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Prime Harshness
From my student’s essay on problems in Thailand: “If I were Prime Minister, the first thing I would do is help beggars in Thailand, because the beggars are pathetic. They can’t find a good job…” She must be a transfer student from Public Administration.
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I, cultural interpretor
WARNING: If you are vegan, watching these videos will melt your eyeballs. There couldn’t possibly be a western equivalent to this horrifying act of culinary cruelty, right? Wrong: Attributing this reaction to ionic exchange somehow doesn’t make it less difficult to watch (again and again).
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Max’s first fish
A couple weeks ago, we went to my coworker and good friend’s father-in-law’s place for his new house celebration. He’d built a new house on top of the foundations of an older one at his 15 rai (1 rai = 0.4 acres) property five minutes walk from our home. There are several fish ponds on the site, stocked with all kinds of fish including tilapia, catfish, snakehead, etc. Max was so excited about going fishing for real, he couldn’t sleep the night before. Until then, we’d been practicing for safety with hookless tackle (a rubber door stopper tied to the line) at the ponds in our neighborhood, but Max was…
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Sewious Biznis
FYI: This is what happens when you insist that daddy draws on your face with mommy’s lipstick pencil. There are some great photos in this set that I’ll post later.
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Things I replaced on our car over summer vacation
You may understand part of the pain and frustration we experienced if you can recognize the complete set of gaskets and ferrofluid engine mounts (replaced with solid urethane mounts). Yes, the whole front end of our Cefiro A33 (USDM: Infiniti i30) was taken apart and put together again. It runs really sweet now, except for a noisy power steering pump, another set of wheel bearings, some paint bubbling up on the roof, etc., etc., and so forth…. And my car, the 40 year old Kujira Crown, will be totally done sometime this year, hopefully (that’s a story in itself; not enough space or patience to cover it here).
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Didn’t know she had the GI Joe Kung Fu Grip
Wow… memories…
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RMU Freshman Molam Performance
Taken (shakily, sorry!) at dinner gathering for the International Conference on Science and Social Science / International Conference on Science and Agricultural Technology held at Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University in Thailand. Being MC for an event means you get the closest seat to the stage! I announced that it’s common practice to tip the performers if you like them, and I think the girls and the band made out pretty well…
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Mina ate a blue marker…
…and was very proud of it.
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lightened up
I’m socked in with extra work this week MCing for an international conference to be held at my school, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, tomorrow and the day after. This morning we held a rehearsal. To get in the mood, I poured cold water over my head after waking up and watched an episode of Louie before heading in — this is the best prep for public speaking that I’ve found.
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Oh my ESL
A friend showed me some homework his students turned in last week (the assignment was to bring in examples of different charts, graphs, diagrams, etc.) and I had to pass along the joy: Yes, they will be graduating university in a few years, and yes, you may pay them minimum wage.
