Archive for the 'Culture and Customs' Category
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
With the passing of last Saturday came the full moon of the 12th Thai lunar month (usually in November) which marks one of Thailand’s most popular traditional holidays–Loy Kratong (also spelt Loi Kratong), where in the moonlit hours, after the sun has gone down until the peak of midnight, couples, families, and friends head […]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
One of the primary schools I am teaching at (Wat Kan Jan Jarern) has a little mushroom house โรงเรือนเพาะเห็ด that the students grow and sell oyster เห็ดนางฟ้า and white fungi เห็ดหูหนู mushrooms. I had a look inside and took 5 pics with my mobile phone before my bat ran out.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Surfing the internet, I came across the latest Vietnamese media-government saga about a 19 year old star, Hoang Thuy Linh who had a mobile phone clip of her and her boyfriend ‘getting it on’ which leaked out ultimately causing her popular running show, Vang Anh’s Diaries to cancel. Not that I care or know […]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Last night (Friday October 20) hosted the intense final hours of one of Phuket’s prime Chinese heritage festivals. The Siamerican and some friends headed downtown at/around the main Chinese temple-shrine to join in the masses for the final procession in the waning hours of this year’s festivities–an expected loud and hazy closure. Are […]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Following are a few pics of the Sunday parade several days into the Vegan festivities– finally get to see all that famous mutilation Phuket is famed for. Heard it’s all real blood and balls…seen a tid bid last year during the evening time…but today’s sky is clear with bright sunlight to see it all clearly.
Late […]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
It’s that time of year again, where the Chinese Thais in the south go 9 days and 9 nights of avoiding meat or any animal products, being possessed by what they would have you believe sacred spirits–though I say they’re just hungry and delirous . Not sure if I’m going to do the whole 9 […]
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
My wife and I decided to leave our condo on the beach and go upcountry to see the Bridge over the River Kwai. It was at that point that our normal reality began to blend with a sort of dementia that had us on one hand laughing to the point of tears and at other […]
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