There is a children’s playground right next to my apartment block, it also has a running track, and most morning there are a few people jogging around it, trying to keep fit. At one end of the park is an open storm drain, not very big, not very deep, take a look at this picture below.

You see that white concrete bridge? Well that’s the storm drain underneath it. This is about 100 metres from my house, I took this picture from my balcony. This morning at 6am, a jogger discovered three dead children in the storm drain, supposedly drowned. They were a pair of brothers and a friend, quite young about four or five years old.

Now what the hell are three kids of this age doing out on their own at 6am in the morning? Why didn’t anyone see them? How did all three manage to die? Surely if one fell in the others would shout or go for help? There are shops just across the street, and this is a fairly busy road, the chances of nobody seeing three boys get into this kind of trouble is extremely slim even at 6am.

I think there is something suspicious about all this, it just does not add up to me, I don’t believe it is possible that this could have been an accident.

Something happened today that I found quite disturbing. During the week Nuth stays with her father in their village about 8km away from Surin, he is old and needs somebody to take care of him. This works out really well as it gives me time to work in the week without interruption and we spend the weekends doing fun things.

Today I drove Nuth home to her village, whilst I was helping her move her bags inside and get Leon settled, her neighbours Son turned up drunk. He started an argument with his father, and then killed him right in front of us, seriously just across the street in their garden.

So the police were called and they carted him off. You just don’t expect to see somebody murdered right in front of you!

Hanging around the freelance sites as I do, I often witness people posting projects for ridiculous prices but yesterday I saw the worst one yet.

The project specification was quite straightforward, the guy wants a complete clone of LinkedIn, with the ability to install new skins himself, it must contain all the functionality that LinkedIn currently has and he wants it done in a week.

How much do you think he was willing to pay for this? I mean, that’s gotta be a good 2 months work for a single person, his 7 day requirement means a team of 8 working long hours to meet the deadline, so take a guess? $5,000? $10,000?

Nope, he was asking for quotes within the $30-$100 range. Is this guy an idiot or what? He is NEVER EVER going to get the work done at that price, oh he will find some Russian teenager willing to take a shot at it but it will never be successfully delivered.

I swear man, some people need to be taken out into the parking lot and shot in the head, do the world a favour.