C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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  • Thai Society/Culture

    RIP Koh Samet

    July 31, 2013 /

    We have several guests arriving next week, including my brother and sister from the states. We were going to pick them up in Bangkok and head to the beach, possibly Koh Samet, but that seems impossible now that they’ve effectively destroyed all the beaches and marine life with the oil spill. I guess we’ll have to go somewhere else so we don’t have to smell the seafood for oil before we eat it as recommended by government officials. You can’t make this shit up. Even if you could smell crude oil on a deep-fried delicacy, does anyone even know what the chemical dispersants smell like? Because they probably aren’t very…

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    Daddy holding Max and a big snake

    July 29, 2013 /

    @ the Cobra Village in Khon Kaen, Thailand

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    August 22, 2015

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  • Thai Society/Culture,  Videos

    Video: Junior Snake Handler Bitten by a Cobra at the Cobra Village – Khon Kaen, Thailand

    July 28, 2013 /

    We have a lot of guests coming from overseas in August, so I’m sure we’ll go there again soon. I want to write more about this, but I just don’t have the time today on this fine Lazy Sunday.

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    Max and Mina on the train at Khao Suan Kwang Zoo (Khon Kaen, Thailand)

    July 24, 2013 /

    The guy running the train ride understands kids better than most of the grade school teachers I’ve met.

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    July 21, 2013 /

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    July 16, 2013 /

    We’ve been having a lot of funky weather like this recently:

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    Mina’s money roll

    July 14, 2013 /

    A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon collecting money from students for textbooks and I used spare moments in between to create this: Of course, it was immediately confiscated by the little boss: She said I better have her money, “rain, shine, or snow.”

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    G is for Gun

    July 9, 2013 /

    or Gat: I like how people in a sane world can use certain words and not totally lose their shit. Besides, it’s a warm & fuzzy single action.

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    July 7, 2013 /

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    Silverlake Vineyard, Pattaya

    July 2, 2013 /

    Awesome view! …and the biggest eggplants of this round Asian variety I have ever seen. This is, however, the only vineyard I’ve ever seen with fake grapevines (presumably for evergreen photo props).

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