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Bollywood Horror Posters
This is the coolest collection of Bollywood movie posters I have ever seen: BOLLYWOOD Some highlights: Go check them all out.
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Instant Kaedama
So it seems I missed out on one of the great new inventions to hit the market after I left Japan – refills for Cup Noodle. I must point out that this new product is hardly an original idea by its manufacturer, Nissin. In college, we routinely used empty Cup Noodle cups as bowls (mostly for regularly-packaged instant ramen crushed to fit), ashtrays, pen holders, a container for my cut-in-half-with-tin-snips 1-yen coin collection, and in a pinch, even as beer cups (curry flavor cups were best for this purpose). But wait! I titled this post before I read what’s actually being sold – it seems that the actual product isn’t…
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Goose Steppin’
I have only one class on Fridays, in the morning. Today they were supposed to do presentations, but only a small fraction of the class showed up. When I asked where the absent students were, I was told they are participating in a parade for the military and local politicians this morning. I had to cancel. – This has only served to confirm my extreme dislike for all three – parades, the military, and local politicians (but not necessarily in that order).
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Karaoke Machine from Hell
Found on a floating barge restaurant on our way to the candle festival in Ubon Ratchathani a few months ago. Note the lighting ball and licensed song stickers around the screen. Pooh seals the deal, though.
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A Wedding in Ratburi
You know you are in for one fine shindig when you wake up at 5:30 AM to speaker stacks from hell: A few weeks ago, we took off for our friend’s wedding in Ratchaburi (short: Ratburi), located a couple hours southeast of Bangkok and famous mostly for its floating market. We boarded the Friday night VIP bus in Sarakham and arrived at Mo Chit station on Bangkok at 3:30 AM, and proceeded directly to Nam’s aunt’s house in Lad Prao via taxi. We spent the next day shopping for the new house and swimming in Bangkok smog, which is quite exhausting. (Note: We managed to satisfy some Mexican food cravings…
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Culture Shock
I just found out one of the top hitmen in Thailand (no shit!) is studying English in my weekend English class. Details to follow as soon as I survive grading in a few months. One thing I will reveal is that this type of information is common knowledge to Thais. The reason why is something I cannot yet reveal.
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Sometimes Life is Better on the Back of a Tuktuk
Currently going through photos I took earlier this year in preparation for a couple of big upcoming posts…
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15 weeks
I was going to send this out by email, but Nam said she didn’t mind leaving it as a record up here. She eats often and in respectable quantity, and she says it’s my fault since the baby has my appetite. OK.
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LANGBA – PenesamiG
In my previous post, I spoke of “fake brand name knockoffs that are loosely based on a famous item but a little too ironically so, giving you the impression that the person who designed it did so as an inside joke or something…” This is more precisely what I meant: This is not your average copper top. ////////////////////////// These crappy and frankly, dangerous (look at the insane bulging on the rightmost one – they came this way!) Chinese knockoffs were bundled with a couple of LCD flashlights I took camping a few weeks ago. The term “mutant knockoffs” has been coined for products like these. ////////////////////////// LINKAGE: Fake Products: Mutant…
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Justin of America – Justin Jeans?
Sometimes, a sign just hits you in the face: Spotted in Khon Kaen, Thailand Somebody painted my ass on a sign! We’ve actually spotted Justin Jeans apparel – mostly t-shirts and sweatshirts – at cheap night markets, but not the actual jeans. The clothes we saw were of the extremely cheap variety, made of the thinnest cotton poly blend, designed so badly as to be unappealing anywhere but the poorest corners of the third world. Kind of like those fake brand name knockoffs that are loosely based on a famous item but a little too ironically so, giving you the impression that the person who designed it did so as…
