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Sukjai Thailand Steals Waterfall And Fish Photos

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:19:12 +0000

Tourism Authority of Thailand stealing some outdoors photos.

Once again, Sukjai Thailand, the Facebook page of the Tourism Authority of Thailand has stolen photos off the Internet.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand obviously doesn’t know anything about the law, copyright, and intellectual property, as they give photo credit to Google. This was only done because on their previous album they stole (8 photos) they were asked if the photos belonged to them. They gave credit to Google. I posted below that stating that they stole 8 photos from 8 different sites.

As of the time of this posting, my comments remain on the Tourism Authority of Thailand Sukjai Thailand Facebook page as well as the question about who owns the photos. They aren’t even capable of removing damaging posts.

Here is the Facebook post/album from Sukjai Thailand – Tourism Authority of Thailand with at least 3 of 4 stolen photos.

Tourism Authority of Thailand Sukjai Facebook Album

I was only able to find 3 of the 4 photos and have other things to do besides try to track down every photo stolen by the Authority of Thailand.

Photo 1 is from Amarit Tour Limited Partnership

Photo 2 is from one of the following sites – pateaw.thde.com, market.mthai.com, jackkychan.blogspot.com. I do not know which site is the copyright holder, but it looks like there are plenty of thieves stealing this photo.

Photo 3 is from learners.in.th

The Tourism Authority of Thailand is going to get called on their thefts more and more as more people are starting to pay attention to how they do business.

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Traditional Songkran In Khon Kaen

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:16:53 +0000

Khon Kaen Songkran honoring ancestors.

Songkran officially started yesterday, April 13th, and it was time for the family to visit a local temple and honor the family ancestors. Food was prepared to present to the Buddhist monks and some other gifts were purchased.

The family got together at our house at about noon for Songkran and we had lunch of fried pork and sticky rice. After lunch, it was off to the temple – Wat Pha Chai Wan.

Songkran Khon Kaen Wat Pha Chai Wan

This marks the third year I have participated in this Thai tradition in Khon Kaen during Songkran. It is always nice to get with the family and go to the temple.

When we went last year, the head Abbot was the monk that my mother-in-law wanted to see and give her offering to. This year, she has had a change of heart and has found a different Buddhist monk at the same temple that is more to her liking. He was very friendly and we had a nice little chat before the ceremony started. He even offered a chair for me to save my old knees.

Buddhist Monk Wat Pha Chai Wan Songkran Khon Kaen

After introductions and a little chit-chat, my mother-in-law got down to business. She wrote down the names of all the deceased in the family and presented it to the monk.

Buddhist Monk With List of Deceased Family Members

A couple of prayers and chants later, he read off the names, one by one. More prayers and time to burn the list.

Buddhist Monk Burning List of Family Member Names

It was then time for the Buddhist monk to bless all of us with a sprinkling of holy water. This was as wet as I got on Songkran.

Buddhist Monk Preparing to Sprinkle Holy Water

The ceremony finished, we chatted a little more with the monk. He was very soft spoken and took the time to talk to all of us. Finished here, and time to go outside to build some sand stupas.

Almost everyone that comes to the temple for Songkran, builds a small stupa out of sand as another way to show respect and honor their family. There is a big pile of sand and some buckets and small colored flags on sticks to help build your sand stupa.

Wat Pha Chai Wan Sand Stupas

My brother-in-law did most of the work, but we all added our own personal touch.

Chaiyasit Family Sand Stupa

Annual tradition during Songkran was finished and it was time for me to wander around the temple and the temple grounds a bit.

Lord Buddha Statue at Wat Pha Chai Wan

Wat Pha Chai Wan Mural

As I wandered about, the family was busy with the lottery ticket sellers, looking for their lucky numbers.

Wat Pha Chai Wan Lottery Ticket Salesman

Lucky tickets purchased, it was time to load up the vehicles and head to the fish pond on the temple grounds.

Wat Pha Chai Wan Fish Pond

My wife purchased some fish food for 5 Thai baht per bag, and we fed the hordes of carp and catfish.

Wat Pha Chai Wan Fish

These fish definitely are well fed.

It was time to go on back home for some food and drink. I managed to stay completely dry (other than the monk’s blessing) during the first day of Songkran!

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Khon Kaen Lake Fishing

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:09:22 +0000

Almost every time that I ride my bicycle around the small Khon Kaen Lake near my house, Beung Nong Khot, I see fishermen. I see them with their fishing rods and reels, in small boats or rafts, sometimes floating on Styrofoam, or walking with a net and an inner tube wrapped around them.

Today I saw something different in this small lake in Khon Kaen. I saw ladies standing waist deep with bamboo poles and a large net attached.

Khon Kaen Lady Fishing

I wasn’t surprised to see ladies fishing as I was to see the fishing device. This is the first time I have seen this here in Khon Kaen. I have seen it elsewhere, but never here.

There were 5 or 6 of these ladies angling away and then I saw the boss. There was a pick-up truck with a male driver and he had about 6 big coolers sitting outside of his truck waiting for the catch.

Lady Fishing Beung Nong Khot

There was no chit-chatting here – just fishing. This was business and these ladies were out to catch some fish.

Lady Fishing Lake Nong Khot

This style of fishing takes strength and patience. Once you put out your net, you have to wait, and wait, and wait until the opportune time when you think. or can see, fish above the net. Then, you have to quickly lift up your net and get your catch to shore.

Lady Fishing and Waiting

The waiting is always the hardest.

Now, what do I call these Khon Kaen anglers? Lady fishermen? Fisherwomen? Lady Anglers?

Whatever, they are hard working ladies, as this was at 0630 and they had already been there awhile. Cheers to the Lady Anglers with their bamboo poles and nets in Khon Kaen on Beung Nong Khot.

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Tha Li Market, Phra That Satja and Dinner

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:56:44 +0000

After departing the Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge, it was time to go to the market and get some food for dinner. The Tha Li market is very close to the bridge and not a very big market. But, the main thing is that the market is entirely food. Fruits and vegetables, seafood, and meat were all packed into a small area. And, of course there were some folks cooking their goodies on barbecues.

Tha Li Market Vegetables

Tha Li Market Barbecue

Once we had secured some interesting delicacies, we were on our way to Phra That Satja. This is a beautiful temple that houses what has to be one of the largest gongs in Thailand.

Phra That Satja Gong

The temple grounds has a beautiful Sala and a small gift shop that has a preserved two-headed goat on display. We didn’t have much time here as we were all getting hungry but I made Uncle Pong stop along the rode for some different angle shots.

Phra That Satja From the Road

Uncle Pong drove the backroad along the Mekong River and my brother-in-law and cousin suffered the bumps and dust -but we got home in about 1/2 hour and then it was time to get dinner ready.

My brother-in-law, Em, took charge of cleaning the fish and preparing the rat. Yes, rat. But, not a dirty, disease infested rat from the big city. This was a field rat and supposedly it tastes like chicken.

Barbecue Fish and Rat

The ladies whipped up the rest of the food – vegetables, somtam, sticky rice, and more.

Dinner at Uncle Pong's House

The long day was just about done except for a little more Singha drinking. Needed to get some sleep as the morning would bring some more photos of Chiang Khan and some metal detecting on the Mekong River.

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Street and Driveway Seafood

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:26:59 +0000

Rainy season continues with rain off and on all day and night. Today, when the rain stopped, I took the dogs outside to get some fresh air and was surprised to find some seafood on the driveway and street. Guess they came up from the sewers.

Driveway Crab

Street Fish

Wife told me that if I was Thai, that fish would have been placed in boiling water for dinner.

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