The Siamerican

Siamese American – Thailand USA port of paralell propagation

Vlog: welcome the serpent of 2012; farewell 2011′s rapid rabbit

Following is the Siamerican’s latest video log (vlog) to welcome the new year of 2012, the year of the Dragon, or serpent snake. In this vlog he talks about about reviews the year 2011 — the year of the rabbit and all the happenings in his life in Thailand and USA.  After graduating university in [...]

A Decade Goes By in Thailand: Asaha Bucha and Buddhist Lent Weekend

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.

July 3 Election Posters seen in Phuket

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 [...]

Settling Back in Phuket, May 2011: Comfort and Dreams

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 [...]

Tragedy In the Horizon

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 [...]

Second week observations back in America

If not merely thrown off by the alien and difficult-if-not-impossible-to-define status-quo defining the ever-evolving American lifestyle, perhaps even greater threat to a harmonious re-assimilation was/is the dire condition experienced by thousands if not millions of inter-country commuters known as ‘Thailand Fever.’ Read more on the Thailand-USA cyber hub

US Textual-Visual Update: Winter Weather Resettling

The following update shall include recapping, reflecting and observations abut the third day back home, in addition to photo gallery following the text;

Back to America: 2011 Stateside Prospects

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 [...]

2010 comes to an end: Behold 2011 New Beginnings

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 [...]