Month: April 2009

  • Back from Mae Hong Son

    On Thursday evening I came back from the little mountain town called Mae Hong Son. I decided to fly for the four day trip. Going by airplane it takes me 30 minutes instead of the six hours drive on a road with more then 1800 curves.  I went to teach…

  • Cookies gone bad

    The problem with not being able to access my blog was with the cookies on my browser. Something was apparently corrupt and every time I wanted to open a typepad blog it would read that corrupt cookie. "I told you not to store the cookies for too long, they get…

  • To Mae Hong Son

    I can still not access my blog here in Thailand. Strange! Tomorow I will be off to Mae Hong Son for a four day trip. I will give some workshops on worship leading and worship band/music for youth and staff at an orphenage.

  • Cannot access typepad blogs in Thailand

    This is the second time all typepad blogs and Yesterday also blogspot were unaccessible here in Thailand. I wonder if it is only a local thing or the whole of Thailand. I was able to get on philsquest.com and questasia.org using a proxy server. I think this is rather weird. It…

  • Healing Prayer

    Sometimes we forget that God has a hand in our lives. It often seems we can go through live without noticing his presence. The promise of his love and presence is with us though. I talked with my kids the other day about how God loves us and how important…

  • Der Sturm in Thailand hat sich gelegt

    Wie die täglichen Gewitter in Chiang Mai in den letzten Tagen hat sich der rote Sturm über dem Land vorerst gelegt. Die Demonstrationen sind vorüber. Ich denke das ihr die Bilder und Berichte im Fernsehen gesehen habt. Was politisch hier abläuft ist nicht einfach zu erklären und hat eine lange…

  • Thailand wohin?

    Die letzten paar Tage waren wieder gefüllt mit politischem Tumult. Nachdem die eine Gruppe mit den gelben T-shirts letztes Jahr den internationalen Flughafen und das Regierungsgebäude in Bangkok besetzt haben. Hat sich die andere Gruppe, in roten shirts, aufgemacht und den Hauptknotenpunkt in Bangkok besetzt sowie den Asian Summit besetzt,…

  • Holidays approaching

    The kids are off school for a week already. We finally get to get away for a long needed holiday. The problem is when we stay t home it is not quite a holiday because there is always something to do and people calling because of projects or other things.…