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-- On the front page of today's, (23rd.), the Sunday Post. 'paper. is a news' box with info. about the BTS. & the MRT., wch. I summarise below -
1.- BTS.: 1.1.- Today - OPEN 08.-22.oo.hrs.; 1.2. - Tomorrow - OPEN 06.-23.59.hrs. -curfew permitting. 2.- MRT.: 2.1.- Today - OPEN 08.-20.oo.hrs.; 2.2.- Tomorrow - OPEN 06.-23.59.hrs. - curfew permitting. -- E&OE.. --
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[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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-- Khun BillyH., - Thank you for yr. approbatory & generous words - much appreciated by this TOF. - ha! -- In those days and when a day-time curfew was ordered in NICOSIA all doors, windows etc. had to be CLOSED, too. - Whilst on street-patrols we used to amuse ourselves by lobing tomatoes through any OPEN doors & windows: INCREASED our Hellenic vocabularies - that's 100%. for sure!
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I have not been in BKK during the last 2 months, probably a fortunate thing. But I am familiar with the city, especially the areas where the redshirt occupation took place, as well as the gay areas.
Hence I wish to express great appreciation to khun sextile for his detailed observations. I felt that by reading his posts, I had an understanding of what was happening in those areas that I knew better. I'm not sure that he was always as prudent as he may have been regarding his wanderings, but I really enjoyed reading his reports. Well done sir.
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-- Today, (23rd.), a'noon. tee rak & I went for our usual walk-about:
- We looked-in at Silom 4. and saw that the T'PHONE. PUB. was set-up and there were several prs. of customers enjoying refreshments; THE BALCONY BAR was in process of being set-up - tee rak, (at my insistence), asked when they would be CLOSING tonight and was told at 22.oo.hrs.. - Farther on we saw a Sec. Gd. leaning-over SILCOM's hoarding; in reply we were told that SILCOM. would RE-OPEN 241030.hrs.. -- Around the KRVI. statue all of the forenoon's tentage had been struck-down; the PK. would remain CLOSED until monday morning; the whole area was generally deserted. -- We walked-along R'damri. rd. all the way to the PRATUNAM I'sect. with no hindrances; in fact we noted howmuch work the BMA. laborers must have done to clean-away all of the red shirts' debris & remains. - I am not unaware that many of us farangs have been known to mutter 'TIT.' - often with teeth clenched; or else we shrug our shoulders in an 'Mai pen rai.' gesture at another perceived failing wch. would never ever happen in our own home-countries; but this time one should give the BMA. their due for the speed with wch. they've cleaned-up & removed the trash. - Just short of Sarsin rd. we watched a fireman atop a long & extending ladder removing the antennas from the red shirts' aerial. I asked a fireman how high the man was and was told that the ladder could reach UP as far as 150ft..; my off-the-cuff calculations - based on the distance from the ladder's pivot to the base of the aerial, approx. 42ft., and the Angle of Dangle as shewn on the ladder's Inclinometer, approx. 65degrees, - put the man UP at around 92ft.. Another fireman, in the trolley that rides UP & DOWN tracks on TOP of the ladder was having his photo. taken by one of his companions, I made a 'Smile, please.' gesture at him, at wch. he broke-out into a broad smile. We chatted in Thaiglish; he asked me if I wanted to join him in going-up? I mentioned that when I was in my early thirties I had worked atop a 200ft. electricity-type pylon, (using my hands in explanation to supplement my vastly inadequate Thai.), and thus heights were no problem to me. -- In the burnt-out space between ZEN TWR. & C'WORLD. a couple of fire-hoses were playing still; the ent'ce. was blocked-off to keep-out all non-essential pers.. -- At the R'PRASONG. I'sect., (the S'vit. rd.), a largish gp. of volunteers was working alongside the BMA. workers in scrubbing the rd. and structures along it. - Between the I'CONN. HTL. & CENTRAL - C. LOM were three BMA. water-trucks, with one of them hosing-down the supports for the o'head. skywalk with a large gp. - a rough count of maybe as many as a couple of hundred - helpers who were hard at work; in the usual Thai way they'd turned it into MORE of a work-fest., thus most were working-away in good spirits: laughing & joking even as they toiled. Other volunteers were circulating and were distributing cold drinking water. -- Tee rak & I walked along Wireless rd. to the Br. Embassy, wch. - not unsurprisingly - was CLOSED tighter than the proverbial fish's a***hole. -- We walked-back around LUMPINI PK., along Si Lom rd. and back to the app't. - arriving just before the rains did!
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-- Quite correct; corr'n. gladly accepted - happy to see that my postings are subject to such scrutiny!
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-- From a box on the front page of today's BKK. Post. 'paper.:
- Today 'buses. will run between 05.30.-20.oo.hrs.; - Canal boats along Khlong San Saep: ditto; - BTS.: 06.-20.oo.hrs.; - MRT.: 06.-21.oo.hrs.. -- Tonight's curfew's hrs. are expected to be 23.-04.oo.hrs.; - The CRES., (Cntr. for Reaction to the Emgy. Sit'n. ), will review the sit'n. on a day-to-day basis. - Police & mil'y. patrols will be out on some of BKK's. streets purely as a precautionary measure.
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