Archive for April, 2007
Daemons
I passed a Down Syndrome kid on the way back to my apartment today. He was outside the front of his house, sitting down beside his mother, helping to peel vegetables for the dinner. I didn’t give the scene a second glance and it wasn’t until I got to the end of the road before [...]
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Stick thin
Thailand is the fast-food capital of the world. Hands down, it beats every other contender. The McDonalds-scoffing people of the West don’t even have the slightest clue what it is to live off fast food. Every street from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is lined with food carts, stalls and vans. Every hour of every day [...]
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Magic Mushroom Lady
Ko Samui really was the glossy brochure British family resort i had been warned about. But “their beauty was not to be missed” so i went to see for myself. I arrived on the largest of the three sister islands and immediately headed to a more remote beach on the northern shore called Bo Phut. [...]
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Songkran
I peered slowly around the corner. Snapping my head back before I was spotted I stood with my back pressed against the wall and tried to think. Chiang Mai had turned, literally overnight, from a peaceful mountain city to a war-zone. Now I found myself cowering in an alleyway trying to work up the courage to [...]
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Best avoid the rickshaws…
I keep reading this particular gem of wisdom wherever I turn. I read it at tourism advice centres, on notice boards and even our faithful Lonely Planet. I pick it out of the hum-drum of back-packer conversations around me at our busy hostel chill-out room. I’ve been solicited this pearl by everyone back home who [...]
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Hey you! Where you go?
The constant cry heard on the streets, the shouts from tuk-tuk drivers and the taxi men. Good question, I think as I step down into the teeming mass of life that is Khao San road. My body, now used to moving in crowded Asian streets, ducks and weaves of it’s own accord as I proceed [...]
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Ode To Nepali Cap
Cocked at a jaunty tilt
to display one’s brazen style,
The humble Nepali cap
remains fixed all the while
to old mens’ scalps
and young boys’ heads,
From morning yawns
to night-time beds,
All living lads
and buried dead.
Found down busy, urban streets
and in between the rural crops,
It’s fashioned on the cheery type
well know in fast-food shops!
Of lurid pink
like bubblegum pop,
Or sick’ning brown
like gone [...]
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