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. [...]
Upon returning from to Thailand from the states early April, the Siamerican brought back a big bag of Flamin hot Cheetos to share one of America’s favorite spicy and crunchy snacks with his son and niece. The bag didn’t last long and the Siamerican wished he had brought more.
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).
Into the second week as a contributing editor for Phuket and Southern Thailand’s prime English language newspaper, I’ve already learned much as are my writing skills improving, particularly in regards to news composition–an art requiring one to be short, sweet, and to the point. Having composed and contributed to a handful of stories in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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