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J-Pop Culture Validation of the Coolest Car Ever?
A Kujira Crown (slight model change from mine) is featured in a new Kansai Television show: Suteki na sentakushi
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How to fix Broken Thai Text Display in Google Chrome
I recently experienced a very strange and vexing problem in Chrome (EN v.38, 64-bit, Windows 7) where all Thai text appeared as small boxes or squares, or squares with strange…
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Japanese Spider Man – 70’s TV Show Intro
Coolest thing ever? If anybody has this on Beta, I will pay…
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Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
When I told Max not too step on or over headstones, he asked if it was because they are traps. I remember being told not to do the same thing…
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How poor are poor families in Myanmar?
Poor enough to sell their children to human trafficking rings for $50 US: Trafficker of Rose-Selling Children on Khaosan Road Arrested The story linked above is currently displayed along an…
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Isan Lunch
Lao-style somtam, grilled tilapia, beef meatball skewers, rice noodles, sticky rice: Around $5 US!!
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Taco night
When Dave and Michiko visited from Japan a month ago, we had a Mexifood party. Due to what’s available here, we had to improvise a few things, but it all…
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The Perfect Breakfast – East Meets West
Pan-fried eggs with assorted meat, toast, rice porridge, coffee. It’s hard to find a good breakfast in Thailand if you are tired of the standard fare. We found a good…
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So I found out why 7/11s have locks on the doors…
…it’s in case there a coup and 10 pm curfew is enforced nationwide. The last time there was a coup, there weren’t any 7/11s near my house. Alas, Thailand has…
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Another Coup?
All of the national TV channels are off the air… We will be fine.
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Kitsune no yomeiri
Sunshowers are sometimes referred to as “the fox’s/foxes’ wedding” (plurality indeterminate) in Japan, or “kitsune no yomeiri.” Today is the sunniest rainy day I’ve ever seen; it’s completely still and…
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The Westernization of Thailand
This was all all procured locally. This part of the world will be hit with a metabolic syndrome epidemic in the coming years that will surely rival that of Mexico…
