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The holding pattern continues and nothing much to blog about as its all been done before - I'm so bored with the political maneuverings and am just waiting for the next 'big' event that provides some spark to the situation.
Thaksin, Abhisit, Sondhi etc etc- boring!
Now we have blasts from the past Chavalit and Chuan to add to the mix - here's a good overview by Thitinan.
Great blog and comments in this thread over at Absolutely Bangkok
I wish I had the intelligence & motivation to create such blog posts - thanks to Bangkok Dan, and all the other contributors, especially Jaded, who has taken the effort to put in writing a great outline of things, and it explains why I still keep reaching the same old conclusion - situation hopeless!
(but us farang are lucky - we can leave anytime we like - it's the Thai's who are victims of the mess, but have no hope of change, or escape, they are the ones that I really feel for)
About the 3G debacle: Personally I could not care less about accessing the internet via my phone and all the other tricks offered which IMO are a trap for the gullible - I have a 3G phone, but its still just a phone to me:) , however if it improves internet speeds in Thailand then I say 'bring it on'.
:)
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A confluence of events and circumstances are perhaps emerging to nudge Thailand, for good or bad, to begin their long-overdue political overhaul.
A few of these 'events' are obvious (HMK's ill health and age, the ongoing crushing economic crisis, the impending judicial resolution of the Thaksin cases, and perhaps most importantly the gathering consensus for the urgent need to amend the Thai consitution. There may be other not so self-evident events that could surface soon to add urgency to the Thais 'sabai-sabai' attitude to matters political.
I am nevertheless an optimist. I believethat however bleak those series of unwanted events conspire, the Thai people would rise above their suspicions, petty hatreds and dangerous loyalties to rally as one nation for their common good.
Nice to hear from you Vichai, and I'm glad to hear you are an optimist.
I remain a bored pessamistic optimist or a bored optimistic pessamist:)
Most Thais are incurable optimists Hobby.
Sondhi L., despite being a bankrupt and a gamut of recent legal convictions, still believe he could politically prevail. Sondhi L survived a hail of bullets, so he must believe himself invincible.
Thaksin S. too continue to be convinced that he could triumphantly return to power, and be Thai PM again, despite his recent legal convictions. Thaksin had survived two bomb attempts, he will tell those who will listen, so he too must believe himself twice invicible than Sondhi L.
Chalerm Y., Thailand's most notorious political thug, was only recently Chairman of the political opposition, until he was replaced by Chavalit, Thailand's slipperiest most inscrutable politico-general. People had long thought these two were has-beens, until of course, the opposition party ran out of leaders (after the recent coup had nuked their leadership slate with a 5-year ban).
Even convicted Police-General Chalor, just sentenced to death for that murky Saudi-case murders, could smile at the cameras still . . . (press talk of royal pardon must have tickled him silly).
Nobody could be counted down and out in Thailand unless he or she is already dead. Convicted tax evaders, murderers and corrupt politicos never fade . . . in Thailand's zombieland.
hey, Hobby
I guess I had to come out of my prolonged slumber, couldn't keep silent: check my latest blog post - it is a serious matter !
because these clowns (I don't know who exactly - only idiots on Nation, or in Health Ministry too) are brainwashing people that there are already 5 million infected people in Thailand.
the only explanation for such a blatant lie which I can find is - full scale unleashed fear mongering campaign, which in turn is aimed at preparing the "sheeple" for a quitel possibly mandatory vaccination ! with Obama's emergency declaration over swine flu - I have no any doubt that clowns here in Thailand are gonna do everything possible to follow the same scenario and start the mass murder of people with deadly vaccine ! particularly Nation quotes Health Ministry saying that number of cases is increasing in North and Norht-East - strange, huh? while even WHO (which helped Baxter to spread the virus in Europe and largely promotes the whole vaccine campaign) website even now shows that actual number of cases in Thailand is less than 30,000 and the situation "remains unchanged" and "Impact: Low"
here is what Nation says :
"The [Health] ministry estimated over 5 million people have been infected with the new flu virus during the past four months since the outbreak hit Thailand."
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/search/read.php?newsid=30112929
they are gonna f***ing start killing ppl, starting with kids and pregnant women !!!
"To boost public immunity against the new flu infection, Paijit said the government had ordered two million doses of inactivated vaccine. The first lot of 1 million doses will arrive in Thailand in December, while the second lot will be despatched in January next year. Medical workers, pregnant women, and patients with chronic disease will be the first to receive vaccination."
it has already started in US, along with a gigantic Propaganda campaign.
hobby,
since you said you're bored, let me
help you to get a bit entertained :D
try this little game:
go to this webpage and click on Thailand, see what happens ! then try to click on ANY or each (even NK or Burma) of other 10 countries there ...
any comments ? ;)
Thanks AntiPADshist - I looked (or tried:)
Actually & unfortunately thats just more of the same old stuff of which I am already bored.
(but thanks for the info anyway:)
So I'm still waiting........
long time no see, na krab... :-)
i still love music you share
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if i may say sth... imho, _all of us_ are bored... around the globe... to face same oppressive conditions day by day, again & again...
maybe one day, boredom or fear or feeling inadequate to pursue our hearts yearning...
maybe it'll blossom - against all odds :-)
thanks for your time, energy, mind, goodwill & effort - to share w all of us na :-)
love to you, hobby;
wish you some fine times :-)
Nice to hear from you Maverick - you seem to have been as quiet as me these last few weeks/months.
I'm still into the music, but the Thai political situation just seems same same to me.
I suppose there are things I could comment on, but cannot be bothered - however Hun Sen appointing Thaksin an Economic advisor nearly tempted me:)
No doubt things are happening, moving slowly towards the events Vichai outlined at his first comment here - it just seems like watching grass grow (to me).
Anyway lets hope that Vichai's optimism is justified, and in the meantime I'm going to draw inspiration from music (and special friends:)
All the best to you, and thanks for your kind words.
"love to you, hobby" - now, that's the proper attitude, which I like a lot ! :)
it pretty much corresponds with my own way of thinking lately.
Hobby, I've posted this as my comment on Terry's blog and here just wanted to invite your opinion on it (coz I'm not sure that you might read it soon or at all, being bored as you're lately ! :) )
the brief outline is :
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(many Thai) people are really waking up from their slumber of all this BS Propaganda ... and make a CONSCIOUS EFFORTS towards developing POSITIVE vibration frequencies...
this whole BS is just a huge SHOW (some call it a "holographic universe" or others call it "holographic internet") aimed to mislead and confuse the brainless sheeple ! ;)
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so, perhaps it may give you a bit more inspiration than just music and "special friends" (I hope these are not what I think they are - one of the central points in this documentary
Big trouble in tourist Thailand, "the darlings" :) - coz pursuit of their company and favors is addictive and inevitably leads to other stuff depicted there, as alcohol, drugs, all other sh1t - and trouble in the end ! ;) ).
cheers, peace and LOVE ! :)
BTW, here is a lovely Thai movie i want to recommend. Thailand is not just a place for that sort of stuff. there is beauty and memories here as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKCrksMjtZo&feature=PlayList&p=F05630D9FC79AF4D&index=6
AntiPADshist: I'm not into those 'darlings' nor Terrence McKenna type ingestive experiences - I'm just not that type of guy.
I personally think Krishnamurti was on to something - understanding how one's mind works, being attentive to it, then hopefully achieving a level of awareness (without concentration, or substances:)
Trouble is, I also think there will never be enough 'aware' people at the same time to make much difference in the world - that the problem as I see it - most are sheeple and whether or not there is a controller/illuminati or whatever, I think greed & self interest has its own inertia, and its virtually unstoppable.
Agree about the choises between the Bush's, Obama's, Thaksin's & Abhisit's of this world - what it all boils down to is people think they have a hcoice, but in reality they are only getting to choose between two branches of the one party (the big business party:)
I'm going to stick to getting moments of pleasure in a safe way (from music, my family/friends, and from one special friend in particular:)
I do however appreciate your prolific efforts to enlighten us, and awaken us from our sheeple slumber:)
Joy: That looks like an interesting movie (but I prefer my subtitles in English:)
I will try to watch it in full one day - I think I mentioned before that my favorite Thai movies (so far) were 'Citizen Dog', "Ai Fak' & 'Monrak Transistor'
i stayed up until 4 am watching this movie. reminds me of my childhood years so much!! . i know all those songs in the movie and i used to enjoy them when i was young. i think i share most of their experiences (at school, at home etc and the games they played). will try to find the one with Eng subtitle (i think the one i posted has Japanese subtitle).
But not sure if u will like the movie. It deal with chilhood them (they don't really idealize kids, the boys are quite cruel in fact although they seem to get better towards the end.) It's an old movie in fact maybe 8 years ago?
Judgement/ai fak is one of my favourite books too. It's very sad and moving. I read it a long time ago and it 's very impressive.
Hobby - always at your service !
I know that you're awake and aware, I didn't try to "awaken you from slumber" - merely to entertain a bit. :)
Joy, I didn't say that Thailand is "just a place for that sort of stuff". although these things also happen. my opinion about this series - that majority of cases shown there and people - are mostly because of their own fault and stupidity. they have to have basic understandings, like respect for other country's / peoples' culture and traditions, and of course be aware of laws. they can hardly blame someone else.
it was just a little bit interesting, coz it sort of provided Westerners another side of their idealistic dreamy fantasies about plans to go to Thailand to enjoy all those vices. that's how I se it - although some react to it as some sort of "smearing reputation" of Thailand.
as Hobby said, spot on - ultimately it is all about people's own nature which causes whatever events.
and interestingly, Hobby is not only the one who expressed such pessimism in humanity: one guy, american comedian George Carlin, quite seriously said that he gave up on humanity (and especially on his own fellow americans) as totally hopeless...
BTW Hobby - did you know that this singer guy Lou Reed recently has also gone into meditation and stuff, and even made one recent album - sort of ambient music "Hudson River Wind Meditations" ? that's quite a big turn from "substances", huh ;)
AniPADshist: Thanks for the comment & also the information about Lou Reed.
I watched the first episode of that 'reality' series some time back - agree that most of the 'victims' are there because of their own stupidity.
JJ the jet ski hire operator was quite a character - I wonder what has pappened to him since the initial controversy when the series first surfaced?
sorry Anti P: i was too quick in my response and too impulsive> now i see what u u mean.
i'm not that concerned abt the reputation of the country as a whole. I just want to voice my personal reflection of Thailand (as an individual) but i know i have been to hasty in judging things sometimes. sorry abt that
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