By the time you're reading this, I'll be somewhere I have yet to know of while writing this. I'm taking off for at about a month. Two countries, including this one. But I'm up for surprises. I've got loads of content set up for you already. But I'll get more. You'll get notes from me along my way. In the meantime... Enjoy....................................... Shabazz Palaces - Belhaven Meridian from WHAT MATTERS MOST on Vimeo. For notes from this trip, Thailand hotel reviews, travel information and tips, check out Backpacking Thailand, my free Thailand … [Read more...]
The Beauty Of Sickness. The Grandeur Of Silence.
One week of illness. The body's reaction to medication I had mistaken for an antihistamine. Eczema, perhaps psiriosis covered thighs made walking painful. The rubbing caused the affliction to spread, my thighs to bleed. My face. Back. Neck. Hands. Few places were spared. Then a fever of some genus arrived. Nineteen hours of sleep one night. A forgotten amount the next. And the next. Small pieces of verbal exchange during the week. Buying calamine and antihistamines early in the week. Answering my phone to inform someone I wasn't available. My nightly walk to the lobby to purchase that which I've been sustaining myself on since I … [Read more...]
Sex and Dating in Thailand (Including a Single White Girl Trying to Understand Her Place in It All)
I realized after my post Racism in Thailand - A Day in The Life of a White Woman in Buriram went live, that a peek into Thai public and private life between the sexes, as I know it, may be in order. It will give that piece, in addition to many of the pieces here on MBSB some context. When I speak of Thailand in the piece I'm currently writing you, it is the Thailand I know, the Thailand that is more culturally conservative from, my understanding of, the tourist areas and the culture presented by those Thai nationals who either are literate in a foreign, more specifically Western culture / language and those who have studied overseas. Perhaps when I speak of Thailand and Thai nationals in … [Read more...]
Racism in Thailand – a Day in the Life of a White Woman in Buriram
There is racism that is intended and there is the innocent racism that arises out of ignorance. Let me give you an example of the latter... Hmm....scratch that first draft. I'm conjuring numerous instances of racism I've faced in Thailand, most notably in Buriram, and with each instance that currently comes to mind, there is the ever pervasive thought....I don't know if that's innocent, but I do know it wasn't intended to harm, at least not overtly (in the way many of us Westerners have come to expect of racist remarks and/or actions). Rather, the intent was to remind me of my place. In the Thailand I know, someone in a position of esteem and/or power reminding someone … [Read more...]
KO’d At Sitmonchai
The intent was to make the seven plus hour trip to Sitmonchai Gym, Thamaka, Kanchanaburi to hook up with friends, write a review of the gym and pick up on Sitmonchai's style of delivering devastating punches and low kicks. Low kicks score minimal points in Thailand. As a result a number of gyms pay them little mind. For example, I had the habit of annoying a past trainer by delivering low kicks during our pad sessions. He kept telling me they were ugly. Not mine particularly, just in general. Sitmonchai fighters in contrast are known to utilize low kicks to disable their opponents by KO. Ironically, one sentence into this post and I received a text that … [Read more...]
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