This weekend’s full moon — the 15th waxing and first waning moon of the eighth Thai lunar month — วันเพ็นขื้น ๑๕ ค่ำ และ แรมหนึ่ง ค่ำ เดอน แปด — marks the traditional Thai Buddhist holidays of Asarnahabucha วันอาสาฬหบุชา and the start of Buddhist Lent เข้าภรรษา respectively.
Now that election day in Thailand has finally passed, the Siamerican can comfortably post pictures of some of the election posters with party slogans and policies seen pinned up around Phuket over the last month plus. Hesitant to post them up before in the days leading up to the election there was always the risk [...]
The following poem is a composition by Jao Moragoat to aesthetically access a dream he experienced last night. Subtle meanings leaked from the subconscious mind? Perhaps. Sometimes poetry is an effective and useful tool for expressing and describing the eerie and warped world of dreams… Fire! The flat is burning on yonder in the southern horizons [...]
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 [...]
Following are some photos of the last several weeks (April and beginning of May) here in / around Phuket, Thailand’s largest island yet second smallest province by area (second only to Samut Songkram province).
The following update shall include recapping, reflecting and observations abut the third day back home, in addition to photo gallery following the text;
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 [...]
Wednesday, the 12th of January, departure day has arrived. It is my 18th and final day in Phuket this go-round. I’m scheduled to board my Bangkok bound bus at 5.00 p.m. This trip has been the longest I’ve stayed on Thailand’s largest island since my brief few months living here back in 2007. Without University [...]
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