We’re down to the wire for the company’s annual fundraiser awards dinner event. This Thursday, where a few employees see it as time to party, it is actually hell in the making for our department. Not so much the underlings, but Demi-Boss and Lady-Boss are damned near going insane over the past week. For some reasons, this year feels more stressful with 2 people heading up the charge than with just Demi-Boss last year. Then again, the former CEO wasn’t this involved with the show. The madness spilled down to me yesterday as I stayed late and helped them with...
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Me: You know, I’m so tired of explaining to Americans about the coup. Dad: They’re just jealous. Me: What? Why? Dad: When Thais are desperate for a change in the government, we resort to the coup. When Americans are desperate for a change in their presidency, and since they can’t have a coup, they just kill him off. Me: Dad!? Dad: Look at what they did to JFK! And Lincoln. And almost did it to Reagan too. *Chuckles* Me: *Sigh* Okay I’m hanging up now....
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Well, enough about the Coup. We’re closing in on picking an interim PM, so I’m not worried any more. We’re back on the usual recovery path. And I’m moving on. Besides, I’m losing readership over here talking politics–foreign politics for most of you–all the time. The OakMonster’s Den is not supposed to be serious, is the main complaint. So, here. Have a completely irrelevant post. 😉 I bought a jar of Nivea Creme yesterday. This blue jar has been a Phromyothi’s household item ever since I remembered. My mom used the creme to treat her dry palms and soles, a...
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Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Arrrrrrgggh! This entry be updated through out the days as me get more pictures. Capt’n Bubbles, the Jolly Pirate of the South China Sea, welcomes ye ter the Talk Like A Pirate Day…Arrrrrrrrr! First, see the Pirate Turtle Brownies that Captain Bubbles baked last night! Then, learn to talk pirate. And of course, no day be better than t’day fer a miliary coup. Thailand is having one now. Check yer BBC.com (because CNN doesn’t have ditty!) Avast!! There be more on the way!...
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yarrgh Originally uploaded by theoakmonster. Tomorrow be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Ye better strut your pirattitude out there or Captain Bubbles will come over and slap ye, ye mangy blige rats! Arrrrggggh. P.S. Check out my other internet borrowed baby, everyone please welcome my Trojan “nephew”, Joshua Heygood!...
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momandkids Originally uploaded by theoakmonster. Here’s the picture of us at the hospital the day before I left. That’s my oldest brother on the left and the middle one on the right. She’s looking pretty good, y’all. Like I said, if she could yell at me to hang up the phone when I call to talk to her because I was wasting money, she’s doing swell. 🙂 And here’s one of my brother and his wife with mom. (My sister in law is soo pretty!)...
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