Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Nokia C6 Smart Phone Review, Pictures and Specifications

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Even though the Nokia c6 slide smart phone hit the Thai markets in early 2010, it remains a popular phone for Thai, ASEAN and Asian consumers well into 2011. For its price of less than 8000 baht (May 2011) or roughly 265 USD$, it remains a reasonable value and is capable of many tasks, networks [...]

What’s in a Name: Gyoza, Jiaozi, Pot Sticker, Asian Dumpling

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

“Hey sis, are those Gyozas finished?” My stomach was growling. “Geeyo—what?” A confused look reflected in her expression. “Gyoza—you know, those pork dumplings you were gonna make” “Huh? Well, I thought you just wanted to eat pot stickers, so that’s what I made.”As she replied, little Nate and Danny walked into the kitchen.

the Chimera Triangles: A blovel by Jao Moragoat

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Since moving to Thailand in early 2002, the mixed ethnic, Thai American writer, Jao Moragoat began working on his debut, literary masterpiece; a brilliant work covering the complexities of cross cultural fusion, transfusion, illusion triad of a Eurasian identity quest. The story is about Eurasian, young adult, Christopher Stevens who is an ESL teacher living [...]

Will Write For Food: Supplemental Income Content Writing

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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Internet Amateurs: Hosting your own website and Domain Name

Friday, March 14th, 2008

There was a time when only diligent and determined geeks could become webmasters. Nowadays, just about anyone with a computer, internet access, and a basic IT knowledge base can create, develop, and host their own dynamic website. As software and freeware become more accessible and user friendly, fundamental coding skills such as HTML and PHP [...]

Thailand Blog: Culture, Society, Lifestyle, News, and Insight about Thailand

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Doing a google search with the keywords, ‘Thailand Blog,’ the Siamerican was quite disappointed to find a hit neither for this web log nor the Siamerican in any of the top 100 results. Being that there were dozens upon dozens of irrelevant sites that ranked high, that weren’t actually Thailand blogs, it is clearly a [...]

WordPress three column theme malfunction in Internet Explorer web browser: column-sidebar drops down in IE; problem and solution

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

For the longest time, this blog and the Siamerican’s personal blog were not displaying properly in Internet Explorer web browsers. As they both implement a three column theme, the third column or sidebar always dropped to the bottom, below all the content, and particularly, only when opened in Internet Explorer. Upon research, it was found [...]

Makha Bucha Buddhist Holiday in Thailand: Full Moon Thai- Lunar- Tradition Holidays

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Yesterday, Thursday, February 21, 2008 was the full moon in Thailand, or more specifically, keun 15 kum, duan saam ขื้น ๑๕ ค่ำ เดือนสาม which means the 15th waxing moon since the last new moon (full moon) of the third month. It’s a full moon, but it’s not to be celebrated in a massive party, at [...]

Farang Thai citizens: Caucasians and foreign national acquiring Thai Nationality – Citizenship

Monday, February 18th, 2008

One of the biggest questions that lingers among foreign residents in Thailand–wannabe and legit alike–is in regards to the possibility of legally and eternally residing in the proclaimed Land of Smiles. For these farang (ฝรัง = Caucasian-white ethnic people in Thai language), as well as other non-Thai ethnic groups in Thailand, obtaining Thai citizenship would [...]

After a month-long silence, the Siamerican’s Cyber Journal @ Thaiskale.com is back!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

You are probably wondering what happened to January, and why there isn’t any recent blog activity here. That is because the blog was taken down as to transfer web hosts. Previously, the Siamerican Wanderer was using a Thai hosting company paying some 1100 baht (now converts to 34 bucks) per year which was quite limited [...]