During my train journey last week, I met a very nice family, a mother with two young girls.  The older girl was suffering from train-sickness and she was holding a plastic bag in her hand all the time.  There were altogether four children in this section of the train, the other two boys belonged to the other passengers.  They all got together and started to have fun and games while running and making loud noises along the corridor.  I went up to the children and told them to lower their noises later on as people would want to go to bed.  

To my surprise, they all responded in such a nice and gentle manner and the boys started to show me their new watches!  I asked the boys who chose these watches for which they said their parents.  So, I told them these watches were suitable for old people because they were all gold plated with black straps.  The boys were horrified! I think that their parents next door were pretty shocked too.  I told them to choose their own watches next time  and not to follow grownup's choices.  The other two girls promptly showed me their pink and blue cartoon watches for which I gave them lots of compliments.  The girls were very pleased and so was their mother.  I think that children should have simple and joyful life without the burden of having to show off that they are rich like most rich Thai adults do.
 
During the long weekend, I often take the train journey from Bangkok to the north-east of Thailand, Nongkhai, to do some gardening and check out my retreat cottage by the Mae Nam Khong River.   The train journey was very comfortable comparing with the old trains last year.  These trains are clean, fully air-conditioned, with modern rest rooms and a shower for the first-class passengers.  I was surprised that all the first-class seats were fully booked and the 'lady or women only' second class compartments were also full.   The difference between the first and second class is that the latter are open double-bunk beds with curtains for privacy.  The former has a double-bunk bed per compartment.  So, there are only twenty beds or ten compartments in the first-class train, whereas there are forty bunk-beds in the second class.  The train journey takes about ten hours to reach Nongkhai. 

I am used to traveling by train and found the journey quite comfortable and  relaxing.  That is the best time to check out my blog on Steemit, passengers can recharge mobiles or notebooks and there is free WIFI on the train.  The drawback is that when the train goes through fields, woodland or mountains, the internet connection would become dead.  So, I kept losing my typos and comments and had to login again quite often.

__One Photo Every Day: Lovely family on the train to Nongkhai (19/365) The OPED project__ 
(The grandmother came to pick them up at the railway station)
![IMG_2772.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZMdf6QLzsvztSZBfhJzFuinPeeSb53qeSThLqAzRGo39/IMG_2772.JPG)



__One Photo Every Day: The Moon after The Buddhist Lent Day (20/365) The OPED project__
(All photos taken with my Canon IXUS 185)
![IMG_2835.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfECkuooojKhvrSEyqPobMRsJSCd1FLJpyKgmW9mLo6n3/IMG_2835.JPG)


__One Photo Every Day: Sunset by the Mae Nam Khong River, Saturday evening (21/365) The OPED project__
(I was hoping to see some Naga's fireballs, but I didn't see any.)
![IMG_2876.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdq1fJ5SFmrBarY4YoqLbguUdBaHm8kuGnr6JweuaQ7Nh/IMG_2876.JPG)




__One Photo Every Day: Sunrise through the Bamboo jungle on Sunday morning (22/365) The OPED project__
(I call it a jungle because the bamboos are growing very fast and as high as five meters tall)

![IMG_2916.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmT7MQH3RfM8idmrjXiSNHWZRaM9DJcf2WPVyZsGfzc8f9/IMG_2916.JPG)


__One Photo Every Day:  Bird’s nest fern in the garden behind the office building (23/365) The OPED project__
(Finally, back to the office to clear up unfinished assignment, I find this rather slow going like the weather)

![IMG_2979.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfM5UiaF52yFNhjEv8fqGcEKuanrWPrPgKKh4wcaYtyYt/IMG_2979.JPG)


Today the rain clouds make Bangkok very grey and dull with a tint of melancholy.  The low depression and rainy storms have just impacted Vietnam and Laos;  today it is our turn with heavy down pour in the northern provinces and spasmodic rains in central area.  

Wishing you peace, good health and prosperity.

Cheers.

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