<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570</id><updated>2012-02-17T01:19:37.631+07:00</updated><category term='north east thailand'/><category term='passport'/><category term='wine country'/><category term='Dumneon Saduak floating market'/><category term='Amphawa Floating Market'/><category term='Chef Mickey'/><category term='charoensri grand royal hotel'/><category term='korea'/><category term='Ploy Guesthouse'/><category term='asean countries'/><category term='Bangkapi'/><category term='Thai immigration'/><category term='Jump'/><category term='Ms International Queen 2007'/><category term='vientiane'/><category term='Thai cooking class'/><category term='Tom yum goong'/><category term='kedah'/><category term='Ms Tiffany'/><category term='Me in The Surin Province of Isaan'/><category term='Ms Queen International 2007'/><category term='Maenam Kwai'/><category term='Stick Ice cream'/><category term='2nd class coach'/><category term='floating market'/><category term='comic martial arts performance from korea'/><category term='Laos immigration'/><category term='Kg. Che Bilang'/><category term='Thai polls'/><category term='Royal Paragon Hall'/><category term='Laos street food'/><category term='Kratip Restaurant'/><category term='lady boys'/><category term='katoeys'/><category term='largest in bangkok'/><category term='Southern Bus Terminal'/><category term='Udon Thani'/><category term='Don Hoi Lot'/><category term='muak lek'/><category term='Pad Thai'/><category term='Siam Paragon'/><category term='vote'/><category term='Southern Thailand'/><category term='khao yai winery visit'/><category term='New Mandala'/><category term='Satun'/><category term='Green Curry'/><category term='transgender'/><category term='Nong Khai'/><category term='bordertown'/><category term='Laos'/><category term='Thailand'/><category term='Bangkok'/><category term='Kanchanaburi'/><title type='text'>Nunuk Ragang</title><subtitle type='html'>A marriage of two Kadazandusun words – nunuk (banyan tree) and ragang (derived from aragang which means “red”).</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-6466032723992624899</id><published>2009-12-11T15:57:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T16:01:34.452+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cha-am, South Thailand - September 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://babygaga.wordpress.com/"&gt;Apsara’s Blog&lt;/a&gt;: "Cha-am, South Thailand"&lt;br /&gt;A charming place, Cha-am is. We travelled 2 hours by road towards north west coast of the Gulf of Thailand. Our stay started at &lt;a href="http://www.sabaya.co.th/"&gt;Sabaya Jungle Resort&lt;/a&gt; which is 10 min walk away from Cha-am beach bustling street for 1 night and continued to &lt;a href="http://www.alilahotels.com/chaam"&gt;Alila, Cha-am&lt;/a&gt; for another 2 nights stay. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khun Duangrit Bunnag's work hit us like a wonderful cool breeze. It was an atheistic experience, stimulating our senses and opening our eyes to what architecture can do to a piece of land. A wonderful experience indeed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-6466032723992624899?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/6466032723992624899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=6466032723992624899' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6466032723992624899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6466032723992624899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2009/12/apsaras-blog.html' title='Cha-am, South Thailand - September 2009'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-1426448127498518403</id><published>2009-12-11T10:36:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T15:42:36.691+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bangkapi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kratip Restaurant'/><title type='text'>A FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN BANGKAPI, BANGKOK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://babygaga.wordpress.com/"&gt;Apsara’s Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On my baby blog I wrote about this wonderfully authentic restaurant called Kratip Restaurant in Bangkapi Mall, Bangkok. At first it feels so strange to have those working there treating you like friends instead of patrons but after awhile of their warm reception, especially to my little one, I decided it was the best eating place it became our fave. local hangout (other than Mothercare, Thonglor and etc;p). The atmosphere is so like you are in your fave. pub where everybody knows each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can be sure to be served with wonderfully brashly flavoured Isaan cuisine with performing local artistes singing Thai oldies &amp; current songs. My favorite is the serpent head fish in coconut sour soup (Tom ka plaa).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-1426448127498518403?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/1426448127498518403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=1426448127498518403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/1426448127498518403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/1426448127498518403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2009/12/favorite-restaurant-in-bangkapi-bangkok.html' title='A FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN BANGKAPI, BANGKOK'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-5889691416763196793</id><published>2009-07-26T13:04:00.006+07:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T15:22:19.919+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kg. Che Bilang'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Satun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Southern Thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kedah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bordertown'/><title type='text'>SATUN, SOUTHERN THAILAND TRIP 19 - 21.07.09</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-a0.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346388869280&amp;amp;site=widget-a0.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346388869280&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-a0.slide.com/p1/648518346388869280/bb_t040_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346388869280&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-a0.slide.com/p2/648518346388869280/bb_t040_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;amp;id=648518346388869280&amp;amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-a0.slide.com/m/648518346388869280/bb_t040_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide9_1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=648518346388869280&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-a0.slide.com/p4/648518346388869280/bb_t040_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This marks the first trip for us; a family of three, since our return from Malaysia during the May 2009 Harvest Festival in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Baby Apsie and me tagged along hubby to a 700 years old fisherman village called Kampung Che Bilang in Satun a Muslim-majority province in southern Thailand and experienced harmonious life among the Muslims, Buddhists and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wonderful story of how the village came to its name is both memorable and heart-warming. The story goes -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day a pirate from the high seas landed in a fisherman's village along the Andaman seas and saw a lady with her virgin beautiful daughter. He decided to make the virgin his own so he kidnapped both ladies and smuggled them to his ship. His act was found out by the matriarch of the ladies family who had came from the far away land called Java. He rushed to the shore and called out to the retreating boat to give back his wife and virgin daughter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pirate just laughed, certain that the father can't do much on land. The matriarch called again and shouted that if his demands are not met, he will pull the boat back to shore and rescue his family. The pirates laughed again and true to his word, the matriarch pulled at the boat anchor rope stranding it to shore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full of awe the pirate said,'Cek adalah orang yang terbilang' and gave back the father his wife and daugther before escaping back to sea. And so the village is called 'Cheebilang' after its strongest occupant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my version of the story - facts may defer;p&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-5889691416763196793?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/5889691416763196793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=5889691416763196793' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5889691416763196793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5889691416763196793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2009/07/satun-southern-thailand-trip-19-210709.html' title='SATUN, SOUTHERN THAILAND TRIP 19 - 21.07.09'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-2490714894671374724</id><published>2008-12-25T23:16:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T23:16:55.110+07:00</updated><title type='text'>HAVE A VERY MERRY XMAS!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='background-color:#e9e9e9; 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Amphawa Floating Market Trip 6.09.08</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-66.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346375350630&amp;amp;site=widget-66.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346375350630&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-66.slide.com/p1/648518346375350630/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346375350630&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-66.slide.com/p2/648518346375350630/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=648518346375350630&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-66.slide.com/p4/648518346375350630/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though I am 8 months pregnant, I was still game enough go for a day trip to Don Hoi Lot (Gulf of Thailand) and Amphawa Floating market. We had lunch at one of the restaurant near the sea and feasted on a buffet of exotic seafood which we couldn't get in Bangkok. There was the dinosour crabfish, yabbies, curry crab, fresh steam fish, Ota-ota (fish dumpling), hot tom yum goong and of course my favorite crab with grass noodles in the hotpot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afterwards, we wandered around the fish market that sales bulk dried seafood like fish stick, dried squid and shrimp which my sister bought to bring home and share with family back in Singapore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We continued our journey to Amphawa Market and there's just so many people. Hubby Philip went to check out the resort around the area while we walked from one end to another enjoying the sights of locals buying local produce and fresh food. We tasted thai dessert which is similar to Leong Fun back home but with a dash of palm toddy and syrup. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mione had fun with her stick ice cream and was reluctant to share it mum wherelse Mummy Uaa and Daddy Wee Lee was busy capturing Mione's antic through their digital camera lenses. You can see a collection of the photos in the slide show above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3831297207829051303?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3831297207829051303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3831297207829051303' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3831297207829051303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3831297207829051303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/09/8-months-pregnant-and-still-on-move.html' title='Don Hoi Lot &amp; Amphawa Floating Market Trip 6.09.08'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-5381552346506074240</id><published>2008-07-17T15:36:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T16:59:37.893+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='north east thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Laos street food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vientiane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nong Khai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thai immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Laos immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Udon Thani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Laos'/><title type='text'>Vientiane, here I am - 17.07.08</title><content type='html'>Vientiane! We finally arrived here at 1.30pm, 17.07.2008 and I love the city. It reminds me of the old Kota Kinabalu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The journey started at 9.00am where we lined up at the Thai-Lao International bus counter for an hour just to be told that there's only 1 seat available for the 10.30am 2nd class coach. While waiting to buy tickets for the next trip, the officer announced that the first bus had an accident and we have to come back at 10.30am to buy the tickets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we had a leisurely breakfast near the terminal, bought the tickets at appointed time and rushed back to the hotel to check out &amp;amp; get our luggages. Lunch was a hurried affair of pork noodle soup and boarded the bus at exactly 11.28am. The bus depart at 11.34am! Talk about on time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon reaching Nong Khai, we hurried down to get our passport chopped by the Thai immigration, then we boarded the bus just to go down again after a short 30 minutes ride at the Laos immigration. Here we were given arrival &amp;amp; departure card to fill at the immigration check in (details are not thoroughly checked) and proceeded to the entrance fee counter to pay a bht10 each. I think there's a luggage scanner but nobody seems to use it. Then it was home free. It took us another hour of nice and scenic ride to reach Vientiane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went straight to our hotel at Mali Namphu Guest House at 109 Pangkham Road, tel: +856-21-215093 for a standard room priced at USD19.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hungry for Laos cuisine, we walked left of our hotel towards the river and found a nice riverside restaurant and ordered jeun khai with muu (omelette with pork), khao phat muu (fried rice with pork) for me and khao neung (plain rice) for Philip, piing muu (grilled pork) and maak phao (coconut), YUMMY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Passing through Intercity Hotel, we saw a banner for a 2 hour Laos Traditional massage for USD10.00 or RM33.00. So Philip decided to try it out while I went in search of a cyber cafe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here I am......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you guys enjoyed my story!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-5381552346506074240?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/5381552346506074240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=5381552346506074240' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5381552346506074240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5381552346506074240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/07/vientiane-here-i-am-170708.html' title='Vientiane, here I am - 17.07.08'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-9145802548409474902</id><published>2008-07-16T22:02:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T22:13:11.545+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='passport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2nd class coach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='north east thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charoensri grand royal hotel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asean countries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Udon Thani'/><title type='text'>Udon Thani, Thailand - 16.07.2008</title><content type='html'>Currently at Udon Thani which is on the north east Thailand for a nite before crossing the border to Laos. Staying at one of the best hotel (Charoensri Grand Royal Hotel) in town for a double bed standard room costing bht1400 in town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will catch the the 2nd class coach at 10.30 but we would have to go to the terminal by 9.00 to get our passport checked and tickets (bht85/pax/way). A good thing we are Malaysians because visa is not necessary. I would have to update as to why later. This will be my last overseas travel before baby comes into the world so am excited with this trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK wish us luck.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-9145802548409474902?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/9145802548409474902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=9145802548409474902' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/9145802548409474902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/9145802548409474902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/07/udon-thani-thailand-16072008.html' title='Udon Thani, Thailand - 16.07.2008'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-3845397333256893469</id><published>2008-07-09T11:07:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2008-07-12T16:29:28.126+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hanoi, Vietnam Trip - 14.06.2008!</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px" name="flashticker" align="middle" src="http://widget-50.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346373130064&amp;amp;site=widget-50.slide.com"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;div style="WIDTH: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346373130064&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-50.slide.com/p1/648518346373130064/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346373130064&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-50.slide.com/p2/648518346373130064/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346373130064&amp;amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-50.slide.com/p4/648518346373130064/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was so excited to be in Hanoi, Vietnam. I had so many friends from Vietnam back at Uni years and it's like visiting their hometown. Of course the fact that it's Philip's &amp;amp; my 1st wedding anniversary made the trip more romantic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon arrival we straight away went in search of Pho, the famous vietnamese noodle soup and it was just as good as we have imagine it. Then we found pathfinder magazine that helped us a lot in reference to local street fares that we saw locals consumed with such gumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite dish is called Com Rang - wok fried, often served with beef/chicken, spring rolls and cabbage at 39 Ma May near &lt;a href="http://www.handspan.com/"&gt;Handspan Adventure Travel Agency&lt;/a&gt;. We also tried Xoi - yellow sticky rice topped with healthy options like coconut, sesame or sliced bean cake (the greasier version is with pork ribs, chicken or chicken sausage), Pho Bo, Vietnamese spring roles and Nuoc Mia Da (sugar-cane juice freshly squeezed served together with a pinch of lime), YUMMY!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall the staff at &lt;a href="http://www.classicstreet-phocohotel.com/"&gt;Classic Street Hotel&lt;/a&gt; also known as Pho Cho Hotel were very helpful and the proprietress was nice enough to give us a room on the 3rd floor due to my condition (was 5 months pregnant). The puppet show at &lt;a href="http://www.thanglongwaterpuppet.org/"&gt;Thang Long Water Puppet&lt;/a&gt; was so much fun and going to the 3000 years old village in Hanoi was a revelation. Now I know what they mean one product one village is! We were lucky that Handspan Adventure Travel was near the hotel, who's sales person &amp;amp; tour guide was great in suggetions &amp;amp; practical advices!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3845397333256893469?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3845397333256893469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3845397333256893469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3845397333256893469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3845397333256893469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/07/hanoi-vietnam-trip-14062008.html' title='Hanoi, Vietnam Trip - 14.06.2008!'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-3904586044860142703</id><published>2008-06-11T17:46:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T12:48:51.741+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dumneon Saduak floating market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='largest in bangkok'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='floating market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bangkok'/><title type='text'>Dumneon Saduak Floating Market - 1.06.08</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/SE-td1ZnieI/AAAAAAAAACE/D4JJ1ZI24nA/s1600-h/Dumnoen+Saduak+Floating+Market.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/SE-td1ZnieI/AAAAAAAAACE/D4JJ1ZI24nA/s400/Dumnoen+Saduak+Floating+Market.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210574021953292770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Kanchanaburi, we got into a rented van for 1300bht to take a 2 hours ride to Dumnoen Saduak District, Ratchaburi Province (105km West of Bangkok). We stayed at Ban Suk Chok Resort at Thambon Tha Nat, tel: 03 225 4892. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We rented a 3 bedroom cabin for 1000bht. Do not expect a clean and new surroundings because it is not but still it is comfortable enough for a nite sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That afternoon we went to Talat Nam Amphawa - a 2 hours hired boat trip from the resort at 1500bht return trip. It rained when we were walking in the market but I appeased my cravings for thai sweets with buying a lot of the coconut sauced goodies, cookies and sweet rice crackers. I've wrote about the market &lt;a href="http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/08/trip-to-samut-songkhram.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day, a Sunday again we took a 15 minutes boat ride and this time its to the largest floating market in Thailand - Dumneon Saduak Floating market. I was dissapointed with the fares available at this market because they are mostly souvenirs and light food &amp; beverages. I only bought jackfruit &amp; pomelo for the trip back to Bangkok and nothing else.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3904586044860142703?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3904586044860142703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3904586044860142703' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3904586044860142703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3904586044860142703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/06/dumneon-saduak-floating-market-10608.html' title='Dumneon Saduak Floating Market - 1.06.08'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/SE-td1ZnieI/AAAAAAAAACE/D4JJ1ZI24nA/s72-c/Dumnoen+Saduak+Floating+Market.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-6199005281131331100</id><published>2008-06-11T16:21:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T16:34:48.658+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jump'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='korea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comic martial arts performance from korea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Siam Paragon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Royal Paragon Hall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bangkok'/><title type='text'>JUMP - Comic Martial Arts Performance in Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/SE-bJF5QpmI/AAAAAAAAAB8/5BAOUIoISDU/s1600-h/IMG_7086.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/SE-bJF5QpmI/AAAAAAAAAB8/5BAOUIoISDU/s400/IMG_7086.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210553874394424930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes! We are booked for the 21st June 2008 show in Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon, Bangkok. &lt;br /&gt;I had so wanted to see Jump during my trip to Korea and I can't believe it that I finally get to see it here in Bangkok! The show starts from 18-22 June 2008 and if anyone wants to see them please visit &lt;a href="http://www.thaiticketmajor.com "&gt;www.thaiticketmajor.com &lt;/a&gt;for more info.&lt;br /&gt;Here's &lt;a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/060608_Realtime/06Jun2008_real007.php"&gt;an article &lt;/a&gt;about 'Jump' by Bangkok Post out on June 6th, Friday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-6199005281131331100?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/6199005281131331100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=6199005281131331100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6199005281131331100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6199005281131331100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/06/jump-comic-martial-arts-performance-in.html' title='JUMP - Comic Martial Arts Performance in Bangkok'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/SE-bJF5QpmI/AAAAAAAAAB8/5BAOUIoISDU/s72-c/IMG_7086.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-351125450136485426</id><published>2008-06-11T15:31:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T16:21:06.254+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Green Curry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maenam Kwai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kanchanaburi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thai cooking class'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Southern Bus Terminal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chef Mickey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ploy Guesthouse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tom yum goong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pad Thai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bangkok'/><title type='text'>Thai Cooking Class at Kanchanaburi - 30.05.08!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-57.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346371862615&amp;amp;site=widget-57.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346371862615&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-57.slide.com/p1/648518346371862615/bb_t043_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346371862615&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-57.slide.com/p2/648518346371862615/bb_t043_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=648518346371862615&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-57.slide.com/p4/648518346371862615/bb_t043_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had another chance to go to Kanchanaburi, about 2 hours south of Thailand where it is famous for its River Kwai and Tiger Temple. Catch a bus at the Southern Bus Teminal in Bangkok and a one way ticket is around 105bht per person.&lt;br /&gt;Upon reaching at our guesthouse (Ploy Guesthouse - a stylish tropical retreat at 79/2 Maenam Kwai Rd, Kanchanaburi Province, Tel: (034) 515 804), we decided to go for a cooking class which is around 750bht per person and it includes a trip to the local market and learn how to cook 3 traditional Thai dishes (green curry, phanaeng &amp; pad thai) instead of visitng the temples again. &lt;br /&gt;In this class we learnt that and more! Chef Mickey was such an entertaining host that we all enjoyed ourselves enormously. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: I've tried cooking tom yum goong, green curry &amp; pad thai at home and let me tell you the lessons really worked in terms of self confidence and measurements! I made a mean tom yum &amp; green curry! Though I might have to get more practice on the pad thai coz hubby thought mine was too sweet....;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-351125450136485426?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/351125450136485426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=351125450136485426' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/351125450136485426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/351125450136485426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/06/thai-cooking-class-at-kanchanauri.html' title='Thai Cooking Class at Kanchanaburi - 30.05.08!'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-6402493528588675966</id><published>2008-05-07T14:33:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T14:47:59.205+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kanchanaburi'/><title type='text'>Kanchanaburi Tiger Temple Trip - 11 - 13.o1.2008</title><content type='html'>A continuation from my bus trip from the Southern Bus Terminal. We went on a trip to the Tiger Temple (Wat Luang Ta Bua Yanna Sampanno) and coincidently it is near the Mae Nam Kwai River where a movie titled 'The Bridge Over River Kwai' was made. We stayed next to beautiful River Kwai and I hope all will enjoy my video which I took with our canon digital camera. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.jumpcut.com/media/flash/jump.swf?id=11D917961BF911DDB04A000423CF382E&amp;asset_type=movie&amp;asset_id=11D917961BF911DDB04A000423CF382E&amp;eb=1" width="408" height="324" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was wild and untamed, this forest monastry. I was unprepared when the volunteers started feeding the animals rite in front of me and was so afraid that I stood stock still with my video still recording. The results was magnificent! I can even now feel the rough fur of the wild boar as they brushed gently against me to get to the food next to my right foot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wat is famed for taking in wild tigers amids rumours that the abbot buy these animals for touristic purposes. Whatever the reason that maybe, I see an operation that is maintain by a mum and pop establishment and it is rustically appealing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May it continue to stay and bring pleasure for all person who visits and believe that human and wild beasts can co-exist.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-6402493528588675966?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/6402493528588675966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=6402493528588675966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6402493528588675966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6402493528588675966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/05/kanchanaburi-tiger-temple-trip-11.html' title='Kanchanaburi Tiger Temple Trip - 11 - 13.o1.2008'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-6077710242178199577</id><published>2008-05-07T11:26:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T11:35:37.483+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Southern Bus Terminal, Bangkok - 11.01.2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed src="http://www.jumpcut.com/media/flash/jump.swf?id=77C9BB661BE311DDA47F000423CF037A&amp;asset_type=movie&amp;asset_id=77C9BB661BE311DDA47F000423CF037A&amp;eb=1" width="408" height="324" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After getting use to the havocs of old bus terminals in Bangkok, the new Southern Bus Terminal is a revelation. You can have a bus terminal as big as an airport with the same layout (though most of the signages are still in Thai with no English translation). Thank god for information booth. We took this trip to go to the famous Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi and hope the video can open your eyes as to how esay it is to travel by bus in Bangkok, Thailand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy....!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-6077710242178199577?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/6077710242178199577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=6077710242178199577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6077710242178199577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/6077710242178199577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/05/southern-bus-terminal-bangkok-11012008.html' title='Southern Bus Terminal, Bangkok - 11.01.2008'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-276205764561059956</id><published>2008-04-30T16:14:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T14:49:46.540+07:00</updated><title type='text'>LeBua At State Tower, Bangkok - 01.02.2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px" name="flashticker" align="middle" src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346370101819&amp;amp;site=widget-3b.slide.com"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;div style="WIDTH: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346370101819&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/p1/648518346370101819/bb_t021_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=648518346370101819&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/p2/648518346370101819/bb_t021_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;amp;id=648518346370101819&amp;amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/m/648518346370101819/bb_t021_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide9_1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's true!!! We finally experienced why Sirocco was awarded for 'Most overwhelming restaurant experience with a great wow factor' by The Art of Travel (2007) and 'Hot Nights' &amp;amp; 'Hot Tables' list of Conde Nast Traveler Magazine (2005).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try it or check it out at &lt;a href="http://www.lebua.com/"&gt;www.lebua.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.thedomebkk.com/"&gt;www.thedomebkk.com&lt;/a&gt;......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy my frenzzzzz...............&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-276205764561059956?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/276205764561059956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=276205764561059956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/276205764561059956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/276205764561059956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2008/04/check-out-my-slide-show.html' title='LeBua At State Tower, Bangkok - 01.02.2008'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-5648349061226268031</id><published>2007-12-28T12:25:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T09:19:11.481+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thai polls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Mandala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vote'/><title type='text'>Thai Polls &amp; Analysis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/R3SJQy5JazI/AAAAAAAAAB0/DatF6zV2k6A/s1600-h/2007electionmaps%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148891195623697202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/R3SJQy5JazI/AAAAAAAAAB0/DatF6zV2k6A/s400/2007electionmaps%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was guided to a post by &lt;a href="http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/newmandala/2007/12/27/"&gt;New Mandala &lt;/a&gt;on the Thai Polls 2007. Please read his analysis for indept view of the above map.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His analysis reflect grass roots opinions. Though the interim government have announced that a coalition government will have their first meeting on the 30th day after the polls, but it seems that the government are formed already &amp;amp; expected announcments will be done 2 weeks after New Year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The best news I've heard is that this pollings seems to be as clean as it possibly can, though theres a lot of talk about transparency issues (ie. the pre-polling of 3 million voters a week before the 23rd).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Above all, the coup of 19th September 2006 - dubbed as the the 'coup for the rich' is reinstated by the results in the polls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finally it is safe for me to say that Thailand politics have enter the new world, started by the Thaksin government and it seems its here to stay. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Note: Thanx much Notebook. Though am unable to access your blog am very flattered that you will put me in your blogroll. Please do post a comment soon once your blog is ok so I can return the favour. Looking forward to read your posts in return!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-5648349061226268031?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/5648349061226268031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=5648349061226268031' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5648349061226268031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5648349061226268031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/12/thai-polls-analysis.html' title='Thai Polls &amp; Analysis'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/R3SJQy5JazI/AAAAAAAAAB0/DatF6zV2k6A/s72-c/2007electionmaps%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-655543125312834885</id><published>2007-12-28T11:59:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T12:25:33.799+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thailand Goes to Poll!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px" name="flashticker" align="middle" src="http://widget-e5.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346367905765&amp;amp;site=widget-e5.slide.com"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;div style="WIDTH: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;id=648518346367905765&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-e5.slide.com/p1/648518346367905765/bb_t048_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;id=648518346367905765&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-e5.slide.com/p2/648518346367905765/bb_t048_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Thais goes to vote on 23rd December 2007, we are all on a 'look &amp;amp; see' mode, this being the first election after the September coup in 2006 (which spells the end of democracy to a lot of people - internationaly &amp;amp; locally).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Relatively, this election was peaceful &amp;amp; actually far from violent. A relief for the Thais &amp;amp; expats alike. Business as usual seems to be the consensus here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above pictures were taken during campaigning in the South &amp;amp; North East of Thailand. The next post will give more details &amp;amp; analysis of the results. So please explore more!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-655543125312834885?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/655543125312834885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=655543125312834885' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/655543125312834885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/655543125312834885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/12/thailand-goes-to-poll.html' title='Thailand Goes to Poll!!!'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-303019097784964172</id><published>2007-12-11T14:54:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T12:27:32.130+07:00</updated><title type='text'>M FOR MALAYSIA</title><content type='html'>Currently, I have been prowling youtube for interesting video that's out there for the public eyes to see and what do I get (oh....hehehe &amp; thru the recommendations of someone dear), a propaganda video of Malaysia.  Just click on the highlighted words to access the maker's website or if you'r lazy, you can watch the video below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a video that's in youtube and its about Malaysia - thru the eyes of the &lt;a href=" http://chongzhemin.com/"&gt;maker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EY-ZfuYSJx8&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EY-ZfuYSJx8&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting propaganda and I must say, Malaysians are getting very creative.  Previously, we'll have chainletters, advertisements and now a movie remixed to convey the &lt;a href=" http://chongzhemin.com/"&gt;maker's&lt;/a&gt; message. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, hope everybody will enjoy the video and if you have any question, just ask the &lt;a href=" http://chongzhemin.com/"&gt;maker&lt;/a&gt;....hahaha....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-303019097784964172?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/303019097784964172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=303019097784964172' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/303019097784964172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/303019097784964172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/12/for-more-widgets-please-visit.html' title='M FOR MALAYSIA'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-7815727156598807266</id><published>2007-11-27T13:43:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T12:35:28.464+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chiang Rai Hill Tribe Project Visit (November 2007)</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px" name="flashticker" align="middle" src="http://widget-2d.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346367175213&amp;amp;site=widget-2d.slide.com" wmode="transparent" salign="l" scale="noscale" quality="high"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;div style="WIDTH: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;id=648518346367175213&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-2d.slide.com/p1/648518346367175213/bb_t011_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;id=648518346367175213&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-2d.slide.com/p2/648518346367175213/bb_t011_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;amp;id=648518346367175213&amp;amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-2d.slide.com/m/648518346367175213/bb_t011_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide9_1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the photos says it all, we had an eye opener trip visiting the hill tribe communities Akha &amp;amp; Lahu tribe in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Chiang&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Rai&lt;/span&gt; Province, Thailand. The trip was carefully organised by Mirror Foundation, an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;NGO&lt;/span&gt; operating which helped with the tribes' transition into modern society. Click here for details of Mirror Foundation - &lt;a href="http://www.mirrorartgroup.org/web/whoarewe/index.html"&gt;http://www.mirrorartgroup.org/web/whoarewe/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While watching the slide, you'll get &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;glimmers&lt;/span&gt; of tribal life in the highlands. The effect of modernisation and this new way of life had and have its rocky transitions but change they did. Some tribes seem to fare better than their counterparts but the overall perception of the community (which includes the head leaders) seems to favour the change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end change seems to hold no stop for the families here from growing up with the best of two worlds. Knowledge of the highland lifestyle and living in the lowlands.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-7815727156598807266?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/7815727156598807266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=7815727156598807266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/7815727156598807266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/7815727156598807266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/11/chiang-rai-hill-tribe-project.html' title='Chiang Rai Hill Tribe Project Visit (November 2007)'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-3079058844377488994</id><published>2007-11-23T13:20:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T14:18:26.455+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady boys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ms Queen International 2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='transgender'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='katoeys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ms Tiffany'/><title type='text'>The Organic &amp; The Cultivated</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/R0Zx0l6WshI/AAAAAAAAABk/pajteRQUeAc/s1600-h/IMG_5681.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135917573406634514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/R0Zx0l6WshI/AAAAAAAAABk/pajteRQUeAc/s400/IMG_5681.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Look at her(left)! She's just gorgeous! She's Ms Tiffany International 2007 and now Ms Queen International 2007, Pattaya, Thailand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Compare with normal old me, you can see how beautiful she (transgender) is! I watched these gals worked very hard to get the show on the road (at Ms Tiffany, Pattaya)- and may I add very successfully at that. Seeing the gals' tears, frustration and the mounting pressure of the competition made the whole event rigged with suspense and excitement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Being immersed in a 'community that worship beauty' it made me realise that in this world we live-in is big with diverse cultures waiting to be explored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good luck with the exploring everyone!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3079058844377488994?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3079058844377488994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3079058844377488994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3079058844377488994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3079058844377488994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/11/organic-cultivated.html' title='The Organic &amp; The Cultivated'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/R0Zx0l6WshI/AAAAAAAAABk/pajteRQUeAc/s72-c/IMG_5681.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-1597804795931009484</id><published>2007-11-14T15:08:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T15:21:36.744+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ms International Queen 2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='transgender'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='katoeys'/><title type='text'>Miss International Queen 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px" name="flashticker" align="middle" src="http://widget-43.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=648518346366490691&amp;amp;site=widget-43.slide.com"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;div style="WIDTH: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;id=648518346366490691&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-43.slide.com/p1/648518346366490691/bb_t024_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;id=648518346366490691&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-43.slide.com/p2/648518346366490691/bb_t024_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;amp;ad=0&amp;amp;amp;id=648518346366490691&amp;amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-43.slide.com/m/648518346366490691/bb_t024_v000_a000_f00/images/xslide9_1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Held on Saturday November 10th, 2007 at Tiffany's Show Pattaya and supported by Chonburi Province, Chonburi Provincial Administration Organization, Pattaya City Council, The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Pratunam Polyclinic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go, go Gals/boys/transgender/katoeys!!! All that hardwork for just one nite. It was exciting and bursting with energy! The talents are benchmarkers for future performances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards,&lt;br /&gt;from awed visitor......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-1597804795931009484?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/1597804795931009484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=1597804795931009484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/1597804795931009484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/1597804795931009484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/11/check-out-my-slide-show.html' title='Miss International Queen 2007'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-7053343418657622350</id><published>2007-11-02T12:07:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T14:52:09.715+07:00</updated><title type='text'>KEEPING IN TOUCH</title><content type='html'>Though this forum (&lt;a href="http://www.sabahforum.com/forum/index.php"&gt;http://www.sabahforum.com/forum/index.php&lt;/a&gt;) is in mixed &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;malay&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;english&lt;/span&gt;, it keeps me abreast with what's happening at home, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Sabah&lt;/span&gt;, East Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like to read the &lt;a href="http://www.sabahforum.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=14"&gt;http://www.sabahforum.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=14&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;partly because of&lt;/span&gt; it's gossip on political views of individuals. Amusing and entertainting, making the forum a place for everyone. We are lucky to be allowed to do so, unlike other countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally reconciled to the fact that politics is a human element which means with many handicaps, most political intitution make decision based on 'in the name of OUR people....!' to justify actions that mostly are beyond 'us' The People! Ironic isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyhow, am very lucky to be a citizen of peaceful Malaysia, where public forum is not a death sentence but a mean of expressing oneself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I end with a question which one should ask self,'would you - a citizen, rather be shot to death just by murmuring dissent in public forums (the incidental soldier?) such as this?'. The answer is always up to you -the citizen (or not?).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-7053343418657622350?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/7053343418657622350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=7053343418657622350' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/7053343418657622350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/7053343418657622350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/11/keeping-in-touch.html' title='KEEPING IN TOUCH'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-4068486550180019628</id><published>2007-11-01T10:41:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2007-11-01T10:49:41.990+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Calls in 50 countries!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed name="jaxtrwidget" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" src="http://www.jaxtr.com/user/flash/smallwidget.swf" width="166" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="titleJaxtr=Connect%20by%20phone%21&amp;amp;userJaxtr=mionemp&amp;amp;apiURL=http://www.jaxtr.com/user&amp;amp;apiURLAlt=http://www.jaxtr.com/user&amp;amp;sc=Blogger" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jaxtr.com/user/registration.jsp?userJaxtr=mionemp&amp;amp;wtype=small&amp;amp;sc=Blogger"&gt;Get jaxtr&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.jaxtr.com/user/login.jsp"&gt;Login&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To tell you the truth, Malaysia &amp;amp; Thailand can't use this at the moment - it's more expensive! But friends from Japan can! It's clear (my first testing was for free!). Using this application a mobilephone user in Japan call local to international numbers &amp;amp; pay only local rates - mind you the first 100 minutes are free!!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Being in beta form, I hope this application will hurry up and include more asian countries coz the it can be so useful to expats (ie: calling using your mobilephone is a big plus +++++....!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Try it and please comment.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="VISIBILITY: hidden; WIDTH: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px" height="0" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/JnB0PTExOTM4ODg0NjI5NjgmcD03MzkyMSZkPSZuPWJsb2dnZXI=.jpg" width="0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-4068486550180019628?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/4068486550180019628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=4068486550180019628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/4068486550180019628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/4068486550180019628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-calls-in-50-countries.html' title='Free Calls in 50 countries!!!'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-1526352235349691019</id><published>2007-10-14T19:48:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2007-10-14T19:50:45.803+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tripping thru Ceylon, 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="WIDTH: 400px; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/Ru9NAMuWDAI/AAAAAAAAABc/w_XRMvLEDKM/s400/IMG_4414.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It started out bad with the moto driving off with us on their back and not knowing where to go to the budget hotel where I booked earlier telling me that they are full and the only room available was the penthouse. With disgust we went out, found the tuk tuk station and were ripped off by 40bht extra (actual fare is only 20bht) just to go to the next block.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weekend seemed bleak with steamy hot weather and us being tired we managed to check into better boutique hotels for the next two days. Enjoy our &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13061650@N03/sets/72157602046969044/"&gt;Hua Hin photo essay&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3021934511466370534?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3021934511466370534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3021934511466370534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3021934511466370534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3021934511466370534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/on-budget-travel-to-hua-hin.html' title='ON A BUDGET - TRAVEL TO HUA HIN'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/Ru9NAMuWDAI/AAAAAAAAABc/w_XRMvLEDKM/s72-c/IMG_4414.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-3582682706289826935</id><published>2007-09-12T14:45:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T21:26:33.237+07:00</updated><title type='text'>EYE PROBLEM? - THE NATURAL SOLUTION...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuetPcuWC-I/AAAAAAAAABM/f_uQYB8_hjs/s1600-h/Kak+Lila2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109242783195335650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuetPcuWC-I/AAAAAAAAABM/f_uQYB8_hjs/s200/Kak+Lila2.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;An inspiration for Natural Vision Improvement educators - Ms Lila C. Mopilin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is &lt;a href="http://www.freewebs.com/natural-e-vision/"&gt;Natural Vision Improvement Program&lt;/a&gt;. The CD that came along with my Thai &lt;a href="http://http//www.truecorp.co.th/eng/products/online_monthly_hi_speed.jsp"&gt;True&lt;/a&gt; simpack had a section on an introduction for Janet Goodrich's method touting on natural vision improvement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's good to know such services &amp;amp; expertise are now available in Asian countries. An Educator based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia, &lt;a href="http://geocities.com/ambagahouse"&gt;Ms Lila &lt;/a&gt;is currently working closely with eye doctors in Kota Kinabalu to promote such services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Orthoptic by profession, she firmly believe that the eye sight can improve without intrusive surgery such as &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lk_xD_0wPg"&gt;lasik surgery&lt;/a&gt;. Performed widely by eye technicians, such surgery sound drastic and guarantees are few and a far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the NVIP method's name implies the treatment is based on therapies and the practice of general good health which includes food consumption and exercises. Ever heard about pinhole glasses? You can get them in any &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.com.my/aboutUs.cfm"&gt;Guardian Shop&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.aswatson.com/eng/retail_hb_intro.html"&gt;Watson&lt;/a&gt;. Try it on and see whether you'd be suprised that you can see perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've had my mum used it and she could read perfect 20-20 vision! She has age old vision impairedness! The arguement is that if the brain believes that it is vision impaired then the eyes sees impaired vision. The NVIP &lt;a href="http://www.janetgoodrichmethod.com/vision-improvement-faq.html"&gt;method&lt;/a&gt; works the brain &amp;amp; re-train it using specialised and natural therapies to targeting at improving vision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did I mentioned that Ms Lila is also an &lt;a href="http://www.strabismus.org/strabismus_cure.html"&gt;orthopti&lt;/a&gt;c? Good news to mothers out there who have children with strabismus syndroms or crossed eyes or &lt;a href="http://www.hmetro.com.my/Current_News/HM/Sunday/Kesihatan/20061105122914/Article/indexs_html"&gt;'Mata Juling'&lt;/a&gt; - in B. Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not a lot of Asian knows that Orthopticts are specialised in strabismus and children with strabismus have a chance for normal vision if they are treated in their early formative years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope this post will help in your research for improved vision and educate on parents with children who have strabismus. Good luck! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3582682706289826935?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3582682706289826935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3582682706289826935' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3582682706289826935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3582682706289826935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/eye-problems-natural-solutions.html' title='EYE PROBLEM? - THE NATURAL SOLUTION...'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuetPcuWC-I/AAAAAAAAABM/f_uQYB8_hjs/s72-c/Kak+Lila2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-5425021184232958924</id><published>2007-09-09T19:35:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T21:57:12.998+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='khao yai winery visit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muak lek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wine country'/><title type='text'>Muak Lek District - A Place Which Is Not In Lonely Planet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuP619U0j8I/AAAAAAAAAA0/q-vQ5G3GS1E/s1600-h/IMG_4295.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108202207270178754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuP619U0j8I/AAAAAAAAAA0/q-vQ5G3GS1E/s400/IMG_4295.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was a long weekend trip to visit &lt;a href="http://www.khaoyaiwinery.com/"&gt;Khao Yai Winery &lt;/a&gt;in the &lt;a href="http://www.hotelthailand.com/travelinfo/central/saraburi.html"&gt;Muak Lek District &lt;/a&gt;just before Isaan, Thailand. We took the public bus at Bangkok's &lt;a href="http://www.thai-info2004.com/northeastern_thailand.htm"&gt;Mo Chit Norteastern Bus Station&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We anticipated a challenging time to find the right bus but to our relief the station was well manned with English speaking information counter staffs and well numbered counter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were told that the bus was leaving in 6 minutes after paying for our tickets of &lt;a href="http://xe.com/"&gt;92bht&lt;/a&gt; each (one way). A staff accompanied us to the bus, thoughtfully enquiring whether we wanted to go to the loo before boarding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Reaching Muak Lek, &lt;a href="http://www.cabbagesandcondoms.co.th/"&gt;Cabbages &amp;amp; Condoms Saptai Resort&lt;/a&gt; friendly PR rep (Khun Pon) met us warning us that our True mobile phone reception would be none existent!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Excited to reach this uniquely named resort, the view started to look like cowboy country, dairy farms are scattered along the road together with vineyards. It feels like we're in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Early the next morning after breakfast, we caught a ride with CC's vehicle to Khao Yai winery. Enjoying the fresh air, we went to the winery. Expecting to see a normal cellar, we were suprised to see modern equiptments together with huge wine barrels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13061650@N03/1350650398/in/set-72157601923259614/"&gt;photo essay&lt;/a&gt; tells the story of our visit. Enjoy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-5425021184232958924?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/5425021184232958924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=5425021184232958924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5425021184232958924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/5425021184232958924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/khao-yai-winery-visit-photo-essay.html' title='Muak Lek District - A Place Which Is Not In Lonely Planet'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuP619U0j8I/AAAAAAAAAA0/q-vQ5G3GS1E/s72-c/IMG_4295.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-3471570703991243093</id><published>2007-09-06T22:29:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T22:04:28.120+07:00</updated><title type='text'>LEAVE A FREE VOICE MESSAGE IN MY FRIENDSTER!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuAkmdU0j7I/AAAAAAAAAAs/qbYgCuuLM8A/s1600-h/logo-menutop-rockyou.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107122220563730354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuAkmdU0j7I/AAAAAAAAAAs/qbYgCuuLM8A/s400/logo-menutop-rockyou.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I only use &lt;a href="http://www.friendster.com/mionemp"&gt;friendster.com &lt;/a&gt;to update and communicate with my INTAN Junior Chamber of &lt;a href="http://www.jci.cc/"&gt;Junior Chamber Malaysia International&lt;/a&gt; members and one day I found out about the &lt;a href="http://rockyou.com/"&gt;'Rock You' &lt;/a&gt;leave a voice message programme....It's totally FREE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got so excited that I've had one up in my &lt;a href="http://friendster.com/mionemp"&gt;friendster &lt;/a&gt;that very second (hehehe....it took me awhile to figure out about the html, but i got it!). The only problem with the service is that everyone have to call a US number and leave a voice message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine my dissapointment...What a down-er! It actually cost more to leave a voicemail in friendster.com for all my Asian friends as compared to leaving a voicemail with my Malaysian mobilephone which the provider (&lt;a href="http://digi.com.my/"&gt;digi.com.my&lt;/a&gt;) will forward to my email!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a shoutout - Please let us enjoy 'Rock You' services in Asia! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let us pray......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-3471570703991243093?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/3471570703991243093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=3471570703991243093' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3471570703991243093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/3471570703991243093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/leave-free-voice-message-in-my.html' title='LEAVE A FREE VOICE MESSAGE IN MY FRIENDSTER!'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RuAkmdU0j7I/AAAAAAAAAAs/qbYgCuuLM8A/s72-c/logo-menutop-rockyou.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-814208986889257885</id><published>2007-09-06T17:06:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T22:06:50.419+07:00</updated><title type='text'>CLASHES OF THE TITANS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/Rt0vztU0j6I/AAAAAAAAAAk/I1mGKt7JJ5w/s1600-h/IMG_3951.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106290117894770594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/Rt0vztU0j6I/AAAAAAAAAAk/I1mGKt7JJ5w/s400/IMG_3951.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We used to live at the 21st floor in Evergreen Tower condominium along the Bangna-Trad highway in Bangkok and one day while getting ready for work, I looked out of the window and saw this amazing view of the elements. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I see a colourful rainbow on my left and the dark thunderous clouds on my right all at once, in fact I can photograph it in one click of the camera. It seems like the rainbow is in the middle of chasing away the blues of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope such visual will give fortitude to anyone who needs it and good luck to all out there who are making it in this world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-814208986889257885?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/814208986889257885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=814208986889257885' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/814208986889257885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/814208986889257885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/clashes-of-titans.html' title='CLASHES OF THE TITANS'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/Rt0vztU0j6I/AAAAAAAAAAk/I1mGKt7JJ5w/s72-c/IMG_3951.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-8094939962452218703</id><published>2007-09-04T11:01:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T14:37:13.555+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bangkok'/><title type='text'>A Photo Essay of Diana's visit in and about Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="280" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-6f58fc8dd5a6d575" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v8.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6f58fc8dd5a6d575%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331959483%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D26C2447F971BBBD54DEEC98B285841AFC8DA1110.83F0A0579BC0ABD35ABBE300A86269B995AAF02%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6f58fc8dd5a6d575%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DSPVNlVv69JhG8OcNw83djXAUWA8&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="280" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v8.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6f58fc8dd5a6d575%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331959483%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D26C2447F971BBBD54DEEC98B285841AFC8DA1110.83F0A0579BC0ABD35ABBE300A86269B995AAF02%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6f58fc8dd5a6d575%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DSPVNlVv69JhG8OcNw83djXAUWA8&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Here's a video clip in a retro-designed and latest True Cafe in Khao San Road. We stopped here to cool off after a day of shopping in Pratunam (Baiyoke 1, Baiyoke 2 and Indra Square) district. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This photo essay tells the story of Diana group's (from Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia) visit to Bangkok 30th August to 3rd September 2007. &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/12309648@N05/sets/72157601844527810/"&gt;Click here &lt;/a&gt;for the full version of the photo essay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-8094939962452218703?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=6f58fc8dd5a6d575&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/8094939962452218703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=8094939962452218703' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/8094939962452218703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/8094939962452218703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/photo-essay-of-dianas-visit-in-and.html' title='A Photo Essay of Diana&apos;s visit in and about Bangkok'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-4207590954242684022</id><published>2007-09-04T10:51:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T14:39:05.612+07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fishes at Thewes Jetty, Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="280" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-6480b906055ff6f4" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v1.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6480b906055ff6f4%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331959483%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D7F02A9FF6B38AA1504C1B81C4593ED89A1CB7DD5.1880B4A9C16F3C8F1CF66853018D6C8D855D849%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6480b906055ff6f4%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DcpkH5XmdUkOyk23n7bZED0JelFI&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="280" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v1.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6480b906055ff6f4%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331959483%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D7F02A9FF6B38AA1504C1B81C4593ED89A1CB7DD5.1880B4A9C16F3C8F1CF66853018D6C8D855D849%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6480b906055ff6f4%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DcpkH5XmdUkOyk23n7bZED0JelFI&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Wow! There's so many fishes. Looks like that movie called 'The Host' babies, looking as if they eat human flesh. Vendors lined up selling bags of feed and bread for 40bht - 80bht.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Instead the fishes are - the ever popular and a delicacy in Thailand, the cat fish and 'batin' fish, swimming freely against the current at Thewes Jetty, Stop no. 15, fares at 13bht - 18bht from Central Pier, Saphan Taksin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4103090907940453570-4207590954242684022?l=nunukragang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=6480b906055ff6f4&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/feeds/4207590954242684022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4103090907940453570&amp;postID=4207590954242684022' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/4207590954242684022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4103090907940453570/posts/default/4207590954242684022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nunukragang.blogspot.com/2007/09/fishes-at-thewes-jetty-bangkok.html' title='The Fishes at Thewes Jetty, Bangkok'/><author><name>Nunuk Ragang</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01283812224253356823</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103090907940453570.post-709205878705741459</id><published>2007-08-29T10:29:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T11:21:13.127+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Trip to Samut Songkhram</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RtTou9U0j5I/AAAAAAAAAAc/PzeGTHvJmrQ/s1600-h/The+team.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103960171151134610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hjXmTVBE5BU/RtTou9U0j5I/AAAAAAAAAAc/PzeGTHvJmrQ/s400/The+team.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;On a lazy Sunday, My husband and I along with the thai class group (Jovelle (filipino), Moni (Cambodian), Said (Kahsmiri) accompanied by Ajan Miaow (Thai) was waiting for the van which will take us to Samut Songkhram (Gulf of Siam). For more photos please click &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/12309648@N05/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first stop was breakfast or should I say brunch. Delicious scallops at 20bht for 5 pcs straight from the griller, miles and miles of sandbed due to low tide (you can hired a boat to the sea - half hour ride for only 50bht!) and ohhhhh so fresh seafood, which locals have for picnics with around Don Hoi Lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stopping at one very interesting temple (Wat), the most famous abot's body still in pristine condition is kept at a glass room where devotees can visit and pay merits. Near the glass room there's a beautiful stuppa containing the Lord Buddha's relic surrounded by golden mystical statues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last but not least is the Talat Nam Amphawa! Beautiful shops, a bit of the old, a bit of the young. Wonderful food, loads to shop about and a thriving floating market where we had our delicious porky noodle soup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We finished the trip with a boat ride to see the fireflies. 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