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 [...]
Following are some pictures of the past weekend of life out & about in Phuket city, commonly known as Phuket town. These photos were taken on a Nokia C6 Slide smart phone 5 megapixel camera. The pics have been sized down for web use. You can click the thumbnails for a larger, 400 pixel view. [...]
Posting on the ‘Half Asian Takeover’ Facebook group wall recently, the Siamerican courageously yet stubbornly chose to challenge the ‘status quo.’ In the Age of Internet – where anyone can freely express themselves with the ease of a click – the decision to go public with any serious matter can prove to require one’s unplanned [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just one of those days so far. This anticipated Wednesday came so fast, I didn’t give myself ample physical and mental preparation. As planned, I was to attend University this morning for Publicity and Publication class as we had to present our Drunk Driving Campaign Public Service Announcements (PSA). Initially boarding the taxi this morning [...]
Early this morning, Mr. Sandman gifted me with precious jewels and gems galore: In this inspiring dream, I was with a few friends in what must have been a lower elevated plot of land in the middle of the jungle. We were surveying the bottom of the natural pool which we were standing about knee [...]
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 [...]
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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