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Holidays approaching

1 April, 2009 / / 2 Comments

The kids are off school for a week already. We finally get to get away for a long needed holiday. The problem is when we stay t home it is not quite a holiday because there is always something to do and people calling because of projects or other things.

We haven't been at the beach since Juli 2007. Okay I admit I have been alone in Kau Lak for three days in January for a diving course I had to post-bone because of the airport closure in November. But As a family we haven't to the beach for a long time.
No Internet for 8 days 🙂 Only sun, sand and wind. Better pack those books I wanted to read for a while and extra sun cream.

Here in Chiang Mai it is getting terribly hot. At least during the day. Our house is still pretty cool even without using the air-con. After we come back from our trip Thai New year (Songkran) will start.

Thai Unterricht

4 March, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Ich bin Gestern Abend aus den Bergen zurückgekommen. Das Dmc Team wiird bis Freitag in den Bergen bleiben und in den verschiedenen Dörfern einen ihren Einsatz haben.

Heute Morgen war ich wieder im Thai Unterricht. Ich bereite mich auf den Test für nächste Woche vor. Ich habe wieder ein Buch abgeschlossen. "Thai Culture". Ich schaue zurück auf das letzte Jahr Thaiunterricht und muss sagen das es sehr viel gebracht hat. Lesen, schreiben und Kommunikation hat sicher sehr verbessert. Ich bin noch nicht auf dem Stand auf dem ich sein möchte aber sehe schon eher das tatsächlich möglich ist :-) 
Mich nach all den Jahren hier in Thailand wieder dem Thaistudium zu widmen hat sich auch sehr positiv auf die Arbeit ausgewirkt. Nun ich habe doch noch einen weiten Weg vor mir. Trotzdem bin ich ermutigt weiterzumachen. 
สวัสดีถุกคนเเพระเจ้าอวยพร

Dinosaurs in the house

1 March, 2009 / / 2 Comments

Yesterday morning Timmy was vacuum cleaning the leaving room when he called me from my house duties. We had a visitor from another world. A dinosaur (a small one) was hanging at the fly wire trying to get through the glass window. We are used to having Geckos in the house (a friend of ours named them all Freddy) and we also had close encounters with snakes in the bed room etc. But this lizard was a first. There are very fast, speeding off on two legs. Not easy to catch. We eventually granted our little friend freedom in our wild garden hoping that Snowy, our cat, would not devour him like she did with Dino's friend last week. 

Lizard in the garden

a new year has started….

4 January, 2009 / / 2 Comments

I wish to all of my five English readers a very happy and great year!

May you have
Peace in a world of war,
Security where world powers fall,
May you experience the love that transcends all!
… und auch allen deutschsprachigen Lesern wünsche ich alles Beste für das 2009.
Möget ihr Frieden haben in einer Welt des Krieges,
Sicherheit, wo Weltmächte fallen,
Möget ihr die Liebe erfahren
die all das überschreitet

Broken toe

22 October, 2008 / / 1 Comment

How can a little toe be so painful. I was on my way out of the house and quickly ran upstairs to get my ipod. There I kicked the bed with my little right toe. It hurt like mad. But I went downstairs and put my shoes of to go to the bank. When I left my truck I realised that walking was very difficult. How in the world can a toe hurt so much. Looking at my swollen blue toe I realised that I probably have broken the little thing. It is like double the size and won’t fit in any shoe for a while. No Sports for a some weeks.

I found this webpage for Self-Help

Step 1

Remove your shoe and sock and feel for any deformity. Gently run your
fingers up and down your toe. If your toe feels crooked or lumpy, it’s
more likely that it’s broken than sprained.
               

                   

Step 2

Wiggle your toe. Severe pain suggests the toe is broken.

               

                   

Step 3

Listen to your toe while wiggling it. If you hear a grating or popping
sound, a piece of bone may be rubbing against another piece of bone.

               

                   

Step 4

Check for swelling. If your toe is double its size in puffiness and the skin is stretched, your toe may be broken.

               

                   

Step 5

Compare your injured toe to the same toe on the other foot. If the
injured toe looks shorter or deformed, chances are it may be broken.

               

                   

Step 6

Check your temperature. Within two to three hours after a bone breaks,
the body’s natural defense mechanisms automatically raise your
temperature. A fever above 99.6 degrees F (37.6 C) suggests the toe is broken.

               

                   

Step 7

Try to stand for a minute or so. If your toe is broken, it won’t be
able to support your weight. A broken toe will tend to buckle
underneath you when you stand on it.

Facebook timeout problems

15 October, 2008 / / 3 Comments

This last days I had annoying facebook problems. It had to do that my facebook account would drop me out after a view seconds and I would have to login every time I went to another page. After restating the browser, deleting all cookies, reseting the browser etc. I figured out that the problem came from the chat program in facebook. I use Adium, a chat program that connects the different chat accounts I have, like msn, ichat and facebook. It seems like if I have Adium and facebook open at the same time facebook logs me out after a view seconds. I guess some seriuos bugs in the facebook software or security issues with a third party software like Adium. To avoid this I cannot be loged into facebook and Adium at the same time.

Domain name gone?

3 September, 2008 / / 2 Comments

Living in Asia I get used to all kinds of disruption. I mean coming from the perfect country of Switzerland where the people get informed when the train is two minutes late.
Here in Thailand we are used to power-cuts, Internet not working or so slow you could run faster, mail being lost, floods, no water, garbage not collected, the blocking of youtube and alot more. Still it can be annoying when things don’t work. Since the first of September it our e-mail doesn’t work. It is not the first time. sometimes our provider changes something without telling. But now i realized that also our domain name questasia doesn’t seem to work. The webpage is down. Even though the domain name is still valid to next year.
This is probably why I have about five e-mail addresses. 🙂

It has been a while

2 September, 2008 / / 0 Comments

It has been a little more then three weeks since we came back from Switzerland. We are definitely back in Asia. I have been on my first trip to the mountains last week and will be on the road tomorrow for two days. I had a hard time coming back. Switzerland was so nice!

My laptops hard drive broke while we were in Switzerland and it took a while to get my computer fixed and all my data installed on it. I’m glad I didn’t have to buy a new one. I want to wait for the new generation of Macbook coming out sometime in the future.

Next week I will go back to Thai studies and I will be traveling up to Fang alot more the coming months. We have several projects we want to see. I will try to update our questasia webpage more frequently on what we are working on.

Thailand seems to be in a state of tumult right now. Here in Chiang Mai we don’t feel much of it yet. But if you follow the news you will know that demonstrators seized government buildings, including the Prime ministers office in Bangkok. Occupied several Airports (Phuket, Krabi and Hat Yai) for a day, and most of the railway is down. For tomorrow there is a threat that telephone, electricity and water would be cut for certain state agencies like police. I never heard of that a nation of over 67 million people can be controlled by about 10,000 demonstrators. The thing is taking on momentum.

Thailand has become more expensive. With petrol prices going up, transportation went up and so go consumer goods and everything else. With the political problems the economy will suffer as well and tourism, one of the main incomes in many places, will definitely suffer.

Busy Tuesday

3 June, 2008 / / 1 Comment

I was sitting in the car this morning and thought what I really should be doing is writing the Newsletter and let people know that we are coming to Switzerland. But here I was coming from the Immigration office trying to get everything in order to transfer the Visa into the new Passport of two of my kids. Then prepare for the English lesson at four thirty, get ready for my Thai lesson at one o’clock, copy all the documents for Immigration, take my two oldest to the Immigration office to show them they are real at three o’clock. After teaching English at six go meet with the fellow musicians for a practice.
What a crazy day today.

Running errands

11 December, 2007 / / 0 Comments

This morning I ran errands I should have done a while ago. Something I don’t really like doing. Tuesday is the day where I stay home to look after my kids At least from lunch time on. In the morning I usually go to the office, then pick up some Thai food and at one my youngest in school. The afternoon I do work at home or do things around the house.
This morning I went to Macro to shop for the Christmas outreach we have in the mountains next week. After that I went to a internet provider to check prices. We want to change our current provider because it is expensive and slow and there are other ones now that are better. The other thing I looked at is prices for a new car. Our family car is getting to old and mainly to small to carry a family of five with growing children. Lillian also often has to pick other children from school. When we have visitors transportation is always a problem. Specially when I’m gone and we can’t throw everybody on the back of my truck. So finally I went to the garage to see how we could finance a bigger car.
12.00 picking up food; 13.00 picking up Two of my children; rest of the afternoon unleash Philipp the gardener into our garden. There is a lot of work to be done.
Tomorrow I will be off to Fang to meet my staff and to do some more outreach preparations.

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