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* * * * * * * * * * Headlines Happy Birthday to Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn! Annular Eclipse of the Sun Sunday, April 8, 2005 Al-Jazeera News Reports Welcome Reigning-in of Religious Police in Malaysia Malaysia in the News Again: Seeking Reform in Burma Another Plea for Tourists to Return to the Deep South 8.7 Magnitude Earthquake Has Minimal Effect on Thailand Starlite Bar in Queen's Park Plaza Has Name Change Privacy Concerns Over Proposed New U.S. Passport The Office Bar & Grill Sports Broadcast Schedule Interesting History of Mainland China Friction within the Ruling Coalition More Barbaric Behavior in the Middle East Controversy over U.S. Military Pay Street Festival This Weekend in Banglampu Area Party Night at The Office Bar & Grill A Couple Perhaps Useful U.S.-Specific Legal Sites * * * * * * * * * *
Happy Birthday to Her
Royal
The greatly loved and deeply admired Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn celebrates her 50th birthday next Saturday, April 2, 2005. Princess Maha is very active in various civic affairs, affairs to which she has selflessly devoted her life. An excellent brief biography of Her Royal Highness is online, along with a link to a considerably more detailed one. Princess Maha attracts much well-deserved praise for her devotion to the people of Thailand. Her Royal Highness is an extraordinary lady by any standard, and a tremendous credit to the Royal Family. She is well qualified to help the people of Thailand with her advanced education, extensive experience, and wide international travel to numerous countries around the world. I join my Thai friends and hosts in wishing Her Royal Highness Maha Chakri Sirindorn the happiest of birthdays and many, many returns. [Saturday, March 26, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Annular Eclipse of the Sun Sunday, April 8, 2005 Before I even tell you about the upcoming eclipse, I want to stress that protecting your eyes looking at any solar eclipse other than one of complete totality is critical -- the intensity of the sunlight can easily damage a person's vision. That said, next Sunday will see a solar eclipse visible in areas from between Australia and New Zealand south to a part of the Antarctic east and northeast across the Pacific into portions of the Americas. This eclipse will be a special type of partial solar eclipse (increasing the need for vigilance regarding eye protection). The distance of the Moon from Earth varies by well over 10% -- and its apparent size varies the same amount. This phenomenon results from the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. When the Moon is further away from Earth, its disk is slightly smaller than the Sun's. Observers in the best viewing locations will see the Moon pass in front of the Sun; at maximum, a "ring of fire" will surround the Moon's disk. When the Moon is closer to Earth, it completely covers the Sun. Next Sunday's solar eclipse is the former type, a type called an annular eclipse. Observers not in the best viewing locations may be able to observe a partial eclipse, i.e., the Moon's disk will cover a portion of the Sun. A good reference for beginners is Fred Espenak's Solar Eclipses for Beginners page on his excellent Mr. Eclipse web site. If you plan to take a look, please read Espanak's discussion of eye protection on the NASA/Goddard Space Center page devoted to the subject. We're out of luck in this part of the world for quite awhile to come, at least as far as eclipses go, both solar and lunar. Sigh . . . [Saturday, March 26, 2005] * * * * * * * * * *
Al-Jazeera News Reports Welcome The CNN/BBC/Fox News of the Islamic world, the respected Al-Jazeera News Network, is reporting that civil authorities in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur are yanking in the reigns of the Islamic morality police. The thinking is they are over the top in enforcing Islamic morality laws against Muslims in the country. This is indeed good news given that Malaysia, despite its spectacular development over the past several decades, is hardly regarded as a bastion of civil liberties. The story is headlined "Malaysia restrains religious police." It would be nice if nations such as Saudi Arabia followed suit. A friend of mine here says he lived in Saudi Arabia back in the 1980's in a smallish town and was eating lunch in a restaurant just off the town's sole square when the religious police there came in and rounded everyone up to make them go witness a double execution, carried out in the traditional style of beheading by scimitar. For whatever reason this may have been the case, my friend says he was forced to stand at the forefront of the assemblage, and got sprayed with blood. He quit his most excellent job and left the Middle East -- forever. Malaysia has been far more constrained than that, to the nation's credit. This current move is to be applauded -- and that comes from someone who never had much use for former Prime Minister Mahathir. [Saturday, March 26, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Malaysia in the News Again: Seeking Reform in Burma In a story headlined "KL ups the ante on Rangoon" today's edition of the Bangkok Post has a report that the government of Malaysia is making moves to bar Burma from assuming the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) next year. Many feel Burma never should have been admitted to this important regional grouping in the first place, and hindsight tends to support that argument. It is demonstrably true that the thugs forming the dictatorship in Rangoon have made absolutely zero effort to reform. Those thugs continue to ignore the results of the "fair and free election" they themselves organized years ago (elections in which they were roundly defeated) and to refuse to release Nobel Prize winner and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest -- The Lady in Waiting (to borrow Christopher G. Moore's term) who should have ascended to the role of national leader as a result of that thwarted and ignored election. This being Asia, consensus-building is crucial. Even so, Rangoon has shown no disposition towards doing anything other than perpetuating the current junta's power. From a different angle, this *is* encouraging news about Malaysia. It is assuming a mantle of moral leadership, a leadership shown in the release of political activist and former heir-apparent Anwar to then-Prime Minister Mahathir by the current government from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges that were glaringly and obviously trumped up. This move from Kuala Lumpur comes at the instigation of MP's from the ruling party, a move the Bangkok Post story says was taken with "the tacit support of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi." It is to be hoped that other members of ASEAN will give careful consideration to the Malaysian MP's intentions. Thailand has a special situation regarding Burma, given the long land and maritime borders between the 2 nations; the leaders here will perhaps have to take a particularly cautious approach, as was implied by the reaction of newly installed Foreign Minister Kantathi Supamongkhon: he said Thailand is firmly against Burma losing its chance to lead Asean. FM Kantathi's comments are quite understandable. Still, I hope ASEAN member governments will pause and reflect. [Sunday, March 27, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Another Plea for Tourists to Return to the Deep South My broken record is still broken. The suffering souls in the Deep South, ravaged in places -- but not everywhere -- by the tsunami last December 26th are largely dependent on the tourism trade. Even places damaged or destroyed by the tsunami have largely returned to operating normally, yet few tourists are visiting the area. Today's Bangkok Post has a good story on the problem, the story focusing on Patong Beach in Phuket, under the headline "FAR FROM NORMAL: Phuket looks like its old self, but businesses are still struggling." I reported last week that my cousin and a friend of his are returning to the southern resort Phuket for diving, and I'm glad they are. With perhaps as many as 300,000 dead regionally, it was indeed a disaster of epic proportions. Yet Thailand was considerably less affected than some other nations on the east side of the Indian Ocean were, especially Indonesia. And while I'm sorry for Indonesia that the people there suffered so terribly, I am at the same time grateful the Kingdom of Thailand escaped as lightly as it did. If "lightly" is the correct word when we're talking loss of human life and enormous economic decimation. Are there other worthy destinations similar to Phuket, Krabi, etc. in this part of the world? Of course there are; Bali springs immediately to mind, as do places in the Philippines. But those places are suffering, too. True, in the cases of Indonesia and the Philippines there are other concerns, especially sectarian violence, but Thailand's main difficulty is fear tourists feel. One can educate oneself easily enough on what to watch for when visiting any seaside area; the sea is silent, but speaks volumes. Sure would be nice to hear that airlines are laying on extra flights to the Deep South to handle the increased passenger loads! [Sunday, March 27, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Aficionados of classic cars who live in Thailand will want to know about this organization. I've never heard of this club until today. A friend reported the club has an exhibition of 2 classic Thunderbirds at The Emporium through next Thursday, too late for me to announce the show here, so I put it on the home page of this web site. The Thai Classic Car Club web site doesn't contain the schedule of events for the rest of the year; I have a dead-tree copy before me as I write. The next event will be at Seacon Square April 21-24, 2005. The telephone/fax number 02-203-1119 [from outside Thailand, (+66) (+2) 203-1119], and the e-mail address is thaiclassiccar@yahoo.com. I assume -- but don't know for sure -- you can get a schedule from one of those sources; the web site lacks the information I'm reading. Unfortunately, some pages are only in Thai, including the membership information page, so I have no idea what becoming a member entails. The son of my friend has a Lotus web site you may also want to visit at http://www.lotusclassicparts.com. I hope you car nuts love having this information, if you didn't have it already! [Sunday, March 27, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * I received an e-mail from a good friend down in Krabi yesterday describing finding a cobra in his house. The tale speaks for itself:
Last night was a tough one at the
old homestead. Karen my daughter and a Poetic justice rules! Thailand has many poisonous snakes. I've heard there are over 100 different types of such snakes, though I don't know that for a fact. I do know there are enough around that on the rare occasion I've seen a snake here in the middle of Bangkok, I've given it a respectful, wide berth. The writer of the above e-mail told me in a follow-up that snakes most commonly enter a building during the day, a time doors are often left open. I don't mean to give the impression that snakes are everywhere. While they are found in all parts of the Kingdom, many want nothing more than to go the other way. Good advice for us, too! [Monday, March 28, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * 8.7 Magnitude Earthquake Has Minimal Effect on Thailand The large earthquake that struck west of Indonesia's Sumatra Island had minimal effect on Thailand, though there was some panic in the Deep South, where the earthquake was felt. Press reports say it also was felt high up in tall buildings here in Bangkok. I was still out -- at ground level -- when the earthquake struck, but I didn't even know about it until this morning (Tuesday morning) about 7:00 A.M., when I saw reports about it on CNN. I went to the Yahoo! web site to read any story there, and there indeed was one. For that matter, there are countless stories all over the Internet. Initially estimated to be magnitude 8.2, the earthquake is now said to have been 8.7 and to have lasted about 2 minutes. Confirmed deaths in Indonesia number in the region of 300, though CNN is reporting a senior Indonesian official is saying the toll could reach as high as 2,000. Though the earthquake did spark panic in the Deep South, it's important to note that the epicenter was on the far side of Sumatra Island relative to the Malay Peninsula. It also is relevant to note that experts are saying it appears the majority of the energy released dispersed to the quadrant south and west of the epicenter -- away from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and nations ringing the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, no tsunamis have been reported, at least not on the scale of those that devastated the region last December. The largest "tsunami" reported was about 25 centimeters (a bit under 10 inches) high, hardly a disaster. At least 2 strong aftershocks were felt. There is a handy distance calculator if you want to determine the distance between 2 points. To determine your latitude and longitude you can use the resources listed here. [Tuesday, March 29, 2005] Late news: The devastation caused on Indonesia's Nias Island is reportedly considerably worse than first believed, though the death toll, now at about 600, has not reached the heights first feared. The national government of Indonesia has rushed aid to the affected area, and Australia is helping out, standing by ready to increase its level of assistance if needed. Prayers and best wishes to the unfortunate Indonesians (and perhaps others) affected by this latest quake. [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Starlite Bar in Queen's Park Plaza Has Name Change The new owner of Starlite Bar is changing the name to Flaming Mores, the the neon sign is still the one with Starlite on it. This is a nice, cozy bar about halfway back on the sidewalk. Enclosed and with air-conditioning, it has a pool table -- play for free -- and a television. There also are numerous music CD's customers can ask to be played. Drop by and visit! [Wednesday, March 30, 2005] Privacy Concerns Over Proposed New U.S. Passport I got an e-mail telling me the U.S. Department of State is working on a plan to make "smart" passports by the end of this year, passports with radio chips containing the holder's personal information that can be read, according to some sources, up to 400 feet away with relatively inexpensive devices. The concerns aren't about the State Department's staff reading the information, but about various criminals, including terrorists doing so. Being able to intercept the information on the chip would enable, say, a terrorist to identify an American as such and targeting him or her. Another scenario could be a burglar loitering in an airport and intercepting one's address, then going to one's home to check it out as a possible burglary target. Protection apparently isn't all that difficult. Metal shielding blocks the radio signal from leaving the passport. As for reading machines at Immigration Control, a metal screen around the device is said to block anyone nearby from receiving the information surreptitiously. While the proposal hasn't been finalized, if the story is true -- and it has been widely reported in respected news sources -- if security precautions aren't included (such as encrypting the data in the device), then this is indeed a bad idea. The State Department is reportedly accepting public input through Monday, April 4, 2005 up to 5:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. One site detailing the proposal that is opposed to the plan has a comments page. The technology is called "Radio Frequency IDentification," and the site is called "http://RFIDkills.com" if you would like to read about this and/or comment. (Apparently any comment is routed directly to the State Department.) My take? -- I support the fundamental idea -- but with privacy being the primary concern. [Wednesday, March 30, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * A friend showed me a wonderful resource he has long talked about today: Map Magic's map of Bangkok. This is, in short, by far the best map of the City of Angels I've ever seen. This map is produced by the folks at Thinknet (and who also produce maps of the Kingdom). Their maps of the Kingdom include zoomable maps of over 140 cities around the nation. The Bangkok map is multiple magnification levels; at the closest, it zeros in on about a kilometer or so (probably a bit less). At the widest view, it reaches all the way to the Gulf of Thailand. It includes numerous public buildings, parks, zoos, hospitals, government offices, even car dealerships -- and more. Now for the best part: you can customize it. I immediately added in a number of the bars in Washington Square. And you can print it -- at 3 different scales. If you have friends, relatives, or colleagues coming who aren't familiar with the city, you can e-mail a map to them. I've long heard of this map but never seen it until today. And boy oh boy, am I ever impressed. I spent about 2 hours playing with it, partly to dig for errors. But I found only 2: the drive from Washington Square to Sukhumvit Road isn't shown, and at one magnification level the Tops Supermarket on the corner of Sukhumvit Road and Sukhumvit Soi 41 is slightly misplaced -- but not at other magnification levels. The map also shows the complete Skytrain and subway systems, including the stations and their names. In pan mode, the map provides latitude and longitude -- to 5 decimal points. That's accurate to within less than about 1.1 meters (in Bangkok). This product is useful for our Thai hosts as well -- switching between English and Thai is as simple as a mouse click. The company's wed site list many places where the map is available. My friend bought his copy at a bookstore in The Emporium for an amazingly cheap 199 baht. And that despite the cover price being listed as 750 baht. There are numerous other maps with specialized purposes that do what they are meant to do equally well -- the various excellent Groovy Maps come readily to mind -- but none I've ever seen approach Map Magic's for plain getting around. Executives can benefit from these maps from Map Magic, given their ability to be customized. For example, branch offices could be shown. [Wednesday, March 30, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * The Office Bar & Grill Sports Broadcast Schedule
Here's this week's sports
television broadcast schedule at The Office Bar and Grill: [Thursday, March 31, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Vonage Corporation is a company in the U.S. offering not only good telephone rates within the U.S. and Canada but also to other countries. Having been abroad as long as I have, I'm not aware of average rates to call Thailand from the U.S. and Canada, but the 8 cents a minute to call Bangkok and 12 cents a minute to call other places in the Kingdom sound good to me. To use the service, one has to have either a broadband or DSL Internet connection. There are several personal and business plans available. The premium personal service costs US$24.99 per month for unlimited calling within the U.S. and Canada. People living north of the Rio Grande may be interested in investigating this service. [Thursday, March 31, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Interesting History of Mainland China We from the West don't always fully appreciate the history of The Orient. There is a superb travel piece in today's Bangkok Post about the history of China headlined "Cradle of civilisation." Actually, if the archeologists have it right, that's a bit of a stretch. Those folks claim farming originated elsewhere. But that said, that China had an early and glorious civilization is beyond dispute. Take The Forbidden City, for example -- or, as contemporary Chinese call it, "The Palace Museum." The complex has 9,000 or so rooms. It's upwards of a kilometer between the front and back entrances. Then there's The Great Wall of China. Despite claims to the contrary, it is not visible from even near-Earth orbit, but at sunrise or sunset the shadow of it is. And did you know there are pyramids older than those in Egypt located in northwestern China, pyramids built by the rather mysterious Xia dynasty? The Chinese pyramids aren't nearly as grand as those at Giza, but they're there. (I sort of like the Xia Dynasty; the name "Xia" is my surname in Chinese. My 2 favorite ways of translating my Chinese name (there are about 200) are "China Bright China" and "Summer Heaven China." [My Chinese name is Xia Tian Hua, in case anyone gives a hoot.] The Bangkok Post has outdone itself with a most excellent story. Why don't you take a look? [Thursday, March 31, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Friction within the Ruling Coalition There are worrisome fractures in the ruling coalition government, if press reports are to be believed. In a story headlined "Factional anger boils as Thaksin refuses to go to Sanoh's birthday bash" in the Bangkok Post and in another story in The Nation headlined "FACTIONAL SPAT: Thaksin shrugs off Snoh’s new politics centre" it has been reported that members of the powerful Wang Nam Yen faction in the majority Thai Rak Thai party are displeased the Prime Minister has chosen not to go to faction leader Khun Snoh's birthday bash Friday. This may not seem important to an outside observer, but it is; Snoh leads a very powerful faction within the party; the faction he heads has considerable influence on governmental policies. For foreigners, this shouldn't become an issue -- but one never knows; if an issue involving foreigners were to arise, there could be effects. Stay tuned. [Thursday, March 31, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * More Barbaric Behavior in the Middle East It appears there are still stupids in the Middle East who think they impress people by picking on innocent civilians. Press reports indicate several Romanians and possibly one American have been kidnapped; those reports are based on a video aired by the respected Al-Jazeera network. In an online text story headlined "US citizen among seized journalists," it's reported several Romanian journalists and an American have been kidnapped in Iraq. Those intolerants killed my friend. I'll never forgive them. [Thursday, March 31, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Controversy over U.S. Military Pay There's a persistent rumor circulating on the Internet I'd like to address. Actress Cindy Williams of the 1970's Laverne and Shirley television series fame has been wrongly credited with penning an op-ed piece for The Washington Post in 2000 critical of a proposed military pay increase. The Cindy Williams who wrote the piece was in fact a national security expert, not the actress. The actual original article elicited a cogent and elegant response from a U.S. Air Force airman; you can read the text of his response here. Sometime after the original op-ed piece appeared it got mistakenly attributed to the actress (causing her considerable grief). You can read the original piece from January 12, 2000 headlined "Our GIs Earn Enough" for yourself. Various respected debunking web sites have addressed this rumor. Here are some sources:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/gipay.asp As a side note, I find it interesting I was unable to locate the piece on the web site of The Washington Post (not "The Washington Times," as stated in the Internet rumor). [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Street Festival This Weekend in Banglampu Area The Nation newspaper is reporting in today's edition in a story headlined "Culture on the street" that there is a street festival celebrating Thai culture today through Sunday. The event is a joint one of the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's 50th birthday, which I wrote about last Saturday in this edition's lead story. Several streets will be closed for the celebration, which has a particular focus on preserving the Kingdom's rich cultural heritage. If the weather cooperates, this should be a great event. [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * I've just learned that starting in late February a weekly musical performance has been taking place in Lumpini Park's Palm Garden every Sunday 5:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M. The performances continue through April 24, 2005. There's a good description of the event on the web site of The Public Relations Department in The Office of the Prime Minister under the heading "Music in the Park." (You'll need to scroll down to see the story.) Lumpini Park is easy to reach via the Bangkok Subway, as it's directly on the system's route. You can see a good map of the subway and Skytrain routes. The map even has Lumpini Park prominently marked. Since the subway and Skytrain routes intersect, it's also easy to use the Skytrain to get to a junction with the subway route. If you're a music fan, you might want to check this out. [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Today is April Fool's Day, a light-hearted holiday of silliness and pranks apparently dating back to late 16th-century France. It seems the holiday arose in conjunction with New Year's on the Julian calendar; you can read a brief history of April Fool's Day at the family/Christian-themed web site Wilstar. While it's true today is a day of silliness, many people enjoy it, pulling pranks on one another. I know I especially enjoyed it when I was a child. The Associated Press has a nice feature, "Today in History." See historical events that happened in years past on April Fool's day. If you're young-at-heart, then have fun and enjoy the day! [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Party Night at The Office Bar & Grill Had an e-mail this morning from Bob and Sam, the affable owners of this popular venue, telling me tonight is Party Night there. This is always a fun place to go, and you're doubly in luck if you're a fan of Australian rugby and AFL, as there are broadcasts this afternoon of 3 matches -- and for the party, there will be free food. Heck, with free food, it's well worth a visit if you've never been there. It's located just off Sukhumvit Soi 33 in the driveway on the east side of the soi (your right if you're coming from Sukhumvit Road or your left if you're coming from the Green Route) immediately beside Degas Club. Tell them Mekhong Kurt sent you! [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * A Couple Perhaps Useful U.S.-Specific Legal Sites For reasons I'll get to in a minute, I've just found 2 possibly useful law web sites that are U.S. specific. The first is U.S. Legal Forms, a site where it is claimed there are 36,000 downloadable legal forms, such as a living will. It also has extensive links to related sites. The second is the Find Law web site, where there is extensive information, news coverage, and links to related sites. Considering what a mundane life I live, you probably wonder why in the world I did some researching. That's easy to answer. This morning I ran across an Asia-oriented web site, and the home page looked pretty good. I clicked a link there, and was sent to a web page ostensibly put up by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation advising the owner of the site had been arrested over intellectual property rights violations and he and members of his site sued for those violations, at the behest of the Recording Industry of America. It added my IP address had been recorded, and said I would be contacted in coming days. After extensive research on the Internet, I'm inclined to believe the page is some sort of hoax; it was while doing that research I ran across the 2 sites I mentioned above. One reason I suspect the page to be bogus is the logo and typography on it are greatly different from what in on what I know the be the genuine FBI home page. I called the FBI here in Bangkok; the lady there said she had never heard of such a page. I explained my twin concerns, one if it's legitimate the other if it's not, and she agreed I was correct in my concerns and then asked me to send as much information as I could (which was far more than I've written here). I hope I hear back from the agent to whom I e-mailed the information so I can let you know what this is all about. [Friday, April 1, 2005] * * * * * * * * * * Enough for one go . . . Until next time -- Mekhong Kurt * * * * * * * * * * E-mail Change Notification Sign-up Sign-up here for e-mail notification when I add or change something on the site. Just go to the sign-up page. * * * * * * * * * * Where Is *Your* Name??? 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