Living alone in Sathupradit

2 weeks ago, I moved out from Rangksit, where we lived in Pui's house. Why? Rangksit is about 1 1/2 hours away from the center of Bangkok, so it was quite a hassle to go downtown to attend meetings.
So now I live in what we call "the Swiss flat" (because there was a Swiss flag hanging in the room when we went to look at it).

These are the beauties of living in the Swiss flat:
- It's small and simple but perfect for me.
- It's right under the roof, which is huge and only used by me. (Very nice: take up some Thai mattresses (straw things), candles, food and music, and then look at the city at night.) (On the picture below you can see the view from the roof)
- The bathroom is outside (no, nobody can see it from anywhere), so when I have a shower in the morning the sun shines right down on me and I can suntan and shower at the same time!
- There is a woman that sells gau grapau gai (spicy chicken with rice) right in the same building down stairs.
- There is the best gau man gai woman of Thailand across the street. (it's my favorite dish: Rice and Chicken, yeah I know, it sounds very plane but it's just delicious the way she makes it!)
- There is a Chinese vegetarian place also across the street!
- Weaw and Gut are very cool neighbours!

Just that I'm probably the first farang (white person) who ever lived in this area. (OK, apart from the Swiss who used to live in the Swiss flat before me, and several others I guess). I get stared at as if I just came down from mars or somewhere. First week, everyone just gaped at me. Now people know that there is someone strange walking around the neighborhood and somehow everybody who sees me waves and shouts "Hello my friend!" Which is funny but strange. And I thought that in Rangksit people used to react strangely to Rob, Rina and me, but oh I tell you: It's nothing compared to here.

But I figure out: living alone is no fun! Rob, Rina and Pui, I'm looking forward for you guys to come back from IC! And Chregu, I miss you a lot and thinking that I have to wait half a year until you will move back in with me in Bern seems like forever!