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[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

116. My Happy Ending (2023)

[lisbetadair]

OC Post: Vivianne Bradley

1. Vivianne Bradley (née Fairfax)

2. Loosely based on English actress Tamsin Grieg, except in the first story she appears, she wears her hair long.

3. She fits into the original Modern Warfare (2007) universe, appearing as the wife of the original Gaz, and subsequently reappears as his widow and supporting BFF of Captain Price's terminally anxious wife.

Vivianne met Gaz long before the events of Modern Warfare (2007), when he and his colleagues were posted to the Siege of Clapham College. At the time, she was an art student. They were casual partners for several years until she graduated and without any immediate prospects, agreed to stay with him in Hereford to clear her head and consider the direction her life was going to take. She loved Gaz, and he loved her deeply in return.

Over the years of their marriage, she has made a success of herself as both an artist and owner of a small gallery, meaning that both her and Gaz live comfortably in an old vicarage that they rescued from ruin, with their two children, up until he is killed at the end of Modern Warfare (2007).

Vivianne comes from an old aristocratic family: she is the fourth child of the Duke of Essex, who owns Schiltron Tactical and her uncle, General Lord Sir Robert Fairfax, is director general of special forces, a fact that is only discovered after she is engaged to Gaz. She is estranged from both of her parents; although they do reconnect after she marries Gaz, largely through the machinations of her uncle.

The fact that Vivianne and Gaz are so poorly matched in terms of social class is a major thorn in the side of the senior regimental officers (and Price). None of them knew that their was a relationship between the posh bird that Gaz brought up from London and the big boss until she's recognised at a medal ceremony by the DG himself.

Vivianne is a crack shot, having grown up shooting on her parents estate. There was once an attempt to run a shooting course for regimental wives and girlfriends, which the men who dreamed up the idea thought would be a laugh right up until Vivianne outpointed every single one of the instructors and wouldn't stop laughing because she was having so much fun.

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Smiling With Teeth: Chapter Four

First Chapter

Previous Chapter

This chapter, I have to admit, is not massively interesting but it is kind of important. It introduces you briefly to Tamsin’s flatmates and acts as a bridge to the next time Rowoon and Tamsin meet. 

I am now planning to try to post every Wednesday, but I think I will post the next chapter tomorrow since this one isn’t as interesting as I would like to give you. From then on the aim is posting every Wednesday. I have a lot of stuff planned for this fic and I am excited to keep going. 

As she ran, she held her bag in her arms because if she let it hang from her shoulder as it should, it would bang against her legs and probably trip her as she ran. Sport was not her strong suit but she was really worried about Ji-Hye. She had no idea how long the older girl had been outside already and wanted to get her inside as fast as possible and some hot tea in her.

Rowoon tried to follow her but by the time he had reacted to her leaving, bent down to grab his bag, picked up the book that had fallen out of her bag without her noticing, when he made it out the door, she was nowhere to be seen.

In the street, looking around to see where she could possibly have gone but lost due to the fact he didn’t have any clue where she lived, he realised that he had no way to contact her. He didn’t even know her surname.

Despite the fact that they had only spent a few hours together, he had really started to like the English girl. She was sweet and she made him laugh. He didn’t want this to be both the first and the last time he saw her. While they had been talking, he had found himself wondering what the other members would think of her. How much Dawon would make her laugh, how well she would get along with Hwiyoung, how Chani would act like he hated her because she was too cute, but he would actually like her for the same reason.

Also in the back of his mind all night, he had been planning how to ask for her number, waiting for the perfect moment. He had a back-up plan to ask as they said goodbye, maybe with a comment about being able to contact her if he needed to share an outlet again.

As Tamsin reached her flat building, she spotted her unnie in the doorway, huddling with her arms wrapped around herself. “Unnie, honestly! You need to stop doing this!” she shouted at Ji-Hye.

“I know…” she replied, voice slightly shaky, as Tamsin unlocked the front door of the building and shoved her freezing flatmate inside.

Tamsin grabbed her unnie’s arm and pulled her with her up the stairs to their flat. They had to pause on the third floor because Ji-Hye’s legs were too cold to be spurred into action, but when they finally reached their flat on the fifth floor, she happily collapsed on the sofa, gratefully receiving the blanket that Tamsin lay over her.

Hurrying to the kitchen, Tamsin immediately boiled the kettle and made a warm mug of tea for Ji-Hye, wanting to warm her up from the inside out. As she handed the tea to Ji-Hye, her unnie thanked her with a voice finally starting to become more steady, then promptly sneezed.

The only reason the tea wasn’t spilled was that Tamsin had not removed her hands from the mug yet.

Looking slightly sheepish, Ji-Hye took the mug from her flatmate and cuddled it to her chest, enjoying the warmth even just holding the mug provided.

It wasn’t until she was back in the kitchen, making some soup for Ji-Hye to hopefully warm up the older woman that extra bit enough to stop her from coming down with anything too seriously, that it hit her; she would probably never see Rowoon again. Until he debuted anyway. She didn’t know how long that would take. She could imagine in a couple of years’ time turning on the tv and seeing him there on M Countdown or something and thinking of the time she met him. She didn’t like thinking like that. She didn’t like thinking of him like she thought of the idols she liked. As much as she loved her EXO bias D.O., she almost struggled to think of him as a real person. Even when she had met him at a fanmeet, he was this distant being, seemingly too special, too perfect to be too close to. There was no way she could imagine sitting in a bar and having a conversation with him like she had done with Rowoon an hour or so earlier.

Wishing desperately that she had thought to leave a note with her number before she ran out of the bar, she handed the soup to Ji-Hye.

“Are you okay?” the elder asked her.

With a sad little laugh, Tamsin replied, “Of course, it’s me who should be worried about you, not the other way around when you do silly things like this.” She didn’t want to tell Ji-Hye about why she was sad. She probably already felt incredibly guilty for dragging the youngest of their group back home on a night when she was supposed to be able to shut off and get some work done, she didn’t need the guilt of having taken her away from a potential flirtation as well.

Half an hour later, Tamsin put her unnie to bed in their shared room, and finally got a chance to just sit down for the first time since she finished her essay. She checked her phone, expecting not to see very much, especially because she knew the guys were all out that night and would therefore probably have better things to do than message the group chat. When she looked, however, she saw that the group chat was not exactly empty, 16 new messages. They were all from Ji-Hye and all along the lines of, I locked myself out and need someone to come back and let me in, it’s cold out here. Looking at the times of the messages, Tamsin discovered that it was no wonder Ji-Hye seemed to have a bit of a cold already. She had been out in the cold over an hour by the time she had called Tamsin, and it had been nearly half an hour after that that they actually got inside. 

Shaking her head, she messaged Ji-Min, Ji-Hye’s younger sister, complaining that she had to look after her family members. Ji-Min commented that it should be Ji-Hye’s job looking after Tamsin because of their ages. The two girls joked about that briefly before Ji-Min checked that Tamsin was putting Ji-Hye to bed and then getting some sleep herself.

Ji-Min was cool. Tamsin had come home from her second day of university to find her on the sofa watching tv with Ji-Hye. Having been introduced then, the three of them hung out relatively often. Ji-Min was often very busy with work or even out of the country. She was an idol in a band called AOA, but Tamsin always found herself forgetting that because she was so normal to spend time with. They went to movies and went shopping just like anyone else. She contemplated telling Ji-Min about Rowoon, maybe they even knew each other, but she decided against it as she didn’t want Ji-Hye to know and didn’t want to make a sister keep a secret from another sister.

That reminded Tamsin that she should call her own sister. It had been a few weeks since she last did. It was coming up to 3am so it was actually a pretty good time to do so, being 7pm in the UK, but she was too tired. Instead, she made a mental note to find another time to do it and headed to bed, changing in the bathroom so as not to make too much noise in the bedroom while Ji-Hye was trying to sleep.

Lying in bed, trying to sleep, Tamsin’s brain would not let her forget Rowoon. About an hour of restlessness later, she was genuinely contemplating walking all the way back to the bar to see if by some tiny chance, he had stayed this long and was still there. She didn’t hold out much hope, but thought it might make her brain satisfied enough to shut up for the night. So much for getting up early to revise.

She was drawn out of her thoughts of venturing back out into the cold by the sound of the flat door opening, and not very quietly. This was soon followed by raucous giggling.

Creeping out of their room with a glance back at Ji-Hye who was miraculously still asleep, Tamsin was presented with the sight of all of her male flatmates collapsed across the sofas in the living area, giggling their heads of at gosh knows what.

“Guys!” she whisper-shouted.

They all turned to look at her with varying rates of success. Dae managed to find her straight away. Jeong and Ye-Jun both looked at each other, confused before they realised they had not imagined the voice and someone had entered the room, so looked across at her. Seong-Min looked at each of the guys, getting more and more confused as he realised it couldn’t have been any of them who spoke because the voice was clearly feminine, then he scanned the whole room before he managed to settle on looking at Tamsin.

“Ji-Hye is not feeling great so she needs to get plenty of sleep. That means you guys have to shut up! You guys should head to bed too, to be honest. I know at least three of you have at least one exam this week.”

Dae sobered up almost immediately, an impressive skill he had that Tamsin always attributed to him being the dad friend. “Is she okay?” he asked, concerned for their friend.

“Yeah,” Tamsin confirmed. “She just locked herself out again and caught a cold. She should be alright as long as she gets plenty of sleep.”

Thankfully, Dae then took over the herding of the others into their shared room. She went back to bed and didn’t hear from them again until well past noon the next day.

Exams came and went, Tamsin passing them all, most with flying colours, earning her groans from her flatmates who had to deal with her worrying from weeks before the exams started all the way until results came out. She started her second year of university and with that started studying Mandarin and Japanese. Her goal was still to learn as many languages as she possibly could. Occasionally, thoughts of the gorgeous giant she met that one night in February flitted through her mind. She wondered if he was getting close to debuting, and when she had these thoughts she found herself googling recently debuted groups to see if she would recognise the face she was looking for but she never recognised any of them. She did, however, get into some new bands this way.

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TAMSINS UPDATED BIO

Tamsin Amelia Johnson was born August 18th of 1988. She was a happy baby, very healthy and could go home the next day. For a few months, everything was okay. Her older brother, Victor, was not happy that he had to deal with a screaming baby (but what five year old is) but everything was okay. However, Maria and Thomas began to argue and Maria eventually ended up leaving the country to go back to Russia. Tam and Vic would alternate summers between their mother and father. She grew up normally, she had trouble with History and English but excelled in math and science. She grew an interest in political science early on, watching presidential debates with her father, the congressman. he was a good father, supported everything they did and held a certain fondness for his youngest child. as she got older, he no longer brought her with him to sessions in congress and instead she was forced to go to school. She hated it. 

Although she hated English class with a passion, she held a certain passion for reading. Any type of book she could get her hand on. By the age of twelve, she had read nearly every book in the school library. Her brother teased her, called her a nerd and when he turned 18 he joined the Army to help pay for his education. It was during her Sophomore year of high school that Victor was killed. Tamsin was devastated. Her grades slipped, her father locked himself away in his study and for the first time in forever, Maria stepped back into the house. She stayed long enough for the funeral before leaving, leaving tamsin and her father alone. victor had been the first child and although not thomas’ favorite he still mourned his sons loss. 

Tamsin met her lifelong friend ( and future chief-of-staff ) Victoria in her junior year of high school. they both joined the mathematics club and Victoria had seen tamsin play basketball. Although not something tamsin had done since her brother's death, she was touched that victoria remembered it. it was victoria that persuaded tamsin to take up basketball again.  it was during tamsins final year of high school that she signed up to join the Armed Forces in the fight in Afghanistan. She attended Georgetown when she was in the United States and contracted HIV still from her English professor. 

She was not discharged for this. Instead, she was watched. 2011 rolls around and Tamsin is honorably (medically) discharged following an explosion that left her with shrapnel embedded in her and hearing gone fully in her left ear, hearing at 50% in her right ear. She’s given an ear piece and relies heavily on lip reading. It is in this recovery hospital that she meets Joshua King, a congressman who visits every week. They talk for a while and end up in constant communication. 

Mr. King eventually runs for president and against all odds wins. He offers Tamsin a job as the Secretary of Defense but she turns it down in favor of Homeland Security and after a grueling confirmation meeting she is appointed. She adopts a young boy named Andrew (he’s around 9 ) and Victoria starts working for her then. It is when Andrew attends his first day of fifth grade when she meets Dr. Amber Whitlock. 

Amber and her hit it off right away and Tamsin soon learns of ambers abusive husband, offering her a place to stay. amber eventually takes her up on this offer when she learns that she’s pregnant. Two twin girls are born and Tamsin and Amber slowly get into a routine. They eventually begin to date and are engaged at the beginning of my novel. 

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6th, 7th November Writings

6th, 7th

Excerpt: Dangers of Oxley High

“You must be the new English teacher,” Daniel Allan said.

 “English and History,” Becca clarified.

 Words: 15

  Excerpt from: Trouble in the Future

“That would be obvious,” Leigh said.

 “And she's on the warpath,” Corrine added. “...And I suspect that she might be more angry once she knows I'm here.”

 “So, what do we need to do?” Di asked.

 Corrine handed a printout and CD to Leigh. “Two things. Leigh and I will try to save Clarissa from being shaved, and you will distract Kristia.”

 “Got it,” Di said. “How hard can that be?”

  Meanwhile, an alert had gone off in Austin's Main Room, frazzling Kristia's already frayed nerves. “Temporal Incursion!” Cath reported.

 Kristia had been trying to keep track of the Mara Green agents. “Not again! Why is Mara Green getting all this help from the future?”

 “I have no idea,” Cath answered.

 “You, stay here. I'll find the time traveller.”

 Words: 129

  Excerpt from: Adventures at Mara Brown

It took a while for Samson to return. Colin's reply came back first. “No one is aware of any experiments.”

  Words: 20

  Excerpt from: Reverse Map Game 2019

United States

Great Lakes forces surge east, capturing Pittsburgh...

 Similar losses occur in Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri...

 Dakotan forces capture most of Kansas and continue onwards into Oklahoma.

 The Battle of Denver occurs with General Eisenhower directing the strategic retreat. He makes the Dakotans pay in blood for every neighborhood they capture...

It was fortunate that the evacuation of the city had begun a full weak before the battle started, otherwise the death toll would have been much higher.

 The Cascadians continue moving southwards...

  Axis

Cascadia

In Olympia, the Council are happy with the conduct of the War so far. They issue a declaration of War against France soon after Germany does (see below).

 Words: 114

  Excerpt from: The Engineer and the Time Lady

“Computer, one bowl of spaghetti bolognaise and a glass of Dom Perignon.”

 The meal and wine materialised in the replicator. Nina raised an eyebrow. “Impressive.”

  As Nina started into her meal, Alpha excused herself, returning to the Bridge.

  Words: 38

  Excerpt from: Endeavour and the Anomaly

“What do you think we’ll find today?”

 “It could be anything. We’ve gone further out than we have gone before.”

 Words: 20

  Excerpt from: Doctor Who – A Time to Reflect

Tamsin Davis returned to the TARDIS ahead of the Doctor. The adventures they had undertaken since they had left the city where they had spent a few months had been invigorating, but exhausting. However, they were no closer to finding help for the girl.

 Words: 44

  Excerpt from: Pokemon – Setting Out

It was a new day. But it was different to most days. Daniela Karoshi had awoken early, to meditate upon the situation. Her son, Micah had turned 10 the day before. That meant he was old enough to set out to become a Pokemon Master.

 Words: 45

  Excerpt from: A Journey of Change

The 747 was halfway through its flight. Danica Stanton looked out at the Ocean. She still wasn’t sure that travelling to Canada alone was a good decision, but she had wanted to get away.

 Words: 34

  Excerpt from: Death in the Field

“There at least nine others coming out with me today.”

 Words: 10

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[leoorelonorkimbal]

1/2 When Elon & Talulah were married, Tal's best friend, the English actress Tamsin Egerton stayed w/them for several months when she was moving to LA. So Elon has had a friend of his partner staying at his house before. As far as I know, Azealia B lives in NY. So let's assume she's come to LA specifically to work on this piece of music & Elon has invited her to stay with him/them. Because the way her post is worded it's clear she's actually staying at the house, not coming & going every day.

.......

[heartsandmiinds]

NAME: Queenie Madeline Kowalski (nee Goldstein)

ALIAS(ES): Q (by friends in school), Sweetheart (at times by Jacob Kowalski)

GENDER: Female

AGE: 23 (in 1926)

DATE OF BIRTH: 1903

PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, United States of America

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English

SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Heterosexual    OCCUPATION(S): Desk Job in the Wand Permit Office.

APPEARANCE

EYE COLOUR: Blue

HAIR COLOUR: Blonde

HEIGHT: 5′6″ (I’m just gonna go with Alison’s height for this one)

SCARS:  None physically, a few emotional scars though.

BURNS : None

OVERWEIGHT: No

UNDERWEIGHT:  Nope, she’s very healthy. She loves to cook and eat and take care of herself and Tina, always makes sure everyone around her has eaten. If there’s even one hungry person she’ll make them something right away. (so cute :) )

FAVOURITES

COLOURS: Pink

HAIR COLOUR: Brown

EYE COLOUR: Brown

SONG: Cake Walking Babies (From Home) by Sidney Bechet

MOVIE: -

TV SHOW: -

DRINK: Hot cocoa

BOOK: ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ by L. Frank Baum, ‘*Dainty Sweets: Ices, Creams, Jellies, Preserves’ by the world famous chefs, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ by Newt Scamander (because she always supports her brother-in-law...and she reads the book to her children in an adorable verse with @nomaj-noproblem​)

*Dainty Sweets is a cookbook that Queenie first purchased when she was 10 just before she was going to go to Ilvermorny. She was planning to make her and Tina sweets whenever they were hungry in case there wasn’t any food around. She made sure to bring that book with her every year.

HAVE THEY

PASSED UNIVERSITY: Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (the best school in the WHOLE WORLD!)

HAD SEX: Yes

HAD SEX IN PUBLIC: “Well, there was that one time in the bakery...it was already closed and we cleaned up thoroughly right after, I swear!”

GOTTEN PREGNANT: Yep

KISSED A BOY: Yep

KISSED A GIRL: Nope

GOTTEN TATTOOS: No

GOTTEN PIERCINGS: No

HAD A BROKEN HEART: Only when Jacob stepped into the obliviation rain (healed right away when she went into that bakery)

BEEN IN LOVE: Yes

STAYED UP FOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS: Yes (worrying over Teenie)

ARE THEY

A VIRGIN: No

A CUDDLER: Big-Time Cuddler

A KISSER: Yes

SCARED EASILY: She can be

JEALOUS EASILY: No

TRUSTWORTHY: Yes

SUBMISSIVE: Yes, it’s either/or with her, whatever the mood is.

IN LOVE: Yes

SINGLE: Nope

FAMILY

SIBLING(S): Tina Scamander (nee Goldstein)     (older)

PARENTS: Mr. and Mrs. Goldstein     

CHILDREN: In my own headcanon, 8 little Kowalskis running around. Elphias, Verity, Thorinn, Mercia, Morrey, Cyprien, Araminta, and Tamsin.

PETS: None.

Tagging: @nomaj-noproblem <3

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Seeing the World | Bangkok, TH

As we arrived into Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, the excitement of starting a new adventure seemed outweighed the tiredness of the 15+ hours travelling time and I was ready to see the sights from the word go. However, we had to get to the place we were staying first. There are plenty ways of getting into the city from the airport: buses to TukTuks to taxis, and because we'd been travelling for so long and it was sweltering, we decided to go for the latter and treat ourselves to a nice air-conditioned taxi cab. 

After an hour drive and an approximate ฿500 charge between 3 of us (we met another traveller at the airport and car-pooled), we arrived at the backpackers mecca, Khao San Road! From here we needed to get to our hostel, The Overstay, which was a good 2.9km away, so we flagged down a TukTuk. There are so many ways to get around in Bangkok and TukTuks are probably one of the most common ways of getting around in southeast asia as a whole, but they can also be a bit unreliable if you don't have your wits about you. ALWAYS agree on a price before agreeing to a ride; they're all in competition with each other so you can usually get them quite cheap if you tell them that someone down the road offered you a cheaper price. Sometimes they will try and take you to a certain shop or info centre as they get free fuel stamps, you don't have to do this; we agreed a price with a guy and after we got in, he said that we agreed to go to the info centre for him and we refused, so he refused to take us... his loss really, his friend got our custom instead. 

We finally arrived at The Overstay (www.theoverstay.com) and it was just what we were expecting: a youthful, grungy place that thrived on free art and self expression, whether that be through music or painting or dancing or whatever, they'll cater for it! We'd booked a couple of weeks in advance and got a large double room for 4 nights at £6.86 per night (£27.44 in total for all you less mathy people!). The room was spacious and colourful, however the only downside was that it only had the one fan on the other side of the room. We didn't expect much for the price we got it at, so we couldn't complain, but in 38°C heat and 98% humidity, it can get hard to sleep. I'd definitely recommend The Overstay as it is such a friendly yet extravagant environment to be in. During our time there we met another English couple who were travelling together, named Emma and Jordan. Although we got chatting to a lot of people, we stuck with these guys and they wanted to explore just as much as we did, but also understood rest and that we'll need to take breathers every so often. I feel that it’s really important to take rest days and put your feet us as in the heat, it can be very to burn out and you won’t enjoy yourself.

Around the corner from our hostel was a huge shopping mall with a giant Tesco Lotus in it, so we could grab every essential that we conveniently forgot to bring with us. It also had market stalls outside that sold various different foodstuff at a fraction of restaurant prices. We got noodles a couple of times at ฿20 (~50p) each, however they weren't always cooking it fresh, so the second time it wasn't nice at all! Always make sure that they're cooking the food in front of you, especially meats; this will decrease the risk of any infection or illness being carried through the food. In Bangkok though, you can find food on every street and it’s always so cheap!

Thailand is notorious for its Buddhist religion and its Buddhist temples (nearly 95% of the country is Buddhist). I'm a born-again Christian, but I really appreciate the morals that come from Buddhism: the peaceful nature, the kindness to all living things and treating others with all of your respect. On a couple of our days, we visited these temples and probably the most impressive of them all was Wat Pho, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. The Reclining Buddha is a GIANT statue (I'm talking 150 feet long!) of Buddha led on his side, coated in gold leaf. The statue itself if magnificent and my words don't do it justice. If you're ever in Bangkok, I urge you to go and see it; it's only ฿100 (~£2.50) to get in and you get a free bottle of water outside the temple with your ticket. Note: there are plenty of water filters around the temple grounds, but the water in them isn't the nicest and I think would've probably made us ill if we kept drinking... Stick to bottled. 

Another must-see in Bangkok is the Chatuchack Weekend market. This is pretty much what it says on the tin, a gigantic area full of market stalls, that sells pretty much anything you could ever need: from furniture to pets, from food to knockoff brand name trainers. It's brilliant, but be aware that you probably won't be able to see the whole market in a day, it's too big! We decided to use the public transport system to get there as there were ample bus stops in the area we were staying and for an air-conditioned bus, it's only about ฿12 (~25p). After a couple of buses we arrived at the market and went on the hunt for food. Now, the market is split into lots of different sections and we had to find the food section, which was easier said than done! When arriving at the Chatuchack market, try and find the nearest map, as it'll make your experience a lot smoother than ours. We found ourselves walking down a huge road that just sold pets, it was the weirdest thing I think I've ever seen. There were literally hundreds of fish and seafood in tanks and pools and plastic bags ready to be sold and bunnys in cages. I don't agree with how these animals were being sold, as some of the fish had hardly any water or room and you could tell this had stunted their growth. However, I cannot judge another persons culture just because it's different to mine.  

We finally found food, a small market store that sold Greek kebabs with cheese for 80b each, and they really hit the spot! Then as we were walking, everyone just stopped, like robots. We soon realised that it's because the national anthem came on the tannoy, but as soon as it ended, everyone just carried on like nothing had happened, it was bizarre. So if everyone suddenly stops next time you're in Thailand, just stop with them and keep quiet, as a form of respect for their culture and their country. 

Our last main attraction that we saw in Bangkok was the Taling Chan Floating Markets. It's based on a small pier about a 15 minute cab ride from our hostel. Now, it wasn't the floating markets we've all seen on TV or the internet as it was tiny (the bigger ones are 90km outside of the city) but it was also very homely and cute. Scattered on the canals were small canoes where women cooking different foods and they were being sold on the pier, so we didn't buy from boat to boat as you see on television. Unfortunately, we'd missed the boat tour of all the bigger markets, but we managed to get on a boat ride to visit the local temple on the canals for ฿69 each (£1.75 ish). It was a 20 minute ride to the temple, but the boat stopped just before we got there and locals sold us fresh loaves of bread for ฿12 (~25p) to feed to the carp in the canal. It was amazing to see them come to the surface like a sheet; they covered the water so all you could see were fish. Unfortunately, some of the areas we were sailing through were quite poverty-stricken and it's sad to see these places that people live, although scattered throughout them were huge grand houses, obviously belonging to the rich! 

The temple we arrived at seemed to take care of multiple chickens and roosters. They were wandering around the temple grounds and there were even statues of them. We also found the body of an old monk from this temple in a glass case, covered in gold leaf, he must've been quite an important person to be immortalised like that on display. We only had about 15 minutes to look at the temple before we had to get back into the back to get back to the pier. I recommend this boat tour as you pay next to nothing and can tour the canals of Bangkok for an hour whilst seeing a lovely little temple. 

We only spent 4 days in Bangkok before heading to our next destination, but it's likely that we're going to use it as a hub once we come back through Thailand. I'd highly recommend Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha) as it was probably my favourite part of Bangkok but I definitely recommend the floating markets also, it's just so homely and nice and sells lots of delicious looking food. There are still things we're yet to do in Bangkok, like The Grand Palace (we couldn't get in as we all didn't have our IDs on us), so we'll definitely be back! 

You can live relatively cheaply in Bangkok, Tamsin and myself were only spending about £10 (~฿400)  a day each (including buses and tickets for things) and we weren't going to bed hungry. Keep an eye out for the street food vendors as they're dirt cheap and the food is wonderful, but make sure they're cooking it for you fresh everytime. If in doubt, there are plenty of restaurants for a bit more money, but you still won't be breaking the bank! 

Quick Thai lesson:

Hello - Sawatdee (Krub/Kah)

How are you? - Sabai Dee Ru (Krub/Kah)

Fine - Sabai Dee (Krub/Kah)

Thank you - Khob Khun (Krub/Kah)

Yes - Chai

No - Mai Chai

If you are male, add Krub or female, add Kah.

If you have any questions about my time in Bangkok, hit me up on social media or via email and I'll be happy to answer them as quickly as possible.

Stay blessed, stay you.

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Smiling With Teeth: Chapter Seven

I had some pretty serious tech issues this week and it’s not fully resolved so if I suddenly seem to disappear, that would be because my laptop has died an even more impressive death than it did this week. 

This chapter involves a long conversation in Tamsin’s flat’s group chat which can be found here. Hope you enjoy. 

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She blushed, hard.

The smile on his face grew.

Reaching into her dinosaur bag, she pulled out a phone with a purple case on it. As she typed her pass code in, he saw that it had a picture of a sea monster on it and it said something in English. He knew most of the words but didn’t understand it.  

Once she was on a blank contact page, she passed her phone to Rowoon. She watched him, while trying not to watch him, but she didn’t notice the dilemma that was going on in his head. Having left the page entirely blank, he had to come up with what to put his contact name as. He was tempted to briefly snoop through her phone, just to see what her other contacts were like. He didn’t want to put something silly and then find all of her other contacts were just surname-given name. Or vice versa. Then it crossed his mind that all of her contacts were probably in the roman alphabet, not hangul. Taking a quick but deep breath, he used his newly rediscovered confidence to decide what to write, without snooping through her phone. He did, however, use it to text himself a winky face, giving him her number. He didn’t feel too guilty about that, though, because he had asked for her number in the first place.

He was about to hand the phone back to her, she was holding her hand out ready to take it and everything, but he held onto it a little longer. Holding it up, the back facing her, he asked, “What’s this?”

Confused, it took her a second to realise he was talking about her phone case. It was a present she was given one year by her colleagues on an internship she did in Scotland. “It’s the Loch Ness Monster,” she explained. “Nessie is a mythical beast said to roam Loch Ness in Scotland. The writing says, ‘What matters is I believe in myself’ which is a joke because very few people actually believe that the Loch Ness Monster exists.”

The handsome young man cocked his head to the side, clearly not fully understanding the joke, but he had a smile on his face at the redness on hers. She stuffed a mouthful of noodles in her mouth to get out of having to say anything and that only made him smile more.

Having finished showing his impression to Mina, or rather, having been informed by Chani that he was finished showing his impression to Mina with a long whine of, “Hyung…”, Dawon had turned his attention back to Rowoon and Tamsin. He knew he was missing something here, some information that explained why Zuho had gotten involved like he did. Normally Zuho was happy on the outside of a group, joining in when he wanted to, but equally ignored when he wanted to be. There must have been a reason that he forced himself into this situation. The detective Dawon was distracted, however, by Chani, who had finished his own lunch by this point, sneaking a bite of Dawon’s. Speculating could wait when he had a maknae to fight.

Rowoon and Tamsin sat eating together in silence for a little while, not sure what to say to each other. They would glance across at each other at intervals, however, and more often than not, when they did, they caught each other’s eyes. Of course, as soon as their eyes met, they both looked away, going back to concentrating on the food for the next few seconds at least.

Finally, Rowoon remembered one of the conversation starting sentences he had been told by Zuho. “So, how’s university going?”

And she was off…

If only Rowoon had known it was this easy to bring Tamsin out of her shell. She told him all about her different modules she was working on at the moment and how the new languages she was learning were going. He didn’t understand half of it as she spoke about interesting vocabulary in at least three different languages and used technical Korean language to described specific linguistic devices, but he found he didn’t need to understand it. He was almost certainly enjoying the conversation, much more than he would have done from just understanding what was being said, by watching her. She lit up when she spoke about what she loved. The smile never left her face the whole time she was explaining complex devices used in Russian poetry, or how the Japanese alphabet worked, or any of the other stuff that he couldn’t even begin to comprehend and especially not at the speed she was gushing about it.

When the lunch break was over, the director sent a runner to call Chani and Mina back into the set. As they all followed the young man he took them to a different room than they had been in before.

They moved around a lot that afternoon, Chani and Mina filming several different scenes around the lot. Zuho was called on to join in a couple of times to start filming a bit of his story line, especially the parts where he was in shot with Chani.

No matter where they went all afternoon, Rowoon and Tamsin were next to each other. Now that Rowoon had gotten conversation flowing with his question about her course, they freely talked about many other things as well. They talked mostly about nonsense things, not about anything serious, or really much about themselves. They talked about what bands they liked, discovering Rowoon’s love of FTIsland and Tamsin’s love of BTS, and several other bands and dramas and the like. No one else got a word in edge-ways to either of them all afternoon.

At one point, they were all sitting in two rows of seats, similar to the morning set up but in front of a different set, except this time Rowoon and Tamsin were sitting next to each other on the front row. Dawon had fought his way to the seat on the other side of Tamsin and was trying to get her attention to no avail. Tamsin’s phone started buzzing in her pocket every couple of minutes. She knew from experience, this was her flat group chat.

She looked behind her at Ji-Hye who was showing something on her phone to her sister and giggling slightly. That made Tamsin wonder what they were finding so funny, so she got her phone out to check. She found that their other flatmates had been checking up on them. Or, more accurately, Seong-Min wanted to know how hot they were.

As she scrolled down through the new messages, however, she saw Ji-Hye was telling them that the trainees were ‘all over’ her, followed by some of the others, mainly Dae-Hyun, worrying about the them ‘getting too close to her’. She was going to indignantly type a reply to that immediately, but she decided to look through the rest of the messages, knowing her friends too well to think there wouldn’t be more to complain about.

And she was right. When Seong-Min had asked if there was anyone he might like there, Ji-Hye had been fast to pass him Youngbin as an idea, even managing to sneak a picture of him as he was sitting just to her right. Seong-Min was then asking where the studio was so that he could come and meet Youngbin. That was the most recent message. Time for Tamsin to step in. She told them that no one was getting too close to her and also told Seong-Min to stay where he was and leave the trainees alone.

Ji-Hye didn’t leave it at that, however. She made reference to the ‘tol bean’ on Tamsin’s right being particularly interested in her and when Seong-Min asked for a picture of him, she devised a plan. Or rather, she on the spot thought of the first step of a plan. She certainly did not think the whole thing through.

She got Ji-Min to say, “Hey Rowoon…” to get him to turn around and then she snapped a picture of him on her phone completely unsubtly. Then, when Ji-Min panicked, not knowing how to explain wanting Rowoon’s attention or how to distract him from her older sister’s antics, Ji-Hye grabbed her younger sister’s hand and pulled her away to the ladies’ room down the corridor, far away from all of the trainees they had just embarrassed themselves in front of.

Rowoon turned to Tamsin, a confused expression on his face, as he tried to figure out what had just happened. “Wae?”

Tamsin just shrugged, the only explanation she could give, “Ji-Hye unnie is a bit weird, but I love her anyway.”

After Ji-Hye was back and after a brief detour into a conversation about Rowoon’s height, Tamsin managed to stop the activity in the group chat by telling them she felt rude being on her phone while she was with the trainees. This was partially true. Another contributing factor was that typing was taking away from her time talking to Rowoon.

Once that was over, Ji-Hye went back to quietly watching the filming, making comments to Ji-Min and Youngbin when there was a pause between takes. This meant that Tamsin could get back to concentrating on Rowoon. She did also watch the filming. It looked really good, and she was enjoying it even more now that Zuho was doing some scenes too so she got more of an idea about what the drama was going to be like. She couldn’t wait for it to come out, especially so she could see Rowoon’s storyline.

Now that they were back to concentrating mainly on each other, for the two of them it was like no time had passed at all, even though by the time they were dragged out of their own little world by the director calling a wrap for the day, it was after seven in the evening. Their friends were all desperate to get out of there after being there all day.

“Let’s go get food,” Ji-Hye said, physically dragging Tamsin away from Rowoon in desperation to leave the studio. It had been a fun day, but a long one. “The guys have ordered food to the flat and they have enough for the four of us as well.”

As Tamsin was being dragged by her unnie, Rowoon’s dongsaengs came for him. Chani and Hwiyoung both came over. “Hyung,” Chani started, “Youngbin-hyung says we can get chicken on the way back to the dorm and you know my favourite chicken place closes soon. We need to get going.”

At pretty much the same time, the two said to their respective friends, “Just give me a second.”

They broke away from the friends dragging them apart, in front of each other once again.

“You’re not allowed to just disappear off the face of the earth this time,” Rowoon told her. “You have to text me. And answer when I text you.”

She nodded.

Her head was full of images of him pulling her into his arms just then, not for anything too racy, she just really wanted him to hug her. She stayed back, though, because she was unaware of the fact that at that moment, his arms were itching to wrap her up. They each settled for a little wave instead as they were finally dragged in opposite directions by their friends.

To be perfectly honest, Tamsin half expected Rowoon to text her that night. She was a little disappointed when he didn’t. However, she was too awkward to text him first. No matter how much he told her that he wanted to keep talking to her, she couldn’t stop the voice in the back of her head telling her that he was just being polite. Why on earth would someone that beautiful and sweet and funny want to spend any more time than he absolutely had to with her?

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Smiling With Teeth: Chapter Six

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Through the rest of the morning, they all watched Chani and Mina act out their scenes, starting with the ones in the store room. Rowoon found his attention often grabbed, however, by the girl two seats down from him, chatting to Dawon. Most of the reason he kept looking, to be honest, was simply checking that she wasn’t a figment of his imagination, it was really her.

Tamsin talked to Dawon most of the time when they weren’t required to be silent for filming. He was funny and she was glad he was there to distract her. One awkward eye contact with Rowoon was enough for the morning. She didn’t even know if he remembered her. The way he had been staring at her before had made her think that he was trying to place her, figure out where he had seen her before. Dawon kept her eyes from drifting back to Rowoon by keeping the conversation between them flowing.

Lunch break couldn’t come soon enough for Rowoon. He was sick of watching the girl he might have a little crush on being flirted with by another member of his group while he sat idly by unable to do anything about it. He doubted that she even noticed that he was there. She had looked at him with something like recognition before, or so he thought. Maybe he had read her completely wrong and she had no clue who he was beyond one of the Neoz boys that was working with her friend.

Zuho grabbed Rowoon and pulled him aside while the others headed towards the cafeteria for lunch. He had been watching the younger member stare at Tamsin, basically ignoring the show being filmed in front of them, except to occasionally applaud Chani’s performance, Romom couldn’t not support his baby boy. Rowoon wasn’t exactly the sort to have girl trouble, being the visual giant he was, and he wasn’t exactly timid either, but this time he seemed to be struggling and Zuho wanted to help. The lunch break was a great chance to start a conversation with her, but with how he had been acting through the morning, he didn’t trust the younger man to do so. As the only member who knew what was going on with Rowoon, Zuho felt it his duty to help his dongsaeng.

On the way to the cafeteria, Tamsin was walking with Ji-Hye, Ji-Min and Mina a little ahead of them. The youngest turned to her unnie and sighed. Ji-Hye was basically an older sister to Tamsin and she needed advice. She really wanted to talk to Rowoon. Through the morning, she had been considering asking Ji-Hye to switch places with her, but she was happy chatting to Dawon and didn’t want to seem rude, moving away with seemingly no reason. Also, she had no idea what to say to Rowoon. What do you say to someone you spoke to once, for a short time, ten months ago, but haven’t been able to get fully out of your head since? Especially as she ran out on him all that time ago, with barely an explanation.

“This is screwed up!” she whispered to her unnie, not wanting any of Rowoon’s fellow members to hear what she wanted to discuss with Ji-Hye. “I met Rowoon months ago when I was working on an essay, but then I had to run out on him to save you because that was the night you locked yourself outside in the cold.”

This was the first Ji-Hye was hearing about the event at all. She had assumed Tamsin had still been hard at work in the café when she called her. Tamsin had never corrected that thought, not wanting her to feel any more guilty than she already did for having to call her for help, but now it was Tamsin’s turn to need help.

“I bet he doesn’t want to know me now because I must have offended him by running out like I did with hardly any explanation, but I was worried about you being outside on a February night. That’s if he even remembers me at all. Maybe the entire night was so insignificant to him that ten months has been plenty of time to erase it entirely from his memory.”

Ji-Hye placed her hands on Tamsin’s shoulders, stopping in the middle of the corridor, and stopping Tamsin from spiralling the way she was. The younger woman looked so distressed by the idea that she might have upset this guy she barely knew that the elder of the two guessed that she quite liked what she had seen of him so far.  “Calm down,” she told her younger friend. “Don’t worry so much about it. I’m sure he won’t be mad about you running out on him, especially if you explain the situation. I’m sorry, I would have called Seong-Min non-stop until he answered and came back to let me in if I’d known.”

Even while in mid panic about Rowoon, Tamsin couldn’t stop at least a half smile coming to her lips at that. “If you think that would have got him home any earlier than he came anyway, you’re delusional.”

Letting out a single laugh before her face went serious again, Ji-Hye said, “That may be the case, but I would rather have waited out there all night and caught a worse cold than I did than see you stressed out like this.”

The younger girl hugged her friend. “You’re the best.”

“No, you’re the best,” Ji-Hye corrected. “And that is why you shouldn’t be worried. This guy, no matter how cute he is, would be lucky to get to know you.”

Then they heard the guys coming down the corridor behind them and started moving again, wanting to sit with Ji-Min and Mina at lunch. Tamsin couldn’t help having a glance back to see if she could spot Rowoon, but there was no sign of him, and with his height, if he was there, she would have seen him easily.

When the two women entered the cafeteria, they saw that Ji-Min and Mina were sitting next to each other on the table that had been reserved for them all, food laid out at each of the 10 places at the table. This meant that Ji-Hye and Tamsin could sit next to each other opposite their friends. The guys entered just behind them, still lacking Rowoon and one of the others, after a quick scan of the group, Tamsin remembered the other missing man was the grey haired one, Zuho.

Taking their places at the table, Dawon managed to find his way to the seat next to Tamsin. She wasn’t exactly complaining. The morning sitting with him had been fun, but she had been hoping that she might sit next to Rowoon during the lunch break. She wanted to apologise properly for how she had behaved the last time they met. Even if the conversation went no further than that, it would make her feel better to get it off her chest.

Sitting there with Dawon, she found herself developing a little more guilt, this time for how distracted she was. Dawon was trying to keep her entertained, but she found her mind constantly drifting to Rowoon and how she would apologise to him. What would she do if he honestly didn’t remember her at all?

She apologised, blushing slightly, when Chani commented something that she did not catch at all. He was sitting right opposite her but she could barely concentrate on just Dawon as well as her thoughts, she was half surprised she even noticed he had said something at all. Hwiyoung was sitting next to Chani and let out a little giggle, hiding his mouth behind his hands as Chani repeated what he had said.

After that, Youngbin chatted to Hwiyoung, Chani and Mina seemed to be getting along well after a morning of filming their love story, and Ji-Hye and Ji-Min were catching up after Ji-Min had been out of the country for a few weeks previously. This meant that, thankfully, Tamsin now only had to focus on Dawon. This was manageable, until the last two trainees entered the cafeteria.

Zuho entered first, drawing Tamsin’s eyes away from Dawon’s Bruce Lee impression, and then he realised a flaw in his brilliant plan. As Rowoon entered behind him, the older man was scanning the table, figuring out what to do to get Rowoon close enough to Tamsin to use the conversation starters he had spent the last ten minutes feeding him. The plan had been to give Rowoon a starting point to make it easier to talk to the gorgeous English girl. The plan had not taken into account that the time used creating the plan would mean they were the last to enter the room and therefore had little to no control of the table layout.

“Dawon-hyung,” he called out. “Come over here a sec?”

Still staying in character with his Bruce Lee impression, Dawon turned around to look at the men by the door. “What?”

“Come here,” Zuho repeated, making it less of a request this time.

Eventually, Dawon excused himself from Tamsin to go over to his dongsaengs. As soon as he was standing, Zuho whispered to Rowoon for him to go take Dawon’s place. When Dawon reached Zuho, he was glaring at him, trying to figure out why they had set him up to lose his spot.

“You need to stop hogging the pretty English girl, Hyung.”

In typical Dawon style, his mouth dropped open in outrage. “I’m not hogging her! She finds me funny, I can’t help that.”

Zuho just rolled his eyes and took the empty seat at the table next to Youngbin, who was watching what was going on with interest. Watching Dawon make Chani and Hwiyoung move up on the table so he could sit in between Mina and Chani, opposite his old place, with Tamsin to a diagonal from him, Zuho rolled his eyes again. The maknaes knew, like all of them did, how Dawon hated being on the outside of a group, so there was no point in fighting him on it. Youngbin figured from what he had seen that Zuho and Rowoon were up to something, so he suggested Zuho take his place so the co-conspirators could sit together.

As Rowoon took the place just vacated by Dawon, he started the conversation simply, “Tamsin?”

Her eyes had been following the mopey Dawon taking his new place on the table, shoving the maknaes out of the way, so she hadn’t noticed how close Rowoon was getting to her. When she heard his voice say her name, she gasped slightly, rather surprised that he even remembered it. He hadn’t been there when Ji-Hye had introduced her to the others. Maybe one of the others had told him her name again, that must have been it.

When she didn’t reply, he found himself already straying from Zuho’s suggested topics as he took the seat next to her, her eyes following him as he did. “I can’t believe it’s really you. Annyeong.”

“Annyeong,” she repeated back, politely, and almost entirely automatically.

After a couple of seconds of silence between the two, so caught up in each other that they barely even noticed Dawon’s loud complaining about losing his spot until Mina asked him to show her the impression he had been trying to show Tamsin, the two opened their mouths simultaneously. They both started, “I’m sorry…” before stopping in unison as well.

Rowoon motioned for her to go first.

“I was going to say, I’m sorry I ran out so fast that night. I would have gladly stayed for hours more, but Ji-Hye was locked out of the building and she never wears warm clothing at home so she would have frozen to death if I didn’t go help her. All of our other dormmates were on a night out and didn’t get back until after 4am.”

He couldn’t help but smile at her rambling. “I was going to say, I’m sorry I didn’t get your number at the beginning of the night as the end was so rushed.”

That had been nowhere near what he had actually been about to say. He had been about to go on a ramble almost as bad as hers. Something about watching her being nervous, however, eradicated his own nerves, bringing out the confident Rowoon who was much more standard than the nervous mess that had been threatening to come out. Now that his confidence was back, he was going to use it to the best of his ability. “So I was wondering if I could get it now?”

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