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First and foremost, I have to give a congratulations to the Kovacs family on the birth of their twins! We can’t wait to visit everyone back home during the holidays, especially the new additions.

We’re back home in Bang Lamoong after a pretty awesome trip to Beijing and a nice Sunday to ground us back to the heat.  With the humidity, it’s close to 100 degrees again. Beijing was a cool 45-55 degrees but Lorraine and I both agreed that getting a taste of fall was nice (and normal). I posted some pics over at flickr. I took a total of 732 pictures and chose 72 that I thought were interesting enough to show. Beijing is beautiful. Even without the Great Wall and the Forbidden City and the Peking duck, Beijing is soft on the eyes while just walking around the neighborhoods and parks.

I’ve also started to shoot HDR photography and have started a flickr set. I still can’t justify the merit of HDR as an honest photography medium. To me, the purpose of photography is to capture reality, not distort it. For now though, HDR is just a good excuse to spend more time with my camera.

It’s always nice to hear from everyone be it from comments here or on flickr and facebook. If you stop by, please say hi! Lorraine and I are always starving for contact from the western world

A view from the right hand brake. This is where I live, have a look! High quality version is here.

Sawasdee krab!

After spending yesterday shopping for normal household goods, eating yummy foods and hanging out with the guys installing the security system (while Lorraine went for a thai massage), Lorraine and I decided to hop in the truck this morning and go for a spin in search of some coffee.  It felt very liberating to get out on our own, drive these crazy streets, find a wonderful restaurant and have some eggs, bacon, toast and coffee breakfast (with some coffee take-away).  We’d like to point out some things you must watch out for when driving the roads of Banglamung, as it’s quite the adventure.  Here they are:

* Thai buddhist monks
* Soi dogs
* Food carts
* Mopeds and motorcycles
* Other drivers
* Roosters
* Potholes
* People walking and sweeping the street

I know it sounds silly to list these everyday occurences but all of them are *in* the road and you really have to be diligent to avoid them all.  Driving from the passenger seat and driving on the left side of the road is already hard enough! We’ve been sun-baked since we arrived and today looks like another scorcher.  We’re off to the pet store to get the Bean some food and maybe some patio chairs.  I took a nice swim this morning while Lorraine started the unpacking process.  Since we now have internet, we’re in great shape! After my fears that the internet might be on the slow side, I’m happy to report that it’s most certainly not.  While my upload speed leaves a bit to be desired (especially when uploading 4400px photographs), the download speed is just as good as Time-Warner back home.  I am uploading some pics I took of our landscaping to my Flickr account.

Going to take a while, but “mai pen rai”, the unofficial phrase of Thailand