December 28, 2009
The sheer cruelty of human beings saddens me as reported in this article here.
I cannot comprehend how some people just lack the compassion for other living things and have no regard for the life of others.
They should tightened the laws of animal cruelty here in Thailand and that the the damn Sauerkraut gets arrested for his deeds. I also hope that someone would throw off the frigging Sauerkraut off a high building or smash him over the wall like he did the puppies. People like him don’t deserve to live!
December 24, 2009
It is quite a normal habit for Fudge to come up to bed to check on me the moment the alarm on my phone goes off in the morning. As soon as I got out of bed, she would race me to the bathroom and then happily jumped up on my lap while I sleepily take the throne before I jumped into the shower.
One morning though, just after a few minutes in the shower, I heard her meowing non-stop; which isn’t quite a usual habit of hers as she would find other silly things to do once I get into the shower. At the same time, I also heard the faint sound of my alarm which I had callously put on “snooze’ rather than “off”. And, unless I press the “off” button, the alarm will go off for a few times more before it automatically switch itself off.
Despite my super “off” morning mode, I managed a huge chuckle as I exited the bathroom when I saw her sitting on the side of my bed, right next to my phone. She immediately looked up to me and meow the loudest meow she could muster while still sitting next to my phone, looking at me in disdain, as if making sure that it stays off!
I wonder what she was driving at…
Funny cat.
December 23, 2009
Massive crowds were forming as I walked thru the bridge adjoining Central World and the nearest BTS station on my way back to the office today. As I got closer to the crowd, this was what I noticed:
Apparently, some kind of awareness campaign for the Tourist Police in Bangkok was happening. The funny thing was, it was clear that the entire campaign was targeted at tourists. By tourists, I would think that these are the people who come to visit Thailand on a temporary basis to shop, sight-see and what nots. And by that, I believe >90% of the tourist here are likely to be non-Thai, and by that, they are rather unlikely to be speaking or understand Thai too
Yet, what do I hear while walking past the crowd? The key announcer with the microphone was actually rattling away in nothing but Thai. This, while campaigning for the T.O.U.R.I.S.T Police! Their logic defies me, really. Of course I could buffer for the fact that there’s a chance they could be targeting to non-Bangkok residents who happened to be Thais, who could easily be “tourists”, if that is their definition!
But again, logic tells me that it doesn’t quite make sense, especially if the victims of scams are usually the non-Thai tourists! I can’t help but laugh at the irony of it all. Nice try, but English for the 95% of non-Thai tourists (or residents for that matter) would really be helpful.
One quote that comes to mind:
“It is OK to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound”
