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Escape from Bangkok: Lopuri Sunday

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Adventure · Family Matters · Thailand living · Travels · locations · transportation · visual & imagery · work & employment

A Journey through the darkside: Bangkok Wednesday Walk

January 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Tags: Adventure · Health & Body · Parties · Social · Spiritual · Sport & Fitness · Thailand living · Travels · friends · life & death · locations · transportation

Settling in Cool November. 2009 Wanes.

November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

his literal-visual entry marks three weeks moved into the new SCBKK (South Central Bangkok) pad. Adapting has proved to be smooth, credited in part to the upgraded commodities: Water Heater, Cable LCD television, and fridge.

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Tags: Cooking & Dining · Education · Health & Body · Primary · Teaching · Thailand living · Time · University · locations · recovery · transportation · work & employment

Dreams of Naga and Tragic Hyper Flight

October 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

With the end of Buddhist Lent marked by yesterday’s full moon, the sacred Naga serpent’s fireballs came firing from within the mighty Mekong river all along the Thai-Laos border—or so last night’s evening news reported to me prior to bedtime in this cozy Bangkok confines.
Knowing how active my brain’s been firing on all these nerve [...]

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Tags: Extra Dimensions · Spiritual · Time · dreams · life & death · recovery · transportation · visual & imagery

The end of twenty-five: dark times promising bright prospects

July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hoorah! this long awaited post marks the last Friday and full day of the SW’s 25th year. Tomorrow, he…I will officially be one year older. Some of you might be baffled of why an adult is happy to be aging one more year. Y’all can read the reasoning a year back explaining the Thai superstitions [...]

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Tags: Health & Body · Identity · Spiritual · Time · dreams · transportation · work & employment

The good with the bad: Random Bangkok Concrete Jungle Images

June 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Into the twentieth week, or about five months since the rebirth—a life changing moto-bike accident which has left the Siamerican’s left arm mostly senseless and flail—tis time for a post not flooded with only boring jargon, giving readers some eye sweets, treats, and snacks.
After a healthy and active life of 25 years, and then suddenly [...]

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Tags: Adventure · Technology · Thailand living · Travels · locations · transportation · visual & imagery

CT Myelography Findings and After Effects for Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury

May 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Last Tuesday, the SW finally checked into the hospital to proceed with the dreaded Myelogram procedure. As expected it was quite an unpleasant procedure involving needling of the spine to inject some radioactive contrast dye to help determine/confirm the lesion site at the brachial plexus spinal roots via a CT scan. During the overnight in [...]

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Tags: Education · Health & Body · Thailand living · ethics & moral · life & death · transportation · work & employment

Escaping Viciousness: Dreaming in Phuket

April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Crossing the bridge into Phuket as scattered teasing sunrise rays glistened across the narrow waterway separating Thailand’s second largest-most populated island from the mainland at Phanga province, I felt something of a relief .
To know that the twelve hours on aboard the freezing second class bus would soon be through, and to finally [...]

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Tags: Extra Dimensions · Family Matters · Identity · Parenting · Spiritual · dreams · friends · life & death · transportation

Sky beyond the clouds: TBPI update

March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today was worthy of mention here.
I was awaken by ants biting my bpi injured arm.  I actually didnt feel the biting, but a very slight itching on parts of it brought my attention to the army invading my bed, jolting me into the shower. As I hadn’t eaten on my bed any time recently, I [...]

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Tags: Health & Body · Sport & Fitness · Thailand living · transportation

The Thai healthcare tradeoff: Scheduling an EMG at Thai hospitals

March 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Lying in bed waiting for the 10 minute snooze delay to re-remind me of the days plans, few birds chirp above the rare, quiet and dark Bangkok neighborhood outside. Finally committing to follow through, I maneuver out of bed and begin the task of adjourning myself for public commute.

Before two months ago, showering, brushing and [...]

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