Ok, it’s really not that hard to grok.

(photos from Ram 2)

Of course, it would be nice if they were in parks instead of growing out of the side of a the 4th floor of a soon to be demolished building.

The monsoon season officially starts next Wednesday, but it seems to have hit nice and early this year …. my 21st floor balcony makes for great storm watching, shot these around 5-6pm today.

So Bangkok is known for fake Gucci, Rolexes, car parts, movies and now cops. These fake cops have been turning up at major intersections lately, I’m guessing that they will maybe get people to slow down … ohh and if I’m in a fake hit-and-run accident, I am sure they will be extremely helpful. I’m not sure if it’s a sign of an economic downturn that we can’t afford enough cops or it means that Thailand’s economy is doing so well that police officer’s salaries have been steadily increasing.

Things constantly happen in BKK which I am totally unable to understand.

Coming into work on Friday, I found the mall that my yoga studio is in surrounded by monks along with people coming to make offerings. Now, the Buddha was clear that monks and lay-people have a symbiotic relationship; monks provide a spiritual example and lay-people provide financial support. For this reason, monks are generally requested to live near lay-communities. There’s just something about the juxtaposition of a McDonalds along with praying Buddhist monks that stands out in my mind as strange … that being said, I’m sure nobody else does.

I’ve seen this part of my university a zillion times, but the light has never been right … until last Thr.

Fake Gucci and Rolex, pirated DVDs, sexy-massages and now …. you can get your color touched up too. Shot this in front of the Erawan shrine near my work. I wanted to hang out and see how they washed it out, my guess was that they used water from a bottle and let it all run into the sewer, but trying to sneak into the mall bathroom was another guess.

Here’s a zoom.

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