Reflecting On The Day

[Thakkar]

Just sitting back on the terrace once again with a glass of red, the chicken was just perfect done in the Weber, and wondering what I achieved today.

Basically, stuff all. In between projects at the moment so I've got a little time to spend at home with my wife and son not to mention the dog, cat, rabbit, turtle and fish.

Probably go and belt a few balls around the golf course tomorrow after I drop my son off at school.

Ho hum.

Reason for edit: Forgot to mention I'm listening to some real nice music as well.

I found the Chiang Mai connection but it was quite subliminal.

Subliminal just goes over my head.

[tmifune]

In a few hours I will go take my Chem 2 final, concluding a fun packed summer of physics and chem, knocking out more on the road to my BS ED Biology and Earth and space science minor. All this because i found a passion for teaching in my 2.5 years of teaching Chiang Mai.

Are you getting your BS ED in CM?

[Blinky Bill]

Just sitting back on the terrace once again with a glass of red, the chicken was just perfect done in the Weber, and wondering what I achieved today.

Basically, stuff all. In between projects at the moment so I've got a little time to spend at home with my wife and son not to mention the dog, cat, rabbit, turtle and fish.

Probably go and belt a few balls around the golf course tomorrow after I drop my son off at school.

Ho hum.

Reason for edit: Forgot to mention I'm listening to some real nice music as well.

I found the Chiang Mai connection but it was quite subliminal.

Subliminal just goes over my head.

MonsieurHulot, how clever of you. We must work for similar agencies. Fortunately though, you have not yet found the true significance of this post. Or have you? You know what we must do now, don't you?

Oh, I managed to buy a new piano for my son, he's had his 2nd lesson and is already punching out Nocturn op.9-2 by F. F. Chopin. This boy could go far.

[Blinky Bill]

Another shitty day in paradise for me....

BTW, BB, it's been a while and if you (or anyone else) fancies it, every thursday night we have a casual evening at Number 1 Bar. I set it up a couple of months ago as an excuse to get out with the dog and now there are a few of us that go regularly, talk motorbike related <deleted>, drink beer and generally have a good time for a few hours. Feel free to join if you are in town.......

Cheers,

Pikey.

What's this, Pikey. No talk of girls? Or is the "dog" a code for the "Gik"?

I'll see you there soon so long as the conversation can extend beyond motorbikes and beer.

Talking of motorbike stuff, I made it to the MotoGP Assen TT in the Netherlands the other month. Saw VR take his 100th win. Awesome.

[slapout]

bb, I was awaiting your reply to Johnny b Good about the little black book. I was sure you would drop a hint or two from your numbered volumes. Please do not go back to volume one as that may date all concerned. Get the boy a snake (anaconda) and let him learn about life. OK I will drink another beer and plan my day for tomorrow, probably not as exciting as yours but as you are aware, age kind of dictates our joys in life.

[Blinky Bill]

BB, nothing achieved so far today (other than talking to a guy in Seeedny for an hour about a job)

Achieved a lot yesterday. Finally got rid of the GF "I hope"

And whilst writing I might ask "have you still got your little black book" I mean contact details for a likely new "replacement" mia

I don't really have to say (acquainted as we are) "no commission, no finders fee"

bb, I was awaiting your reply to Johnny b Good about the little black book. I was sure you would drop a hint or two from your numbered volumes. Please do not go back to volume one as that may date all concerned. Get the boy a snake (anaconda) and let him learn about life. OK I will drink another beer and plan my day for tomorrow, probably not as exciting as yours but as you are aware, age kind of dictates our joys in life.

I've destroyed all volumes, Slapper and jbg. I am reaching a stage in my life where monogamy is more affordable and sensible than my earlier antics.

I'll see how things pan out as it's been almost 24 hours now and already it seems like a silly idea. I didn't really destroy them, just hid them in a very secure place.

[Pikey]

Another shitty day in paradise for me....

BTW, BB, it's been a while and if you (or anyone else) fancies it, every thursday night we have a casual evening at Number 1 Bar. I set it up a couple of months ago as an excuse to get out with the dog and now there are a few of us that go regularly, talk motorbike related <deleted>, drink beer and generally have a good time for a few hours. Feel free to join if you are in town.......

Cheers,

Pikey.

What's this, Pikey. No talk of girls? Or is the "dog" a code for the "Gik"?

I'll see you there soon so long as the conversation can extend beyond motorbikes and beer.

Talking of motorbike stuff, I made it to the MotoGP Assen TT in the Netherlands the other month. Saw VR take his 100th win. Awesome.

Of course girls feature prominently in our discussions - moaning about wives, boasting of conquests e.t.c - you'll fit right in!

Nope, the "dog" is a 4 legged mutt, not the same one I had when I had Jai Yen, but a very friendly and well socialised bull terrier.

I lived in Brussels, Belgium for 6 years and made annual trips to Assen both for the TT in June and WSBK in September and we always used to sit at the final chicane before the start/finish straight - bloody awesome track. I'm jealous tghat you saw The Doctor take his 100th. The celebrations would've been worth seeing.

Look forward to seeing you on one of your visits.

Cheers,

Pikey.

[doppa]

well managed to stay on me feet that little longer, and can't wait to be down the line, about 5 weeks, life will be so much sweeter then, by the way, tetleys t bags, where in chiangmai.

[trainman34014]

well managed to stay on me feet that little longer, and can't wait to be down the line, about 5 weeks, life will be so much sweeter then, by the way, tetleys t bags, where in chiangmai.

Sorry Doppa; the Tetley came in boxes of 100 in my luggage when I returned from the UK in March. I managed to squeeze in 400 but they are running low and I'm dreading the day when they are gone. Still; apart from getting a new 1 year visa, they represent the only good reason to go back again. My 7 grand kids drive me up the wall within a week of being there and I can't wait to bung the Tetley in the luggage and beat the retreat out of there.

[Blinky Bill]

Sorry Doppa; the Tetley came in boxes of 100 in my luggage when I returned from the UK in March. I managed to squeeze in 400 but they are running low and I'm dreading the day when they are gone. Still; apart from getting a new 1 year visa, they represent the only good reason to go back again. My 7 grand kids drive me up the wall within a week of being there and I can't wait to bung the Tetley in the luggage and beat the retreat out of there.

Gee, you've got an exciting life, Trainspotta34014. Yes, Tetley tea bags are quite a challenge.

[BlackArtemis]

In a few hours I will go take my Chem 2 final, concluding a fun packed summer of physics and chem, knocking out more on the road to my BS ED Biology and Earth and space science minor. All this because i found a passion for teaching in my 2.5 years of teaching Chiang Mai.

Are you getting your BS ED in CM?

No, I moved back stateside in October. But the plan is to eventually get back to CM. But this will take awhile, the wife wants a masters and then I will get one, but we will come back regularly to see family and friends.

[doppa]

well managed to stay on me feet that little longer, and can't wait to be down the line, about 5 weeks, life will be so much sweeter then, by the way, tetleys t bags, where in chiangmai.

Sorry Doppa; the Tetley came in boxes of 100 in my luggage when I returned from the UK in March. I managed to squeeze in 400 but they are running low and I'm dreading the day when they are gone. Still; apart from getting a new 1 year visa, they represent the only good reason to go back again. My 7 grand kids drive me up the wall within a week of being there and I can't wait to bung the Tetley in the luggage and beat the retreat out of there.

when living in phuket you could get them in centrals tops supermarket, i suppose they will arrive here soon.

[Dickynee]

It sounds like you guys know what you are talking about in CM, so here is my first post as a newbie.

I organise a group golfing trip from Oz and the last few years we have done Phuket, this year we decided to do Phuket and Pattaya, next year we are looking at Chiang Mai and bangkok.

Our group consists of married couples single males and females majority middle aged.

This will be everybodies 1st time to CM.

And I am gonna ask that inevetable question asked by all newbies what has CM got for the likes of us.

Our likes are Alcohol, Golf, Alcohol, Thai food, shopping and the hotel must have a pool oh and did I metion we like a drink.

[Blinky Bill]

It sounds like you guys know what you are talking about in CM, so here is my first post as a newbie.

I organise a group golfing trip from Oz and the last few years we have done Phuket, this year we decided to do Phuket and Pattaya, next year we are looking at Chiang Mai and bangkok.

Our group consists of married couples single males and females majority middle aged.

This will be everybodies 1st time to CM.

And I am gonna ask that inevetable question asked by all newbies what has CM got for the likes of us.

Our likes are Alcohol, Golf, Alcohol, Thai food, shopping and the hotel must have a pool oh and did I metion we like a drink.

Chiang Mai has all you are looking for and more. Hotels range from 5 star to no star. Golf courses are plentiful and range from ordinary to fantastic.

In my opinion, the best time for playing golf is in the cooler months from November to January. Good luck.

[KevinHunt]

Just sitting back on the terrace once again with a glass of red, the chicken was just perfect done in the Weber, and wondering what I achieved today.

Basically, stuff all. In between projects at the moment so I've got a little time to spend at home with my wife and son not to mention the dog, cat, rabbit, turtle and fish.

Probably go and belt a few balls around the golf course tomorrow after I drop my son off at school.

Ho hum.

Reason for edit: Forgot to mention I'm listening to some real nice music as well.

I managed to get up before noon (couldn't sleep) so that's something, I suppose.

Edited August 14, 2009 by KevinHunt

[Blinky Bill]

Once again, not much achieved.

Had a look at a 1940 BSA M20 500cc motorcycle with a view to buying it as a little restoration project.

Tuned into MotoGP.com to check the online qualifying practice for the Czech MotoGP race tomorrow. My hero, Valentino Rossi took pole yet again followed by his teammate, Jorge Lorenzo just 5/100ths of a second behind.

Had the Weber up and running again for dinner, pretty bloody good teriyaki chicken, fried potato and tomato with a little Lindemans red wine to wash it down, and a cleansing ale of course.

[orang37]

Sawasdee Khrup,

I have achieved nothing of any significance; but today was a gift of a nothing of the greatest signficance, a temporary pass to a transient eternity in which a fiction of a personal consistency of self is allowed to be a stage for the inevitable dance of metamorphosis of comedy to tragedy, and back, finally, to an empty stage.

I have watched my human's brain spelunking for hours through the intricacies of implmenting a "type independent object factory pattern" in the C# language in .NET via the use of Reflection in an abstract class; I enjoyed his pleasure when it finally "came to life," and demonstrated the level of abstraction he sought.

His mind's enthusiastic absorption in intricate ephemera at this stage of what he experiences as his "life" may be the one thing (he thinks) that keeps "the Wolf from his door." Do you see the Wolf ? There : the gleam of a pair of ember-red eyes in an indistinct patch of shadow where the forest consumes the light. Hungry Wolf, waiting Wolf, Wolf-Who-Culls-Those-Who-Must-Be-Culled.

And today my human continued to explore some remarkable harmonies on his classical guitar in the altered tuning e a d g# c# e that remind him of certain Arabic/Sephardic maqqams, as well as certain phrases that he remembers in the music of Granados and Satie. There are moments when certain intervals and harmonic patterns seem to create a resonant direct link between our two co-existing, co-habiting, consciousnesses : I can truly say that in those moments we are as near "one" as we will ever be.

More importantly, soy milk tasted wonderful, water tasted wonderful, breathing felt great, the eyes of people contained an inner fire my human was allowed to see (a rarity, that), and riding the bicycle, and getting caught in a mild sprinkling, on the way back and forth to-from the well of Mother Kali's divine-bean breast milk on Thanon Charoenmuang was delightful.

While I will never be able to understand my human's "divorce from nature, the body, and the senses" that is the result, of course, of his "infection," through what you call "culture," by the virus of language, which characterizes my farang's whole perceptual appartus and subjective experience ... at times I kind of like the old guy in spite of his modal character trait of taking refuge from what he thinks/fears/believes is reality (but is actually yet another lovely form of emptiness) in a smoke-screen of vocabulary and self-referential camouflage netting of elaborate linguistic structures. The "fear of death" that Humans have I, of course, will never understand; we Orangs fear only one thing : that we get distracted and miss the pure beauty of every single moment of radiant aliveness. What humans dread and fear as "emptiness" is, for us, a living matrix : "greatest show on Earth."

In these moments : I feel for him, so I sing to him one of the teachings of Ur Orang I am allowed to share, and then, oh boy : I watch his mind take the pure Orang thought, turn his synapses loose on it to construct a network of morphemes, and then I watch that rolling down the morpheme-production-line to his phoneme factory, and then, finally, he experiences a flow of thought in words in his head that he thinks is his own creation ! By the time the song is in his verbal thoughts, the melody's gone, and the beat's out to lunch.

Well, what can I do : I don't want to break his bubble. He needs me, I need him. It's called "modus vivendi." Neither one of us understands the singularity that joined one dying Farang and one dying Orang via some whacko szygzy usually found carried out by mad scientists in human-science fiction and horror movies.

The "day" itself being a reflection of reflections, I would rather say my human and I reflected "in it," and were reflected "by it," rather than "on it."

And this nothing that we achieved, all the e-mails, the study, the reading, the music, the soy milk, the quiet moments of listening to music with a cat nestled in the human's lap : well, it was pretty nice.

best, ~o:37;

Edited August 15, 2009 by orang37

[Blinky Bill]

Umm, yeah, right! Thanks for that little insight, ~o:37;

[Blinky Bill]

Well, here I am back on the terrace reflecting on the days activities. Again, bugger all achieved apart from my young son having his 5th piano lesson.

The cat's pregnant, the dog doesn't bite me too often but loves to give the cat a loving lick every now and again, the rabbit is all a bit nonchalant about the dog chasing him around the yard whilst the cat sits back and snickers. The tortoise is oblivious to all but the fish who share the pond with him. My wife is even being nice to me which I know I deserve but rarely get.

But tragedy almost struck not more 30 minutes ago. In my eagerness to wrap my lips around the glass of red that was sitting beside the laptop I accidentally knocked it over spilling the contents on the keyboard. Thankfully the glass was almost empty and within seconds the laptop was upside down and draining the keyboard. Raced to the bedroom, got tissues and mopped up any residual red wine in evidence. The computer is still working and the red wine is finished, sipping on a cleansing ale at the moment. That could be good to get rid of the stickiness on the keyboard.

Moral of the story? Still trying to think of one, but if I wasn't married and had no son, dog, cat, rabbit, tortoise and fish this would not have happened.

[anonymouse]

Well, here I am back on the terrace reflecting on the days activities. Again, bugger all achieved apart from my young son having his 5th piano lesson.

The cat's pregnant, the dog doesn't bite me too often but loves to give the cat a loving lick every now and again, the rabbit is all a bit nonchalant about the dog chasing him around the yard whilst the cat sits back and snickers. The tortoise is oblivious to all but the fish who share the pond with him. My wife is even being nice to me which I know I deserve but rarely get.

But tragedy almost struck not more 30 minutes ago. In my eagerness to wrap my lips around the glass of red that was sitting beside the laptop I accidentally knocked it over spilling the contents on the keyboard. Thankfully the glass was almost empty and within seconds the laptop was upside down and draining the keyboard. Raced to the bedroom, got tissues and mopped up any residual red wine in evidence. The computer is still working and the red wine is finished, sipping on a cleansing ale at the moment. That could be good to get rid of the stickiness on the keyboard.

Moral of the story? Still trying to think of one, but if I wasn't married and had no son, dog, cat, rabbit, tortoise and fish this would not have happened.

I sympathise, those bloody tortoise's always making trouble

[WildChilli]

I made $400,000 today.

can i marry you ... you want me pre op or post op

[trainman34014]

I made $400,000 today.

can i marry you ... you want me pre op or post op

You mean you printed it or what?

[mnbcm]

I figured out which Honda dealer has my broken car in Bangkok. 2 of them have been fighting over who has to fix it for a week now.

I also did some research on taladrod.com and dreamed about how nice of a 2nd hand vehicle I could buy with the same amount of money if I were back in the U.S.

[IanForbes]

I spent the last couple of days 20 miles off shore in the Pacific ocean catching salmon, halibut and Ling cod. We set the crab traps before we left and had a feast of them as well. That is why I haven't been around for a few days.

Then came in and had a local chef prepare them for us...