Perhaps you recognize the type font above if you read Chiang Mai City life monthly magazine or City Now the fortnightly coming events sheet, well this is the latest production from the lady of the Australian desert, but be sure the humour is not all dry.
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After four days of heat and “water wars” chaos a trip to Chiang Mai’s old favourite cooling-off spot did the trick.
There at the Huai Keow Waterfall just past the zoo it was like old times again, but this time in miniature.
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In the first part of this series of three about the Songkran Festival, reference was made to how this was celebrated in Meung Nan. Here the great river which feeds the Sirikit Dam in Uttaradit passes through the most north-easterly provincial capital in Thailand.
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At Songkran time in a region where swimming is uncommon and many are afraid of water, with no raging torrents to fear, playing with water in the river used to be safe fun, and certainly more so than riding a motor bike an suffering a blast of ice cold water.
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Years ago I spent Songkran playing in the sandy waters of the Nan River. Lots of fun and no traffic jams.
I imagine that if a Chiang Mai resident of my father’s age were to return from the dead, well might she ask “Where has Songkran gone?”
Read MoreRecently The charge was laid of being “The Oracle of negativity” in response to criticism of fund raising activities in Chiang Mai so here we re-publish a positive thinking article from today’s Bangkok Post. In her usual style Sanitsuda continues though to criticize top down thinking. In 2010 at a meeting about Eco-towns at Mae Jo University I produced an extract from the Thai constitution stating the rights of communities to protect the environment and the crowd reacted with applause. As the article below shows some communities react with action to embrace their rights. It is high time we did the same in Chiang Mai.
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Latest from the Bangkok Post – Fire Analysis & Plea to Stop Burning & CMU Medical Faculty
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Well it would hardly be news if we were to write about greed in Chiang Mai considering some of the lifestyles we observe here but how else do we describe this picture from the Post Office 50000 taken today?
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Every year in provinces all over Thailand we see tree planting ceremonies in honour of HM King Bhumipol led by government officials such as Governors, District Heads and the like.
When I have witnessed these events, the big boys have always been in their Sunday best and kneel on a little carpet, to keep their pressed trousers clean, while they “plant” ( actually a worker digs the hole and does most of the actual planting).
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