Tuesday 23 September 2008

23rd September, 2008

Today's weather;

An almost complete blue sky rules over Samui this morning. Current temp at 7 am is 27.2C.

Yesterday was sunny and hot! Max temp reached 33.3C.

The floods in Thailand caused damages worth Bt28.56 million so far: Interior Ministry and flood victims forced to sleep rough.

On the political front PM Somchai completes his team with a good view on him in this article; From cronyism to proxies to family politics.

"The public will soon see whether he (Somchai) cares more about the family business than the public interest
Swimming in a sea full of sharks or walking through a minefield would be more comfortable for Somchai. He faces formidable adversity and tough challenges. Thaksin and Samak, both with more influence and longer, rougher years in politics, still ended up the way they are, facing the strong possibility of jail terms.
Even after family nudging and advice, Somchai probably forgot to ask himself: who am I to undertake such an impossible task when the longer fangs have failed miserably?"

Here's also a link to very good article in he Bangkok Post; Fight for democracy

Camille

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent work on the blog as always camille highlighting more than just the weather keep up the brilliant work, I check in every day! Only 2 weeks now until I arrive on honeymoon, weather's been looking great all of September hope this continues into October for us 8th-22nd:)! Good luck!

Camille Lemmens said...

Hi Barry,

Thanks for checking in! Maybe get an RSS feed!

Today it was steaming! Can only hope that the weather stays like this now for a few more days, uh, weeks!

Anonymous said...

Excuse my ignorance but what is an RSS feed? Hope you don't mind if I give you a shout here again next week to see what you think it might be like for our arrival in 2weeks!

Camille Lemmens said...

Hi Barry,

With an RSS feed, you subscribe to my blog and everytime there's an update, you'll get an email, telling you about the update.
On the elft panel there are some buttons that allow you to subscribe.

No problem at all to check in again, the more the merrier!

Anonymous said...

I actually already have done that before. Unfortunately your daily updates arrive a day late i.e I wouldn't get todays update until tomorrow. Not to worry though I enjoy coming into work and checking in:)! Have a great day..what is left of it over there!

Barry

Camille Lemmens said...

Hi Barry,

I appreciate it you haibg a feed already!

The delay is strange though, but I think it's because the server is in the US. Although I'm ahead of you, the server that dicates the feeds, is 'behind' you, time wise, hence you get updates the next day!

At least, that's what I think that happens!