On a Saturday night, when I really should have been watching football, I noticed Vanalli and thai101 discussing the Bangkok floods on Twitter…
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How Flooded Is Bangkok?
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Staying Dry
I spent this past weekend in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Not to get away from the floods here in Bangkok though – I’d booked it long ago after seeing a cheap deal on Air Asia. Although Cambodia has also suffered badly from floods this year, its capital remains unaffected for now.
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Water, water, every where
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink
– The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You may have noticed that Thailand is suffering its worst floods in fifty years.
If not, click on the picture above or follow this link to see some very powerful photos from The Atlantic.
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Steve Jobs
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. #
–Steve Jobs
1955-2011
UK & Ireland 2011
I was just about packed, but the sole had been flapping off my trainer for a couple of days already. I still had half an hour before I had to leave for Bangkok airport, so I figured I had time to fix it.
I applied superglue to both surfaces, pressed them together, put the shoe on the floor, and realised that I’d superglued all the fingers of my right hand together.
And so it began.
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