Hey look I'm a (wannabe) model

A Hong Kong film company is doing a movie on an island in Thailand. They need unaffiliated extras for a beach scene...so my friend took these pics. If chosen I get free flight/accomodation and cash. Ney bad!

Tuk tuk drivers and hot shoes

A pic of one of our tuk tuk drivers stationed outside the apartment. While not a good pic of either of us, it's an attempt ot show off the hotest shoes ever owned by me. Bangkok is the shoe capital.

Chinese new year and hot cops

Bangkok, or maybe Thailand in general, seems to employ police and security people based on the hot factor. Seriously, they're all tall and handsome. We look way too giddy. Thankfully, Thailand still believes that uniforms should be skin-tight, regardless of the heat.

Pattaya

For an "all-staff workshop", we went to Pattaya, a famous beach town. Can you say spoiled brat??? We stayed at an amazing resort, Cabbages and Condoms, that contributes all its profits to social welfare projects in Thailand.

Nakkorn Si Thammasat

For work, I was involved in a Religious leaders peace exchange program. We got to go to Nakkorn Si Thammasat, in southern Thailand, visit various religious sites (Buddhist and Muslim) and sit in on discussion work-shops. The idea was to have Thai religious leaders who are dealing with conflict situations in the south learn from Sri Lankans who have been negotiating these realities for a long time, as a method of ethnic/religious conflict resolution (exactly what I've wanted to work on, eh guys???)

Nakkorn Si Thammasat is a centre of religious diversity, with Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and Christian communities represented here. It was chosen as a site to visit because of its history of religious tolerance.

We visited an Islamic private boarding school (for both boys and girls). Ya...we were causing a bit of a stir in the boy's quarters. The boy next to be seems a bit fixated on something....heeya!

Hey R. Turvey....these flowers were offerred for you. The cloth in the background is made up of hundreds of seperate swaths, some dozens of meters long, that women take as a (Buddhist) offerring to wrap around the temple

Kanchanaburi

Pics of Kanchanaburi's Erawan waterfalls. It's acouple hours northwest of Bangkok... a perfect day-trip escapade. From early January...pics courtsey of partner-in-crime Laura.