She made it with mommy a couple months ago, and proceeded to eat it all.
She has since graduated to eating full-blown Lao-style somtam that can make grown men cry.
Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
I’ve been archiving photos from Nam’s Samsung Grande and realized she’s been taking a lot of food photos. I used to do this, but stopped carrying a smartphone, and my tablet doesn’t have a front facing camera (hence the Facebook #Facecuts series I started). So I’ll be uploading a bunch of photos documenting what we’ve been eating recently.
First up, the matcha (green tea) set at our friend Tong’s cafe here in Maha Sarakham:
Sunshowers are sometimes referred to as “the fox’s/foxes’ wedding” (plurality indeterminate) in Japan, or “kitsune no yomeiri.”
Today is the sunniest rainy day I’ve ever seen; it’s completely still and over a hundred degrees outside. It’s so hot, the rain leaves no mark on the pavement.
Wikipedia entry for kitsune no yomeiri.
This is what was sent to me:
(Letter to Head of Brand Business or CEO,thanks.)
Dear Ladies/Gentlemen,
This is a formal email. Please check it seriously and transfer it to responsible person, thanks. We are the auditing department of a professional domain name registration and dispute solution organization. Today, we formally received an online application that a company claimed “Anhong Int’l Co., Ltd” were applying to register “cosmicbuddha” as their Brand Name and some “cosmicbuddha” Important top-level domain names. Now we are handling this registration,after our audit department checking,we found this is conflict with your company’s using name.
According to the registration principle,we will audit every application of our customer in order to avoid the conflict of the intellectual property. You are the original name owner,so I am sending you this E-mail to check if your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you have authorized this,we will finish the registration at once,otherwise,please inform me as soon as possible.
Our time limit for dissent application is 7 workdays. Out of the period, we would regard this application was authorized by you and accept their application legally. Looking forward to your prompt confirmation. Have an outstanding day!
Best Regards,
Max Wong (MR.)
Registration Dept.
YES, IT’S A SCAM.
Do not reply to the message.
Do not check out their shitty website.
They want to sell you shit you don’t need and/or cheat you somehow; it’s what they do.
That is all.
P.S. People looking down on you love to use the word “dissent.”