-- Today, (
24th.), forenoon and walking along Si Lom rd. I saw that most malls, shops etc. were
OPEN.
- In SILCOM. just a few outlets remained
CLOSED.
-- I don't know how typical
tee rak is of non-BKK. and/or non-I-San Thais: he's
25YO., (as seen from his ID.),; says that he hails from TRANG, (by rail approx.
520M. & roughly SSW. of BKK.),; that he lost both parents in the
Tsunami of 2004AD. and that the Thai gov't. paid-for his Bachelor's Degree Course at R'haeng. Uni..
- But he's rabidly
anti-red shirts; in my ignorance I had supposed that TRANG is, like I-San, basically agricultural and as such that there might be some traces of fellow sympathy between peoples from such parts of the Kingdom - but
not a bit of it. Walking with him I was forbidden, almost under pain of death, to pick-up any [
I]souvenirs[/i] or similar.
- However, one time when he wasn't with me I picked-up
a couple of good quality bath towels wch. I had washed & dried. Today morning I gave them to him as he was packing and just casually mentioned that I'd collected them from the
red shirts' encampment. They were thrown-back in my face and angrily rejected.
