C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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Society & Culture

Lazy Travel Writers

Taken from a newsletter found in my inbox today: Here are (sic) some advice from travelers who have been to Japan in the past: “Do as Japanese do” Holy shit,…

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November 1, 2004
Web

Game over, man, game over.

“A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.” (via Luis) / (original source with more…

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September 13, 2009
Photos

Undetermined Payload

Sometimes you run into the strangest sights on the road.

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August 25, 2007
  • Videos

    mama bear.

    June 2, 2021 /

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Mr. Organ Donor

    May 29, 2021 /

    Some guy used his American ID to make a store member’s card in Thailand: From r/thai: LINK

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    February 18, 2008

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    January 26, 2014

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos

    Bull

    May 22, 2021 /

    Somebody brought their bull to graze on Nam’s mom’s property. This is a fairly normal occurrence in rural Thailand. And this is as close as I dared get to it. I was wearing a shirt and tie because I’d just come back on the way home from teaching a training course at the Maha Sarakham Provincial Office of the Comptroller General, by far the longest name of anywhere I’ve ever worked (and even a long name by Thai standards). The first thing I had the trainees do was memorize their place of work in English. Anyway, this bull was just normal. Not angry, not scared, but not indifferent to our…

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    April 28, 2015

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  • Toys & Tech,  Videos

    F1x3r

    May 14, 2021 /

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    September 15, 2010

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    October 19, 2009

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  • Food,  Mosquitoes Eating Fruit,  Photos

    Mosquito eating banana toast

    May 11, 2021 /

    It seems I forgot to upload this but it was taken a bit more than a year ago, during the first lockdown, when fears were high, but there was only a single case of coronavirus in Maha Sarakham province, imported from Buri Ram. We are now on our third self-imposed lockdown and this third wave was the largest for our town (over a hundred infected), and Thailand as a whole. The kids were spreading it in between lockdowns at bars and outdoor pubs. Things were all back to normal for maybe a month or so, then one superspreading student brought it back from Bangkok partying. I’ll be teaching classes online…

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  • Music

    Farewell, DP

    May 6, 2021 /

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    March 18, 2019

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    August 28, 2013
  • Music,  Thai Society/Culture,  Videos

    let your brain melt

    April 25, 2021 /

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    November 23, 2009

    Sarakham Music

    August 28, 2013

    BoJack to the Night

    August 14, 2016
  • Japanese Society/Culture,  Web

    Life copies art

    April 22, 2021 /

    I legit watched this 20 times straight.

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture,  Videos

    Thai Funeral with Royal Sponsorship

    April 20, 2021 /

    This is a video from last week. The whole funeral lasted seven days. I have read online about soil or water being provided from the royal institution for these affairs; in this case it was a candle with a bundle of flowers (made from corn husks and fragrant tree bark) that was eventually lit by a representative from Bangkok. I need to find out more about this, though. This was my second time at a funeral with these honors, and I learned a lot more this time. It was a fitting and touching sendoff for Nam’s grandmother.

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    May 21, 2014
  • Food,  Web

    Trenti iced coffee, 12 pumps [sugar-free] vanilla

    April 17, 2021 /

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