The past couple of weeks have not been very busy at all with castings, pretty much just been hanging out, not doing a whole lot! I had 3 fittings for the Honda job I booked, 1 to many really. Then today I did the shoot for the print part of the job. It was easy, didn't have to do a whole lot, and it was a really easy, relaxed shoot which was good. Now for the fun entertaining part,


Lets start with the few casting/job stories I have..

1) When you are at a casting and the person running it tells you "one moment ka", that doesn't actually mean one moment as it should.. it means atleast an hour, but probably longer. In this particular case it meant 4 hours... not my forte

2) Thai people pronounce my name one of two ways usually. Either "caught-kneeee", with little emphasis on the "t" and much much emphasis on the "eeee". The second way is "connie"..and these are only when they get it just a little bit correct.. otherwise there is no way they can pronounce it!

3) At shoots they always tell you, "one more", "one more". Does that ever mean actually one more? Noooo way, not at all. One more usually means atleast 20, but they just tell you one more, so you put in all the effort as if its the last shot.. this is what I assume anyway.

Now on to the driving/taxi stories..


1) I was in a taxi, going to a casting and just my luck he had to stop for gas. So I was in the taxi, while we wait for a pump to be free. There are attendants at each pump, that pump the gas for you. The odd thing is, they lift the hood and pump the gas in there somewhere! The taxi's don't have gas tanks on the side like the vehicles in Canada do! So so odd.

2) Most taxi drivers SUCK at driving. Like unreal, if you are going to drive a flippin standard probably learn to drive it properly!! Most taxi's here are standard, and its not so awesome because there is usually a whole lot of traffic, so there is a lot of shifting etc. NOT AWESOME. I have definitely developed some car sick issues, which is not cool. Even when there isn't traffic, the shifting issue is still a problem, it is so jerky and makes you feel ill for sure. Moral of the story, if you get car sick, I do not advise you to get in a taxi during busy traffic hours!

3) Regarding #2...sometimes taxi drivers that have automatic vehicles still SUCK. Driving here goes like this: Speed up as much as you can, to get as far ahead as you can, then when you need to come to a stop, don't ease in to it, hit your breaks right before you hit the bumper of the car infront of you. As you can tell, this is a slight issue. This type of driving would not fly in Canada! They just weave in and out and even when there is lots of traffic, they still try to go fast and get as far ahead as they can before they have to hit the breaks hard and come to a stop.. another way to make you car sick..

3) Traffic doesn't move for ambulances or anything. I believe I mentioned this in previous blogs from previous years. But when an ambulance has its lights flashing and everything, no one really moves, they just keep going as if its not there.. lesson to be learned: refrain from needing to be in an ambulance in Bangkok...

4) When it rains, it is an automatic signal for drivers to slow down a large amount. It's as if the rain is pure ice that as soon as it hits the pavement it turns into icy madness. Even if it is sprinkling, all traffic slows down to 0km/h I swear. It's so weird and slightly annoying..