The Shock of the new - Postmodern spaces

I realize it is quite a pretentious thing to use postmodern, but hey what the hell Thailand seems to embody all the contradictions that gave birth to the very idea of postmodernism in the first place.

Here people easily navigate the distances between street vendors selling a massive variety of finger foods, as has probably been done here for centuries, and internet cafes where they play virtual realities whose dominant discourse is English in spite of the fact they speak no English at all.

As far as I can fathom, the Thai language has no past and future tenses only tones. Consequently signs are not arranged according to the boundaries imposed by the west in a vast three dimensional web of meaning with a recognizable past and a potentiality of action. Here it all depends on intention and interpretation as well as where in the sentence the word is situated in relations to the words that precede and follow them.

I have been wading my way through a mass of papers given me by my students. In reading these I have to remember that while they are writing in English, they are thinking in Thai and then running their finished product through spell check to make sure all the words were spelt properly. The result is interesting to say the least.
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Here are some buildings, I hope you enjoy them.