Back to check in with all you crazy
kids and your newfangled gadgets. I don't have a smart phone. I've
lived in an apartment for six months and don't know if the TV works
because I've never turned it on. I don't know what Dropbox is and my
Linked In profile looks like I just graduated from high school. My
CEO, who's only a few years shy of being double my age, reprimands me
because he knows more about Pinterest than I do. I still prefer hand
writing to typing and when asked what my favorite art form is I most
certainly reply, “The printed word.” Why am I working for a tech
company?
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| Binumi in Thai Esquire Magazine |
It's time for the Thai new year which
actually comes from an Indian festival which really has quite little
to do with the festival that is now raging outside my apartment
building. The death toll on the highways is high as drunk and
distracted drivers mix with wild water throwing shenanigan makers
creating an inevitable collision with that so sought after upwards
movement in the reincarnation chain. It was described to me by a Thai
person who isn't Buddhist at a party a few nights ago that she was
told it's more OK to eat ten shrimp rather than one cow because if
someone is reincarnated as a shrimp then their soul is small and they
deserve to be eaten but if they are reincarnated as a cow then they
have a large soul and perhaps did some good things in their past life
and therefore should not be eaten. I'll leave it to you to draw your
own conclusions about what the ramifications of such a theory means.
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| I took this while taking a corner on the back of my motor bike taxi. I consider capturing the superheros glued to this guys helmet well worth the risk to my life. |
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| This is what Songkran is all about. An entire city in a water fight. |
Also last week we had a late evening
“brand strategy meeting” in which we discussed various aspects of
the direction of the company. Nana had a casting call for a TV
commercial that would have paid her half a months salary for one days
work but the meeting ran late and she could not make it to the
casting. I guess being a general manager sometimes means you have to
forgo certain other opportunities.
I was standing on the sky train
platform waiting to go home from work the other day when I saw in the
midst of a construction site, right between a cement mixer dumping
cement into a huge ditch and a crane, four construction workers
playing with a Takraw ball. If you're wondering Takraw is a game like
volleyball except you kick and head the ball over the net. This
sounds somewhat unexciting but think about this, good Takraw players
smash the ball over the net by kicking the ball in the middle of a
back flip. They idly kicked it through the air amongst the heavy
machinery. It seemed to me that this was a decided failure in safety
precautions.
Bye bye for now.
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| So before we play soccer we have to shew all the frogs off the pitch (and there's a few) lest we commit little froggy murders. |
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| Say it quickly and see what happens. Supanniga, |
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| The strawberry and whipped cream stuffed waffle. |
