Studio Hatyai

This found via Charlene, a collection of very eerie post-tsunami Andaman coast shots of empty building shells, and a land still reeling from the events one year ago nearly. Also check his Georgetown, Yala and Pattani collections.

Great photography!

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Mango Sauce is back from it’s hiatus. We’r enot sure why he left actually as he was just getting into the big time with citations in the Bangkok Post.

His current postings are a bit more sparse than before and his comment forum has been disabled, but three cheers for the semi-return of Bangkok’s naughtiest and funniest blog.

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Three bombs hit southern Thailand

Three bombs have gone off tonight in Hatyai and Songkhla. The Hatyai blasts were the worst, one outside the Carrefour shopping centre injuring 15 people and the other outside the domestic arrivals at Hatyai Airport.

Closer to home there was a third bomb outside the Greenworld Palace hotel in Songkhla (about 5 minutes drive from here) where three people were injured and the hotel sustained major structural damage to it’s entranceway.

So far 2 people have died and 43 people have been injured from all the blasts.

My sister-in-law was just leaving Carrefour in her car via the side exit when the blast went off and witnessed several people lying on the ground. Another friend lives a minutes walk from the Greenworld Hotel and says that the whole house shook from the blast.

To read how it unfolded check this thread I started from a few minutes after the Carrefour blast on Ajarn Forum.

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Thailand - Expat Builders’ Guide and Forum

Useful site for anyone contemplating building a house in Thailand. It’s refreshing to see that it’s not trying to sell you anything.

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A ping I got just recently from Mr iChris, prompted an interesting discussion on his blog as to the origins of the V-sign in photos. Now perhaps someone could explain the other thing with cradling your chin with the space between the thumb and first finger. Kind of like a twee gangsta pose.

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From the Nation Newspaper’s discussion board

The Seed of Discontent of Foreign Residents in Thailand

This is an interesting discussion from a board I have not read before, the Nation which is a right-leaning Thai English language paper.

Discussion between Thai and English readers and is on the whole intelligent.

Many decent and respectable foreign residents feel that they are being treated like common criminals who are on parole. They feel insulted and frustrated. But due to many commitments whether family, business or other reasons they have to stay and feel unwelcome.

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This week has been my quietest week yet on the Worzone. Well, for 1 my computer’s dodgy, well the collection is. It keeps cutting me off every 5 minutes which is annoying indeed. Gonna try a new ISP.

Second, I seem to be spending more time on Ajarn sorting it hacks and mods out.
My big acheivement today was installing a brilliant mod, the nature of which I will not go into right now..top secret!

Oh well, even this one entry is taking me hours to complete..how do these Kotkes and BoingBoings keep up???

This is probably just a phaze and I’ll be back posting crap from B3ta before you know it but maybe that was the problem. Is recycling random crap from the internet a noble calling of is it the crazed work of a man with too much time on his hands…either that or slacking off too much at work.

Oh well just two more weeks and ta lot of work and this madness will be over, and that two week paid break has never sounded so good.

Wifey’s off to Chiang Mai this week, jetted of by her university to attend some seminar on Curriculum Writing. LDMA not invited
Oh an dthe lovely SFB is back in town today….yup WorZone survivor Brainy Janey Ollerenshaw, is coming to pick up her stuff before finally heading west.

K tha’s’t fer nah!

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The following question was posed as part of a mid-term test to a group of Master of Education students studying English Children’s Literature at a Thai university.

‘Harry Potter’ is said to be the most popular and the most-in-demand among young readers these days. What do you think makes the book so successful? Why does the book appeal to children? Comment on the elements of fiction; plot, setting, characters, characterization, theme, and style.

After the test the marks for the question is struck from the results following a complaint by students that it was unfair as a number of them had never read or even heard of Harry Potter.

It struck me as amusing that the average 10 year old knows more than these would be masters. The unbelievable part is that rather than being laughed out of the course diector’s office, it was deemed that hiding under a rock on Mars for the last 5 years should not disqualify one from bearing the title Master of Education, and the complaint upheld and the question deemed unfair and the fault of the lecturer for assuming too much cultural knowlege was known by the students.

T.I.T.

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Westerners targeted in Bangkok club/drug raids

Bangkok nightlife took another hit last week when authorities, raided several prominent clubs and tested customers’ urine for drug use, according to reports in this week’s local Thai media.

Will Hatyai be next? Rumours of the Brass Monkey being due a raid reached my ears a couple of weeks ago.

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MartiniThigh - A Threat To No-one

A Marko in Bangkok spoof of TIT rejects board MartiniThai (ma ti ni Thai - come here to Thailand)

Amusing stuff…the spoof that is…even Dirty Dog’s three holer thread can’t save the real thing.

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