I hadn't met G for ages, not since he'd left for some random trip on a shoestring budget around Southeast Asia, and not since i'd left for Yogyakarta and came back, so we got out rather randomly for Phad Thai and Thai iced tea to share our travel experiences.

He was telling me about how frustrated he felt about not being about to hold a substantial conversation with the natives due to his very limited vocabulary of Thai (aha, a situation not dissimilar to mine!), giving the example of him and his thai friend standing together in front of this super nice and magnificent thing, and both (probably) thinking the same thing, but he was at a loss of how to converse his thoughts, feelings, emotions of appreciation to his friend.

it's just not the same.

Even for someone who can speak/understand the same language, it's so difficult-

you could be standing in the same room with this person, and watching this film, and thinking, wow, this is ... amazing, and just being awestruck at the whole beauty of the thing but at a loss of words to say to the person standing right next to you.

What thoughts/feelings are running through his/her mind?

How is he/she intepreting/viewing this film?

Is he/she thinking the same thoughts?

Or is he/she bored?

how can you connect with someone?

sometimes i don't know what are the words i should say (if any, at all),

so i just keep quiet, and enjoy the silence.

sometimes, words just fail to convey my thoughts, feeling, emotion.

so i let silence do the trick.

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Had a super packed weekend that was very tiring and fun-filled.

Wish every weekend could be as eventful and/or fulfilling as that, but i think i'd die of exhaustion first.

okay, 2 more weeks to bangkok,

i've got to hang on!