What a strange week it’s been. What with walls blowing up, and, well, walls blowing up (?)
Anyway, I thought I’d end the week on a fine note by joining David Airey with his 33 logos in 33 minutes, inspired by Jane’s fun with brands meme.
(DWB’s regular schedule will resume on Monday with … the real David Airey.)
If you survive on take-away out here, you don’t consume a lot of products with labels slapped on. That’s because you’ll generally eat out of clear baggies.
(A branding opportunity?)
Eating off the street is a must do experience. It’s not so much the stomach problems that are the worry (those were cleaned up years back). It’s getting those blasted rubber bands off the baggies.
(I even hear tell the Thai government has made acquiring this talent a gotta for expats submitting retirement visas. Time to practice?)
But no matter. Thanks to Jo and Jay at Learn Thai Podcast I have just the trick.
(I’ve been waiting to plug their Thai language blog and seems this is the perfect opportunity. Yes?)
Either click on the screen shot below, or check out their podcast at Thailand Survival Skills: Dealing with Rubber Bands.
(Go ahead and tell them cat sent you.)
Coming up is a range of photos taken around Thailand. Some will have their English equivalents. Some not (can you guess who they are?)
Some items were purchased last night for this meme. And except for two, all run down hill.
Meet you at the bottom …
There is a reason I finished with the Oolong Tea. Last night, after struggling back home with cans and cans of BEER and COFFEE and bottles of WHISKY and such, I googled Oolong Tea Hill Country Thailand. What I found was interesting.
For instance, did you know that …
- The tea plant is native to northern Thailand, but the Thais are not avid tea drinkers.
- The same climatic conditions optimum for opium poppies also produces tea.
- Chiang-kei Shek’s Nationalist Army (hiding in Thailand) switched from gem and drug smuggling, black marketing, etc, to raising Oolong Tea in the Hill Country of Thailand.
- The Royal Project and the United Nations International Drug Control Program is responsible for switching poppy cultivation to tea cultivation.
Pretty hot stuff, yes?
So. Did you guess which was which?
(Hmm, since the photo shoot is over, I imagine it’s ok to consume that what runs down hill. Yes? Can you guess which ones I’m going for? Hmmm?)
Blogs involved in the Branding / Timeline meme:
- Logo Design Love | 33 logos in 33 minutes
- Dear Jane Sample | fun with brands
- SEGD | 14 logos in 14 minutes
- The Toad Stool | brand day: morning edition
- a binary life | day in brands
- Afs world! | 12 logos in 12 minutes
- Binky the doormat | day in brands
- Fox’s Den | brand name day
- Creative Beef | Friday in brands
- thehappycorp.com | what time is your brand?
- ADCD Graffiti | brands you encounter
- Manhattan Offender | brand timeline
- philsblogging.com | where we encounter brands
- E.K.’s Hideaway | brand new day
- The Marketing Student | day in the life of gen Y
- Mike Vogel | brand timeline portrait
- dehog. this is me. | day in brands and logos
- Beyond Rivalry | brand timeline portrait
Now that’s a LOT of new blogs to visit. Yes?
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Never mind what runs downhill. You consume that ‘before’ breakfast?! That’s hardcore, Cat. ;)
Even though I cooked up some Thai green curry last night, I still miss the Pad Thai. It was so good. I’m sure by now you cook an excellent green curry yourself. What spices should I be adding?
I checked out the rubber band demonstration. Very enlightening. :)
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Yeah, Coffee is a HUGE no no for me so I’m going to up a looooooooooooong time tonight!
I don’t know how I could ever live again without Pad Thai. Out here it’s totally amazing. And just across the street is the best ever.
What spices? Well, I did take Thai cooking lessons years back (15+). But when you can get a decent Thai curry off the street for under 40 baht, why cook at all?
At my house cooking western is for in; eating Thai is for out.
Cooking a good curry takes time and it just doesn’t make sense out here to go that route. You know, buying coconuts then shredding them to make coconut cream and all.
(I thought you’d enjoy the rubber band demo ;-)
That’s very understandable. If I could get a great Thai curry for 40 Baht I’d never cook it either!
I’m envious (though not of carrying heavy shopping bags in the heat of Bangkok).
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Well, I usually have my groceries delivered but this shopping centre was not my usual haunt. And as I got lost (went out the wrong elevators) I ended up on the opposite side of the delivery area (I believe).
But, I really should have taken that limo, even at 300 baht. Standing in the heat holding all those heavy bags was ridiculous.
I just couldn’t force myself to do it as a taxi from the airport (quite a distance) is not even 300 baht!
So instead, I paid the taxi driver double (a mere 50 baht).
Street food is the best! Unfortunately we don’t have any where I live. Bummer. Then again, I guess Amish pork wouldn’t compare to the stuff you have over there.
Interesting images. Looks like Coke® and Colgate toothpaste. I’m not sure about the others.
Got to try out the Learn Thai podcast. Thanks for the heads up.
Hey Neil, welcome :-)
Amish pork? Sounds interesting (I’ll have to try it when I’m out there.
Yeah! You got that right. Coke and Colgate and one other …
Amish pork is just plain ‘ole pork. We have a restaurant out here called the Hartville Kitchen. It’s a huge place. They serve Amish stuff … pork, beef, sausage, mashed potatoes, green beans, yada, yada, yada. The place is always packed. They have buses come in from out of state. All this to get something you can easily make at home. I don’t get it.
I guess branding works. Coke owns red and Colgate is also easy to spot. What is the other one?
After all those years in Brunei, it’s weird to think of religious people eating pork anything.
“What is the other one?”
Now that’d be telling, wouldn’t it. :-)
Thanks Cat! Thailand has a lot of cool advertising signs and billboards. Wait until we have some major elections again hehehe.
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Cat,
Yeah, the Amish are kinda pig happy. :-)
As you know, I’m from just outside NYC. When I first moved here (thank you very much, ex-wife), I woke up to clippy, clop, clippy clop on a Sunday morning. I looked outside to see what it was. I saw an Amish buggy go by. I’m thinking, “Ohmagod! Where did she bring me? It’s the 1800s here.”
I’ll look over the images again and see if I can figure it out.
Duh! Pepsi. I missed that one.
Neil,
1800s eh? You could have a good chat with Britain’s oldest man. He turned 112 today… born in the 1800s!
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Jay, my pleasure!
Some of the best ones (I thought) were from the Thai government’s push against drunk driving.
I loved the tag line ‘drink don’t drive’.
And all those posters with the the dead man everywhere? Great stuff.
David,
Holy moly! 112? That’s amazing. I want what he’s drinking.
Britain’s oldest man has been all over the BBC today. And good for him! Although, I have to wonder just what won’t be working at 112 years old …
I want some Thai tea. I love my plain ol’ Lipton iced tea, but I’m never shy about trying something else.
Howdie Chris.
Well, if you send over your address via email, I’ll post off one of the boxes I bought last night.
Unless you want to wait for Seattle in October? :-)
(It’s no bother. I owe Tom a package so I need to go to the post office anyway)
Hey Chris,
>> Unless you want to wait for Seattle in October? :-)<<
If the mail from Thailand is anything like Brunei, it take about that long anyway. :-)
Luckily, Thailand has a decent postal system. I can get books here from amazon.com in about a week or so, depending. Whereas Brunei sometimes took three months.
Actually, everything works better in Thailand than it ever did in Brunei.
There’s better food (understatement), quicker services, and you can actually buy alcohol without paying smugglers.
And it’s all done with a lovely smile too …
How refreshing! That good to hear … or read as the case may be.
Neil, I could write up huge lists on how much better it is out here. Remember everything that went on in Brunei when I was there?
Sometimes I can’t believe I lasted 9 years. But then, it was a nice place to live. It just wasn’t as easy as Thailand is.
Oh yeah, I remember. Months to ship stuff. Buy you a book for 25 bucks. Spend $100 to send it. Ha!
Oh, and who could forget monkeys in the kitchen eating coffe grounds, big lizards in the bathtub and border runs to Malaysia.
I think I’m glad you’re in Bangkok. They only have coups and tsumanis.
Putting it that way … hmmm
… do you remember Brunei taking the whole country offline while we were putting Creative Latitude together? And those chaps dressed to the nines coming to my house to ‘spray for bugs’? Weird all around that was.
In Brunei I was always having to pull over to let a Royals pass. In Bangkok it’s only happened a handful of times and I’ve been glad to do it.
Recently I was in a taxi with a visitor when we were stopped by police. She was so excited, she took photos of the top of the Royal motorcade as they drove on by. That was all we could see from where we were you see. Just the tops. I wonder if she’s been showing those photos around.
I sure do remember. I remember a whole lot more that’s not appropriate to post here. :-)
Gawd, do I ever know that one! Even though I’m safe here, I still think of all that over there.
Wow.. I would like to taste Thai Tea. It sounds good. I will look if there is a shop sells Thai Tea.
By the way thanks for your comment and adding me to you your list.
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Welcome Afsin!
I still haven’t tried out the Oolong Tea yet (still working my way through all the liquids I bought for the meme) but the taste reads great.
(my pleasure – I was glad to find your blog)
fair point! Although all the blogs I read are under the Google reader logo, because i get them delivered fresh and warm through RSS.
Whereabouts are you based then? I’m originally polish, still if i was back home the brands wouldn’t probably be different except for Magners (irish cider)
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Hi Ana, I used to get them via bloglines, then netvibes, then I tried out Google reader. But, I still like to go direct.
Where am I based? Crazy Bangkok.
(note: people say I look Polish – mostly my Polish friends :-)
You, looking Polish? Me thinks not. You look like could almost be a California girl. Blonde hair. Seriously blue eyes. Round, round, get around, you get around. :-)
But, we all know you’re from …
Well, actually, I do. I in in the Polish group at Amoco (it was before my switch to the USSR).
When the Polish geologists flew out they were surprised at the likeness. And when they pulled out their photos, I could see it was so.
My best friend was a Polish Geophysicist working for the same group as I did. Every weekend his house was the meeting place for the local Polish community.
I had the pleasure of an open invite and I can attest that I was not out of place as far as features went.
It was a lovely time in my life.
Cat,
Ah, yes. I remember.
>> My best friend was a Polish Geophysicist <<
What ever happened to him?
He’s still around. Still in Houston.
Oh. Still in touch?
So, hey, are you going to share some more around the town images? Hows ’bout some of the JJ?
Wrong post, but yes I will.
(psst … actually, I’ve shared more than a few here already ;-)
Oh. Missed those. Bad, Neil, bad!
I spied Colegate, Pepsi, Coke and Nescafe – very old fashioned packaging I thought!
“Colegate, Pepsi, Coke and Nescafe”
You got it :-)
“old fashioned packaging”
Well, some might be an old fashioned style … but a style popular out here in Thailand.
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