152 Dinso Ratchadamnern Central World Cambridge

Watched Stephen Hawking in a cinema

Oscars night

cried

Cambridge

loves released

minds in trapped bodies

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151 Hotel to House Karawaci

Spent three weeks holed up in a hotel room.

Now in a house smelling of wood glue.

Placeless again for a while. But not for long.

 

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150 Karawaci, Indonesia

Last week they came into my flat and took away my home. They packed it into boxes and left me with three bedrooms a kitchen and a space where I once felt attached.

That place in Mitr Mansion has gone now. Gone forever.

And today I am in another hotel in another town in another country starting another retailing job.

At sunset today, I closed down my lap top. Looked out over a golf course and headed into an awful shopping mall and hypermarket. It is no wonder that such places are dying in America. They should be culled here.

Got back in time for sunset. And a hotel pub meal in the basement with the hotel band.

Place and Placelessness. Edward Relph. First read 31 years ago in Nottingham and still relevant to me today in what once was the hinterlands of Batavia. Back in Bangkok they are sending me news that the engineer has approved the design for my barn and that it is possible that it could stand up longer than an Indonesian shopping mall.

149 Pak Chong

PTT logos on the road and service stations...

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148 Silom Road

Another country another set of training shoes....

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147 Nong Ki

Nong Ki in real life this time...








or rather real life meets real death in a Buddhist wheel sort of way.

146 Nong Ki in Vibhavadi

Architects again this week... Electrics, water and materials.... for the Baan Barn. Based on a Belgian design.