Month: September 2008
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On the Way
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I am on the way. Not only in the mountains. But also in my life. I reached mid-life (what a stupid term, especially because we don’t really know when we reached it). I realized that alot of what I learned over the years catch up with me and impact me…
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Yves Rossy – FusionMan
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I know for my fellow Swiss this is probably old news. I red in the the Bangkok Post on Saturday that Ives Rossy crossed the chanel on September 26. 2008 with his jetwings. Then by coincidence I switched on the National Geographic Channel I they showed a documentary and the…
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Strelizia reginae
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On a trip to Doi Angkhan I saw this most beautiful Strelizia. This is a very slow growing plant called the "Bird of Paradise" The picture I took is from a plant that is about 170 cm high and over a meter wide. The flowers were absolutly beautiful.
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Men’s challenge Weekend
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Friday evening and Saturday I went to my first men’s retreat ever. I actually signed up only two days before, because I have quite a hard time with deciding to bear my heart once more in front of strangers. In the past I have been in numerous seminars and conferences.…
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Working in a new village
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A view months ago our team got invited by a village that was moved by the Government to a new location. This village came from the Hui Kau Laam valley. One of three Lahu Deng villages that was moved in the last five years. Most of the villages were or…
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New Macbook?
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There are rumors of a new Macbook coming out in September (Macworld issue 10/2008) It probably will have an aluminum case. I was able to fix my battered ibook G4. It has a new harddrive 160 gig. It seems to be faster as well. I found out now that my…
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Update
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There are times where I just kind of avoid the Internet. I get to busy with life and am to tired to also keep posting. This week I started again with Thai studies. It’s a module on Thai life. During my computer crash I lost all my iflash cards from…
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Domain name gone?
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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,…
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It has been a while
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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.…