Nirmalya’s Blog

There are many shark’s fin restaurants in Bangkok’s Chinatown.



More shark’s fin restaurants..

Roadside fruit stalls

Tuk Tuk in Bangkok’s Chinatown.

One of the few structures without a noticable tilt.

The image that made this Wat (and probably Ayutthaya) famous amongst the loads of tourists arriving there each day.


Head of a Buddha Statue under a Bodhi tree at Wat Maha That, Ayutthaya.

Nobody is quite sure how it got there. One explanation is that thieves were unable to carry it away and left it under that tree and the roots took over.

Vandalised Buddha statues at Wat Maha That, Ayutthaya. It is a big problem.

One of the very few complete Buddha statues at Wat Maha That, Ayutthaya.

Bell shaped “chedi”.



Climb up the staircase isn’t very easy over the weathered steps.



But the view from above is good.



Buddha statue at top of the staircase at Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon, Ayutthaya

College students waiting for the train at Ayutthaya Railway Station. Yes, the female students have a uniform. Black skirts with white shirts. How tight or loose, is optional.

There exists a patch of floating garbage, several 10s of thousands of square kilometers, floating in the middle of the north Pacific ocean, approximately 3000 miles west of L.A.

Any garbage (namely, plastics) that makes its way into the ocean, be it in South/North Asia, or North America, floats with the ocean currents (sometimes for several years) to be concentrated at this one area, due to the clockwise motion of the ocean currents, in an area referred to as the North Pacific Gyre.

How does it matter? It all adds up in the food we eat.

Check out the series of 12 videos (each approximately 5-6 minute) at
http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1485308505
[The 1st of video summarizes the whole series]

I was at the Pavilion (in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) earlier this afternoon today, the 1st day of the Chinese Year of the Ox (2009). Found the decorations quite nice, so took a few photos using my Sony Ericsson camera phone.

The atrium,

[Via IHT] Last week, US$1 billion was wiped out of the market value of UAL (United Airlines’ parent company) within minutes of an erroneous news flash on Bloomberg screens about United Airlines filing for bankruptcy. The stock plunge was instigated by a series of cascading human and machine errors; and all because the date of the original article was wrong!

Read more at http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/15/business/google.php

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vkontakte.ru, Russia
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hainei.com, China
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