Chiang Mai Semi-Lockdown Day 19
Originally the semi-lockdown was set to be only until April 13rd, but it has been extended to April 30th now and I believe it will be until couple more months. In my personal opinion, Thailand is following the footstep of Italy, using the strategy of “partial lockdown”. In other word, instead of “controlling the spread”, they are following the spread. The proof is that in Bangkok, where the majority of the case is being diagnosed, the street is still fill with cars and people ( according to my friend when she’s overlooking the main bridge).
It seems like Chiang Mai going to a full lockdown soon, probably 12 hours then 24 hours. I reckon next Thursday will be a good time for me to leave this place in case it’s going on full lockdown.
It has been more or less 20 days since I started writing regularly, I enjoyed this act of writing so much. It helped clearing my mind, organizing my thoughts. I have a very very busy mind, thoughts are running wild and free in my head all the time. This blog, though only reflects a tiny bit of my thoughts, help me a lot. I was actually looking forward to write about my day in San Kamphaeng.
San Kamphaeng area is a very green town. I enjoyed very much the run in the morning where I will spot little different birds, or sometimes a very tiny squirrel jumping from trees to trees. It was as if I was lost into this empty green town.
The other thing that makes me enjoy this area really much is the food. Because of the size of the town together with the lack of big supermarket, food in this town is very seasonal. It’s similar to my Hoi An, no, it’s much better than my Hoi An. I’ve only been here for 2 months but I can see how the fruits at the market are changing according to the months. Well, I was lucky to be here during the changing of seasons. When I first came, there are so much strawberries & avocados which is the fruit of cold weather. I drank avocado smoothie almost everyday.
As the weather gets warmer, comes the season of mango, durian, thanh trà, papaya. My smoothies also change from fancy avocado to Mango. Living in here and since I’ve turned semi-vegan, I don’t even think about the amount of vegetable I eat everyday because I ate more than enough the needed portion of vegetable and fruit, most of them are eaten raw.
I’ve adapted to the Thai style of eating vegetable, eating almost raw everything. A year ago when I first moved to Bangkok, I was very skeptical and afraid of how the vegetable was eaten, then I became part of it, and actually start to enjoy it very much.
