============================================================== To reach ALL SJD members, please send to sjd@satjadham.net ... Do NOT include any other addresses when sending to the list... Include as LITTLE of the original messages as possible........ Message sent by: LanXang Siengkhene *** Announcement: *** Please register for SatJaDham Fifth Annual conference at the website http://www.satjadham.org/sjd5sd/ ============================================================== It seemed that the market was the place to be – food, entertainment, or just hanging around. About one time or two each year, the drug company from Thailand would come by to sell their products. They would have an open movie showing right at the market. Those drug companies sold the medicine for the headache (Poat Hai Thanh Jai), sore stomach and toothache. Typical of any Thai advertisers, they were loud and spun out mostly a lie about their products. Still, because of our tendency to take words at face value, we bought those products in tremendous amounts that they kept coming back years in years out. As I remember, one of those lies was that their magic tooth cure could sap the creature eating our tooth instantaneously. To substantiate their claims, they showed a plastic bag containing a creature that was supposedly coming out of the toothache. Reminiscing back, I still had a hard time believing that we could fall for that blatant and unethical lie. At the same time, not to be outdone by the Thai advertisers, the 555 tobacco company from Vientiane came to Thakek. They also had an open movie showing at the market. This time, they said that those who bought a pack of 555 cigarette at the movie showing would have an entry to win the brand new Honda motorcycle. To my knowledge, no one won that motorcycle despite the fact that many bought the cigarettes there. Luckily, in my family, no one smoked cigarettes so we didn’t buy any. Talking about cigarettes, I did try to smoke it once. Of course, I didn’t let my parents know. Telling the truth, I couldn’t even finish a puff before throwing a cigarette away. It was so bad to my tongue that I wonder why anyone liked to smoke it. (to be continued) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ _ ***************************************************************** Visit SatJaDham Homepage at: http://www.satjadham.org (or .net) *****************************************************************