Not saying if this is how it is in 2552, but right now I am in 2009 U.S.A. on a road trip and I keep telling myself ”Stay on the right. Stay on the right….”
Thanks to Daring Fireball for the link to this old video
 A fanciful proposal of what a global currency would look like - from the Ophiram Foundation of Hong Kong that can be found on the website of the Single Global Currency Association (www.singleglobalcurrency.org). A good article this week in Bloomberg.com on a push by Asian countries to replace the American Dollar and Euro with a global currency.
Traveling throughout Asia, I am continually reminded how fortunate I am to be holding American currency – in many of the poorer countries the Dollar is as accepted as the local currency. It has been this way since the end of the Second World War but perhaps now this dominance of the Dollar is coming to an end. Even though this could be bad news for Americans like me who travel and live in Asia, I think it is ultimately a good thing for both the U.S. and Asia to not be so intertwined. I also think that it will be a long time before the above pictured currency is a reality – more likely is an Asian Euro, or “Asio” and that is not even close to happening soon either. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand Support Call for Global Currency – Bloomberg,com ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=e3854423-2e29-466b-ab00-b7a3d058c1c0)  At the Suphanahong Awards, the Thai "Oscars" Sunday night In 2552 there is a long televised movie award show – the Suphanahong Awards that takes place on a Sunday night in February . With Best Actor, Actress, Best Director, Best Song, Best Special Effects – exactly the same as the one held in L.A. in 2009. To see the rest of the winners in 2552 and some glamorous red carpet pictures of Thailand’s movie stars, check out Lyn’s Lakorn blog and Wise Kawi’s film Journal.  US President Barack Obama walks with Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth in Chicago before he took office. Ms Duckworth, who has a Thai mother, has been nominated by Mr Obama as an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs. AFP “Born in Bangkok, the 41-year-old war veteran is the daughter of Frank Duckworth, a former marine turned diplomat, and Lamai Sompornpairin. Her Thai name is Ladda. She can speak fluent Thai and Indonesian, and still has a trace of an accent from spending much of her youth in Southeast Asia. Her last visit to Thailand was in 2007. She joined the US military while in graduate school and signed up to be a helicopter pilot because it is one of the few positions where women are able to serve in combat.” - From Today’s Bangkok Post article. Here is a nice interview with her from last year:
Here is some Obama newspaper and live coverage from Thailand. Thanks to 2Bangkok.com for the Thai language paper.
What Obama Means to Bangkok – Shawn Crispin -via 4amXpat.com And here are some awesome behind the scenes pictures of the next President and family on the night of the election:
Thanks to Daring Fireball and 4amExpat for the links
Bill Girtz of the Washington Times wrote a story a while back about the outsourcing of U.S. passports that has some interesting info on where the passports go before they are delivered to the recipients:
Via: (2bangkok.com and boingboing)
For a disastrous week everywhere -a look back to the heros I had when I was a child living in Thailand.
From “A Brief History of L.A.” (Oh and yes it is ironic and I am sorry that the full Hulu episode above is not available to internet users outside the U.S. – complain to Hulu.com) |
 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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