If there's one thing i absolutely HATE about living in Bangkok is its notorious traffic. owing to poor planning, ultra fast growth, in-migration or whatever, getting around in the city gets more and more hideous with each passing year. yesterday on my way back from Central Ladprao I got stuck in a cab which in turn was stuck among other cars on the street for NO REASON. ok, there may have been some reason. it was 6PM, hence rush hour blah blah blah. but isn't it ABSURD that in 30 minutes we couldn't move from point A to point B which was literally 20 meters in length i kid you not! all i could do was listen to the chaffeur bitching mindlessly and watch the meter go up from 53 baht to 73 baht. a distance of 20 meters in some 30 minutes are you SERIOUS? it normally costs me 65-70 baht to get from there to here but last night i had to pay 103 baht. it's not so much the money as the general ridiculousness of the situation that made me flip.
Solution? I need to buy a car. And to sound absurdly bourgeois and disgust communists, socialists, and Buddhists alike, I need a BWM. yay euro cars. so i checked the price tag on www.bmw.co.th. the cheapest model is BWM 3 Series Sedan which is graciously priced at, can i have some drum roll, THB 2,400,000. Dead. That means, if i succeed in hunting down the world's most generous donor (i.e. my parents) and make them pay the highest down payment of 30% of the original price, I would only need to pay the rest of 2,400,000 - 719,700 = 1,680,000ish. To make the figure less horrendous and myself less likely to faint, i should do the longest installment payment for oh god 60 months (5 years?!). And that will boil down to... 33,446 baht per month (VAT included). And where do i find this appalling amount on a monthly basis you tell me!
But seriously can you find a better looking car? I thought I would eventually get a black or greyish one but I've seen too many of those in the streets of Bangkok already and of course i want to be different! Look at the sparkling smoky varnish and the sleek design. if it is not the vehicular impersonation of Glamour, i dont know what is! Since a picture is worth a thousand words or so goes the saying, I'll give you three pictures and those are worth more than three thousand words still!
More than straights and bends.
The exterior of the BMW 3 Series Sedan.
One can learn a great deal about the BMW 3 Series simply by looking at it. Follow the line of the silhouette, and its remarkable power becomes tangibly evident. Rest your eyes on the individual details, and the elegance of each one reveals itself. Even when it is motionless, the short overhangs and characteristic wedge shape express sporting dynamics. But who wants to experience the BMW 3 Series Sedan only when it's standing still?- - -
Man i'm sure the person who wrote the description was some sort of art historian.
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BOURGEOIS. Critics of the current model of the 3 series, as with all BMWs these days, say the design is too odd and that the 3 series lacks character. I, however, don't agree with them at all. Truly a wonderful piece of engineering. But wow, so bourgeois. I expected nothing less from you haha. Oh, are you writing for Wallpaper* now?
how about those cute minis? yuppy and bourgeois. in other words, adorable...
Agree with u about the ridiculous
city planning of Bkk! i think
they're trying to solve the problem na, but the traffic
problem's been increasing at the same time. So it's no way that
this problem will be solved. The only way to solve (like in the next 50 years)is to move Bkk to another city like Chiangmai, Sukhothai, or some place. Or simply just expand it. Do u think so?
ps, i don't understand what art historian says in the last paragraph ah. can't guess jing jing
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