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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Goodnight Phuket http://markjochim.blogspot.com The misadventures of an American who moved to Thailand in April 2006 in order to start a new (Thai) family and begin a new career as an English teacher. Adjusting to a completely different culture, religion, lifestyle, language, bureaucracy, and family. Category: Blog Directory » Regional » Asia » Thailand Hits: 4 Date added: 2007-02-20 04:21:25 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast -  Faster than 49% of websites

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Latest blog posts from Goodnight Phuket

GOODNIGHT, PHUKET....HELLO, BAAN JOCHIM
As I am no longer actively maintaining this blog, please direct your bookmarks to Baan Jochim Phuket. This is an alternate blog I created in late May when the government of Thailand was blocking the entire Blogspot domain. Initially, I used the Wordpress-hosted blog to reprint interesting news... Read more...
Published 9 months ago

FORTY-FIVE BODIES FOUND AT PHUKET AIRPORT
From The Nation, published 16 September 2007:Higher death toll very likely after budget airplane carrying 128 crashlandedForty-five dead bodies, most of them foreigners, have been retrieved from wreckage of a One-Two-Go plane at the Phuket airport. The budget airliner exploded and broke in two... Read more...
Published 10 months ago

WORDPRESS BLOCKED IN THAILAND
Last night when trying to access my main blog at Baan Jochim Phuket, I was greeted by the page above. This translates as:Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or picture that is unappropriated which affects... Read more...
Published 10 months ago

SUIT & TIE, KHAKIS, OR PAJAMAS?
Seen on Daily Blog Tips:Thanks to the anonymity of the Internet, your readers have no way of knowing what you’re wearing as you write. The tone and content of your writing, however, affects the reader’s perception of you just as much as your clothing would if they met you face to face. So... Read more...
Published 11 months ago

DISCOVERING HARRY POTTER
Yes, I'm very much behind the times on this one but I have never read any of the Harry Potter books or watched any of the movies in full (we do have the first film on a Thai VCD but it always stops playing during the Quidditch match scene).  With the release of the seventh book a few weeks back... Read more...
Published 12 months ago

A HOLIDAY ON KOH YAO NOI
Lying midway between Phuket and Krabi Province, Koh Yao Yai and Koh Yao Noi are the largest of the islands in Phang Nga Bay comprising a total of 137 square kilometers. According to local legend the strait between the two islands was created when a very angry Naga (sea dragon) crashed through on... Read more...
Published 12 months ago

ASARNHA PUJA AND BUDDHIST LENT
There are two important Buddhist holidays on Sunday and Monday of this coming week -- Asarnha Puja Day (วันอาสาฬหบูชา) marks the Buddha's first sermon which he gave on the full moon day of the eighth lunar month; and Wan Khao Phansa... Read more...
Published 12 months ago

ANNIVERSARY PRESENT -- NEW CAMERA!
My wife surprised me yesterday with an early anniversary gift (we were married on 2 August 2006 in the Bang Rak district of Bangkok). She gave me a "Caribbean blue" Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W55 camera, replacing my old DSC-W7 which was stolen back in mid-April. It's a bit of an upgrade in features... Read more...
Published a year ago

A BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
We've just concluded a weekend-long celebration for Alex's seventh birthday, the bulk of which was auspiciously held on 07/07/07 (7 July 2007).After returning home from work at mid-day on Saturday (yes, I do work six days a week at my school), I spent much of the afternoon hanging out with our... Read more...
Published a year ago

HAPPY, BIRTHDAY AMERICA!
Happy Independence Day from southern Thailand!Last year, Independence Day found me on a large wooden boat crossing the strait between Ranong, Thailand, and Kawthung, Myanmar, on a visa run (the only one my then-fiance accompanied me on; we would be married in a bit less than a month). Since I'm... Read more...
Published a year ago

NATIONAL SCOUT DAY IN THAILAND
July 1 is National Scout Day (วันคล้ายวันสถาปนาค�"ะลูกเสื) commemorating the founding of Thai Scouting by King Rama VI on this day in 1911.  Thailand was only the third country in the world to take up Scouting and remains the only nation to have... Read more...
Published a year ago

YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'VE BECOME...
You know when you've become a part of a community when your photo starts appearing in local tourist publications.The latest issue of the Jungceylon free shopper broadsheet includes two photos of my wife, son, and myself taken when HRH Princess Soamsavali Phravararajatinuddamatu visited Patong on... Read more...
Published a year ago