| | Let me conclude the week with a few shots I took while out and about. 
The morning after we have a heavy rain storm, the skies are really clear and the sun is tremendously intense. Here at the Thong Lo BTS station, passengers huddle in the only shaded area as the sun is at such a point that during midmorning, it floods the inbound platform with bright light. The passengers waited until the train had arrived and come to a full stop before they left the shade to board. 
Walking to my Thai class on a warm and increasingly humid Thursday afternoon, about two hours before another thunderstorm set in, I was following a tourist who was carrying his toddler daughter. I felt so sorry for him, trying to navigate the unevenly paved sidewalks of a miserably warm Big Mango in flip-flops while carrying a sleeping child who looked so warm and uncomfortable with her sweat-matted hair. Add to that the pollution and noise coming from the neighboring street and the Tourism Authority of Thailand would have a fit! 
Interesting billboard for an English Language school near Chulalongkorn University. The stated message: "You... can do it." The implied message, "Unleash your inner farang." Is it any wonder that so many Thais (especially the better-off ones such as those who might find their way to Chula U) apply whitening lotions and have plastic surgery to shape their features to be more "pleasing" (i.e. more Western)? With messages like this plastered along the street, who wouldn't feel a bit dissatisfied with themselves?
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| | Posted 7/3/2009 9:06 AM - 94 Views - 24 eProps - 18 comments
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