Culture Shock!

Back to Scandinavia for awhile. And i hadn't even come trough the passport control at the Arlanda airport before i remembered exactly why i moved away.

There's about 5 lines of people waiting to get to different counters with different immigration officials. However there was some airplane staff from our flight that came on the right side of us. Actually from another entrance, and they told us to excuse them for getting trough. No problem, because they took a couple from our line and then a couple from their line.

Do you think it was okay for everyone? OFCOURSE NOT! This guy infront of me start screaming about how he's a paying customer and he think this is bullshit. Employees shouldn't have those kind of benefits. He yelled for awhile. And then he forced himself trought to the immigration officer, yelled something similar to her. She just told him get back in line, she's in charge. :)

What did he really thing he could affect with his behaviour?

Funny pictures from Bangkok

In the following link you will find an explanation and some mockery of the most common pictures you will see tourist's taking in Bangkok. Including eating insects and ladyboys. To this list i would probably add photos of the heavy traffic.

http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/play/6-most-cliched-bangkok-tourist-photo-ops-784503

Enjoy your reading.
//Timo Travel

KFC home-delivery

Living in a country where there is a totally different foodculture i can say that people
are extremely judgmental about expats eating western food. By this i mean other expats,
the local people usually don't give a damn about what you are eating.

I have a confession to make... today i ate KFC! And i don't feel even a little bit ashamed of that. It's totally normal to sometimes crave for something else. You have been brought up in a country where possibly everything is different considering food. For example in Thailand their main staple is rice while in the western countries we mostly eat potato. In Finland we eat bread every day while the Thais almost never. So i feel it is totally okay for me to eat something different sometimes. I mean there is maybe 100's of different cuisines to
choose from in Bangkok. It's the same everywhere nowadays. Doesn't matter in which part of
the world you are you can get food in a totally different style.

Then again i have western classmates who doesn't eat thai food AT ALL. Which in my opinion is maybe a little weird, but who am i to judge. I just happen to love food and eating is a big part of my life. And
if i wouldn't like the food here there is plenty of other countries with an interesting
cuisine where i'd rather live if that's the case.
Btw
KFC can be incredibly tasty at
times. ;)

Furthermore it was home-delivery!

A cheap day in Bangkok!

Don't get me wrong. There are millions of ways to spend money on food in Bangkok. However i will tell you about how little you can spend in a day if you want to. For western people it might be very difficult to keep up with the following for a very long time. But myself i eat like this a big portion of the days in Bangkok.

Breakfast - A youghurt and a Banana - about 20 baht total.
Lunch - At the cantine, rice and some sort of meat, chicken/pork - 20-25 baht total.
Dinner - Usually you eat them with some friends and mostly u share what's on the table - Price is usually about 40 to 60 baht.

You do the math, but i can give you some help. That's about 80 to 105 baht per day. in U.S dollars that is around 3$ for food FOR A WHOLE DAY.  Not bad ey?

However as i said there are millions of ways to eat in Bangkok and it can be very expensive. I will later tell you about the 1200 baht (40$) fish i ate yesterday. ;) Thank you for reading and have a nice day.

Timo Travel

Average Salary in Thailand

Yes there is alot of discussion from people that don't believe the average salary for workers in Bangkok to be at about 8000-10,000 baht. Even if the real mean might not be like that. It's a fact that many workers earn about that amount. It's the same in many countries where the richer people is pushing up the average salary but if you are talking about normal workers hey will earn alot less than the average.

Useless information #1 - potato chips

The standard potato chip bag in Thailand is 20 gram. Yes you heard right TWENTY gram only. The cost between 0.25-0.50€ or 10-20 in thai baht. It's a huge difference from the 300gram potato chip bags we're having at home. I still remember when i was very young the bags where about 150 grams in my homecountry. That is STILL 7 1/2 times bigger! ;) Nowadays 250-300 grams over there. I don't know if you can call that development?

I really gotta earn some money also

A couple of days left now in Bangkok only. But don't be afraid I will be back after working a couple of months. And I still have a lot of material that is already written and I will publish the time after time. Today gonna do some some shopping for a friend. She's crazy about all kind of stuff she can get in Bangkok but obviously for her three times per year in this lovely city is not enough to stock up with the necessary body butters etc. ;)

familiarization

I forgot one of the more important things of sharing my life with you. So that you will feel a little bit more like you know me, here you have a pic!

Introduction - Finally i'm taking myself the time

Finally i'm taking myself time to sit down and write a couple of lines about my current life in Bangkok. It has been a stressful three months but i seem to have settled down very well so far. I'm a Finnish guy aged something like 20+, who likes to travel. I'm studying economics in one of the universities over here and i'm really enjoying life with good food, nice people and a totally new enviroment. This blog will be about everyday occurances from my life here. Also things i observe and my favourite part all the bizarre things that will happen to you while being in a country. Because there are alot of them, in reality they might not be bizarre but coming from a totally different background they can be, and alot so.

So hope everyone will enjoy their reading and i will try to update the blog as much as i have time to.