I took the choice of taking a train from Butterworth to Bangkok, a 23 hour train ride. Even before I bought the ticket, my uncle, dad and mom is advising me on what a silly decision this is going to be and how I am going to regret it. A plane ticket would probably cost only a bit more than the train ticket and takes about an hour. Yet even as they advice me, I strangely wonder if this is going to be the most comfortable ride in this short journey.
Barely an hour into the journey and I am feeling incredibly lonely. Probably exacerbated by the Japanese couple that sits beside me reading their Japanese comic together and laughing out aloud. I desire the company and someone to cuddle up to but my cuddling companion would have to be the huge bag of laundry they put opposite me or my own backpack. Anyway I am glad I brought along at least a novel to read. There will be plenty of reading time in the upcoming journey I feel.
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you think feeling lonely's bad? i had diorrhea my whole way back from bangkok - penang on train. spent the ride in the small cubic toilet, clutchin' the rail for balance. so, it could be worse, but it was an xperience :) went out of the toilet when they were serving some tom yum rice. ate it, cuz i thought it couldnt get worse than that. i's rite. felt much better after...hehe.
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