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City of Angels

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Bangkok spreads out below me. The view from above is prettier, if somewhat worse labelled, than the Nancy Chandler version. Drops of lights pump through her wide arteries. Bangkok is still in party mode, and I think you can tell, even from a few thousand feet.
I float above the floating lights below.
City of Angels [...]

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Songkran

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Take 60 million Thai. Give every man, woman and child a bucket of water, and/or a water gun, and/or a bucket of whitewash. Give everyone a few pints of Singha. Give every second person a bottle of whiskey. Turn every street-facing building into a discotheque. Add three days of public holidays. You can probably see [...]

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