Prayers, shrines and devotion: Bangkok

You’ll find shrines everywhere in Bangkok. All sorts of shapes and sizes, which also includes statues and figurines. After wandering for hours in the bearable heat, I came across the shrine outside of Central World. People were on their knees and cupping their hands, showing their devotion, lost in their private thoughts. ZashnainAn avid blogger, […]

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Busy street vendors in Silom

The walk was refreshing. Won’t sleep comfortably without the nightly walks in one district or another. Bangkok. Despite the dwindling presence of tourists in Silom, the locals are still crowding about the shopping malls and street vendors especially at the start of a new month » when many would have just received their salaries. Never […]

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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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Night’s Silence, carelessly stacked to one side

I seek the night’s embrace, The deathly silence, No birds, no humans ~ only the swaying leaves to the wind. I need the comforting darkness. ZashnainAn avid blogger, twitterer and photojournalist, Zashnain Zainal suffers from an incurable addiction to social work, helping marginalised communities since 1989. Nowadays he travels from the plantations of Malaysia to […]

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