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Papa Piggy
Almost a month ago, a big storm came and blew my ceramic boo-chan (pig-shaped mosquito coil holder) over. As you can see, he did a Humpy-dumpty which made me really sad because I bought him for half off at Jusco in Sumoto a few years back and will probably never buy a 7,000 yen ceramic pig ever again. Luckily, it was nothing two and a half tubes of super glue (the most popular brand in Thailand is called Power Glue) couldn’t fix: Actually, if you look closely, you can see that mommy pig’s been put together again, too.
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Yellow Max Has a Friend
//////////////////////// Previous colors of Max: purple max green max monokuro max red red max orange max sepia max coppermine max blue max
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The Parachute Ending
The first time I wrote a post about Birdy Nam Nam it was because they dropped a track that just stuck in my head for weeks. This time, it’s mostly the video that’s entrancing me:
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chatting with strangers
I couldn’t possibly bring myself to do this sober, so it just isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Besides, I’m pretty sure it will be hard to top this one:
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Bill’s Bar Sound, Nara ( ????)
A sodden karaoke snack is all that remains. Thx to T for the pic.
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No work accomplished today
I wanted to get some midterm grading done the past five hours, but I ended up entertaining Max instead. He wouldn’t go to sleep and Nam was busy putting together slides for a presentation in Bangkok at some lexicographical conference in ten days – it takes precedence over my work so I had to watch the baby (of course, pretty soon he will be the toddler and there will be a new baby). I really need to get as much grading done as I can in chunks because with 11 classes (7 different courses; 3 which I’ve done before but am improving and 4 new ones), a few hundred students,…
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hey jude…
…because watching this every so often is like watching the Blues Brothers every year: So good it hurts, and made more precious because it’s gone forever.
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Letters to John Hughes
Now that’s a sendoff: Sincerely, John Hughes I’m pretty sure everyone my age is a huge fan; I have a cousin who at times totally looks like Ferris Bueller.
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Monkey Time at Kosamphi Forest Park
A few weeks ago we decided to go out for a drive. It was time to take Max for his first visit to the monkey park in the nearby town of Kosum Phisai, so we put his car seat in the trusty old Kujira and were on our way. We took the Kujira instead of the Cefiro because: Monkeys are little bastards that scratch up cars for fun Max sleeps really well in the Crown with its worn suspension and lulling vibration It’s a proper cruising car!! Max spots some fellow monkeys! To a normal person, this might just look like a bunch of monkeys sitting in a row, but…
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Saccharomyces Draught
Over at Wired: Brewing Beer From 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast Unspeakably cool. In most of Asia, they’d probably still drink it with ice, tho.
