taipei before opening/china air

so we ade it to taipei but are in terminal 1. so no massage or johnny walker blue lounge. we do have w coffees for 7 bux us and muffins from arizmendi. china air was way lees entertaining than previous jaunts. no tv no slippers and the guy we hoped doesnt have the flu puking beside us. sounds like home doesnt it. we did finally have rice porridge and charity is repeating good morning asia over n over. we fly into bkk at 11am then get train tix and head out for food. hell yeah best food ever. so i am preparing to be stared at for three weeks and pratice speakin thai to people who want to speak english. all that and some kratooey bars and im in water buffalo heaven. i cant wait for the,humidity summer finally none of this 45 degree oaklane crap. here i come mouth....chook di!

up up n out of this mofo

i leavin on a jet plane, i know when i'll be back again. so bags are packed, dogs are fed, money is in hand, dentist is ready and i'm freakin hungry. went out for burgers last night to say farewell to the cuisine of the america's and gettin gready for the gourmet delights of china airlines, mmmm mmm good. i especially like hte strange jellyesque desert with solid color lines in it. what the hell is that i am eating? i enjoy stuffing my mouth with indescribable foodstuffs on occasion though. like last time i was there and ate the fried whatever the hell it was with blue and green and red meat in it as well as some sort of vegetable of which i couldn't describe or the silk worms in my green curry, hell yeah! here i come for movies in the big mall and pretending i can't understand the numbers spoken in thai when exhibiting the bargaining skills necessary. i can count up to a million (see sib) and seeing as i dont have shit for money that shouldn't be too necessary. so if any of you want to deposit your paycheck in my account leave a message and i'll get back to you! HAH! holy crap im going ot thailand in a few hours. be ready for upcoming entries including the siriraj hospitals forensic museum otherwise known as the corpse museum. seeing as we fly into bangkok at 5.30 are going to buy our train tickets and then ramble about in complete delirium. so wish us luck and kiss your saint christopher, we gonna fly on up out of here. oh yeah, remember your passport wick

medical tourism dental end again, thailand part 2

so here we go again on the road to recovery and further chewing insurance in the latter years of my misquoted life. tomorrow i embark on that long road to thailand. i got a good pair of shoes and am ready to leave them at home for the same ridiculous pair of teva's that look like a stencil on my feet. we are flying into bangkok on the fourth and begin the journey into the depths of our molars on the sixth. i say we because my most beloved fiance is gracing me with her presence and experiences for me to write about at the same dentist ( http://www.gracedentalclinic.com/ ), again that dentist is grace dental clinic in chiang mai! the best for us of course. also if you end up there chiang mai ram hospital is top o the line. we have chocolate and pirate booty onboard with us. well we always have pirate booty with us but i meant the food, get yer head out my drawers! this after 3,000 miles with a 3.5 yr old boy and we are ready for some time in the land of dreams. i am ready with two camera's, a journal, a nokia 810 and two field recorders so i don't miss a thing for y'all, i will post photo links on flickr (rules) upon my return. itenerary is dentist until the 13th atleast and then we head for some exploration and end up in ko tao in a bungalow on the beach. brilliant, yes we are, you should emulate us whenever you need some brilliance in your life as well. so keep your eyes watered and your curiosity on the tip of your tongue and i'll be sure to mesmerize the pupils and burn the buds with some thai spice and broken english. remember the cautious one ponders while the fool crosses the bridge and pink slippers go great with breakfast burritos or whatever it is i am trying to say......stay tuned....what!

reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one-einstein

reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one. -einstein
Current mood: thoughtful
Category: Quiz/Survey

it's is intriguing to me the changes between urban sprawl aka cities near and far. the reality of feeling overly/rightfully vigilant when in downtown oakland wondering if one of the cops i snapped photos of will notice me and then i too will go down for having an opinion. traveling from acts of civil unrest in downtown to people walking their dogs, eating ice cream, and buying $300 shirts in rockridge at the same moment in time. these people completely oblivious to the anger, concern, and cry for justice in the air a mere 4.3 miles away. yet, the only opinion they receive is that of violence and destruction from the corporate media they trust in. to hear people talk about that poor officer and his family. how absurd it is for people to make his life harder than it already is now. i mean he turned himself in right? after a laundromat debate with these "individuals" i come to one conclusion. fuck them (which is the same they come to for me which is one basis on the division of classes) for not having their opinion but that of another that they tag-along with so as to not have to process for their own selves. the same people who can't wait in a line without calling or text messaging someone not to avoid their thoughts but i believe because they don't know how to think any longer. i care more about properly steamed milk than which side they are on. so long as they have some compassion for their backings. i feel like midget in a basketball game when i am in that atmosphere. as though i am a shadow with a unique shape so as to grab a glances worth of attention. atleast i can take out their knees right? it amazes me how our lives are so separated. yet many of our daily goals are the same. ow much emphases is based upon your income and place of residence versus character and respectabiity. now i am here in steamboat springs, colorado and to go out to get a cup of coffee i have to spend 6 minutes getting prepared for the elements outside. shoveling snow and having cars spray slush on your face. winter. it sometimes escapes my reality. yet i feel it is important to experience it yearly especially since spring is squatting my backyard already in the paradise of west oakland.
one the state of the world affairs while i find it astounding that obama was elected by the amerikan populace i am highly skeptical of his "change" for instance closing guantanamo and shipping the prisoners elsewhere. part of me says, "wow, this guy may actually do something." while my conspiricist in me says, "welcome to the face of the nwo, bush set us up for martial law and the people can now be blinded with what their televisions or computers say to do yet the background of it all is entirely corrupt." i think what happens with the us government, economy, and foreign relations would be the same no matter who won the presidential election. i mean come on now. you can't make a cherry tree produce apples if you put it in different soil. a cherry tree will always be a cherry tree now matter what you plant it in. a puppet is a puppet. i am just happy to feel that amerikans are more open minded racially than i anticipated them to be. this somehow turned into a rant. go figure. the best i can do myself is pay close attention to that which ails me and do my best to turn that around. if it's too large to turn around i can use it to work torwards making myself better. change begins and ends with yourself. while external energies may influence it is up to you ultimately to make right for yourself. i feel like were going to have to fight for that sooner than we think.

premise 14 from endgame by derrick jensen read by me during the inauguration. (which felt strange listening to while reading this incredible book!)
from birth on-and probably from conception, but i'm not sure how i'd make the case- we are individually and collectively enculturated to hate life, hate the natural world, hate the wild, hate wild animals, hate women, hate children, hate our bodies, hate and fear our emotions, hate ourselves. if we did not hate the world, we could not allow it to be destroyed before our eyes. if we did not hate ourselves, we could not allow our homes- our bodies- to be poisoned.....


more to come...

wickmas carols 2008

so here you go. i made some really cool progress that took a frustrating amount of work. spent about 34 hours in it. then my computer crashed and i had to system restore back to a long freakin time. that's what happens when your laptop gets thrown off a loft though. so here is what i put together. it's just the mashup. it's recorded at 320kbs so the quality should be good. not that the content is. i repeated a fw things and missed a few cues but i had a kid jumping on me which was much more entertaining. here's your free download

download here



happy xmass and merry new year

wick sakit

awerged.

what is your reaction when life throws a rock through your window? when you feel like half of your friends are really only in it because time has made it that way versus actual genuine emotional value? how does your prospective memory process it's future request when your life feels like your overloading the workload your hippocampus to a premature grave? in other terms how can i process what to do about my current stress levels and emotional ineptitude. in the words of tom waits, life it whittles, life's a riddle, mans a fiddle life plays on.....ok, have to be a papa more to come....

here in realtime

so my glob i mean blog will stray away from medical tourism but when it hits it like the next one will with a few points i will put it in the tags so you can just skim through if you don't want to read my imbecilic ranting,.,.,.,.


wick