Birthday party

P'Oad attempts to cover his face with... *gasp*!!! (sorry kids!)


Sand's Birthday


P'Kuu and Incy


So much cake, so little time! Little Sand takes on a mountain!


Cheesecake... for the kids??! OR for the mother??


His Royal Majesty Indy, King of Legoland!


Blow them out!

New Photos

Picture album for Nov. 2005 has been added under 'more pictures'

Just got back from Pattaya where I spent some time with Pa Aew and Lung Maw, as well as with Steve and his daughter, Annie :)

My face is burned (that's what you get for playing in the pool with a nine year old for three hours, and then taking a walk down the beach repeatedly!!

Also, managed to discover the 'joys' of communicating with the very drunk Korean snowboard team passing through Thailand... Very exciting... *aherm* Good Kimchi.

Some of you may know that I lost my EHD some months back - along with it, my unfinished book. Well, I've started up my endeavours again... but this time, it'll be better, because the idea is in my head, as well as the memory of what worked and what didn't... plus, I've invested in a few books to have better research on the 12 signs and dreams...

While we were in Asia Books, Kan was helping me check whether the dream book had infomation on each of the 12 animals of the chinese horoscope. See, he's got a watch with one of the animals representing each hour... and strangely enough, as those versed in astrology may know, there is no such sign as 'the cat'. But his watch clearly had a creature that was the cat... in place of the RABBIT!! I suspect carniverous foul-play.

(by the way, the book had all the signs except the rooster/chicken... but I'll make do with the turkey or goose as a subsititute. It also has information on dreaming of cucumbers: "A dream-cigar may sometimes be just a cigar, as Freud put it, but he would have argued that a cucumber is rarely just a cucumber. The size of the vegetable may offer a surprising insight into the extent of your libidinous appetite." I won't even go into what the book says about cornflakes.)

CV

For anyone interested in giving me a job, I've added a link to my CV on the sidebar....

I'll be updating it with hyperlinks soon... for now, just the basics!

Keep your fingers crossed for me, please!

Hey anyone who is bored enough to read this post:

I had a bit of an interview with a friend of Pa Aew (my aunt) who's in the know of the media in Thailand, and she's gonna try to hook me up with the Tourism Authority of Thailand...

So hopefully I'll get to do some travel writing :)

Keep your fingers crossed for me PLEASE!

Loy Loy Krathong!

Yay! Today was the first time I went to Loy Krathong in .... MANY years!

We went to tam bun in the wat... and then after that went to the a fair ... and it started POURING!!! I got really drenched woay!

Hehehe... in the end floated the thing in my garden, in the carp-pond. Some confused fishies there tonight for sure :)

ABAC was good in the morning... will really consider stuyding there... plus, it looks like I can skip straight to PhD!

Philosophy at ABAC?

Should I come study my post-grad in Thailand? It's a really interesting looking program...

I'm going to go and check out the uni tomorrow.

ABAC's grad philosophy department

GOAL!

Went to see Corpse Bride with Kan today... or so we thought...

We were in the wrong cinema! Talk about collective absentmindedness! We didn't check which theatre we were walking into, and the ticket checker was the one that ushered us into that theatre...

After the 'national anthem/tribute to the king' ended, what a surprise we got (note to all those who don't know: Before you see a movie in Thailand, there is always a tribute to His Royal Majesty) when we finally sat down and the titles showed "GOAL" and not "Corpse Bride"...

But it was a good movie anyhow... Liverpool lost to Newcastle United... HAHAHA!!! Sorry Liverpool fans out there!! The main actor looked exactly like an old friend of mine: Ned Brown... except Ned isn't Mexican... he's 1/8 Thai and the rest british...

No wonder people keep telling me I look like I could be Spanish or Latina...

To the Melbourne Party People: Benefit gig to free dj Spikenard

Hey all that read my blog. Below is a message I received from a very trusted friend of mine. She's an international student studying at the University of Melbourne, and her husband is from Singapore. I have removed her name from the message below to protect her identity. If anyone is free, please help her out!

Hello everybody,

This is ****, Dj Spikenard's wife. I am writing to notify you all that he is now being detained at the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre.

I have organized an event as a benefit gig to free my husband. Anybody in Melbourne, Australia

Please come to

Chunky Funky
dirty, sexy, house
guest Dj Shakti Shivar (UK) (Hooj Choons Records)
with Dj Elcid (hip hop)
Thursday 24th November
@ Laundry 50 Johnston St, Fitzroy
10pm-3am Doors:$10/all

My husband was meant to play on this gig but since he was detained on friday night this gig will be a benefit in order to raise money to get him out.

Please do not think this is a joke, if anybody has questions please contact me on Mobile 0424677136, Home 93814970.

Please help, any kind souls left in this world, to free my husband.

Sincerely,

****

Back at last!!

Home sweet home... with a whole different set of rules... I guess I have to be a good girl here, huh?

Anyhow, for all of you who wanted my phone number here, it's the same as last year. The problem currently is that I have no idea what my own number is. So anyone who I have already messaged with my number, please be so kind as to post a comment here or something and say what my number is?

**note: this is a little later - my brother told me the number is +66(1)7637271**

The flight back with Kan was entertaining! It's the first time I've flown back to Thailand with a friend... all we did was eat, sleep and play video games. We even woke up at one stage at exactly the same time and played games for an hour and fell back asleep. How random.

Farhad: If you are reading this, please send me the picture we took at the airport to my gmail!

Kan: I'm bored already! Help!!

Indy and Inc, P'Art's two kids have grown so much! Inc just turned one, and she's walking around alot... she's really attached to her mommy!

Indy is so playful and tall now! He's three and talks in one of those little kid cute husky voices.

Tomorrow I'll see Sand and P'Ed and P'Sally in the morning... can't wait to see how Sand has grown... and can't wait to see the look on P'Ed's face! He still doesn't know I'm back here!

The surprise worked out really well this morning. P'Art and P'Kuu were at home still, and they were pleasantly surprised (I hope!!)

I almost wasn't admitted into the country though, cos my Thai passport is expired! Kan helped me fill out all the forms, *phew*, or I would have been stuck for hours trying to figure out how to spell in Thai!

Can't wait to see what's in store these next three months...

Home....

Sarinda: You are such a bi-atch, man! Sharing all our personal battles with the world, HUH?? HAHAHA!! I'll have to get you back some time after I get back from BKK! You just watch out... ... ... erm... MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

*I think I need another hug :(*

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So near, yet so far... Damn. Still haven't finished packing. Procrastination. Fun.

Here's something to cheer me up ... and hopefully you, too...

THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3. Proliferation
4. Cinnamon

THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Specificity
2. British Constitution
3. Passive-aggressive disorder

THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Thanks, but I don't want to have sex.
2. Nope, no more beer for me.
3. Sorry, but you're not really my type.
4. Good evening, officer. Isn't it lovely out tonight?
5. Oh, I couldn't. No one wants to hear me sing!