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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the exodus of my roommate, March prompted the beginning of some necesarry changes, moving to a smaller room on a lower floor of the same building at 75 percent the rate, i.e. from the 42 square meter room I ws paying at 6000 thb/month to a 32 square feet toom for 4500 thb/month. Hesitant [...]
Now counting one month since the big operation, the first term of Thai academic schedule has ended, coinciding with midterm break of the international college calendar; University studies scheduled to commence on Monday the 19th, queuing return to school for second term teaching preparations and planning on the 20th, I’ve earned a twelve day (paid) [...]
The featured Thai song of this entry is called ‘Fawk kwam kid tueng’ ฝากความคิดถึง by the three man band from Southern Thailand, Labanoon. For those of you who don’t read or understand Thai language, you’re probably wondering who the Fawk is Kwam Kit Tueng? As often as common Thai names and words may connote potty [...]
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