Tom jumping from the new pier we had built on Landy
More excellent programs from the Australian National University on the aftermath of the Red protest.
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Landy
Arts & leisure
 4 of the 250 elephants scattered around London
I thought I was getting away from Thailand for a couple weeks, but Thailand was everywhere I went – it seemed that every other restaurant in Amsterdam was Thai and in London I ran into Thai elephants – many painted by Thai artists- all over the city. Then on the last day in London there was the Thailand at Trafalgar Square annual food festival event. The only thing different was the prices – which is why I stuck to the european food (and beer ) while I was away – and perhaps that is why I brought back to Thailand some extra weight. It was good to be away for awhile, but it is great to be back. Arts & leisure
A man from Khon Kaen. Awesome news – his films are kind of hard to find in Thailand mainly because they are very arty and one recent one was partially censored. Was this award politically modivated by events in Thailand? I don’t think so – he has been a favorite of the jury in past years and many who saw his film think it is a masterpiece. Politics
Politics
 The reactions to hearing their leaders giving up. Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Jatuporn Prompan, one of the Red Shirt leaders. speaking to the remaining people in protest zone yesterday. From today’s New York Times story Bangkok
 From The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" on Bangkok
Politics
Politics
From “Thai Protestors Accent Deal That Sets a November Vote” in Today’s New York Times Great news. Looks like Thailand’s political crisis (this round) is coming to an end. Strange that I live in Thailand but have not been to downtown Bangkok since last October. Right now the place where I asked Yui to marry me has been shut down for two months as it is in an Red Shirt occupied zone. UPDATE: New Demands
From Todays’s Bangkok Post. Seems like a small demand – but I get the feeling it ain’t going to happen – and sadly the crisis ain’t over.
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 Jis a scenic artist and filmmaker who lives part time in Ohio and Khon Kaen. He first came to Thailand in 1972 as a child and returned in 2004 with the Phuket Project to aid in the Tsunami relief effort. Yuiis a doctor in Khon Kaen. She has studied in the U.S. and Great Britiain but is happiest on a bike riding around Thailand with the Khon Kaen Mountain Bike Team Tom and Shampooare English Cocker Spaniels who live in Khon Kaen, but often travel to other planets in a spaceship they designed and fight alongside Hanuman against all evil. They also like swimming and sleeping.  |
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