Bird Songs to Entice Chinese Tourists

"Bird...will sing for the first time in Mandarin rendering..."   

Bird & Sek in Concert

   Thongchai "Bird" Mclntyre, a Thai superstar   China Daily

Increased Rain Chances by Midweek

Today: Same as yesterday, mostly sunny.
Weather systems are moving from the east, chance of rain increases daily.
Sun 20%, Mon 40%, Tue 50%, Wed 60%, thereafter 70%

The first system approaching us is   Tropical Depression twenty-one
 Tropical Storm Nesat,  now approaching the Philippines is plotted to head in a north-easterly direction into China.
Nesat means "fishermen/fishing/fishers" in Khmer

Carabao performs in Sakon Nakhon, October 4

Thai Song:  Music For Life

 

 Pictures: 2004 Sakon Nakhon Performance

Carabao at WIKIPEDIA 

Sakon FC 1 Udon FC 1

First half ended scoreless.
Sakon FC scored early in the second half and seemed to have control of the game.

Udon scored with only one minute left to play.

Final game of the season will be held Saturday, October 1, when Sakon FC hosts Kalasin

The sky is clear, the sun is shining: Let's have a parade

It's still officially the rainy season. Lately though, sunshine has demanded more time over clouds and rainfall.
Time to restock the sunscreen, check the sun umbrellas and brimmed hats.
No one told me in advance of this parade. Heard the drums and ran like hell up to I.T.U.

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 Thaksin lectures...  Sydney Morning Herald 

 Sugar Falls on Asia Output Gain, Slow Demand   BusinessWeek
  Coffee, Cocoa Fall

 No sugar imports from Thailand this year  Business World MANILA

Thai style dinner delicacy

 Fried Wasp Larvae 

There were two quite large wasp nests on the property adjacent to my house.
They haven't bothered me, so I haven't bothered them. Besides, they eat a lot of other insects.

Very simple way to harvest the nest. Wait till it rains.  Wasps generally won't fly in rain!
Knock the nest out of the tree... let it fall into the water. Leave submerged for a few minutes.

For the nest higher up the tree, the tree branch was cut with the same effect:   Nest falls into the water.

Two wasp nests with rice: dinner for a family of six.

Collecting the larvae from the honeycomb type nest is a time consuming process. 
The larvae sell for 1 baht (3 cent) each at the local market

Sakon Nakhon Fast Forward

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Sakon Nakhon Royal Longboat Races

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Wax Castle Festival

October 12 through 16, 2011 

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 Emergency Operation Center for Flood, Storm and Landslide 

Report dated Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Honey marinated garlic 

Had some the other day.  DELICIOUS.  Next day I immediately searched the net for a recipe.

Very simple.  Blanch garlic drop into honey.   

Wait from two months to seven years.   

It's like a fine wine, gains in maturity with age.

Bummer

Nothing but sunshine was forecast beginning October 1. 

Checked back two days later and found the update... rainy season continues.

Well !!  I never !!  

Waiting for a traffic light, I heard a truck ambulance siren.  

Generally ambulances tend to have to wait in line till the light changes.
Not this time:  Waiting vehicles inched out of the way  to let the emergency vehicle pass.  I think they are becoming more civilized.  Or was it because there where eight policemen standing at the intersection ?

Blacky is continuing to recover.  Still feels like skin and bones.  She eats regularly.
In fact if the dish is not served in time she sits down in the middle of the kitchen floor and smacks her lips.

Enough strength to jump up stairs.  But not enough to jump on the couch... YET !

Sakon FC loses "Water Follies" to Korat 0 - 1

More pictures at  110918 Sakon FC

It may have been billed as a football game, and there was some resemblance to the game, but with two to three inches of water in some areas, it was more a water folly.

Players frequently outran the ball, expecting it to bounce the distance, not expecting it to be "dead in the water" a distance away.

Sakon FC had plenty of close calls.  They were playing a lot better than in a previous game.
I'd venture to say, had it not been for the waterlogged field, the score could have been a lot different.

Plenty of slipping and sliding by both teams.
Drinking water had to be replenished as it was frequently used to wash the mud from players faces.

The loss drops Sakon FC to number eleven in the North Eastern league of division 2.
Sakon FC next travels to Udon Thani for a game this Saturday, starting at 4 p.m.

The crisis isn't over- but the prognosis is promising

Oh what a relief it is. A personal tragedy seems to have been averted.
One of my dogs, the female, Blacky, has been seriously ill for the past three weeks.
Physically she seemed fairly healthy and did not show any pain.  But she was eating little to nothing.
I thought it was most likely something stuck in her throat.  Possibly someone had given her a chicken bone.
The vet thought it was worms and gave her a series of shots.

After three weeks, the poor thing was just skin and bones and could not even climb the one step into the house.

Yesterday morning I had serious thoughts about 'putting her to sleep.'
I wonder if she sensed what I had contemplated.  At noon she started eating. And eating.
I was astonished,  I felt a tickling happy sensation.  Quite frankly I was overjoyed.
By evening she had regained enough energy that I no longer needed to assist her coming into the house.

The emotional discomfort I had been walking around with for the past three weeks vanished.
We shared a midnight snack, a bacon sandwich. She ate the bacon, I ate the sandwich.
When we were done eating she gate me that look: "Is that all there is?"

 Grandfather seeks justice  Bangkok Post

The grieving grandfather of a young boy allegedly shot dead after sneaking onto the property of a high-ranking Sakon Nakhon official to go fishing has come to seek Justice...
...the body of Anan (age 10) who had been shot four times...

 Rosewood trees in crisis   Bangkok Post

The forests under the most pressure are the Phu Luang wildlife reserve in Loei, Phu Payon and Phu Pan national parks in Sakon Nakhon as well as protected ...

 Thai Tiger Air plans scrapped

Thai Smile to start flying July 2012  Reuters

 Thailand Vietnam  Rice Summit  Bangkok Post

Price fixing
...raising export prices to more than US$800 a tonne from the present $550-560 a tonne...

 Ousted Thai leader embraces Cambodian PM  Voice of America

 

  Bargain Priced Breast Slapping lessons

a bargain at 8-million Thai baht ($263,504)
Do we really need this?  Isn't it a known fact that most body parts will swell (expand in size) when aggravated?