Wedding preparation

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Nov 16, 2010

We’ve finally arrived at our destination for the wedding weekend. There was a ‘threat’ of getting up at 5am next morning to go to a local fresh food market when we arrived here at 11:00pm. My guy bailed out but I wasn’t going to miss such an occasion. With the anticipation we were finally able ...

Breakfast

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Nov 14, 2010

We’ve got the total ferrang (foreigner) treatment. Big bucket of ice arrived with two glasses. I quickly ascertained that it was a fix yourself drink system. All around the restaurant there were various bottles scattered about. I grabbed a Chang water while the group of Thai men in the next table fixing themselves whiskey. Yeah ...

Errands in Bangkok

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Nov 13, 2010

Bangkok’s traffic jams are relentless. We only had to achieve three things between 12 and 5:30 pm and we spent most of our time in Mike’s rented people mover. When we were not in a traffic jam we were walking along side gas pumping old vehicles making horrendous noise. The pollution, heat and the humidity ...

Away in Thailand

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Nov 13, 2010

14 hour long travel to Bangkok hasn’t been too bad after the month long non-stop house relocation, unpacking and packing in the middle of all unpacking mess. The unfortunate schedule of traveling overseas less than a week later moving into a new house was not our intention. It just worked out that way as we ...

Chritobel’s blog

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Oct 27, 2010

There are those who speak your language – aesthetically, literally, eating, TV, movie, etc et. Christobel speaks my aesthetic language. There’s great comfort and beauty in what comes out of Christobel’s creative space. It’s a good thing then Christine, the creator of Christobel, decided to blog! Her blog http://www.christinelovitt.blogspot.com/ speaks my language. Does it do ...

Being interesting and being honest

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Oct 25, 2010

I’m reading a book by Scott Berkun called Confessions of a public speaker. As I was reading it I found an interesting confession of his. The easiest way to be interesting is to be honest. People rarely say what they truly feel, yet this is what audiences desire most. If you can speak a truth ...

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