C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

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

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Oh, baby!, Photos

Paper Airplanes

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April 7, 2013
Exploits, Photos

Mudgrubber

On the way home from field archery a few months ago, I spotted this bad boy about to get squished on the road. We took him home for lack of…

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March 2, 2004
Old Blog Entries (archives), Site News

New Theme – Twenty Ten Weaver

In lieu of posting new content, I started playing with my blog’s appearance and settled on this new theme, Twenty Ten Weaver. Me likey. Still playing with colors and tweaking,…

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October 24, 2010
  • Music,  Videos

    50 Years of SNL Music

    January 28, 2025 /

    Also worth a watch:

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    Sarakham Music

    August 28, 2013

    Mainstream Thai Funk Sample

    August 30, 2017

    What’s that lullaby?

    August 2, 2016
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Cars,  Photos

    Triton is no longer the Bang Saen Special

    January 18, 2025 /

    We wanted to transfer my lowrider to Nam’s name from her sister’s, in order to prepare it for possible sale. The prefectural inspection officer we ran into at the Land Transport Office either wanted a bribe and didn’t ask for it clearly enough, or was just having a bad day, and decided to insist that my truck was too low and had to be restored to standard height (which is technically not a law here). Either way, we were not in the mood to pay into corruption and thought it might be easier to sell the truck at standard height anyway, so we took it for modification to Nam’s old…

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    Culmination.

    August 24, 2015

    What’s wrong with this picture?

    October 13, 2015

    Sold my CRF today

    January 31, 2022
  • Exploits,  Thai Society/Culture,  Videos

    More Noro-san Videos

    January 10, 2025 /

    Noro-san apparently gained a few kilos on his trip to Thailand. Come to think of it, he never stopped eating!

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    Family Portrait

    April 29, 2018

    ornamentals

    May 31, 2013

    View from a remote Amazon Coffee

    February 13, 2014
  • Gaming,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Toys & Tech,  Web

    21 Years of Steam

    January 5, 2025 /

    If that’s not a cringey Steam profile, I don’t know what is. I’d like to say I registered for Steam on dial-up, but looking back on posts from 2003 just before I signed up*, it was either my first FTTH line (NTT 100Mbps service on a Japanese island 20 years ago!), or Dual ISDN (128 kbit/s and more expensive than the FTTH, if I remember correctly). I was one of the only Dual ISDN subscribers on Awaji Island according to the techs who installed it. After I upgraded to FTTH and they came by for maintenance, they said I had the fastest hikari (fiber) connection they had seen, as well.…

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    Half-Life 2 Deathmatch

    December 1, 2004

    Pokemon Priorities

    July 11, 2016

    Fixing my trusty ASUS laptop

    May 7, 2016
  • Music,  Thai Society/Culture,  Videos

    Noro-san in Thailand

    January 1, 2025 /

    My pal T brought his 80 year old uncle to Thailand for an end of the year trip and we hung out for a week. It was his first trip on an airplane for 30 years, and everyone had a great time with him. I’ve been putting together a series of Shorts with the highlights.

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    In the back of my mind..

    December 9, 2010

    I saw Pai Mei yesterday.

    September 5, 2011

    Getting Musical (Thai Ranat Xylophone & Toy Snare)

    October 13, 2009
  • Cars,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Faithful Steed

    December 25, 2024 /

    My daily ride, a 2005 Honda Wave 100S. A friend sold it to me cheap when he moved away. The most reliable vehicle I’ve ever owned.

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    PCH Glory

    May 7, 2018

    The Defiant Ones

    December 19, 2017

    Sold my CRF today

    January 31, 2022
  • Food,  Photos

    BBQ Prawns

    December 24, 2024 /

    Hope to shovel more of these guys in my tummy later this week. Some friends are coming from Japan, so we are doing an end of year trip to see them in Pattaya, Bang Saen, and Bangkok. Ironically, it’s hard to find good seafood near the sea in popular places here, so we have to scope out good places online before we go. Over the past decade, Google Maps has become the best in gauging places from their reviews, and more importantly, the kind of people posting them.

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    Mr. Lee’s Finest Quality

    January 23, 2015

    Eating Mickey (or, how I overcame one of my last food prejudices)

    November 26, 2008

    Thai-French fusion supermeal

    December 19, 2012
  • Food,  Photos

    Noodle Nirvana

    December 17, 2024 /

    I’m currently on an extended keto and IF experiment which is turning out very well. Starchy noodles, like my beloved bami egg noodles, pictured above, are off the table. But I can dream.

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    INSERT ANIMAL NAME – Crap coffee

    February 4, 2019

    Thousand year old egg stir fry with deep fried basil

    May 18, 2015

    The Best Mass-produced Beer in SE Asia

    October 24, 2013
  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    I’ll have a Red Blue

    December 6, 2024 /

    I’m not entirely sure if this means what I think it means… Taken at a resort we stayed at on Koh Chang.

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    Nuclear green happiness

    January 25, 2015

    Isan Lunch

    June 10, 2014

    Fake booze in SE Asia

    July 13, 2016
  • Food,  Photos

    S&B Habanero Pepper Powder

    December 5, 2024 /

    This is the shit.

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    Yoshida Kitchen Creation: Issan Sushi

    April 6, 2016

    good or bad?

    April 8, 2009

    Let’s play a game…

    May 22, 2018
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