Kanom Jeen Nam Yam ~ simply wonderful and tasty

Seems everyone is going after street food nowadays, even the elites (though occasionally for them, maybe). Almost everywhere, you will find a sprawling metropolis of Thai cuisine ~ in temporary makeshift fire-hazard restaurants to small mobile cart. Everywhere. I sat with my friend, one night, at the pavement of Silom Street to sample one of […]

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Character assassination is as common as death. Are you part of it?

I’m taking a walk, far from the source of sanity, making my way through the long wet road. It has been a tiring day of recovery, I have been ill since yesterday. I didn’t expect the Storm to shield the sun for the whole day, but thankfully it did. Now as it approaches midnight, the […]

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A flash of remembrance of a passionate night

In the early hours of the morning, I fiddled with my BlackBerry. Feeling edgy, restless. Seems my thoughts rushed between dark voids of memories, with little will-power to guide me through these sleepless moments. I will share my story, a brief random one, mind you. Once a upon a time… I bolted up from my […]

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A break-up: Sadness grips your friend, so what do you do?

The delicate matters of the heart. People seem to be an expert on relationships nowadays. Some are bold to provide an endless supply of recommendations, and many merely expect to show tough-love to retaliate; But nearly all have no clue to what they are saying or doing. Yes, people usually give advice based on their […]

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Smog, heat, humidity. Ingredients to a horrible night.

It is a humid night, the weather swallowed by the smog from the city and the nearby farms. Malaysian farmers, similar to many other South East Asian countries, still practise the primitive art of farming: to clear the land, they burn what they can: trees, weeds, shrubs and grass. A merciless act of destruction, effective […]

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An observer to those living in hardship

Regardless of the infamous stories of violence and gang-controlled territories, I wandered the streets of Bangkok with little caution; not really caring where I went as long as it was not near the business centre. Based on my work exposure with marginalised communities, I do not fear the slums nor their notorious reputation. I show […]

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