Category Archives: Traditions

Jan. 2, 2007 Going Home

January 2, 2017 – 3:41 am

It was still dark yesterday morning, when my wife terminated her holiday stay in Pattaya. She packed the car with my daughter, my adopted niece, her sister, my dog, and about three weeks of food whch would be comsumed during the five our journey to Ban Nok outside of Chai-nat. Nu was no longer angry. […]

By Peter | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Ghouls or Phi on the Loose

October 31, 2016 – 7:08 pm

If you ask Thais if they’ve seen a ghost, most will timidly say NO, indicating the fear that any mention of a spirit might endanger their luck, yet Thais love horror movies popularized by such famous ghosts such as Phi-pop who eats livers, phi tai hong who died due to violence, and phi kraseu who […]

By Peter | Also posted in evil, superstitions, Thailand | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Thai National Anthem or Phleng Chat Thai

September 20, 2016 – 6:34 am

I haven’t been to a Thai movie theater in ages, but like a baseball game in the States the cinemas play the Thai National Anthem before any feature film. Here are the words. Bring them with you to sing in English, although you probably will get arrested for lese majeste. Thailand is the unity of […]

By Peter | Also posted in Thailand | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Free As The Breeze

August 3, 2016 – 9:25 am

The Soviet Premier Khrushchev famously declared in 1956 that the USSR would bury American Imperialism. Actually he said, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side.”, but the Western press liked ‘we will bury you’ better. After his election in 1960 President Kennedy was upset by the USSR thinking America was soft […]

By Peter | Also posted in Health, semi-fiction | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Stupid People Do Smart Math Sometimes

July 5, 2016 – 2:14 pm

Guns don’t make someone smart. Certainly not if you’re from Texas as evinced by http://www.cbc.ca/ report of a Marietta man wounding himself after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his yard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in his face, the county sheriff said Friday. Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said […]

By Peter | Tagged , | Comments (0)