video 1.0 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/ James Quilty http://vimeo.com/jamesquilty 0 <object width="504" height="284"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=935857&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=935857&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="504" height="284"></embed></object> 504 284 499 I got engaged twice last week in Thailand. The first time was on Friday and very western: I popped the question to Yui on the fourth floor of the Paragon mall in downtown Bangkok outside the Starbucks - I knelt down and gave her a ring that I had just bought near the Jim Thompson House. She said yes and that was it - we were engaged. The second time was on Saturday and involved her entire family in Ratchaburi with the addition of nine Buddhist monks and took place at exactly 9:09 a.m. on the 19th of April. The whole event took half a day and seemed like a wedding. Twine was strung up around Yui's Grandmother's house to act as a kind of spiritual antenna. We celebrated Yui's ancestors and Songkran, the Thai new year. We ate some great food and downed a bottle of 10 year old Laphoaig. It was an awesome day. http://images.vimeo.com/57/10/57/57105784/57105784_200x150.jpg 200 150 935857