I post sex-related things here because I treat this as a journal. I am the most open person I know, and therefore my "personal" life is there for anyone to read about. I actually believe that anything that can be written down is not serious enough to be kept private... if it were so private, why did you get it out in material form? 
But anyway, when friends ask me where I live, I say I live "near victory monument" (aka. anusawarichaisamorapum and yes, I have learnt to say this word in a breeze since taxi drivers don't understand "victory monument").
Some people have asked me what it commemorates. I knew it is about some tiny war with the french, but that's about it. So I looked in wikipedia, of course. Oh, how I love wikipedia!
It turns out that this monument commemorates the "victory" of the Thais over the French, when in fact it was more so France abandoning a couple of colonies.
Anyway, said land was recaptured a few years later, and the general who "liberated" them fell with his military regime, and that was that.
The statues around the moment were designed by an Italian sculptor who did not intend them to be used around the large phallic obelisk. He disapproved of this and called it the "monument of embarrassment".
Nevertheless, it remains a very well-known place in Thailand, and one of the most congested places in Bangkok.
The marines (statues) around the monument have actually come to have a special significance for me. Every morning they goodbye me to work, and every evening they great me from it. In a way, they have become a symbol of "home".
So there you have it. Anusawarichaisamoraphum.
But anyway, when friends ask me where I live, I say I live "near victory monument" (aka. anusawarichaisamorapum and yes, I have learnt to say this word in a breeze since taxi drivers don't understand "victory monument").
Some people have asked me what it commemorates. I knew it is about some tiny war with the french, but that's about it. So I looked in wikipedia, of course. Oh, how I love wikipedia!
It turns out that this monument commemorates the "victory" of the Thais over the French, when in fact it was more so France abandoning a couple of colonies.
Anyway, said land was recaptured a few years later, and the general who "liberated" them fell with his military regime, and that was that.
The statues around the moment were designed by an Italian sculptor who did not intend them to be used around the large phallic obelisk. He disapproved of this and called it the "monument of embarrassment".
Nevertheless, it remains a very well-known place in Thailand, and one of the most congested places in Bangkok.
The marines (statues) around the monument have actually come to have a special significance for me. Every morning they goodbye me to work, and every evening they great me from it. In a way, they have become a symbol of "home".
So there you have it. Anusawarichaisamoraphum.
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