Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to watch a moving documentary called “Living With The Tiger”. It is about about Thai kids growing up with the stigma of being infected with HIV through no fault of their own. Often these kids are abandoned by their own family.
One of the most popular festivals in the central region of Thailand is the Monkey Festival held annually in Lopburi. The city is about 150 kms north-east of Bangkok and is a convenient stopover on the northern railway line to Chiang Mai. The iconic Khmer ruin in this city is Prang Sam Yot, which was originally a Hindu shrine.
Well it’s a good questing to if this should be called an aftermath at all. News had been reporting the sunny side of things. Bangkok is dry and it is true. All major shopping malls are opened and business as usual.
One of the biggest events of the year for Chiang Mai is the International Horticultural Exposition Royal Flora 2011. It was originally intended to open during November, but due to the flooding situation in Central Thailand, it was decided to move the event to December. This is not because the site was flooded, the organizers just felt that with rail and bus transport affected, it will be difficult for some people to go
We had the Thai festival Loi Krathong the other week and there were some pictures on the camera that Miss Noot had taken so I thought I would upload them. Miss Benjawan was going to lead the parade for her village. She won Miss Noppamas Queen a few years back for the village and was helping out again
Well I am back, well not really and it has only been a month but seems a lot longer. The last month I have enjoyed spending a lot more time with my niece Nong Ja in the afternoons and limiting my computer work to around 3 or 4 hours in the evening. Tonight I have an empty house as all my girls have gone to the village and I have wrapped up everything that needs to be done. There isn’t a lot on TV now and do have an amazing but sad post to share.
For some reasons or other, water seems to have a mind of her own going and not going where as had been predicted. This again, I believe due to the heavy intervention by man to control the water flow, only to result in more chaos, panic and nuisance. Shopping malls some so unlikely to be flooded, at Robinson Ratchada especially, had closed their parking lots because the frantic neighborhood had moved all their cars into the multi storey parking lots. The departmental store Tops in the basement, had reduced their inventory clearing out the bottom two level of shelves in anticipation of the speculated flooding
Staring up your half submerged Prius will results in explosion of sparks, you will probably become part of the car’s circuit and die in the process. Ok, maybe that won’t happen, I am sure Toyota thought of it but lately, there are many victims of electrocution as the water sets in. Touch this get shorted, touch that get shorted. Stand around in water minding own business also get shorted, which is why the authorities are cutting the power to some selected estates.
This is worrisome.. I went for a meeting yesterday and my customer looked totally stressed out and tired. His office is underwater and his engineer stranded at some industrial estate far far away. He had invested THB 20,000 to get a boat and fitted it with an outboard to get his engineer out and also for everyday use during this period.
Now the question on anyone’s mind here is not “when will the flood be over” but rather, “when will the bloody flood come???”. The media had kept many of us in central Bangkok on our toes for two solid weeks. This has caused unnecessary panic which resulted in the shortage of food and drinking water in the supermarkets.
Where have all the farangs (caucasians) in my block gone? I asked the building management office below. She said they have all gone down south to the beach to escape the floods. There is only one farang left (not me, I am already more Thai than a foreigner)
The Most Beautiful Thai Girl. In My Eyes.
Christmas Is Not Over in Isaan Thailand.
The Residence Hua Hin
Two New Floating Markets in Hua Hin
Caroline Wozniacki Goes to Thailand
Am I Getting Too Old?
Christmas in Isaan Thailand 2011.
Celebrating Christmas in Thailand
Sport Day Parade Outfits 2011 Isaan Thailand.
