http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye An Outsider Inside Thailand Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/07/wieng-kum-kam-8-years-later/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/07/wieng-kum-kam-8-years-later/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:21:01 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=560 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/07/wieng-kum-kam-8-years-later/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/10/inexpensive-progress/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/10/inexpensive-progress/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:00:39 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=91 Published in Chiang Mai CityLife Magazine - December 2003 CHIANGMAI, Thailand - 14 October 2003 Inexpensive Progress became one of Sir John Betjeman's most famous statements in support of his passions. Written in the 1960s, during Britain’s post-war reconstruction, after years of rationing and austerity, the poem became a required text for high school “graduation” in the Cambridge series of GCE exams during the mid-1970s. In a BBC documentary commemorating his life, it was stated that from that study requirement the environmentalist and conservationist movements of the 1980s and 90s evolved. The activists, thirty-somethings educated in the 1970s, remembered with fondness Sir John’s words, and many (like myself) claim this poem is the only one they can still recite from their school days...]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/10/inexpensive-progress/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/08/heritage-hooliganism-at-wieng-kum-kam/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/08/heritage-hooliganism-at-wieng-kum-kam/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:00:43 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=46 Political Manipulation of Medieval History? WIENG KUM KAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1 Jun 2003 - Today (20th August 2003) I unintentionally revisited Wieng Kum Kam, specifically that part now named as Wat Phan Lao, and hypothesized as being the AD 1286 palace of King Mengrai. What I witnessed there has left me extremely disappointed and completely disillusioned regarding current local and national plans to develop the ancient city into anything approaching Sukhothai or Ayutthaya.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/08/heritage-hooliganism-at-wieng-kum-kam/feed/ 0