C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Category: Old Blog Entries (archives)

  • Wikileaks / Cablegate deconstructed

    Bruce Sterling does it best: The Blast Shack

  • Royal Thai Motorcade

    Last week, on the way home from my program’s English Camp at Nam Nao National Park, I moblogged about a major police presence on the highway suggestive of the presence of royalty. As it turns out, a princess was in town, and we were cleared off the highway to make way for her motorcade. This…

  • Happy Holidays!

  • New underground gas tanks

    @ Khon Kaen city outskirts The owner asked if we were engineers who knew about the system. She probably thought Teera was a fellow gas station owner and I was his Japanese engineer.

  • Protein snack

    We happened upon a stretch of fried grasshopper stands and decided to partake. They were most excellent. Also, it turned out that one of the princesses of Thailand was in a motorcade behind us and we had to pull over with all the other cars on the road to clear it before she passed. I…

  • On the way home from Nam Nao

    English camp was extremely successful this year; our new teaching format worked out very well and feedback from the students has been overwhelmingly positive so far. The biggest complaint I’ve heard is that they don’t want to have class tomorrow, which is understandable, but necessary since last Friday was a national holiday and I can’t…

  • Last Night of English Camp

    I have a student who takes after my pal T in Japan so much it’s scary.

  • Lunch at Chumpae

    Duck ramen; duck was deboned nicely and bean sprouts were put in the bowl before serving fpr a change, but the broth was bland. Watch out all roadside stands between here and the mountains, you are being evaluated by a pro.

  • Love you madly

    Daddy has to go away for four days! Much sadness! Much loneliness! See you soon!

  • Mina just closed the do