What you can find....

...while you're strolling about Thailand on a cloudy Saturday afternoon.

Hopeful Bee

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "
Robert Green Ingersoll

Budding Pink

"Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of His unrivall'd pencil."
William Cowper

A door slammed in your face?

"...Where is God? ... go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence...I have been gradually coming to feel that the door is no longer shut and bolted. Was it my own frantic need that slammed it in my face? The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. On the other hand, "Knock and it shall be opened." But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?" (C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed)

Ofidio interesado en aprender ingles...

Post-mortem picture... Does anybody know what kind it is?
Foto post-mortem de la vibora que visito el departamento de ingles como segunda lengua (tercer piso!) .

ESL...English for Snake Learners

Have you ever had a bad day at work? Well, this week that day was Wednesday...all sorts of major and minor incidents...to top it all off, one of my colleagues phones me: "There's a snake outside my office door!"...and we're on the third floor. I guess the snake wasn't interested in making an office call because it slithered away gracefully to...the language lab...where it met it's fateful death beneath the heel of one of the students' shoes. "Teacher, you have to make sure you kill it, or it will come looking for you later!" one of my Thai students explained. Comforting thought.

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Flor tipicamente usada como ofrenda por los budistas

Clouds caressing hilltop

...captured while driving by the marigold field just outside campus...rainy season in Muak Lek.

Tree-pods?/Arbol de chauchas

I'm always amazed at how many trees in this tropical country produce pods...why?
De donde vienen las chauchas?? (del arbol de chauchas, of course :) )

Como dice mi mama

Viva la "enemistad entre la serpiente y la mujer"!...Una de nuestras tipicas viboras de todos los dias...a esta casi la piso caminando por la calle...y la semana pasada habia una cuatro veces mas grande que esta enroscada en mi sala....arghhhh!!!

La VipDoris :)

Que niivel, no??? Jaja... En el casamiento de una de las docentes de esta medianamente alta casa de estudios, me toco sentarme en la mesa del presidente (del colegio, of course)...ah, y no les conte que fui a cenar con el embajador argentino en Tailandia?....
Bueno, en realidad tambien habia otros 40 argentinos invitados a su residencia para una festichola del 25 de mayo....asado, tartas, vinos argentinos y unos postres riquisimos!! (Yo comi las tartas y postres solamente...imaginense una argentina vegetariana en un asado argentino en Tailandia....que desubicada! :) )

Chilli cotidiano

Lo que no puede faltar en la mesa thai, una salsita avinagrada con chilis\aji ultra-mala-palabra!!!

Y hablando de cosas raras...

Tipicos postres tailandeses...mayormente gelatinas de coco, arroz pegajoso dulce con mango, y lo de adelante, ni la menor idea!....
Thai desserts

Liquified roses

Bouquet de rosas photoshopeadas :)

Camino a mi t rabajo, disperse una nube de mariposas....aqui unas poquitas que se animaron a permanecer inmutables