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 [...]
Following are pics snapped with a Nokia E-63 on a central-northern Thailand train trip over the long mothers day weekend to Nakhon Sawan and Lopburi provinces.
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 [...]
On the first Wednesday of the year, it was getting late. Midnight hour in the near distance, emptying the fourth pint of the golden bitter home brew, I was beginning to feel tipsy. As fluxing international circles of social oblivion blurred into illusive perspectives, internally thoughts flashed back to earlier in the day of large [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 escape [...]
Family, Friends, Foes, and world at large, the following message from the SW outlines a major turning point in his 25th year I am writing you this message with my one good hand. My left arm-hand’s function was jeopardized in an accident 10 days ago one late, weary drive back from post academic trivial socializing, [...]
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