The Siamerican

With the end of Buddhist Lent marked by yesterday’s full moon, the sacred Naga serpent’s fireballs came firing from within the mighty Mekong river all along the Thai-Laos border—or so last night’s evening news reported to me prior to bedtime in this cozy Bangkok confines.
Knowing how active my brain’s been firing on all these nerve [...]

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Hoorah! this long awaited post marks the last Friday and full day of the SW’s 25th year. Tomorrow, he…I will officially be one year older. Some of you might be baffled of why an adult is happy to be aging one more year. Y’all can read the reasoning a year back explaining the Thai superstitions [...]

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Crossing the bridge into Phuket as scattered teasing sunrise rays glistened across the narrow waterway separating Thailand’s second largest-most populated island from the mainland at Phanga province, I felt something of a relief .
To know that the twelve hours on aboard the freezing second class bus would soon be through, and to finally [...]

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I was pleased to firmly grip the neck of the guitar. Music was pouring out from my fingers doing! What’s this, I can even form power chords at will–almost like normal. Though my wrist does seem something awkward…

And then snap, I awaken to be faced with reality. To my dismay, it was merely a dream, [...]

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One of the most common night dreams for humans is either falling or flying. For many, the night hours’ subconscious mind plays out a vague yet thrilling sketch with a combination of both adrenaline pumping actions, leaving an impression almost always remembered in the waking moments.

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In this sleepless night of web surfing, the Siamerican came across an interesting article about a Thai worker in Taiwan who died in his sleep screaming. The article resonated particularly peculiar as the Siamerican has been told by friends and family throughout his life of his own strange sleeping behavior.
As a kid, the Siamerican was [...]

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Perhaps it was the large sized pizza of yesterday afternoon and bacon cheeseburger of last night that prompted this early morning’s lucid dreams. Earlier in the day, Terminator 2: Judgement day was on Star movies as well–undoubtedly having its own contributions to the Siamerican’s subconcious mind in the reflecting, digesting hours of sleep.

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It hasn’t been mentioned much lately in the cyber log– regarding the Siamerican Wanderer’s goals and ambitions to return to University, as he has thoughtfully and patiently been waiting for the waves of ‘distant visions’ to vibrate in sync with ‘current reality.’ And so now, the present of reality has seen the Wanderer gracefully clear [...]

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