Monthly Archives: April 2024

Thai White Elephant

April 26, 2024 – 4:12 am

Many Asian cultures regarded fatness as a sign of wealth, however with the advent of 7/11 consumerism in the Orient obesity is fast becoming a health issue for the region. The Thais like to joke about fat people, whom they call ‘chang-nois’ or little elephants. “Why are farangs so fat?” An old rice farmer asked […]

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March Willow Haiku

April 25, 2024 – 6:14 pm

Once April rain May flowers Now March rain The willow green again.

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Dating Exodus

April 25, 2024 – 6:07 pm

The biblical tale Exodus begins at the end of Genesis with Joseph serving as a high ranking advisor to Pharaoh, possibly Ramses II 1200s BCE. Sold into slavery by this brothers Joseph reunited with his family and invited them to move from Canaan in the land of Goshen as shepherds. Historians have found no mention […]

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Bangkok 1928

April 23, 2024 – 8:11 am

Back in 2009 www.2bangkok.com put this 1928 French map of Bangkok online. The city has certainly changed considerably in the last century. No more klongs or trolleys or trees, but then the old are always saying, “You should have been here before.” As a young man I thought they were full of cow paddy, but […]

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Trolleys and Bars

April 23, 2024 – 6:29 am

Oh the trolleys of Boston. The screech Of steel on subterranean rail, The Boston College trolley lurching into Park Station. I don’t know if I will ever return To Boston. Like Charley on the MTA The man never to return. Orange and white trolleys Me and my older brother With my Nana On the tram […]

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