The Siamerican

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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 [...]

One of those phone calls

I remember the first time I received one of those phone calls bearing bad news from a strangers mouth. Then I was just 13 when my mother had climaxed her frail body’s life span just shy of her fifty second birthday. The shocking news revealing a loved one has passed can hit you like an [...]

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 [...]

Mid August Overcast: Country Bound Train Fever

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.

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 [...]

May the Month Ensue

10 minutes till the last class of the term begins. Hopped in a cab, reckon some 15 minutes away from University pending whether post rain traffic holds out or not.