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Thailand’s Got Talent
—————– A few years ago, I had a conversation that went like this: LostSoul: I accidentally slept with a guy, I thought he was a girl. JY: Yeah, I hear stories about that all the time. LostSoul: The thing is, I can’t get her our of my mind. I want to see her again. Does that mean I’m gay? JY: It doesn’t mean you’re gay. It just means you like fucking guys.
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Jammin’ solo
Max was so jazzed about playing his toy guitar, we broke down and ordered a real one off the internet. It’s called a Plum Blossom, if I remember correctly. I arranged for one of my second year students to come give him lessons once a week, but it’s just too soon. He won’t play when we want him to, and often just ignores people he doesn’t know. Ah well, at least I got some photos, and the guitar is being kept safe for if he shows an interest again. —————— I’m posting a bunch of phonecam photos in the coming days, so please forgive the craptastic quality.
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This made me laugh at 4am
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No Holiday in Cambodia
We had been planning to go to Cambodia with Nam’s faculty for a couple days from the day after tomorrow. Max’s chickenpox had cleared up almost completely this week and he was going to go with mommy and daddy. Mina was to stay at home with relatives and the nanny, and we had done a test run with these arrangements. We assumed she would come down with chickenpox weeks ago, but it never happened (truth be told, we wanted it out of the way quickly and knew she was strong enough to get through it – Max and Mina played together all day every day,I even had them drinking from…
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Woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun…
…but only two little birds were right outside our doorstep. On a tall plant next to the stairs leading up to our front porch:
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The Enomotos are Safe
Our relatives have apparently been found. There are no details yet, but this is good news. Thanks to everyone who helped out. — The Sendai webcam in Izumi-ku is back up again.
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Sendai before and after
Via ABC Australia: Japan Earthquake: before and after By the way, to all of the assholes mentioning Pearl Harbor karma, only 8.9 disappointment, and DDOSing the person finder app, FUCK YOU. ————— UPDATE: More shots from Google Earth: Before And After Photos Of the Japanese Earthquake
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Looking for Yoichi Enomoto, Sachiko Enomoto
We are looking for my grandmother’s cousins, Yoichi Enomoto and Sachiko Enomoto. They live here, about seven kilometers from the coast of Sendai, one of the hardest hit areas. Their eldest son, Yoshi, lives in Tokyo. We do not know where any of them are. This is a photo of Yoichi and Sachiko, they are both in their nineties: The only webcam feed in their area still up as of yesterday is down today: Izumi-ku Sendai webcam That’s about a mile from their neighborhood. Their Romanized address is: Miyagi-ken Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Yagiyama Yayoi-cho Postal code: 982-0833
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Japan Updates
NHK in Japanese has the best live coverage (the other JP news channels have been unstable today): High speed 1 High speed 2 Low speed link In English, NHK International is useless and US news channels are a FUCKING JOKE, especially CNN (presenters reading Twitter updates apparently based on what people are seeing on other channels). Try the streaming Al Jazeera page. ———— I’ve gotten in touch with some relatives, but the Yoshida clan is spread far and wide, and there are 6.0 (on the Japanese scale the max is 7) aftershocks happening as I type this. ———————- ————————– UPDATE: Google Crisis Response page
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Hak Na Sarakham
Maha Sarakham University, where my wife works, paid off the right people to make a sappy love story movie (the kind that makes the most money here) about the university and our town in general called “Hak Na Sarakham” (Laotian for “Love Sarakham”). It opens today at SermThai Plaza in downtown Sarakham, and we saw a steady stream of motorcycles heading that way from the university. It was fun trying to guess all of the locations shown in the trailer; our favorite bar, Play Bar, is shown towards the end.
