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Sold my CRF today
Took some more photos and sold it for half of what I bought it for 8 years ago. It was fun to ride and served me well, and it was also the first vehicle I ever bought new… but I haven’t been able to ride it the past couple of years due to COVID, and the ethanol fuel mandated in Thailand just goes bad very quickly. I ended up having to replace the fuel pump and injector because the fuel had degraded into something nasty. Anyways, we put up an ad yesterday and got several interested parties calling today. A bike dude from Ubon Ratchatani made the drive out and…
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Yam Pla Muk and Larb Moo
Just feel like posting some old food photos that have been sitting patiently in a folde called “blog” on my desktop for a couple years. This is Yam Pla Muk, or Thai Squid Salad. I don’t remember exactly where we ordered this one. “Yam” is a type of Thai salad that’s spicy, sour, and kick-ass: Thai salads… These are among my favorite foods here, and we eat them all regularly. This one is larb, which is also one of the Thai Salads mentioned in the link above. Specifically, it’s larb moo, or pork larb. Larb is also known as a meat salad (which is obviously the best type of salad).…
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The Reddit Tidal Bore Videos
Sit back, relax, and be amazed by the wonder of cheap smartphones: // // /// /// /// //// //// //// //// And of course, the brilliant Reddit stitch up of all 3 clips: 1 Wave, 3 Angles ///// So what are we looking at? This is a tidal bore, a strong tide pushing up a river. This one is locally known as a bono, or, a wave of seven ghosts, because there can be seven successive layers of waves. People surf on these, yo! It seems that the location is Cape Binjai, Sumatra, on the Kampar River. By all means, please subscribe to Rina’s YouTube Channel because she has the…
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The Ghost of Initial D
It’s good to see new blood at Toyota giving a shout out to touge. I miss my Silvia. Plus, there’s the official successor to Initial D making the jump from manga to anime: Almost makes me want to throw a 2JZ in the old Crown.
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Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
Otherwise known as MCU, this is the oldest higher education institute for Buddhist monks in Thailand and the main campus is located on the temple grounds of Wat Mahathat Yuwaratrangsarit, one of the ten “royal temples of the highest class” in the country. The length of the name is interesting and is compounded by the choice to leave no spaces between individual words of which the name is comprised. I had to break it down in the following way to make any sort of sense of it, otherwise it just looks like a keyboard accident: Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya = Maha / Chulalongkorn / Raja / Vidyalaya Maha = great Chulalongkorn = the…
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Wall’s Ice Cream Dragontail Boat
A Thailand exclusive!
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Feel Good, Wink
It’s been ages since I posted Mina’s artwork since it’s mostly been going on her own website, but in the past couple of years she’s been drawing on a graphics tablet. Then a few months ago, work gave me an 8th Gen iPad, and I bought a knockoff iPencil and a Procreate license. And this is what’s grown from that: I needed an art example for one of my presentation classes, and this is what she knocked out in (maybe) an hour while I was putting together the rest of the slideshow. Cool!
