Saturdays in Bangkok

Well, I haven't been keeping up with the blog real well this week. I guess that's mostly because this whole week has really been pretty uneventful. Tomoyuki made it to school every single day this week, which is pretty out of the ordinary for him. It seems like he misses at least one day every week. He's sick A LOT. Personally, I blame Bangkok. The air and the streets are so dirty, I kind of think that nasty stuff gets into his nasal passages, his throat, and just sort of wreaks havoc. He's actually sick right now. He started to get a really nasty cough Friday evening, and it's just getting nastier. His eyes are also sort of red and glassy looking. I picked him up some cough medicine and got some eye drops for him, but so far, he's not really getting better. He'll be sleeping with us tonight. He slept with us Thursday night, too. He started crying in the middle of the night on Thursday, and just absolutely would not stop, so Mitsu broke down and brought him into our bed. I know it sucks for him to be sick, but it's really exhausting for us, too, especially me, since I'm the one that has to stay home with him, take him to the doctor's office, etc. It's tough being a Mother. Really, really tough.

All dressed, and ready to go to school.

Playing with Daddy's cell phone

Mitsu and I went out for our date day today. We got home earlier than usual, though, so that we could be with Tomoyuki, and let the babysitter go home. We started out by going to this very, very secretive DVD store here in Bangkok. Mitsu's coworker suggested it, because they have all kinds of Japanese TV shows, so we went to check it out. Well, it turns out that it's all copied, bootleg stuff that is violating all sorts of copyright laws, we're imaging. We're assuming that's why it was hard to find, and you have to have be in possession of a super secret card to get in. They did have all kinds of stuff, too. We found some Sasuke DVDS (Ninja Warrior in America), which I LOVE. They should be delivered tomorrow. I don't really think that we're going to become frequent visitors, but it is a cool little place. After that, we went to Central World, had lunch and saw a movie. We watched 50/50 this week with Joseph Gorden Levitt, and Seth Rogen. It was by far one of the best movies we've seen in a long time. I cried, which isn't really surprising for me, but it was worth it. It was an awesome movie.

We didn't do anything particularly riveting tonight. Mitsu found some eggs from Japan at the supermarket today, that are safe to be used for tamago gohan (rice with egg). Since the egg is raw, it's pretty important that it be of good quality.That's one of his all time favorite foods, and Ｉｔ's been about two years since he's had it, since we've been living in Thailand. I think a lot of my American friends and family would be mildly disturbed by tamago gohan, but my husband swears by it.


Here's a photo:

It's just plain steamed rice, with a raw egg place on top, in the middle, and some soy sauce added in. After all this time, I'm still a little freaked out by it, actually.

Well, that's it for now. Hopefully we'll do something far more exciting in the days to come. :)