The Siamerican

Siamese American – Thailand USA port of paralell propagation

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 [...]

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 [...]

So Long September 2010

It’s been seven waning moons since it was full last. Now represents the Thai lunar calendar’s tenth month proceeding some two thousand five hundred and fifty three years since the time of the Buddha, or by conventional calendars, , the Siamerican’s first and sole posting marks the last day of September of the 10th year [...]

Goodbye July: Welcome August 2010

August represents the final month of the western summer, the first full month of the Eastern monsoon, and the last month of the year’s second trimester. The Thai teaching term’s first term of academic year 2553 B.E. (i.e. 2010) is into its third month now, and the beginning of the international academic school year for [...]

Mid July Update, 2010

It has been a while since I’ve had an update here; Been so busy adapting to this new phase on the north flanks of Bangkok Metro that I’ve neglected my personal digital dissemination to the world. Coming on two months since moving to the rural University campus in Pathumthani province and starting my latest teaching [...]