The weather is getting warmer here in Chiang Rai. Next thing you know it will be the ‘Hot & Smokey’ season.
I can’t believe that only one person responded to the ‘Zany Day’ song. Lisa knew it! Here’s your chance to make second day history and be first in the outside world to get this song: “Well, my hands are shaky and my knees are week, I can’t seem to stand on my own two feet. Who do you thank when you have such luck? I’m in love, __ __ __ __. Mm mm oh, oh, yeah, yeah!
We began our morning in the street by going downtown again. There are lots of nail salons in Chiang Rai. In fact, there are a lot of nail salons all over the world. Anyway, we’d been told be several people that they really liked one downtown. Today was the day we went there for Lisa to experience the shop. We were told that they could take her in 30 minutes. We were standing in front of a place that served coffee so we went inside. It was not just a coffee shop, it was “Spinomad Hostel & Laundry Cafe”. We were in the laundry cafe, sitting in comfortable chairs gazing at a wall painting of animals hanging out in washing machines.
Across the street from Spinomad, was the eye-glass shop. We picked up Lisa’s glasses and even though they didn’t seem quite right, she was done. I got a pair of non-prescription glasses with the ‘blue’ coating to protect my eyes from the computer screen, and some drops. As the woman was packing everything up she commented that if her customer wasn’t happy, then she couldn’t be happy. Hmm.
As we were eating lunch, we noticed activity at the front gate. It was a delivery truck. Gong bought Nitchanan a toy car, the kind you can ride in. We had no idea what to expect, but we knew it was expensive. We don’t know if Nitchanan likes it or not. When we returned from our afternoon outing, it was out of the box, and in the living room. Oh boy.
The big adventure today was the “Wheel & Flute” event at Rai Maefarluang Cultural Center. We went early to get a prime parking place and it paid off. Surprisingly, there were a lot of folks with the same idea. There were many people there that we knew, and some we hadn’t seen for a long time. The presentation/introduction of the ceramic artist, Tarouemon Nakazato was done through the video below (in English). It tells about the village where the 400 year tradition lives on and thrives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43dfRC-qJNo&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2xqTUXMdjMm7X3epOlD4I-ufiQQ8KJv36Quzib9F7ojEdwR-SFAJB5xxQ
After the video, there was an interview with the artist, questions were in Thai and answers were in Japanese. This got us to wondering how many hours had we spent at affairs like this, not knowing what was being said. At this point, we pick up some things, but we miss a lot. When the interview was over, we had a traditional flute concert by
Kazuya Sato, who is from the same village, and has won a Japanese Grammy Award. He played a whole set and then was joined by a soprano from Tokyo who sang a song that the audience knew, and everyone sang together.
This photo shows Kazuya Sato in concert. A microphone by his left cheek sent the sound of the instrument into the p.a. system and was very effective. Note the assortment of flutes in his belt.
The event ran over it’s allotted time but nobody seemed to care. There were lots of conversations, photo ops, and new connections, making the whole thing a wonderful experience.
Have a Thrilling Thursday.
Peace,
Danny
“All you need is love.
But a little chocolate
now and then doesn’t hurt.”
~Charles M. Schulz
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