Life . .
. . intervenes.
. . with Flickr posting. Apologies for not having posted and not keeping in touch. I have been watching your postings from a "distance", and taking the easy way out - doing nothing. I've been busy, and that's no excuse, some of you guys are keen shooters, processors, posters, commenters AND you keep a balanced life with family.
Maybe I'm an old fart, or do too much, or work too hard, or had a young family late in life, or can't manage time, but I struggle to keep up with you guys - my contacts - whose streams are just simply fantastic.
I was going to post some "Americana" from a couple of recent visits to the US (4th July and all that).
But Thailand has just held an election, with Yingluck Shinawatra, a youngish attractive (politically inexperienced) woman emerging as Thailand's next prime minister. Congrats to her.
She is of Chinese ethnicity, not Thai, as most of Thailand's wealthy are, and she is, wealthy that is (despite the imbalanced and incorrect reporting of both BBC and CNN a year ago, claiming that the then political strife was a war of the have-not's against the haves, poor against rich, the deprived against "elite").
The clue is in her family name. Four syllables (or more) - Chinese. Two (or three syllables) - ethnic Thai (or Thai-Lao, or Thai Khmer, the people from Isaan who elected her).
If she is NOT the clone her brother (a deposed, former prime minister, who fled the country after being found corrupt by the highest judicial court of the land) says she is, she could well be the leading light Thailand needs.
Let's give her the chance (but keep those checks and balances in place).
Life . .
. . intervenes.
. . with Flickr posting. Apologies for not having posted and not keeping in touch. I have been watching your postings from a "distance", and taking the easy way out - doing nothing. I've been busy, and that's no excuse, some of you guys are keen shooters, processors, posters, commenters AND you keep a balanced life with family.
Maybe I'm an old fart, or do too much, or work too hard, or had a young family late in life, or can't manage time, but I struggle to keep up with you guys - my contacts - whose streams are just simply fantastic.
I was going to post some "Americana" from a couple of recent visits to the US (4th July and all that).
But Thailand has just held an election, with Yingluck Shinawatra, a youngish attractive (politically inexperienced) woman emerging as Thailand's next prime minister. Congrats to her.
She is of Chinese ethnicity, not Thai, as most of Thailand's wealthy are, and she is, wealthy that is (despite the imbalanced and incorrect reporting of both BBC and CNN a year ago, claiming that the then political strife was a war of the have-not's against the haves, poor against rich, the deprived against "elite").
The clue is in her family name. Four syllables (or more) - Chinese. Two (or three syllables) - ethnic Thai (or Thai-Lao, or Thai Khmer, the people from Isaan who elected her).
If she is NOT the clone her brother (a deposed, former prime minister, who fled the country after being found corrupt by the highest judicial court of the land) says she is, she could well be the leading light Thailand needs.
Let's give her the chance (but keep those checks and balances in place).