Finding the same things to reminisce about even across thousands of kilometres
Time travelling to Karachi
There is a house on top of a mountain in Tahiti – an island of French Polynesia located deep in the Pacific Ocean – where there is a wooden table and a jewellery box that have travelled across the Indian Ocean and through the Pacific, transcending boundaries and carrying stories of a Karachi that existed […]
Time spent well
December 8, 2016 We couldn’t have gotten out of Chiang Mai faster. As soon as we woke up this morning, we ran out of the strange smelling dorms where people have forgotten how to smile and somehow find it reasonable to be smoking next to a ‘No Smoking’ sign at 7am. The street down the […]
Big town, big disappointment
December 7, 2016 It was by chance that I picked up ‘Living in Chiang Mai’, a book written by a British expat on his family’s experience of settling down in Thailand, off the shelf at Asia Books in Bangkok last week. It is a refreshingly funny (sometimes offensive) account of this family’s second year in […]
Round and round in generation circles
December 6, 2016 The workshop today was scheduled for 1pm so we decided to take our time in the morning (which meant waking up at 7:30am instead of 7am). The plan was to visit Wat Rong Khun (White Temple) and then make our way to Doi Tung. Luckily, morning is the best time to visit […]
High up in the Golden Triangle
December 5, 2016 Gretchen wants us to reflect on resilience today. Today, resilience was waking up to four different kinds of dogs barking outside our window, a sore throat and an aching back (Baan Nukanong really needs to work on its definition of a mattress but we’re paying $8 a night so I really can’t […]
Mountains make us happy
December 4, 2016 We are in Chiang Rai now, a town in northern Thailand, close to the border with Myanmar and Laos. There are mountains on the horizon, the air is crisp – and it takes us a moment to realise it smells different is because it is actually fresh – and time seems to […]
Stuck in a limbo
December 3, 2016 *Names withheld due to privacy concerns Saturday promised a relaxing sunset in Pattaya but it turned out to be far from it. We were strolling around a weekend farmers’ market in Silom, hunting for coffee, fruits, bread and rice (or Breakfast of Champions as I’d like to think) when we heard from […]
Getting comfortable with ambiguity
December 2, 2016 Getting comfortable with ambiguity is what I am learning from Thailand. Yesterday no one wanted to say that the crown prince is taking oath. Today, the streets are lined with people congratulating each other on the new king. Either they just didn’t want to share with an outsider or the Thai people […]
Of princely visits and historic moments
December 1, 2016 Any day in which you see the crown prince of Thailand driving into The Grand Palace for the historic crowning ceremony is automatically a winning day. What a great start to All-In Thailand. It was one of those days where nothing concrete is set at the start but then the whole day […]