"The Beach" defined my generation. It was what Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and Kerouac's "On the Road" was for my time.
The image that reminds of of the film version is when Leonardo de Caprio was smoking off the pension house balcony wandering what else Thailand has to offer when every tourist does was to look for things that are similar to home.
In the process of globalization and the becoming of countries into one nation, with identities changing and borders lost travel has become easier, faster and cheaper. The world becomes a virtual oyster for those with willing spirits. But the funny thing is when we are there in a new unknown territory it only takes a minute until our thoughts of home comes back and we end up looking for a familiar face, a usual taste, a bit of home. luckily for us Filipinos, it has becoming easy to spot people like us around the world. Walking down boat quay trying to decide on which restaurant we were going to eat and talking in Tagalog, a waitress suddenly greated us in tagalog and invited us to try their food. Amazed, we ended up eating there.
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