Thailand revisited

Forgive me blogger, for i have sinned. It's been twenty days since my last entry....
Seriously though, i am now in Thailand, Phuket to be specific. It's one of those places one can hang out with all the comforts of modern living without spending too much money. Thai food is cheap, and thai beer is rumored to be full of formaldehyde anyway...
Why this talk of money? Well, to be honest my finances are a bit low. I am smart enough to use two different banks, one for a savings account and for for a spending account. Before i left, i deposited what i thought was a ridiculously large sum in my spendings account and havn't thought much about it until....well, until i got the bill for the funeral service. We all know living is expensive, but dying is a close second. Right now i wish i had taken the secret decoder ring for my savings account with me. Luckily i have a credit card, so all is not lost. Too bad i had to use it to buy another ticket to Bangkok though. That's right, i was at the airport and got a wee bit surprised when it turned out my ticket was for the 20th of March, not February as i thought i had booked. Well, the travel agent blames me of course. I don't think i could've done such an elementary mistake after spending a few weeks looking for a cheap ticket. But, what's done is done, and i can't prove they made a mistake. In the end, i was responsible for not checking the dates on the ticket closer. It was non-refundable though, so i'm not getting any money back (i lie, i am getting the airport taxes back...big whoop). So, i'm standing at the airport, no ticket and my apartment is rented out. My only choice is to buy another ticket, which is not very cheap one and a half hours before the flight leaves. It was not a happy day for me, i must have been the gloomiest looking fellow on the flight. Everybody else are happy to be going to Thailand, while i'm looking like a clown who shot his whole family, ran out of bullets and had to swallow all his balloons to commit suicide by constipation.
In fact, i still cringe when i think about it. Just writing about it brings back the old balloon-brick in the stomach...
Anyway, my travel plans have to change a bit. I do have enough money left on my credit card to live modestly here before i go home on the 8th of April. I don't have enough to buy plane tickets left and right to go to exciting places. I havn't decided what to do yet, but i can't stay here more than 30 days before i either have to do a little border jumping or go somewhere else. Anyway, i will suffer no hunger, and if i am thirsty, well...there is always thai beer....