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For ABC Wednesday
And NaiSaiKu Challenge?
And The American Sandwich
And Monday Poetry Train Revisited



CURRY





















CHOPPED Onion
CHOPPED Tomatoes
(Or CHEAT using Puree)
CHOPPED Ginger
CLOVES of Garlic
CHILLIES Fresh
CORIANDER Fresh
CAPSICUM
CARDAMOM
CHILLI Powder
CORIANDER Seeds CRUSHED
CINNAMON
CUMIN
‘CAMEEN’ (Thai for Turmeric)
CURRY Powder
CHUCK in some Salt
CHICKEN
COOKING Oil

CARBOHYDRATE CONTENT:
COMMON CO-CONSPIRATOR – Rice

COMPLEMENTS – CHAPATTI, CHUTNEY

CAREFULLY COMBINE CONCOCTION – COOK!

CAUTION!
CONCENTRATE – CONFIDENT CURRY CHEFS CHILL!




BEFORE


AFTER


CHICKEN CURRY CHA-CHA

Too much hurry spoils the CURRY
Gently does it; worth the wait
COOK today CONSUME tomorrow
Let the flavours marinate

Aromatics, herbs and spices
Use the best rice; Basmati
Free-range CHICKEN, plus a side of
Mango CHUTNEY, CHAPATTI

Wash it down with CHILLED Kingfisher
Otherwise Sandpiper beer
If, like me, you live in Thailand
CLASSIC CHANG provides the CHEER


CHIHUAHUA/CHIANGMAI


“SAWASDEE KHRAP” - ‘MOJO’ – DOB – DEC 2009


CHANGNOI’S CHIHUAHUA

A dog named Mojo
Neither mad, nor hard, but mard
HIS BOTTLE HAS GONE
Neither mad, nor hard, but mard
Dog with no Mojo


CHIHUAHUA SANDWICH

At first glance, it looked just like a Chicken Roll, only much much smaller.
We wanted a second opinion, so we consulted an expert.
The waitress sniffed at the plate before confirming it was Chihuahua.


CHIANGMAI NIGHTS

Thailand comes to life
On the banks of Mae Nam Ping
NIGHT TIME IN CHIANGMAI
On the banks of Mae Nam Ping
Life comes to Thailand


CHIANGMAI DAYS

In Chiangmai, 'Songkhran' is more than just a three-day water free-for-all.
Up here, they’ve been chucking the 'Nam' at each other for more than a week.
Parties everywhere and they don’t look set to finish any day soon.

MAKING A MEAL OF IT

For The American Sandwich


1. AMERICAN SANDWICH

Love or loathe that necessary evil named ‘Blog Owner Approval’.
‘Obnoxious spammers’ cause it, frustrating serious commentators.
‘Word Verification’ is also used in the ‘Spam Wars’.


2. NANO AMERICO^

Blog Owner Approval.
‘Obnoxious Spammers’ cause it, frustrating serious commentators.
As used in ‘Spam Wars’.


3. WALLS + WIRES

Love or loathe that necessary evil named ‘Blog Owner Approval’.
‘Obnoxious spammers’ cause it.
‘Word Verification’ is also used in the ‘Spam Wars’.

NaiSaiKu can also be adapted to fit this form.

Identical twins
Bear uncanny resemblance;
Monozygotic
TWO PEAS IN A POD
Monozygotic
Uncannily similar
Identical twins

Identical twins bear uncanny resemblance; monozygotic.
Two peas in a pod.
Monozygotic, uncannily similar identical twins.


4. CHOOSEDAYCHOICE

This weeks American Sentence is:
‘Only the milestone stood between her, the devil, and the deep blue sea'.

I chose to do it NaNo-style:

The pub sign tempted her.
Only 'The Milestone' stood between her, the devil, and the deep blue sea’.
Better the devil you know…


5. AMERICAN SENTENCE

‘Obnoxious Spam’ is no longer an American Sandwich filling.


6. ‘FOUND’ AMERICAN SENTENCE

“She’s got pictures on her wall; they make me look up, from her big brass bed.”
From the song ‘OUT ON THE WEEKEND’, by NEIL YOUNG
From the album ‘HARVEST’.


7. FUTURE FREE AMERICAN SENTENCE CONTRIBUTION

We aim to utilise traditional manufacturing techniques.


8. BONUS AMERICAN SENTENCE

I need a bigger lunchbox for all these AMERICAN SANDWICHES!

BEACON, GRIEVE, KINDRED

For Three Word Wednesday



THERE'S ALWAYS THE FA CUP...

I Grieve for City
No Blue Beacon at Wembley
Kindred fans lament

CHOOSE-DAY CHOICE

For The American Sandwich


WALLS + WIRES
The M.P thanked his biographer for his accurate portrayal.
Then he noticed the disclaimer
Similarities to actual events were unintentional.

NANO
He expressed his gratitude to the author.
Then he noticed the disclaimer, stating the story was fictitious.
It was supposed to be a biography.

CHOOSE-DAY
An eccentric array of bedroom toys unnerved the teenager.
She rocked the cradle so violently that even the voodoo doll screamed.
So ended the young girl’s first, and last, babysitting experience.

SUNNY DAYS

For One Single Impression – Sunny Days


SUN STRIKE

“Suddenly Sunday’s
Stubborn haze ends Sunny Days”
Son says, sullenly

THINKING FIGURATIVELY

For Carry On Tuesday


A ROOM HUNG WITH PICTURES
IS A ROOM HUNG WITH THOUGHTS

A room hung with pictures
Is a room hung with thoughts
A penny for your thoughts
…Picasso…? Da Vinci…?

3-PEACE SUITE

For Haiku Bones
And NaiSaiKu Challenge?


PEACE

Peace will follow war
And as sure as night follows day
War will follow peace


Peace will follow war
And as sure as night follows day
War will follow peace
PEACE AND WAR AND WAR AND PEACE
War will follow peace
And as sure as day follows night
Peace will follow war



Hostile intervals
Fifty percent chance of peace
Outlook uncertain


Hostile intervals
Fifty percent chance of peace
Outlook uncertain
THE LONG-RANGE RORECAST
Uncertain outlook
Chance of peace; fifty-fifty
Intervals; hostile



Frustrated by peace
Post-war static stress syndrome
Old soldiers lament


Frustrated by peace
Post-war static stress syndrome
OLD SOLDIERS LAMENT
Post-war static stress syndrome
Frustrated by peace

BANANAS, BORDERS, BREACHES

For ABC Wednesday
And posted to NaiSaiKu Challenge?
And The American Sandwich
And Monday Poetry Train Revisited



BACKYARD BANANAS

























These bananas are growing outside our back door.
They won’t be ripe until the end of February.


BORDER

Breakfast long before first light
Full steam and full beam ahead
Follow Nongbua North Star
Steering straight on till morning

Upwards to Udon/Nongkhai?
Or take the left turn to Loei?
Crossroads crisis averted
Westwards to winter we choose

Up-country cool-down forecast
Chiang Kan chillout climate change
And misty Mekong morning
Defy Global Warming signs

Customs House caution signs warn
Of counterfeit cigarettes
Filtering through Loei from Laos
Now smoke-screened by frigid fog

Zero visibility
Zero traffic tolerance
Borderline zero greeting
Not a hero’s welcome home

Positive prospect pending?
Lunch date with lawmen in Loei
Capital verdict confirmed
Decision declared this day

Arbiter’s armed attendant
Offers official outcome
Not stay of execution
Rather extension of stay


BENEATH BIG BEN

M.P’s don’t tell lies
They don’t fiddle expenses
‘Stealer State’ taboo…?
SATIRE Vs VERITAS
Real estate to view
Expensive diddles aren’t they?
No flies on M.P’s


BOGUS BIOGRAPHY BUTTY

The M.P thanked his biographer for his accurate portrayal.
Then he noticed the disclaimer, stating the story was fictitious.
Similarities to actual events were unintentional.

YES & NO

For Sunday Scribblings – Yes

YES-MAN AND NO-BOT

My 8 year old son, Changnoi (Elephant Small)
wondered what I meant when I answered a
question with ‘Yes and no’.
He thought about it and came up with this:

Yes-Man and No-Bot © Changnoi 2010

IDEAL, MEASURE, TEETER

FOR Three Word Wednesday

IDEAL, MEASURE, TEETER


The ‘Swingometer’
The ideal teeter measure
As seen on TV

For ideal results
Without that ‘teeter’ effect
Measure twice, cut once

Teeter Totter Scale
Measure of life’s ups and downs
Ideal wedding gift

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

For Sunday Scribblings – The Good Old Days
And NaiSaiKu Challenge?


THE GOOD OLD DAYS…?

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INCANDESCENT

For Haiku bones – Incandescent
And NaiSaiKu Challenge?


INCANDESCENT

Childhood reflections
Incandescent innocence
The light fantastic

Childhood reflections
Incandescent innocence
The light fantastic
CHILDHOOD REFLECTIONS
The light fantastic
Incandescent innocence
Childhood reflections

AMNESIA

For Carry On Tuesday




And ABC Wednesday

MOK – DOB ๑๖๑๑๑๗

GROW OLD ALONG WITH ME
THE BEST IS YET TO BE

After the accident;
that was when I started
to hold your hand
for the first time.

I stuck to you like glue,
in case I lost my way
…as well a my
mental bearings.

We’d walk around Chiangmai
behaving like tourists;
temple visits;
days at the zoo.

Summiting Doi Suthep,
Scaling Doi Inthanon,
…and those boat trips
on Mae Nam Ping…

I know you remember,
just as you know I don’t.
We won’t forget
I can’t recall.

Back at home, you would talk;
tell me all about it,
…so I would know
what I’d just done.

I only remember
forgetting all these things
because of you
…holding my hand

It Happens

For Monday Poetry Train Revisited
And NaiSaiKu Challenge?
And The American Sandwich
And One Single Impression - Chaos



NEED READING GLASSES…?
BEWARE CHEAP IMMITATIONS…

Easy on the eyes
See-through too, like a window
(If they’re not too weak)
IT SHOULD HAVE READ… BUT INSTEAD…
If not through the week
I’ll see you through the window
See you on the ice

SICK AS A PARROT, (DOWN) UNDER THE MOON

Thirty seven degrees Celsius at midnight in Downtown Sydney.
Half-way round the world, in Manchester, it was minus three at lunchtime.
Englishmen stayed in for mid-day snow, while Oz Mad Dogs were moon bathing.

JOLT, RIBBON, ZEAL

THE OLD OAK TREE


For Three Word Wednesday


Yellow RIBBON tied
We waited, in hope for news
JOLT questioned our ZEAL

ZIGGY ZONE

For ABC Wednesday


RAWPRINTZ MANCHESTER PRESENTS…

‘DRY ROT’

STINGING SATIRE FROM NICOLA BATTY


The scene is suitably set, with an appropriately bland backdrop of depressing Old Trafford, Manchester…

Fran’s atmospherically charged retrospective recollections serve, not only to mix Sex with Religion to great effect, but also to expose the ‘anarchistic’ tendencies of Punk-era attitudes, for what they really were… distractions from the apathetic existence of a bored generation, whose virulent indifference to authority had taken root, flourished and spread, to Teen, and middle-age Wastelands alike.

The (larger-than-life…?) characters are illustrated to surreal perfection in this metaphor-laden, irreverent frolic through the ironies that spawned this ‘Dry Rot’ – most notably, Fran’s sexually confused (or confident…?) ‘Mentor’, Mary – quite contrary…and whose ‘garden’ grows… well… in both directions… conceiving a devil that, ultimately, foils the best laid plans for revenge, despite claiming two (or is it three…or even four…?) victims in the process.


Stan Ski
Elephant Small
(says-sir-ten.blogspot.com)

TREMBLING

For Haiku Bones
And The American Sandwich

UNWORTHY

As I consider
the wisdom you have accrued
I weaken, trembling

Your selfless aura
shooting shivers down my spine
awakens my awe

Burden of duty
to transmit your innate gifts
causes me to quake

NEWS SUMMARY

For Carry On Tuesday – It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
And The American Sandwich
And NaiSaiKu Challenge?
And Monday Poetry Train Revisited
And Sunday Scribblings - Extreme


THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT



Television and newspapers alike, announced THE BEST news so far.
The EXTREME cold had hit us all hard, but THE WORST OF IT WAS over.
Each of us had cause to celebrate, and let the good TIMES roll again.



IT WAS all over
THE BEST thing since forever
Right now, OF all TIMES
THE BEST/WORST OF TIMES
Not now OF all TIMES
IT WAS THE WORST thing ever
Starting all over



THE BEST news thus far
THE WORST OF IT WAS over
Let the good TIMES roll

DRAIN, EPIC, NIBBLE

For Three Word Wednesday


Brrr-itain

EPIC winter freeze
Jack Frost NIBBLES fingers, toes
DRAIN pipes rupture,burst

YORE

For ABC Wednesday

Yo!
Yes You!
You’re Yelling!
“Yackety-Yak!”
Your Youthhood Yearnings
Yo-yo Your Yesterdays

SPORT IN BRIEF

4 COT
For Carry On Tuesday – We Laugh, We Weep, We Hope, We Fear


F.T 20’s X-MCR
Full Time Scores From Manchester

RM :-D Happy, LAUGH
Roberto Mancini

MH ;-( Crying, WEEP
Mark Hughes



EC IHS I HOPE so
Eastlands Champions

UCLA >.< Wary, FEAR
So-called ‘Big’ 4
United
Chelsea
Liverpool
Arsenal



MCFC 88888888 Applause
Manchester City Football Club

MUFC 555 Ha, ha, ha
5, five in Thai is ๕, ha
Manchester United Football Club



RUNI 881 Bye-bye
Chinese origin
Wayne Rooney

FERGIE (_8^ (1) Doh! Homer Simpson
Sir Alex Ferguson



L8EST 20 X-FRTN PK
Latest score from Fratton Park
THE ABU DHABI DERBY


ALI AL FARAJ IOU I Owe You
Portsmouth FC owner

SHEIK MANSOUR BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN $_$ He’s got money
Man City FC owner



PLAYERS AND FANS ALIKE

We weep tears of joy
We laugh in the face of fear
We never lose hope

JUST A THOUGHT

Now then...
Posted to Haiku Bones


THROWBACK

I live in the past
Where the future is brighter
Than how it turned out

HAPPY NEW YEAR

For Monday Poetry Train Revivited


สวัสดีปีใหม่ : SAWASDEE PI MAI : NEW YEAR GREETING

สวัสดีปีใหม่
สองพันห้าร้อยห้าสิบสาม!
ฝรั่ง; สองพันสิบ

Sawasdee pi mai
Song pan ha roi ha sip sam!
Farang; song pan sip

A New Year greeting
It’s Twenty Five Fifty Three!
English; Twenty Ten

PROGRESS

For Sunday Scribblings - A New Leaf
And posted to Naisaiku Challenge?
And The American Sandwich


TWENNYTEN

Readers, watchers, avid fans
Of Space Age books and movies
Brought up on Science Fiction
Stories that got ‘Lost In Space’

Stories that informed us
The Future would arrive
In time for Century Twenty One
Year Two Thousand; Y2K

Extra-Terrestrial beings
Of Superior Intellect
Provide the opportunity
To take the initiative

Miracle cures for all ailments
Telepathic transportation
Sophisticated computers
That speak and think like us

Robot/Android workforce
Paper a thing of the past
War consigned to History
Famine and Poverty too

A decade of ‘Future’ later
Ten years passed are now past tense
Sick commuters with sick computers
Millions starve; Wars rage on

Anti-climax despite ‘Giant Leaps’
That sadly fell short of the mark
Newspaper headline this New Year
‘It Isn’t The Future Yet!’




AMERICAN SANDWICH

Casual stroll of mis-spent youth precedes the frantic sprint of old age.
Along the way to what we make of our time, most of it is wasted.
Finish line in sight now and it seems people are dying to get there.




NAISAIKU

Older and wiser
Another decade passes
New Year Twenty Ten
ANOTHER DECADE PASSES
New Year Twenty Ten
Another decade passes
Older…sure; wiser…?