Daily Report: Spending Spree, Day 2

The original plan was to use my tax refund check to just buy gold... but... well... things just didn't work out that way.

Don't get me wrong: I did buy a nice pile of gold to fritter away over the next year. However, a sizable chunk of change was spent today on other stuff.

First thing this morning, it was off to the travel agent's office to buy plane tickets. I bought a plane ticket for Riza to go to the Philippines as a favor for Mike. Then I bought a plane ticket to America... 70,000 baht, premium economy... about 130,000 baht cheaper than business class, and from what I've heard, the only thing you don't get is the upgraded meals. We'll see.

On the way back home, I bought yet another motorcycle. This one is for me. It's a Tiger (the minor brand that also makes a motorcycle called "The Joker", if you know your Thai motorcycles). It's 150 cc and is a little bigger and more powerful than the Nouvo, but has the same type of automatic transmission. Love the yellow color.

After that, I went out and bought Pui a digital camera... a Sony Cybershot, plus a photo printer. I also bought a new coffee machine.

So all in all today, I went through about 200,000 baht. Yikes.

This evening, I was supposed to go out to dinner with Stan at Casa Pascal, but unfortunately Stan canceled as he was out drinking with Mad Mick and Fred and the gang at a bar on Thappraya Road. I went and joined them. However, as a blowout bar party was not what I was really interested in doing, I called it quits after 2 beers. Instead, I went and hung out with Rick at his bar for a few hours before coming home.