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Epic
Best short film of the year:
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Sunday Hoops
A three day weekend is something special, but especially so when you’re a little kid. Mommy was off at graduation practice for her uni, so the kids and I got in the Crown and cruised around lazy Sunday style, picked up some fries at Mickey D’s, and went to some shaded outdoor courts across from their school for a picnic and some basketball. These days, Max is trying out all kinds of sports to see what he likes. He was into football only for a couple years, but has gotten into ping pong more recently. He’s expressed interested interest in starting up muay thai again, so we will start on…
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Daddy, do you like my new hairstyle?
Someone curled her hair…
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Katakana English Song
Japan started a visa exemption program for Thais a few years ago, which successfully created a huge tourism boom. Japan is an ideal destination for Thais that have the money to go on vacation, because although their cultural relevance has been overshadowed by Korea in many sectors here (cosmetics, home electronics, music, tv series, etc.), their image remains strong in others (cars, high end cosmetics, top name electronics, food, manga, etc.), and was much stronger before. In addition, Japan is perceived as a more friendly and alluring place to visit because of the language (which many Thais can speak a few words of), the food (local versions of which are…
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Easter Eggs at Big C?
Nothing to do with Easter, actually. Just some colorful century eggs AKA thousand year old eggs. They usually only come in pink, but it looks like this company’s trying to stand out or something.
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Catch!
When we play catch or practice hitting balls around the vacant lots and parks around here, people stop to watch. Hmm… I’ve never seen anyone else playing baseball in Thailand, either! I’m not a big baseball fan or anything, but it’s great for kids’ hand-eye coordination. I found the equipment for sale at a secondhand Japanese goods store in town. This was a very popular business until very recently – you could buy containers of household stuff from Japan at various Thai shipping ports for around 70,000 baht and up. A lot of people started used Japanese good shops with stuff from a single container. You couldn’t see what was…
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Garrard 301 in Khon Kaen
Last week, we stumbled upon an audiophile’s den at the Kosa hotel that seemed to have been transported straight out of the sixties.
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Somtam Pancake
Ultimate comfort food fusion… Are you ready for fermented maple fish sauce?
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Star Trek Autocorrect
You mean the Federation can maintain a fleet of starships and explore the deepest reaches of space, but they can’t install a spell checker? Typical bureaucracy.
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Monkey Atlantis
Maha Sarakham’s premier tourist attraction is under water! The monkey forest park in the nearby town of Kosum Pisai (AKA Monkeytown) is now completely flooded. The river running through it is usually quite wide and only about a meter deep; it’s a great spot to relax under the trees and watch fishermen throwing cast nets as a fresh breeze blows through and monkeys steal food from cars and incessantly mount each other. Now, it’s under several meters of floodwater because the Ubonrat Dam upriver was opened after the heavy rains. Pushed out of their home in the forest, the monkeys are now living up the street at the school and…
