============================================================== 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: "Thiphasone Phimviengkham" ============================================================== sbaydee sjders, i hope all the season's holidays have not made a dent on your bank account, especially christmas. wish you all the best! of course, we over here in laos and thailand, are 542 years ahead of your time. what's all the commotion about, you westerners? i would like to ask viliam about pakse. i'm searching, "in search of bachieng and marong", one of the rare tragic love story of lao, comparable to shakespeare's "romeo and juliet", where exactly can i find these two mountains, eternally engraved by their names, in pakse? i plan to go to the southern part of laos with some of my students in march 2543 to search for these two mountains, where the two lovers' names echo throughout. thus, writing you this email has inspired me to recite you this shakespeare's sonnet. enjoy and good day! shakespeare's sonnet cxlvii my love is as a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease; feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, the uncertain sickly appetite to please. my reason, the physician to my love, angry that his precriptions are not kept, hath left me, and i desperate now approve desire is death, which physic did except. past cure i am, now reason is past care, and frantic-mad with evermore unrest; my thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, at random from the truth vainly express'd; for i have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. cheerios! ***********************^^^^^^^********************** thiphasone t. phimviengkham 141 mu 4 wang sarakham garden village tambon koeng, amphoe muang mahasarakham 44000 thailand ***********************^^^^^^^********************** home phone: 011 66 (43) 742 443 work phone: 011 66 (43) 725 756 ext 308 email: tphimvie@hotmail.com or tphimvie@umich.edu thiphasone.p@human.msu.ac.th tphimvie@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com _ ***************************************************************** Visit SatJaDham Homepage at: http://www.satjadham.org (or .net) *****************************************************************