ça daube! durian

Good morning Sunshine, again...time for holidays, to read newspaper with nice coffee and a croissant. I found a topic in the news paper. It’s so funny! It said “No more durian storms, just ‘mungkut ones”

The name durian brings back bad feeling about the damage that Tropical Storm Durian caused to the Philippines. A team was set up to chose an alternative name. They came up with mungkut, a tropical ball-like fruit with translucent flesh inside a reddish-brown skin which is the Thai word for mangosteen.

The World Meteorological Organization’s Typhoon Committee accepted the change last month. Durian has been replaced with ‘mungkut'

'King of Hearts'

Drawing by a child who lives in Klong Toey

Anuchai Secharunputong, my favorite Thai photographer had been busy covering the country’s 76 provinces in his personal mission to take the photographs of the King’s portraits that hang from the walls of every local household. Each photograph, it seems; says a thousand words of love and devotion the people have for their ‘King of Heart’

“I could sense right at the instant that the portraits that hang from the walls of every household are not just any photograph. The underlying message those photographs is always a clear of loyalty the people in those houses have for the King”

See some his Photograhic