You won’t believe it but I am going to Art Lessons here in Thailand. I had read about an art exhibition of Impressionist Paintings and Watercolour in the local paper. By the time I got around to visiting it the actual exhibition was over,but one morning a friend and I drove over to see what [...]
A lot of water has flown down the Chao Phraya since I last wrote a post.It doesn’t mean that I didn’t think about writing but I was experiencing so many different things,meeting interesting people and feeling a little like a Thai. No news is good news. With the help of new friends I was lucky [...]
As I wrote after my last journey to Thailand, I am not a fan of travel guide books. Although they can be helpful I find most of them too subjective and prefer to rely on a good map,information desks, history books and the wonderfully dangerous way of learning by doing. Prior to my departure from [...]
Probably it is a trait found more in woman. Inquisitiveness. But then you could say it’s because we are just more interested in certain things. Standing in line at the Supermarket for instance. I don’t know about you, but I always look at what everybody else has in their trolley,and in the few seconds it [...]
The second lesson of Olympic Chinese is easy too. I hope you managed to remember the first. hao (how)——- good zao shang hao (zow shang how)——–good morning ni hao ma? (ni how ma)——–how are you So if like me you have only managed to keep the word hao in your head,you are almost there. As [...]
German author,Political Scientist, and China expert,Wolfgang Hirn isn’t sure that China deserves the miserable reputation that it has in the west. His two books “The Chinese Challenge” (Herausforderung China) and “Asian Attack” (Angriff aus Asien),published by Fischer, make interesting reading. China is gigantic,China is suspiciously, “foreign”,and then there are all these 1.3 Billion people. China will become,next to [...]
Sue Tilley is the name of the lady,and she has just been sold for 33 Million Dollars. Lucian Freud painted her in eight hourly sessions , three times a week over nine monthes. He called his painting “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” She earned about 40 Dollars a time,and is now famous. Lucian Freud is one of [...]
Were you around in 1968? I was, and it is one of the few things that make life today tolerable. The fact that I lived through the years that moved history. 40 years ago today on the 3rd of May 1968,students of the Sorbonne University in Paris occupied the building.It was the beginning of events [...]
