sawasdee bee mai!

That's Happy New Year in Thai in case anyone didn't catch it. I learned the phrase, said it a million times yesterday and may never say it again.

I woke up this morning feeling refreshed and ready to ring in the new year and figured what better way to do it than with a blog post? I read my last one and figured I should let anyone who didn't already know that things in Chiang Mai are still fine, although I'm still seeing riot images on the news from Bangkok. I'm just way to exhausted at this point to bother keeping up with the situation. All I have to say is that democracy as a political system only works when the minority that loses a democratically held election is willing to acknowledge a ruling party they didn't vote for, however begrudgingly.