If you are ever at bus stations Two in ChiangMai and feel like talking a bit of English and eat something reminiscent of home try this:
Look around or ask around a bit for a largish newish hotel with the English name of Grand Diamond or Diamond Grand. By the way that hotel can be a comfortable place to stay right at the bus station.
Step into the tiny but pleasant lobby, then turn around and walk out the door and make an immediate right and walk a short(ish) way down the road toward an entrance to the Wat. At the Wat the road turns right. Just after that turn look to your left and you may see a tiny laundry down aside street. Look just a bit further down the main road and you will see "D Coffee House." There you can get a variety of coffees, lots of ice cream, bakery snacks, smoothies, and I've heard that sometimes decent pizzas are available.
I go there for a scrambled egg breakfast. Their scrambled eggs could be called an omelet. I like the fact that the are served hot.
If you get lost call them at 086-924-9708 or 090-598-9699.
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Monday, September 16, 2013
Friday, January 27, 2012
"Bramwell"
"Bramwell," a great English TV production, is a fine story of manners set in Victorian London. The Bramwells, father and daughter, are doctors.
The daughter, Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, runs a free clinic in a poor neighborhood. Jemma Redgrave plays the part. She has a very strong supporting cast.Netflix calls it cerebral. I call it a pleasure. Netflix has four seasons of it available!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Eveyen Morozov
I may be returning to my childhood reading faults. I remember reading a neat book about a guy with a bow and arrow. I tried to tell someone about it, but was having trouble. I couldn't recall or had never learned the title of the book nor the name of its author. I was ask for the name of the guy. I couldn't name the protagonist. It was Robinhood or something like that.
A Russian thinker has written a book in English
about the effect of human manipulation of the internet on their world.
With lots of wonderful examples from the way the world of nations, NGOs,individuals are using the internet, he seems to be suggesting that we have a lot to learn about using the www effectively.
One of the points he may be making is that principles and assumptions ought to be well clarified before Internet tools are applied to policy.
He is trying to help us remember the value of first principles and first assumptions.
Practical suggestions he seems to be making
include:
1. know yourself
2. know your audience
3. know your objective
2. know your tools
3. clarify the knowing among yourselves.
A flying review of what people are saying about the book on the Internet makes me think that Morozov probably feels he is attempting to communicate with ants.
A Russian thinker has written a book in English
about the effect of human manipulation of the internet on their world.
With lots of wonderful examples from the way the world of nations, NGOs,individuals are using the internet, he seems to be suggesting that we have a lot to learn about using the www effectively.
One of the points he may be making is that principles and assumptions ought to be well clarified before Internet tools are applied to policy.
He is trying to help us remember the value of first principles and first assumptions.
Practical suggestions he seems to be making
include:
1. know yourself
2. know your audience
3. know your objective
2. know your tools
3. clarify the knowing among yourselves.
A flying review of what people are saying about the book on the Internet makes me think that Morozov probably feels he is attempting to communicate with ants.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Bright Side of Life
I've planned to be more positive in these posts, but it seems that I have not begun just yet.
Someone mentioned 'flu season.' That got me to thinking about being lucky about not having been touched by the flu for years even though I had resisted inoculation. Thinking of luck got me to thinking of 'luck' 13. One thing led to another and I got to thinking of the 1300s.
The 1300s were not a particularly luck times for Europeans. Not that it was all bad then; Universities were being founded France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia: in Spain it was the height of Arabic civilization and Yusuf the first was Caliph of Granada; scholarship was flourishing I Catholic monasteries; St. Catherine was born in Siena. Chaucer was born around 1340, In 1321 Dante Finished The Divine Comedy
Still I imagine that the Poles did not feel lucky when the Teutonic Knights blocked their access to the Baltic Sea; nor did the Jews being persecuted in Germany. The French and the English were beginning the Hundred Year War. The citizens of the Crimean city of Koffa, I imagine, did not feel lucky as they watched warriors of a Mongol army catapult the bodies of warriors dead of the bubonic plague over their walls.
Plague.
The People of Europe and most of the world had see plague before and They would see it again. However, this one in the 1300s has been particularly memorable. It was called the Black Death and was thought to have begun in China or India between 1330 and 1333. By 1347 it had reached Cyprus. By bout 1350 it had killed about 50,000,000 Asians and 24,000,000 Europeans. People in India and China probably feel lucky either. The 25 million individuals who died in Europe between about 1347 and 1351,when the Black Death Swept Russia, may not seem dramatic by our standards, but it was half of them.
Then, early in the 1360s, it came back. It appeared in England in 1361.
The ruled classes acted disturbed by this. In 1358 they revolted in France; in 1381 in England.
Home work: Why did the describe it as the Black Death? Do you really want to know? Did you know that today wild rodents living near people are infected with the bubonic plague? Why do we call it bubonic? Is the Black Death waiting? Are you feeling lucky.
I plan to make an effort to reflect more of the bright side of life in my posts.
Someone mentioned 'flu season.' That got me to thinking about being lucky about not having been touched by the flu for years even though I had resisted inoculation. Thinking of luck got me to thinking of 'luck' 13. One thing led to another and I got to thinking of the 1300s.
The 1300s were not a particularly luck times for Europeans. Not that it was all bad then; Universities were being founded France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia: in Spain it was the height of Arabic civilization and Yusuf the first was Caliph of Granada; scholarship was flourishing I Catholic monasteries; St. Catherine was born in Siena. Chaucer was born around 1340, In 1321 Dante Finished The Divine Comedy
Still I imagine that the Poles did not feel lucky when the Teutonic Knights blocked their access to the Baltic Sea; nor did the Jews being persecuted in Germany. The French and the English were beginning the Hundred Year War. The citizens of the Crimean city of Koffa, I imagine, did not feel lucky as they watched warriors of a Mongol army catapult the bodies of warriors dead of the bubonic plague over their walls.
Plague.
The People of Europe and most of the world had see plague before and They would see it again. However, this one in the 1300s has been particularly memorable. It was called the Black Death and was thought to have begun in China or India between 1330 and 1333. By 1347 it had reached Cyprus. By bout 1350 it had killed about 50,000,000 Asians and 24,000,000 Europeans. People in India and China probably feel lucky either. The 25 million individuals who died in Europe between about 1347 and 1351,when the Black Death Swept Russia, may not seem dramatic by our standards, but it was half of them.
Then, early in the 1360s, it came back. It appeared in England in 1361.
The ruled classes acted disturbed by this. In 1358 they revolted in France; in 1381 in England.
Home work: Why did the describe it as the Black Death? Do you really want to know? Did you know that today wild rodents living near people are infected with the bubonic plague? Why do we call it bubonic? Is the Black Death waiting? Are you feeling lucky.
I plan to make an effort to reflect more of the bright side of life in my posts.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)