Dear Chinavet,

Thank you for your PM today and yes I did miss your post. Why I do not know, but please except my sincere apology for missing your name out of this Poll as your name should have been on it.

I have been on the 'Road' so to speak most of this month and in addition having a work load up to me ears on a slow line as well, I was in a hurry to close and post the Vote thread.

Having said that, there really is no excuse from me to miss you out other than what I have said.

Once again except my sincere apology.

Yours as always

Kan Win

Kan Win,

Thanks, but really, no apology required. Thought I might have lost the embedded exif data but had no idea how I could do that. A Kingfisher taking a crap is a desperate attempt to bend reality to match the competition theme anyway.

But if anyone wants to send me cash prizes for my brutalized ego, please pm me for account details

Thanks again to you, for putting in the time and effort

As a reward for Chinavet's continued contributions to the challenges and the fact that he was accidentally excluded from the voting of Challenge #8 I hereby hand over my 'prize' for winning the 'Broken' challenge to Chinavet.

I hope that you accept my offer and give us an interesting topic for Challenge #9

PS. All previous Challenge images submitted can be viewed here I will update with the 'Broken' challenge #8 as soon as possible.

As a reward for Chinavet's continued contributions to the challenges and the fact that he was accidentally excluded from the voting of Challenge #8 I hereby hand over my 'prize' for winning the 'Broken' challenge to Chinavet.

I hope that you accept my offer and give us an interesting topic for Challenge #9

PS. All previous Challenge images submitted can be viewed here I will update with the 'Broken' challenge #8 as soon as possible.

Well done ''lordsux' I take me hat off to you for this move and the up-dates in the gallery.

Will PM hin and ask.

Thaning you,

Yours as ever,

Kan Win

Hi Folks,

PM sent and cc to 'lordsux' as well.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

As a reward for Chinavet's continued contributions to the challenges and the fact that he was accidentally excluded from the voting of Challenge #8 I hereby hand over my 'prize' for winning the 'Broken' challenge to Chinavet.

I hope that you accept my offer and give us an interesting topic for Challenge #9

PS. All previous Challenge images submitted can be viewed here I will update with the 'Broken' challenge #8 as soon as possible.

Well done ''lordsux' I take me hat off to you for this move and the up-dates in the gallery.

Will PM hin and ask.

Thaning you,

Yours as ever,

Kan Win

Lordsux and Kan Win, thanks for the gesture, but really, it was not required. I'm in this to learn, not to win.

Now I'm in the hot seat.

I'm going to go with 'Character'....as in a personality or building etc. I hope the challenge to bring an image alive and express what you can see satisfies the masses as a challenge. My first choice was 'Rice...and anything related', but the city folk might feel disadvantaged?

Good luck all.

Rice in Thai also means eat and white.

Recommended subject next time.

dont want to be pedantic, but I think you will find rice in Thai just means rice, white is a different word just sounds similar

dont want to be pedantic, but I think you will find rice in Thai just means rice, white is a different word just sounds similar

OK, you are right.

But Food and Rice is the same.

ข้าว khaao

1. ข้าว khaao rice

2. ข้าว khaao cereal; grain

3. ข้าว khaao food; meal

ขาว khaao

1. ขาว khaao white

2. สีขาว see khaao the color white

There's a small difference between ข้าว and ขาว

ha! my favourite confusion . . .

words for:

rice, white, nine, old, and my good friend Gao. And probably more besides . . .

My 'non-tonal' Kiwi-Thai destroys them all!!!

Please have pity.

My entry was missed off one of the earlier polls, I just took it as a gentle hint to try a little harder.