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<\/a><\/p>\nThat’s a good question. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been watching Thai news (without Eng subtitles) about the roiling protests in Bangkok. \u00c2\u00a0The Red Shirts have been active in Chiang Mai city, sildenafil<\/a> too, symptoms<\/a> camped out in a section of the old city that they ringed with old tires and a platform. \u00c2\u00a0I don’t necessarily understand all that is going on, nor all the background history but events are continuing to unfold as the Songkran (Thai New Year) week comes to a close. Long time Chiang Mai residents said that the number of people out playing water in the streets has been drastically lower than years before, probably because of the political tension. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been hearing stories of Red Shirts recruiting villagers near where I live in Mae Ai, with promises of 20 000THB to go and add to the throng protesting in Bangkok.<\/p>\n As for me, I’m doing fine. \u00c2\u00a0Regular life hasn’t been affected by the protests. \u00c2\u00a0Please pray for peace and cool tempers to prevail amongst the protesters, government and military leaders, especially during this scorching hot season.<\/p>\n If you want to read up more on the situation in Thailand:<\/p>\n The Nation<\/a> – Thailand’s national, English-language newspaper<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/a> – Thailand section<\/p>\n Wikipedia.org<\/a> – Political unrest 2010<\/p>\n Global Post<\/a>– real-time reporting \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t8<\/strong> Photos\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t That’s a good question. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been watching Thai news (without Eng subtitles) about the roiling protests in Bangkok. \u00c2\u00a0The Red Shirts have been active in Chiang Mai city, sildenafil too, symptoms camped out in a section of the old city that they ringed with old tires and a platform. \u00c2\u00a0I don’t necessarily understand all that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI played water this Songkran (Thai New Year) with Betsy, this web<\/a>
\n a friend from my ECHO days. \u00c2\u00a0It took us 2.5 hours to walk across the north moat of the old city, erectile<\/a>
\n splashing people and being doused with ice cold water along the way. It was a fun way to beat the scorching April heat and to see everyone having a good time. \u00c2\u00a0Enjoy the photos!<\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSongkran 2010\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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