We're Floating Away

UPDATE FROM TRANG:

It's been raining crazily down here in Trang, far south Thailand.

My town is a river. I can't get to the stadium or the Tesco supermarket. To
go down there and see the town divided is surreal. Tsunami 2.

Rubber plantations are lakes. The roads are under water. Yesterday it
stopped raining for a few good hours. I watched the Thais wash their
motorbikes in the new lakes.

Chickens, dogs, cats and cattle are looking for high ground. This is serious
stuff. It teaches me self preservation and self sufficiency.

It feels like its been raining for the last 4 weeks non stop. Except for one
or two days. And then last night and today, the rain just keeps on coming.

Now I'm learning all the Thai words related to flooding. :-)

No problems where I live, as my home is up high. But, the more the rain
comes, the more the waters rise, and more and more people will be finding
alternative accommodation.

How can I help I wonder.

Gotta go.

"There are no hopeless situations;
there are only people who
have grown hopeless about them."

Clare Boothe Luce
1902-1987, American Diplomat and Writer

Martin

Trang - Intro!

Dear friend,

I'm sending this by email. To you. I've never done it before so I don't know
how it will turn out, if it will look ok (what about the formatting?) and
all those questions we have. But...

"There's no point in going into a business
        unless you shake up the whole industry."

                                -- Sir Richard Branson

You read that right.

Anyway, right now let's find out if this 'experiment' works... If so, it
will be good... Because I use email often, it's the big fella of
communication in the little big world of the 'net.

Now, the white ape.

It's just another way to describe me. I'm not really an ape, but maybe you
might think so. I'm actually an artist who resides far south Thailand in a
little rubber rich town called Trang. Trang is about 5 hours below Phuket on
the west side, about 30 minutes inland.

And this blog will be about Thailand culture. Thailand people, lifestyle,
girls, you name it.

So, I hope you enjoy it...

Peace,

Martin