The Siamerican

The first waning moon will emerge tonight, rotating away just a few degrees from last night’s fifteenth and final waxing moon which brought the fourth lunar month’s full moon; reflective solar insight secondary capacity is resetting. You’ll recall the Chinese New Year falls on the New (No) Moon which kicks off the fourth lunar month [...]

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The good thing about Chinese New Years falling on Valentine’s Day for those of us who don’t have hot dates is we can play stupid, greeting the opposite sex with a Happy (Lunar) New Year instead of facing the dialogue of lacking romances; besides, who needs such love on a new moon?
Today was a lax [...]

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Today marks exactly one year since my accident slash awakening. Seeming like an entire epoch meshed into a mere millisecond, I’ve moved on with life. My left hand’s functionality is coming along well enough to type on this keyboard utilizing all fingers, as well as compensate to form and play most basic chords on [...]

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Alas, 2009 Wanes into its final day. As life and time march on, this cyber archive among others collects virtual dust, yearning for its shepherd to grant refreshing in freshness.
Outside my window, the moon shines big & bright over lively lit concrete towers of Bangkok’s central  business sectors, like shiny champagne curtaining curiosity, artificial light [...]

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his literal-visual entry marks three weeks moved into the new SCBKK (South Central Bangkok) pad. Adapting has proved to be smooth, credited in part to the upgraded commodities: Water Heater, Cable LCD television, and fridge.

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Now counting one month since the big operation, the first term of Thai academic schedule has ended, coinciding with midterm break of the international college calendar; University studies scheduled to commence on Monday the 19th, queuing return to school for second term teaching preparations and planning on the 20th, I’ve earned a twelve day [...]

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After a hazy eight months in the clouds with this Brachial Plexus Injury (BPI) which has had my left shoulder / arm paralyzed, it was finally time to shed some real light on the matter—never mind all the expensive tests i.e. MRI, EMG, Meyelogram CT Scan which at best, only gave conflicting speculations about what [...]

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Now eight months married to this Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury (TBPI), I finally received a callback from the government hospital doc… Last time I was at the hospital was about the five month mark. Then it was said I’d be queued up for primary surgery on normal state–out of pocket & affordable basis–which to make [...]

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Last Tuesday, the SW finally checked into the hospital to proceed with the dreaded Myelogram procedure. As expected it was quite an unpleasant procedure involving needling of the spine to inject some radioactive contrast dye to help determine/confirm the lesion site at the brachial plexus spinal roots via a CT scan. During the overnight in [...]

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Alas, exams have been completed as of last week. Assuming nothing went wrong and all classes were passed, SW will be at 90 out of 129 credits for a bachelor’s degree in communication arts, remaining thirteen classes expected to be finished within 2010, knock on wood.

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