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Kaen Player
“The Kaen is the oldest form of the free reed family, the great great grandaddy of the harmonica and accordion. This type of instrument goes back to at least 1100BC (the harmonica and accordion only go back to the 1830s).” (read more about the kaen and hear a sample here) This guy was playing on the street in front of the Shangri La; he played pretty well. The kaen makes such a beautiful sound on the city street. I dropped a 10 baht coin in his bowl and listened for a moment before walking by.
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Some Random Memories – Widespread Panic Edition
Note: There is no hope of remembering the whole trip in order, so my travelogue is going to be patterned after the trip itself – wildly chaotic, but hopefully enjoyable. – The day before we left Bangkok to Nam’s hometown, the door of the safe in our room got stuck and refused to open. Contents: Both of our passports and airplane tickets, most of the dowry in cash and gold jewelry, our wedding bands, my camera, my laptop, my Omega, etc., etc., and just what in the hell do we do now. Several calls down to the front desk only to be assured that “someone was coming up right away”…
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Django Saves the Princess
The actual wedding may be over but we are still dealing with the aftermath. I need a spark! Just a little boost… This was perfect: Gypsy jazz version of Super Mario Bros 2 song
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Random Keitai Thoughts
This is just wrong. It was very refreshing to carry around a no-nonsense phone for a couple weeks. No camera, no egg-spaceship styling, no blinky blink LED distractions. I bought the cheapest Nokia with plan for unlimited usage from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and it worked just fine except for the interface, which was from like 1972 or something. It took like five presses of various buttons just to see numbers I received calls from! The best thing about GSM phones, though, are the size. I remember when my Docomo phones were that small! I’m telling you, I’d choose a non-camera phone in a second if it were a…
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Photos shall follow
Gotta upload a bunch tonight before my 2GB allotment on flickr for this month runs out… You know, a ring is a very strange thing to have on your finger all day, if you aren’t accustomed to wearing one. My fingers are constantly playing with it, like little dogs straining at their collar.
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Numbers
Some numbers may be just the thing to get my company-controlled brain really working again after two full weeks of respite. – Rating of the wedding on scale of 1 to 10: 9.7 – Rating of the trip on scale of 1 to 10: 9.5 – Total number of digital photos taken by myself and my brother: Approx. 2500 (8 GB worth) – Total number of film photos taken just at wedding: 17 rolls – Total number of edited hours of wedding video taken by T: 3 hours – Total number of edited hours of wedding video taken by hired videographer: Unknown – Total number of dancers at our wedding…
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Too busy…
Getting married tomorrow!
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Dogs of Thailand
The first decent photo I’ve taken. To be continued.
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Our cell numbers in Thailand
Nam’s cell O9776O461 Justin’s cell O57422OO5 To dial the numbers from overseas, replace the leading 0 with a 66
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The Death of 2
Remember what I said about problems cropping up at the last minute? Well, guess what. Nam’s desktop pc broke this week with most of our wedding planning data on it – irrecoverable. Then just as I finished loading all of the necessary stuff on my laptop last night, the hard drive failed – unbootable. Dammit. Gotta figure something out.
