Filth & greed.

Yangon (24-May-2012)
Garden Guesthouse opposite of Sule Pagoda, doubtlessly is strategic, but these pictures below are what it offers. Fantastic breakfast - not really, there are better, but the rooms are... I'm not sure, judging by how much they charge, the conditions are not acceptable. Not that I'm particularly intolerant. But having to prance around the room to avoid little cockroach buddies is a tad too much to take. 

Look at how the toilet looked so 'used' despite having just checked in. The room must've been haunted if they did clean it before.

And an awesome bathroom door that wouldn't fit into its frame.

Watch out for streams of diligent little fellows that'll get at whatever edible belonging you might have too (: Ants are probably the most populated living things in Garden Guesthouse, and next, the cockroaches, then maybe, the humans. Apologies for whining, perhaps there really is a need to consider the inflation going on in the country as well, & hold that accountable for whatever exorbitant rates guesthouses might charge.

(Two above) Sule Pagoda. Taken from an overhead bridge.

On a side note, working really took its toll & the head is throbbing now. Can't concentrate on school work & sleepless from caffeine. Just a thought on that entire redundant event that had just taken place: Most of the time I'd rather not talk at all than be hurling bullshit around. Perhaps it is a marketing tactic, but the whole play up of a supposedly intimate festival into a giant profit-rendering tumult is, nothing but farcical.

Then there were the lots of greedy people who, if I were to paint them, would've probably looked like Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Son'. Despite the fact that the free stuff given out were really inconsequential, the number of them who jolted & elbowed was far more than countable. It's appalling. I thought we were all 'civilized'.