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Importing personal belongings
When I moved here permanently in 2018 (after going back and forth for the first three years) I moved here with 240 lbs of things which was three suitcases and 2 moving boxes. I fit whatever I could fit into those containers and have simply rebuilt since then. I used to have a storage locker in the US with my entire life of 42 years that I spent there thinking one day I'd bring it over. Reality is...I moved here to start a new life. I married a woman from here and didn't want to bring anything from my old life and failed relationships. So I parted with a storage locker of designer furniture (Room and Board, Design within Reach, West Elm), art supplies, actual art, cameras, studio gear, you name it... I let my ex-gf pick through it so I knew it was at least going to someone who could appreciate it. It hurt but it was a lesson in letting go. -
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What is up with tattoos and tourists / expats here?
Here is some history on tattoos. The reason it makes people so nervous is that we have been influenced by Christian rituals or ideals. Tattoos are historically a ritual of "savages". So there is deep-rooted psychological and religious connotations to tattoos. It's mostly taking place on a subconscious level. That's why tattoos make people nervous, but they're not exactly sure why. https://www.the4thwall.net/blog/2014/9/9/initiation The pe’a is a traditional Samoan tattoo worn by men, covering the body from torso to knees. Young men receive it as a rite of passage into adulthood. This initiation is a critical and highly ritualised event in a Samoan man’s life, signalling the transition from one stage of being—adolescence—to another, more evolved, state. Affronted by the heathen revelries associated with tatau, the early Christian missionaries from 1830 onwards sought to ban tattooing and continued to apply censorship pressure up until 1920. Christian missionaries and colonialists have a well-known history of effacing indigenous ritual and replacing it with their own ecclesiastical forms of ceremony. -
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Crime Thai Coffee Mogul Prayudh Gets 24-Year Sentence for Land Scandal
I thought it said 24 years for the billionnaire head of the family. But really, this is, almost certainly, just the latest move by the Establishment Trinity vs the Thaksin group of outsider billionnaires. It's showing the Thaksin group that the trinity is still well in charge. -
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