Today is the five year anniversary of my move to Bangkok! That's right, August 1, 2002 was my first full day of my new Thai life. It's hard to believe that my life has turned out this way. And it's hard to believe that the one place I have dug the deepest roots is on the other side of the world from where I was born.
Here's hoping that the next five years, where ever they are spent, will be as wonderful as the last five.
Good Job Stuart! Life is too live. Look at all the interesting things and places you have spent time at. I think it is wonderful!
Kristy
Happy anniversary!
Well done Stuart. And haven't the five years flown!
here's to the next (twenty)-five...
Here's my belated congratulations: Congratulations on the big five. My five mark was back in February, though I did have a four month spurt-visit to the homeland in 2003, though accumulatively (is that a word?) now I'm still over five...
I finally gave in and decided to implement PHP based blogging software for one of my journals (in link above) though I was reluctant to give up the static html habbits at first, though I think it's serving me better in the long run..
btw, your its4thai beta looked good, haven't really got a chance to fully embrace it, but should be great for the new generations of learners, my biggest thai gurus now are literature texts and newspapers still of course, which for the most part, should keep me confused for at least another five years.
Cheers,
cheers,
From an 83 year old who lived in Bangkok during the 60's: Thank you for your journal! I have been able to keep up with all of the changes and there are soooo many, since my departure. As you make your trips outside Bangkok, I am able to accompany you and see and read the changes. When I visited Chiang Mai the first hotel was being built and they sent hot water up to our window in a bucket. There were only cottage industries and I still have on my wall a carving that was the apex of a teak-wood temple. They were tearing down all of those wonderful old temples to build plaster temples like those in Bangkok. I found my carving leaning against the wall of a cottage where they were making repos of Burmese antiques.
I paid 52.00 for it and the owner included shipment by train to Bangkok. Oh, the wonderful memories I have of that simpler time in Thailand.