Showing posts with label burning tyres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burning tyres. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Bangkok burning

I decided I wouldn’t keep posting about the state of things in Bangkok because it’s probably not all that interesting to you but that meant not blogging at all yesterday. It’s all consuming here; ever present and I can think of little else. Thoughts of exams are all wrapped up inside the state of Bangkok.

School was open yesterday and Daughter got to and from safely but after 10pm last night we received a text from school stating that it would be shut today. Talks had broken down and internet rumours suggested a dawn raid.

When I woke this morning, I could hear the wop wop wop noise of helicopters. It’s still present now in the distance, beyond the sound of my air con.

This is the view from my kitchen window this morning at about 8.30am:


















And yes, we have an exam this afternoon.

Update: 10.05am: