I was on the way home from BIG C mini market. I wanted to buy some soap, as it’s proven soap is the most effective to clean away the virus. Even in this tiny town, where rice is readily available anywhere, from anyone home, the rice shelf is empty.

And I was even think to myself that it seems like life doesn’t change at all in San Kamphaeng. Well, that’s such a naive thought.

The price of food has slowly, or maybe quickly increase. Normally 50 eggs will cost 70 baht, today, it cost 100 baht, that’s 50% increase in pricing. That makes in incredible hard for the small shop like P’Mai to continue to survive, without customer ( since they cannot sit and eat) and then with food price rise like rocket, it’s impossible to continue. She is thinking probably best to close the shop for now and only do delivery for the foreigner and some Thai.

The government has created so very serious measure but one thing I found extremely crazy is the test for Covid is extremely expensive. How can a person like P’Mai pay 6,000 to get tested?

The Vietnamese government has closed the sign up page to go home. I knew I sign up already but I just want to make sure my name is on the list. I’ve been searching for other option to go home, not one that looks promising. Lots of travel around and quite dangerous. So it’s best to stay put around.

We are looking at 24/24 curfew anytime soon. I think it’s time to buy a little bit of instant noodle at home just to be safe. I don’t eat much but better than nothing I guess.

One of the good thing about this lock down is I can kinda have a very good timeline, be in bed writing my blog at 9:00 PM, and then sleep all the way till 7:30 AM. Last night was bad, I was hunted by the mosquitos, at one point I fell like my face was so swollen, but I was too sleepy to check. I don’t think it will get better today though I tried.

I started loving to write everyday, it helps clearing my mind, organizing my thought in a more thorough way. I think it’s such a powerful tool. I love how it give me a little bit of pressure to write in a presentable way. Though nobody is reading this except me, but it’s not for the people, it’s for me 🙂