Football players must be qualified for extra duty...

Typical Thailand Advance Notice

We are having a special football session, can you come and take some photographs?

When?

Oh, we already started!

Football players must be qualified for extra duty as cattle herders

 

Special Buses leaving for Bangkok Seen On local Cable News 

Think it somewhat exposes  the country's dilemma.  For decent wages you have to move to the big city.

Don't just stand there

It's not science fiction anymore

Ain't big enough for two of each species

'Noah's Ark' found, evangelical group claims' 

This one was way overdue

• Boy Scouts of America introduce Video Game Merit Badge 

Variety

SakonNakhon Moments   video by iambiekub

BLAST from the PAST

***** I'd Rather...  *****

What happened to BAZ

Unrest in Thailand Boston.com

Compelling Photography

No political gathering tonight

I'd heard there had been a number of political gatherings here in Sakon Nakhon over the past ten days.
Estimates were one and two thousand people.
So I took a look at the provincial headquarters complex myself this evening.
No political gathering tonight.  Instead the place was a bustling market, more like a flea market.
The only police action I saw was two police officers guiding a driver from his parking space on the sidewalk.

Based on hotel occupancy, SakonNakhon tourism is down 20%. ryt9.
Not as bad as Thailand's overall 40% drop in tourism.
SakonNakhon has more domestic and Asian tourism than other foreign tourism.

T.i.T. Bits Plus

A slice of Thai rural Life: Songkran celebrations

Nonprofit  Activism

Another version of life inside the Bangkok Red Zone

Make sure to read the article, then scroll down to the Facebook picture links
Teak Door

UK extends warning against traveling to Thailand  
Telegraph

Brain Washing Technique Could Reduce Disability In Newborn Babies

News Sky News

Makes you want to order seafood: Washed up whale found with gallons of our garbage in its gut

treehugger

Erotica for the blind

thestar

Brain Exercises Don't Improve Cognition  
time.com

Thai Cabaret in Japan

There's a bit of Albion in Na Kae.

British folk will know this, but I had to look it up.
Albion is the oldest known  (Greek) name of Great Britain.
Thought to derive from the white cliffs of Dover

Na Kae is 50 km from Sakon Nakhon on highway 223 on the way to That Phanom.

SakonNakhon Job Anouncement

Thatnaraiwittaya School in Sakon Nakhon is looking for qualified English teachers.

Salary at least 30,000 baht/month+rental+extend visa and work permit

Slow News Day - Home and Garden

SakonNakon Radio Control Airshow

It was around 2:30 when I arrived at the R.C  field.

Still too early for the main event. Think they were doing qualifying flights.

It was a regional gathering, RC pilots from all over Isaan.

These pilots were allowed pre-flight boozing.  

Don't know if it was a language problem or just booze.  

I wanted a picture of the back of his T-shirt.  

Every time we got him to turn around, he kept bending over, like I should take a picture of his rear bumper.  

Took a while, but I got the picture I wanted.

RC piloting is a father and son activity

Trophies and placards were awarded later in the day:  Notice the Smiles of Thailand

Here's a behind the scenes picture of the trophies and placards, or is that the pilot lounge?
Smiles medicine.

 

SakonNakhon FC Happy Moments

Pictures by Joey

A Broad after my own heart

Thailand Tourism as I hear it

SakonNakhon FC takes a Whupping

 

 
Attendance to the game was impressive. 
Not quite a full house, but pretty close.
That's it for the good news. 

By half time SakonNakhon FC was down by one goal. 

Hopes were still high until the second half was underway.

By the second goal a few spectators started to leave.

  With the third goal, spectators where leaving like mice on a sinking ship.

By the fourth goal... the ship was definitely sinking

Of course there was a momentary exuberance when Sakon Nakhon finally scored.

Nobody home

  The SakonNakhon Goal keeper was almost at midfield, 

when Nakhon Ratchasima FC inflicted it's final goal. 

During most of  Nakhon Ratchasima goals, SakonNakhon players seemed to be at the other half of the field.

They'll be scratching their heads about this game.  

Undoubtedly the fan base will shrink drastically because of this defeat.

The Best Hand Job

see Guido Daniele you won't regret it

 

 

reproduced with permission Guido Daniele Images

Progress at SakonNakhon City Hall construction

It's been a year since I blogged about the demolishing of SakonNakhon City Hall to make room for a new complex.

It will be another year before the new SakonNakhon City Hall is completed.

Meanwhile work is progressing, a few more floors to go

There seems to be a construction Boom in the city, even in my neighborhood

It ain't no more

Recently mentioned (April 19), a website by Cal State Northridge economics professor, Kenneth Ng, promoting "a wide range of Thailand tourist advice, with a main focus on sex:"

The website has been taken down because "it tarnished the university image."
The official Press version at dailynews
Or was it censorship