approach  to running again, I attempted running barefoot. Twice, on different tracks. The first was a nice, rubber track most of the way and the second attempt had me on a fair combination of rubber, concrete and pa...

I'VE just checked into the Baan Amphawa Resort and Spa in Maeklong, Thailand, and really, it's been a long day. All thanks to our really sweet but also over-ambitious tour guide who was very insistent on visiting ' just  another beautiful place' before the next destination. With that, we've managed to squeeze in the Maeklong Market tour which includes watching the train pass through the market and visiting the community temple, Siam Cultural Park, a visit to another temple before shopping at the famous Amphawa floating market by the Maeklong River, dinner and a one-hour boat ride along a canal to see twinkling fire-flies. That was my day four of a six-day work tour to some tourist attractions in Thailand in an effort to promote the Northern neighbour after the November flood disaster. The railway market is along the track and it's amazing how the traders very quickly make way for the train which passes through  them 8 times a day. The train is passing...