The Siamerican

Siamese American – Thailand USA port of paralell propagation

IT Woes – Burning Daylight with PHP, MySQL and WordPress upgrades on 1and1 servers

Finally, the Siamerican has been restored to its original state following  a bunch of IT shinanagans which inflicted the Siamerican’s webhosting webspace last week. It all started last week with another website the Siamerican owns

Frevolved: An Original Ukulele Song by Jao Moragoat

Following is a video clip of Jao Moragoat playing his tenor ukulele and singing an original song he composed. Following the video are also lyrics to the song — completely authentic original work and all rights reserved.

Fleeing White Owls: A dream

The following poem is a composition by Jao Moragoat to aesthetically access a dream he experienced last night. Subtle meanings leaked from the subconscious mind? Perhaps. Sometimes poetry is an effective and useful tool for expressing and describing the eerie and warped world of dreams… Fire! The flat is burning  on yonder in the southern horizons [...]

The ‘Half’ Debate: Mixed Blood and Breed

Posting on the ‘Half Asian Takeover’ Facebook group wall recently, the Siamerican courageously yet stubbornly chose to challenge the ‘status quo.’ In the Age of Internet – where anyone can freely express themselves with the ease of a click – the decision to go public with any serious matter can prove to require one’s unplanned [...]

Settling Back in Phuket, May 2011: Comfort and Dreams

Into the second week as a contributing editor for Phuket and Southern Thailand’s prime English language newspaper, I’ve already learned much as are my writing skills improving, particularly in regards to news composition–an art requiring one to be short, sweet, and to the point. Having composed and contributed to a handful of stories in the [...]

Tragedy In the Horizon

Nervous to began his first unofficial day at Thailand’s third largest newspaper, the Siamerican’s first assignment wouldn’t call for any back breaking labor worthy of protest or complaint–that is unless you consider laxin’ out in the tropical sun on a dive boat, snorkeling in the aqua marine waters off the coast of Phuket and Phi [...]

US Textual-Visual Update: Winter Weather Resettling

The following update shall include recapping, reflecting and observations abut the third day back home, in addition to photo gallery following the text;

Back to America: 2011 Stateside Prospects

Some minutes after 7.00 this Friday morning, the 11th of February, Delta flight 296 touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) bringing the Siamerican back to his birth country after some seven years away. In brief reflection and summary, the last seven years abroad have provided love, parenthood, higher education, dual nationality, disability and enlightenment [...]

Back to Bangkok: Safety Negotiations in Parenting

Wednesday, the 12th of January, departure day has arrived. It is my 18th and final day in Phuket this go-round. I’m scheduled to board my Bangkok bound bus at 5.00 p.m. This trip has been the longest I’ve stayed on Thailand’s largest island since my brief few months living here back in 2007. Without University [...]