Around Mahasarakham
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Thai Breakfast of Champions
If you’re a Sarakham native, you know where you can get this for 19 baht ($0.54 US, not including beer or sticky rice). And if you are not, I’ll take you.
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What’s wrong with this picture?
In the land of Loe, Chnag, and Sanghi. Posted from WordPress for Android
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Culmination.
It was an 8-day Thai funeral. Cremation (and for Max and I, ordination) was on the last day. Ashes were spread on the nearby Chi river this morning (9th day). Nam is still working on the aftermath, even now. These are some photos from one of the outfits (HD-ELEE Studio) covering it.
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Fire, No Water, Burn.
During the Songkran water festival, a fire truck came around to refill its tanks at the pond in front of our house. The trucks normally spend the duration of the festivities driving along the main strips downtown and basically enjoying being the kings of the country-wide watertfight. On this day, however, a huge fire broke out within a mile of our house and this truck was not at all ready to do its job… The next day we saw another fire truck spraying people during the waterfights, so obviously, Songkran is the worst time of year to have a fire in Thailand. Posted from WordPress for Android
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Dim Sum Breakfast
Breakfast places are few and far between in Sarakham, but this place is ok sometimes. (these were among Taro’s GoPro photos from last month)
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Somdet Phra Theppharatratsuda Chao Fa Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Ratthasimakhunakonpiyachat Sayamborommaratchakumari
AKA Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Thailand’s Princess Royal, came to our university to open my faculty’s new building today (Official title: The Local Knowledge Learning Center). Pretty much every Thai staff member/teacher wears an official white uniform to these ceremonies, so it was fun being the only person in a black pinstriped suit (those not wearing dress whites wore white or black suits, but nobody else had pinstripes – I’m so happy I had this one made all those years ago because it’s BOSS). There was much discussion leading up to today’s event about where the best place to enter the campus and park would be, with some teachers coming…
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Phu Farm Canned Foods
Phu Farms… As aptly named as a company can be… Silkwork larvae are a snack I’ve had in Korea and Cambodia as well, and they don’t taste so bad. They are a good novelty food after a few beers. The canned frogs, however, are, well… ///////////////// MANDATORY “YOU MAY LOSE YOUR LUNCH” WARNING ////////////////
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Reposted from my Facebook account
I’m having an eventful birthday. After dropping off Max and Mina at school, Nam and I drove by an accident on the side of the road. I saw my co-worker Bruce lying on the asphalt, so I told Nam to pull over and ran out to help. A middle aged woman riding a small motorbike with a little girl on back had hit Bruce’s mountain bike from behind. Judging from the damage, she had been going pretty fast. There were already several people gathered around watching and talking bullshit, but typically, nobody was really helping. The woman was lying down, motionless, in a pool of blood leaking from her head,…
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Matcha set – Eka Cafe
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:
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Graffiti in Akkarachat Housing Estate
On the boundary wall next to our old house. This area is now a ghetto. — Posted from WordPress for Android —
