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Bad Karma (Thai Edition)
– A Thai who can’t eat spicy food. – A diabetic Thai. – A Thai with a peanut allergy. Any of the conditions listed above will ensure that the unfortunate party will almost never eat food outside their homes. In Thailand, the land of delicious food aplenty, that is just bad luck, and bad karma.
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UI Theory
No, not User Interface. Nor Ugly Imperialist. (for the purposes of this post, anyway.) PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS: Simply put, “ui!” is the sound of a Thai person in distress. Variations on this include, “uuui!,” “uuii!,” and “uuuuuuui!” (can you see my linguistics major paying off now?) If I unprovokedly poke my wife in the side, she might exclaim, “uui!” (she might just as soon sock me in the stomach and then demand to know what the hell I’m doing, but I did say “might,” right?) [English equivalent in this example: “Hey!”] If a Thai dude catches a whiff of (presumedly spicy) gas passed by his friend, he might say “ui!” and…
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Welcome to…
(thx fish)
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Kayak
Since I’ll be here for one last summer, it means we can visit our pal Hirata’s sea kayaking school in Wakayama…
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My alarm clock
You gotta believe!
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24 Season 5 Episode 11 – LEG SHOT!
Oh my god, Jack Bauer is my hero.
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Updating my resume…
…in preparation for the big move to Thailand in October. Haven’t done this for five years – just forgot how it felt, ya know? Honestly describe your professional history in less than a page, without boring anyone too badly OR sounding like you love yourself too awfully much. I know guys who get off on doing this kind of stuff, but I’m not too crazy about it.
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Post-wedding Update
Apparently, there were OVER 500 GUESTS at our wedding. We only invited 350. I love Thailand.
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Ugly we is
Now this is some funny shit: The World According to America
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Real-life Simpsons
“Makers of the hit cartoon The Simpsons have a filmed the show’s opening titles using real actors.”
