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When we were together, the world just disappeared

www.neilisawanderingsoul.blogspot.comWe came from opposite ends of the world.

He was an aspiring architect. He was born, and he studied and lived in the cold, busy streets of Berlin.

And I was a disgruntled public relations officer in Manila, who at that time, was at the crossroads of my life.

Six thousand and three hundred miles of land and vast oceans separated us, not to mention the seven-hour time difference between our two cities.

But on that rainy July morning, near daybreak in the streets of Khao San Road in central Bangkok, amidst an ocean of people and an explosion of sounds, odor, and sights, fate brought the two of us, strangers who were worlds apart, together.


I arrived in Khao San Road past midnight, determined to find myself.

For weeks, I have been trying to escape my worries about the future. My workplace bored me to death, my love life was a total mess and my family was as dysfunctional as ever.

And did I mention that it was my birthday?

Any means of escape, would have been a great idea.

I traveled to Khao San Road after hearing tales of adventures and conquests from fellow travelers. The place, as they told me, was not necessarily an idyllic destination. In fact, it was just a short strip, composed of stalls, shops, travel agencies and budget hotels that offer accommodations at mind-boggling rates.

They shared, however, that it is a place for any journeyman, any person who is trying to find himself and put his acts together. After all, this street, which offers anything, from the absurd displays, shirts and jeans knockoffs to, cruises in the most distant lands you will ever hear, you can find anything, even yourself.

This truly appealed to me and prompted me to pack my bags and hop on the next available plane.

But on that night, amid the flurry of different tongues, the endless parade of pad thai noodle carts and rows of clothing shops, I was simply lost.

I went to Lucky Beer, one of the busiest pubs in Khao San Road, hoping that three bottles of beer and the endless chatter around me, would make me dizzy enough, so I can finally rest in my hotel, just a few steps away.

Then I saw him.

Tall, broad-shouldered, with natural blonde hair reaching his shoulders, he sat in the corner, beer in hand, watching the different crowds that had been chattering inside the bar.

I could tell that like me, he was alone.

Being polite, I knew that it was rude to stare but there was something in him that made me look again and again and this, he noticed.

Our eyes met and seeing that I was sitting alone, he stood up and said, "You're not Thai." It was a statement, not a question.

I told him I was from Manila, and he smiled. He's heard of it before but has never met anyone from it, he told me and I smiled back. He told me he was from Germany and I told him about sausages and Octoberfest, which I learned, is actually held in September.

With a giggle, we started a small talk, which as the hours flew by, turned to an intimate confession of our deepest wants and desires. Oblivious of the noise from the drunken Scottish lads next table, and of the loud noise thundering from a jukebox nearby, we talked and talked in earnest, sharing our thoughts on the most mundane topics ranging from German sausages to the distance lands we have traveled.

All the while, I couldn't help but notice his eyes, icy blue, that seemed to smiled with him every time he cracks a joke.

He told his stories with so much conviction and emotion, which I was lacking for weeks now.

At 4am, after decimating 12 bottles of beer and a half bottle of cheap vodka, he looked me in the eye and asked me, gently, if I would would be interested to join him in his hotel.

I looked into his blue eyes and saw nothing but passion. His and mine. I said yes.


For two days, we ventured into the labyrinth of Banglamphu. We explored the whole strip of Khao San and the streets around the Chao Phraya river.

At night, we dined out in whichever restaurant we fancy and then locked up inside his hotel room and discovered the mysteries of our own bodies.

In those two days and nights, we only cared for each other not giving much thought to anyone else. It was like seeing each other clearly, and everything else is a blur.

Our separation was bittersweet. He was traveling to Australia and I was set to explore the Mekong region. We promised to stay in touch, with emails, chats, but we knew they were futile.

We knew it was over.

Coming from two opposite ends, finding a common ground was just too difficult, if not totally impossible.

On the morning of my scheduled departure, he asked me if I enjoyed my trip to Thailand.

I paused for a moment, reflecting on the past three days. I looked up to see his blue eyes once again and answered him honestly. I told him that I could recall very little of my time in Thailand for during our time together, it was only him I could see and everything else was lost in the background.

He gave me a long hug and then I was out of his room into the hot, humid and noisy street of Khao San Road


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Beautiful quotes about women

Beautiful quotes about women

I do not know why women need all that men have. For women, among other things, there are men.
Coco Chanel

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman-any woman-beautiful
legs.

Smart woman was, in a society where you can keep yourself as anything silly.
Paul Valery

Female guess is more accurate than men's confidence.
Rudyard Kipling

The woman - your shadow: when you go to her, she flees from you, and when you go away from her - she runs for you.
Alfred de Musset

Beautiful girls and women are rarely alone, but often they are alone.
Henrik Yagodzinsky

The later the girl comes to visit, so it is smiling.
Gomez de la Serna

Woman should contrive to look so wise, so that her "random" stupidity was a real gift for men.
Karl Kraus

Night-to-face every girl and woman.
S. Flesharova-Muscat

In loving woman's heart is always full of hope, to kill them, you need more than one stab, she loves to the last drop of blood.
Honore de Balzac

No woman dawn and night life would have been helpless, and her noon - no joy.
Pierre Buast

If God had appointed a woman to be Mrs. men, he could have created it out of my head, though - a slave, that would be created from his foot, but since he appointed her to be her friend and equal to men, it has created from the rib.
Aurelius Augustine

If you want to know what actually thinks a woman, look at her, but do not listen.
Oscar Wilde

Women's hatred, in fact, the same love, just changed direction.
Heinrich Heine

The woman - both apple and a snake.
Heinrich Heine

Men should beware of a woman when she loves: for then it is ready for any sacrifice, and everything else has no value in her eyes.
Nietzsche

If I am part of your destiny, then someday you will come back to me ...
Paulo Coelho

If a woman loves you, then, in essence, the man she loves - not you. But the man she no longer loves - it was you!
Paul Gerald

When the actress was asked what she puts on before going to bed - she replied: "Only Chanel Number Five."
Marilyn Monroe

Only a woman can temporarily stop the clock.
Jozef Bulatovic

Some women enough once walk down the street, to remain in the memory of man forever.
Rudyard Kipling

Clever woman like Semiramis.
Kozma Prutkov

What is the mistress? A woman near where you forget what he knew by heart, in other words, all the disadvantages of her sex.
Nicolas Chamfort

Who has not seen a woman in love, he can not say that such a woman.
Gautier

A woman's right - to speak more than men, and male responsibility - to do more than a woman.
Baurzhan Toyshibekov

Perfect couple from my point of view - this is a hell of a beautiful woman and a devilishly clever man.
Baurzhan Toyshibekov

Man, sermonize, usually a hypocrite, and a woman, have morals, certainly ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Even the severity of the beloved woman is full of infinite charm, which we do not find in the happiest moment for us in other women.
Stendhal

Woman is not only able to understand the sacrifice: she knows how to sacrifice themselves.
Ivan Turgenev

Night shine to the stars and women.
Byron

A beautiful woman can kiss her endlessly and never get in the same place.
Janusz Makarchik

Even the most beautiful legs somewhere end.
Julian Tuwim

Nymphomaniac - a woman who wants to make love in the evening, despite the fact that the morning did her hair.
Maureen Limpan

To understand the women have to become a woman, and if it can become impossible, one can only accept women as they are - full of riddles and sweet charm of his personality.
Gray

Without women, the beginning of our lives would be devoid of support, the middle of - of pleasure and the end - of consolation.
Nicolas Chamfort

In life there are cases when a woman struggling hides a passion felt by a man, while he also assiduously playing the love that does not feel to it.
J. La Bruyère

Women in Love is likely just more indiscreet than a little infidelity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The facial expression of women are much more important than her clothes.
Dale Carnegie

Sin, if a woman looks less beautiful than it could be.
Cervantes

If a woman responds to your question - do not believe it, if silent - do not believe it even more.
K. Makuszyński

If women are given custody of the men, they are not out of danger, only those out of danger, which protect themselves by their own volition.
Indian saying

There are two ways to command the woman, but nobody knows.
Frank Hubbard

There are men, surpassing eloquence of women, but no man has the eloquence of women's eyes.
Weber

Women need to take with all our shortcomings.
Arkady Davidovich

She played for centuries as a mirror endowed with magical properties and misleading: it is reflected in the figure of a man was twice the natural size.
Virginia Woolf

She soon falls in love with a man whom she hates, than that to which the indifferent.
Woman reigns, but does not control.
Delphine Girardin

Most of the men from their wives' demands virtues which they themselves are not.
Tolstoy

Most of the women obey the voice of the heart, and their behavior in the whole depends on the men, whom they love.
J. La Bruyère

Be a man - a lot, but being a woman - even more.
M. Larni

Do not burst his wife shouting "I know everything!" And it asks you what kind, in what year was the Battle of Trafalgar.

She knows the meaning of love, and a man - its price.

If love is released. back - it's yours, do not come back - never was yours.

A man wants to be a woman first, while the woman wants to be a man of the latter.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, "You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair."

And I like how goes the beautiful and proud woman, a haughty and rapidly tapping his heels and slapping the door. Maybe they then slide on the back side, and weep bitterly, but they go wonderfully ...

And she just burst out laughing, casting a hawk's eye in response to it, as anyone knows, the life of a cat are no rules ...

If a woman is not right, go and apologize ...

Women, like cats, secretly despising their masters, and again returned to the hearth hateful

50 Greatest Quotes on Men

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill

Today’s post as you can see from the title itself is dedicated to men. Well, technically women since they would be the one trying to find answers about men. After researching all day I have been able to compile this post with quotes that might answer some questions and some, as always, will remain unanswered no matter how hard we try.

1. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked. ~ Fanny Brice
2. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
3. Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ~ George Bernard Shaw
4. When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ~ Benjamin Franklin
5. Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
6. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
7. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ~ Blaise Pascal
8. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ~ William Hazlitt
9. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~ Oscar Wilde
10. God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him. ~ Unknown
11. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ~ Oscar Wilde
12. It’s not the men in my life that counts, it’s the life in my men. ~ Mae West
13. A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. ~ Buddha
14. Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. ~ Billy Crystal
15. Men play the game; women know the score. ~ Roger Woddis
16. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. ~ Winston Churchill
17. There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ~ Samuel Johnson
18. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. ~ Louis Nizer
19. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
20. Few men have been admired of their familiars. ~ Michel de Montaigne
21. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~ Kin Hubbard
22. If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ~ Doris Day
23. All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. ~ John Lyly
24. Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Chuck Norris
25. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~ Victor Hugo
26. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ~ Thomas Carlyle
27. Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ~ George Eliot
28. A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. ~ Jose Marti
29. The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. ~ Julius Charles Hare
30. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. ~ Marilyn Moroe
31. There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
32. Young men preen. Old men scheme. ~ Mason Cooley
33. If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher
34. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost
35. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ~ Samuel Johnson
36. Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
37. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ~ Francis Bacon
38. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ~ Aristotle
39. Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ~ Cher
40. There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ~ Will Rogers
41. Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ~ Samuel Butler
42. Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~ William Shakespeare
43. Men are only as great as they are kind. ~ Elbert Hubbard
44. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
45. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ~ Confucius
46. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. ~ Henry David Thoreau
47. It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. ~ Frederick Douglass
49. Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
50. Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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