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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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.
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My son’s mother’s relatives invited me to accompany them to a distant relative’s funeral in Pataloong, southern Thailand’s smallest and poorest province, followed by an overnighter in southern Thailand’s most thriving city, Hat Yai of Sonkla province. Figuring that I had no plans for the weekend and had never been to any of these provinces […]
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On Monday night, the Wanderer set off from his lonely Samut Songkhram apartment with his Alice US military sack packed full of clothes, books, and documents, his guitar and computer, and headed for Manao intersection near the Phetchaburi-Samut Songkhram-Ratchaburi border on Rama II expressway.
Kru Pisit and his wife, Kru Ruenjit were kind enough to drive […]
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Expecting to go wake boarding this Sunday, the Wanderer found himself spontaneously changing the plan when all his friends ended up backing out at the last moment. After doing some work on the computer all Sunday morning, the Wanderer finally got himself together, showered, packed a bag and set out by 4 pm.
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Left the house just after 9 am to meet up with a senior teacher, Ms. Payongse at a petrol station near bye. Our appointment was for a Saturday drive up to Ratchaburi city , about 35 kilometers north of Samut Songkhram city along the Mae Klong river.
Continued here at the Siamerican Wanderer’s […]
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For this Sunday’s adventures, I took a mid-afternoon drive up to Dam nern district in Ratchaburi province. Roughly 30 kilometers from Samut Songkhram is Lake Point Sports club, featuring a resort, restaurant, jet ski and cable ski lakes. Previously, I had been to the cable park in Phuket to learn how to cable wake […]
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Woke up today about 09.30 and played around on the internet all morning in between doing a load of laundry, a cup of ovaltine and green tea. Early afternoon set out for an afternoon of exploring on the bike.
Stopped at one of my favorite little local roadside restaurants that offers some of the best fried […]
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Out of all the spots, scenes, and attractions of Bangkok greatly publicized in guides and media–from the Grand Palace, Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Wat (temple) Arun to Nana Plaza, Soi Patpong, China Town, and many others, none are more superior than one of my most favorite BKK spots, atop of Thailand’s tallest structure, Baiyoke […]
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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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