Month: August 2008
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Honey Pickled Garlic
Today Pi Lek gave me a jar of honey pickled garlic. I asked how to eat them. He said just to eat them right out of the jar. So I have been doing so. They’re good. You’re probably lucky I’m not breathing on you.
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Small World
Tonight here in Thailand I was eating in a Japanese restaurant with two Thai friends who studied in Hawaii. Jack Johnson came on and the one friend said “I’ve saw him twice in the grocery store.” Here in Thailand I didn’t really expect to meet someone who has talked to Jack Johnson in a grocery…
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นั่งดี ๆ
Today I and several students were working around a few tables. The director of the EP program came in and spoke very strongly to one of the students saying “นั่งดี ๆ” (sit carefully). The student addressed was sitting on the table. I, the teacher, was sitting on a chair. This student was sitting higher than…
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Why Huddle?
Allow me to quote from and recommend The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George G. Hunter III. the British Church leaders, seem to have defined two roles (only) for a bishop: administrator and chaplain. Therefore a bishop’s primary (perhaps only) expectations were to administer the existing churches and care for faithful Christians. (A local priest’s…
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Of Creepiness and Tortillas
The creepiness first. Today I got my other Thai driver’s license (the car and motorcycle are seperate). One of the girls behind the counter who had flirted with me some last time, was over the top this time. After I had left I got a call from her. She had taken my number off my…