The Siamerican

Siamese American – Thailand USA port of paralell propagation

Impermanence, an original song about anti-materialism sentiments

Following is an original composition called “Impermanence” by Jao Thep Soulawynne, aka Jao Moragoat aka the Siamerican Wanderer. The latest cut of this song as you see /hear here is played on a tenor ukulele and reached its current state in July / August 2011.

Turning back 10 rainy seasons ago in Thailand

Outside the modern comfort of apartment life, the downpours sweeping through Phuket become more frequent and  increasingly heavier. This  final week of July, 2011 C.E. / 2554 B.E. has marked the start of another rainy season, which soon signals the Siamerican’s 28th birthday. Along with the renewed reminder of mortality comes the realization that a decade [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2010 comes to an end: Behold 2011 New Beginnings

The final day of 2010 C.E. / 2553 B.E. has arrived; I’ve been pushing this grand update to the bottom of the bulging mountain pile of ‘things to do before the year’s end,’ and as the year is due to expire in less than fifteen hours, the procrastination limit has reached its capacity—the time has [...]

An Illuminating Indigo Owl Dream

The following is a literary expression/description of a particularly lucid and energetic dream the Siamerican had last week, welcoming the final month of December: From Dream visions of an alternate existence: Towering chicken legs planting present about the forest’s brush, much like a giraffes reign over awning treetops, these exotically warped bird creatures’ heads hovered [...]

Rest In Peace Brother

One of the certainties you’re certain to encounter in Thailand, certainly and similarly likewise in the US of A, is a group, family, and/or groups of families and their respective relatives along with otherwise intimate if not dependent, unaffected acquaintances coming to gather together in mourning and memory, aiming and seeking to produce, propel, and [...]