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Kofi Annan in town

Kofi Annan is in town to give His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand the first ever United Nations Development Programme Human Development Lifetime Achievement Award.

I've just published the press release to the UNDP Thailand website (the landing page has a nice flash animation scrolling through several images of the king), as we pass the embargo date and time.

It's a great and well-deserved honour that Thailand's king is the first person to be presented this award. He's widely and deeply revered here, even among the expats. He is definitely an example and bright light who has calmed several situations over the last months.

UN Secretary General (SG) Kofi Annan will be visiting and presenting the award to His Majesty the King, but unfortunately, mere mortals cannot join and witness that event. However, he'll pay the staff a visit tomorrow, so it'll be a good time to hobnob with him (or perhaps act like a teenage girl seeing her favourite pop-star idol up close... gotta practice the lines to say to him... practice! practice! Do NOT scream with adulation!). I hope to have several good photos of him and hope the protocol for the staff visit is quite relaxed.

Anyhow, there goes my dress-down Friday.

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May 25, 2006 | 2:05 AM Comments  0 comments

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I just got set up with Technorati and while at it, searched who is linking back to me. Well, well, I have several more feeds added to my RSS newsreader:

Of course I checked out some other sites linked off these blogs - and lo and behold I stumbled across the new trend of... baby "blogs" that many of my friends have put up. Of course a ton of my friends from my "tribe" have gotten married over the last five years, and now as these couples are bearing fruit, baby scrapbooks are going digital.

It's perhaps an unnerving thought that this possibility isn't too far down the road for us, too. Yeah, the pre-baby jitters are hitting me now, some 3 or so years early. Yikes.

On another note, the number of of young'un's blogs (found by following links to links... to more links) astounds me. I'm a little wowed as I crawl through this immense and growing blog cloud from those in or somehow associated to my "tribe", which was initially Toronto-based, Chinese-Canadian, Christian. If this is a sign of "growing old" or not, I'm not sure, but it's quite fascinating to read the blogs of young bright-eyed "kids" emerging from schools (high-school and universities) and hear their optimism seeping through. Yes, sure, some blogs are not much more than a digital record of "I painted today," or "I had trouble rendering the foreshortening of the fingers and I'm gonna cry," (thanks Viv) but many are very eloquent and well-thought out. I think blogs are expressions of emergent faith, which is probably changing the spiritual landscape back at home.

Anyhow, good to have connected a bit more with "home", even virtually.

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May 23, 2006 | 3:05 AM Comments  0 comments

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