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Sunday , May 11 , 2008
Burmese editor: second attack looms large in Burma
Posted by monnita_ta , Reader : 1517 , 23:12:25   | Category : surroundings  
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A second wave of attack will hit Burma soon. This time, it is not a cyclone,  but outbreak of diseases. Aung Zaw, editor of Irrawaddy magazine, warned that Burma may not avoid the second attack unless the junta government has opened up the country for international aid."Kids die every hour because they have lost their parents from the disaster. We keep hearing reports that children who survive f....


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Wednesday , January 23 , 2008
blooming "yellow" flowers
Posted by monnita_ta , Reader : 1340 , 23:32:29   | Category : surroundings  
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Have you ever eaten a marigold? I wonder how it feels to eat a raw flower. Seeing bright marigolds remind me of an Indian film, Monsoon Wedding in which a wedding organiser, Dubey, keeps eating marigolds. So does, Alice, his girlfriend, in the movie. They share this bizarre habit of eating marigolds. Is it really bizarre?  Anyway, they look incredibly edible, don't they? marigoldNot only marigolds wh....


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Thursday , December 27 , 2007
"speaking trees" from Wat Pra Singh
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I am afraid that I may not have time to update my blog before and during the new year celebrations. So, I would like to wish you all here. Happy New Year 2008... I visited Wat Pra Singh in Chiang Mai the last weekend. It has become my ritual to visit temples when my friends come to the province. Wat Pra Singh is one of the 'must see' temples in Chiang Mai. I am very impressed by the architecture of t....


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Friday , December 14 , 2007
Blooming flowers at Mae Fah Luang Garden
Posted by monnita_ta , Reader : 3479 , 20:22:17   | Category : travel   surroundings  
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The long weekend last week was actually rather hot in Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand. It was much warmer that I could ever imagine as I heard so much how Chiang Rai was so cold before I arrived. The week before, it was reported that the temperature was lower than 10 celcius degree. So, I did not have to use my warm jacket as I had planned.Visiting the Mae Fae Luang Garden on Doi Tu....


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Saturday , November 24 , 2007
'Melting Ice' in Chiang Mai
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Global warming, climate change, greenhouse effect, you name it, are topical at the  moment. Thanks Al Gore, the 'ex-future' president of the United States, for the documentary 'an inconvenient truth', people are woken up to environmental problems. Students from Fine Arts Department from Chiang Mai university have demonstrated their art project 'live' of breaking up the ice, which is an  'ice breaking....


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