#pathum

[travelella]

Jim Thompson House Museum, Kasem San 2 Alley, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, Thailand

CJ

[heaven-is-in-your-arms-series]

Wat Pathum Khongkha

In chapter two of When The Nightingale Sings, Khem and Chatra visit this Buddhist temple which is in an area of Bangkok's Chinatown.

I chose this one because Apo has said that they imagined that Man Suang was situated in the current day Song Wat area of Bangkok and this Wat is pretty close by and is old enough that it would have been there in the time that the story is set.

It also has an interesting history of its own.

[scottspack]

you’ve heard of my previous fave Connection To Humanity In The Digital Age: watching public snapchat stories in foreign countries, now get ready for my newest obsession: going to a random district in a foreign city on google maps and clicking on notable attractions one by one as I slowly crawl my way around the city just to see what’s going on

[sheltiechicago]

Buddhist monks pray at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple during a ceremony commemorating Makha Bucha Day in Pathum Thani province outside Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 24, 2024.

Reuters

[crickviews]

Has Sri Lanka’s Test Victory Over England Signaled a New Dawn or Just Another False Hope?

Has Sri Lanka’s Test Victory Over England Signaled a New Dawn or Just Another False Hope? The recent Test victory for Sri Lanka over England at the iconic Oval has sparked significant debate among cricket enthusiasts and analysts alike: does this triumph represent a meaningful step forward for Sri Lankan cricket, or is it merely a fleeting moment of success, a false dawn amid a complex journey?…

[ekhel01]

Sri Lanka vs India, 3rd T20I Today 7:00 PM

Probable XI: Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant/Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Khaleel Ahmed

Probable XI: Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Dinesh Chandimal/Avishka Fernando, Charith Asalanka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Ramesh Mendis/Dilshan Madhushanka, Matheesha Pathirana, Asitha Fernando

[lhio11]

#Schokolade #Tops Food Hall, CentralwOrld

[nmotypdfsfg]

[googlestreetviewz]

Rural Rd Phathum Thani 3007

[travelella]

Jim Thompson House Museum, Kasem San 2 Alley, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, Thailand

CJ

[southeastasianarchaeology]

New Home for Ancient Treasures: A Look Inside Thailand's Most Comprehensive Artifact Storage

via Thai PBS, 05 September 2023: The Central Storage of National Museums in Pathum Thani province is a state-of-the-art repository housing over 100,000 artifacts, fostering research, and spearheaded by the Fine Arts Department of Thailand.

via Thai PBS, 05 September 2023: The Central Storage of National Museums in Pathum Thani province is a state-of-the-art repository housing over 100,000 artifacts, fostering research, and spearheaded by the Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Initiated by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, a dedicated guardian of Thailand’s heritage, and managed by the Fine Arts Department of Thailand (FAD), the…

[cloutbase]

Pathium Records to drop Mugariro on Friday

Award-nominated Pathium Records will release the music video for Mugariro, which features Chana Cheng, who was born Simbarashe Donald Mdokwani, this coming Friday. Hip-hop song “Mugariro” discusses how there is a thin line separating right and wrong when it comes to pursuing material success. The 30-year-old hip-hop musician claims that his observations of his daily life in Zimre Park served as…

[herpsandbirds]

I would like to trouble you once more with a request of animals for which the female is either larger or more brightly colored than the male, such as the Wilson's Phalarope or the Eclectus parrot

Sure thing!

Of course, with most spiders, the females are larger. As with ladybird spiders...

Ladybird Spider (Eresus moravicus), female, family Eresidae, northern Italy

photograph by lynko

Ladybird Spider (Eresus moravicus), male, family Eresidae, Hungary

Male ladybird spiders mimic ladybird beetles (ladybugs), while the larger females do not.

photograph by Walter Pfliegler 

Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis), male (back) and female (front), family Rostratulidae, Pathum Thani Rice Research Center, Thailand

Females are more colorful than the males. The females court the males, and are polyandrous (having multiple mates). The males incubate the nest and raise young.

photograph by Sani Sansanee & Arkajit Chakraborty

With many snakes, the females are larger, as with garter snakes...

Red-sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), family Colubridae, outside a den in Manitoba, Canada

photograph by Elise Watchorn

Garter snakes make friends, organize their society around females

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/garter-snakes-make-friends-organize-their-society-around-females

For many species of Aquatic Turtle, the females are also larger...

Northern Map Turtle (Graptemys geographica), family Emydidae, NE United States

photograph by turtleconservancy

[mutant-distraction]

Parichart Tangkanopas

Pathum Thani, Thailand

[sheltiechicago]

Pathum Thani, Thailand

The Wat Phra Dhammakaya is lit up during a ceremony commemorating Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death

Photograph: Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters

[hallowpen]

I have a question about that scene in Love Sea. I saw your post saying we could ask you about Thailand culture and I was wondering what your interpretation of it was since folks on here had a lot to say about colorism. If I'm overstepping, please feel free to ignore me. I'm not meaning to. I'm just curious what the Thai perspective is.

I'd like to start this off by saying that any genuine curiosity is never an overstep to me. In fact, I appreciate anybody who feels like they can come to me to have these types of conversations rather than making any uninformed generalizations. It's why I made that post to begin with 😊😊😊

I have to admit, that I had no intention of watching Love Sea until after it had finished airing... and mostly for the sapphic cut hehe But my partner is watching it as it airs and when I tried to ask for clarification about the scene you were referring to, I found it better for me to just watch the episode in full myself. So I did...

I think I'm going to tackle the colorism culture that exists in Thailand before I analyze anything having to do with the series. My father is black (Haitian) and my mother is Thai... and that resulted in some very unique experiences for me. Please keep that in mind, as these experiences are going to be what inform my cultural viewpoint.

Colorism exists as a systemic prejudice in Thai culture. The beauty industry, the entertainment industry, and even some cultural traditions place a higher value on lighter skin which is seen as 'preferable' and more attractive than darker skin (especially if you are a woman). It ranges anywhere from what I consider to be ignorant colorism... where someone might say something without even realizing it has racist undertones... to blatant racism where words like ไอ้ดำ are thrown in our faces and we are very obviously being judged. For example, a disagreement on political views could easily become about a person's skin color, rather than a comment on the actual discussions being had (i.e. Nam Patcharaporn). Like all countries, these prejudices vary from place to place. I've been involved in very uncomfortable situations (to put it lightly) in Pattaya... but other than familial issues (I won't get in to any of that) I've never really experienced racism in Pathum Wan. Have things gotten better in more recent years? Slightly. But a lot still needs to be done to reverse racist prejudices and promote a more inclusive society. It's why something like The Last Case and Ester Oruche's casting made me very emotional [X]

Now...on to Love Sea: I actually took Mut's remarks on Rak's "pale skin" to be a pointed mini-commentary on colorism (which if that really is the case...well done Mame!) It read to me as... these are the things you value? that you (Rak) put yourself above me (Mut) for? You (Rak) clearly expect me (Mut) to find you appealing and attractive but it's not going to go according to what you think. I could be way off base, but I do so hope that that was its intended purpose because it makes such a small moment feel like a well earned victory to someone in Mut's shoes.