[b] - Today, (23rd.), tee rak & I took a late forenoon's walk - it is sunday, after all! - Around the block - as it were:.
- No mil'y. and / or police seen at the Henri Dunant I'sect.;
- Just four lightly-armed soldiers seen at the DUSIT THANI I'sect.;
- MRT. Silom OPEN , (posted signs: 'OPEN 08.-20.hrs.'),. Tee rak & I walked through the underpass and emerged near to the KRVI. statue to join many spectators: many young people scrubbing the steps around the statue or picking-up the remnants of the red shirts' rubbish in the gen'l. area; a couple of people praying before that statue, (first time that I've seen that for a v. long time.),. A ring of white and sponsors' tents set-up selling water, iced drinks, snacks and so forth. Many young people wearing lt. bl. b'ball. caps with: 'Together we can.', (a familiar sounding slogan?), written on them in white letters; many also wearing lt. green shirts.
*- LUMPINI PK. has been RE-OPENED to the gen'l. public.
*- At the DT. I'sect. the MC.CAFE. was OPEN, although TOPS, S'BUCKS. & FASHION O'LET. were CLOSED . Across Si Lom rd. AU BON PAIN ditto; some may remember gasping in shocked horror when it had [u] one of its windows [/ U] blown in; and now, looking-at the customers, how. . . . many remember that event and the casualties? Possibly a good thing that human memory is, on the whole, fairly short term insofar as remembering tragic and / or unhappy events-superficially, at least; but deep down in the anfractuosities of the human mind who knows what really lurks therein?
- Walking along Si Lom rd. several of the small businesses were OPEN; PARADIS DAY SPA., APSARA MASSAGE & ANGOR all had [i] masseurs / masseuses [/ I] sitting outside,. . . . but none seen o'side. PRANEEE MASSAGE, (the adjacent BOOTS - [i] The Chemists [/ I] - was CLOSED.). SILCOM. is boarded-up still, with no signs of life - despite my knocking on the hoarding!
- Many people out with brushes etc. assisting the BMA. laborers in scrubbing Si Lom rd. - An heartening sight, forsooth.
- A largish gp. of unarmed soldiers - with pink shoulder-knots, at the ent'ce. to P. Pong 2., many with red flowers * pinned to their camo. uniforms.
- FOODLAND must have had an early morning's del'y. of supplies as most of the shelves were re-stocked.
- I wouldn't want to go so far as to write that BKK. is en fete, but there appears to be a certain sense of relief in the air that for some sections of BKK's. society, at least, it's over for now, and that BKKians. can get-on with their lives.
*-* Surely not the happiest choice of colors, methinks?
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