Thread: Japanese House

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Want to see photos?

come on....dont tease

On the extreme left, bedroom for employee, shower and toilet, then rice mill and corn mill, next door, oil expeller, and last door: storage.
Total cost excluding lot and machines : 120 000 tb

Rice mill. This was on the farm for 5 years, we moved it there, where it's more needed.

^ looks fun

you could probably adapt it to make LaoKao too

Oil mills, one small expeller in action, one big one for later, all from India.

Looks good so far, a nice thread

BUT why is the title a Japanese house?

you did say you wanted a roof like the Golden temple, but other than that?

even Rika does not look Japanese

Lao kao?

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Lao kao?

local rice spirit

Lao Kao

Rika is 50% japanese, the eyes and the legs, the other 50% is canadian, tall, full breasted, not shy, not afraid to show what she's got! In one word, perfect!
The japanese house will have the roof, I hope and the walls, shojis, sliding doors... That's the best I can do, here.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Rika is 50% japanese, the eyes and the legs, the other 50% is canadian, tall, full breasted, not shy, not afraid to show what she's got! In one word, perfect!
The japanese house will have the roof, I hope and the walls, shojis, sliding doors... That's the best I can do, here.

sounds nice

a Canadian Japanese house then

And storage, the largest room.

Well, I can't deny I was born in Canada, but my culture is not canadian, it's quebecoise.
Where are you from?
I was always fascinated by the japanese culture. On my visits there, I cried viewing so much beauty at cherry blossom season, they have so much, as far as gardens are concerned, and we are children compared to them. 800 years to get the branch of a tree to lean towards the water, just so!

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Well, I can't deny I was born in Canada, but my culture is not canadian, it's quebecoise.
Where are you from?
I was always fascinated by the japanese culture. On my visits there, I cried viewing so much beauty at cherry blossom season, they have so much, as far as gardens are concerned, and we are children compared to them. 800 years to get the branch of a tree to lean towards the water, just so!

damn, my geography teacher was wrong then, Quebec is not part of Canada!

me, from London, which of course, is not in England, not at all, nothing like it

yep, Japan is fascinating although the Thais can make a tree lean over much quicker

Being from the west coast of Canada and traveling through Quebec once I have to say they seem to be fairly nice.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Well, I can't deny I was born in Canada, but my culture is not canadian, it's quebecoise.
Where are you from?
I was always fascinated by the japanese culture. On my visits there, I cried viewing so much beauty at cherry blossom season, they have so much, as far as gardens are concerned, and we are children compared to them. 800 years to get the branch of a tree to lean towards the water, just so!

damn, my geography teacher was wrong then, Quebec is not part of Canada!

me, from London, which of course, is not in England, not at all, nothing like it

yep, Japan is fascinating although the Thais can make a tree lean over much quicker

Well, maybe your geography should have been completed with a bit of history! Quebec is a french speaking province which was conquered by England in 1759, but who was never assimilated by the English, athough they tried. It has its own very rich culture, and is still very different from the rest of Canada. Read a bit about it. Or was that another example of the famous British sense of humor?

And finally for this subject, the motor that makes all these machine work, a stationary 18 HP indian diezel motor, will probably run like that 10 years from now, on the oil that we'll extract!

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

with speed freaks and heroin addict in larger numbers because of this. In fact, a large fraction of the very rich houses of this village are unhabitated, the owners are dead or in jail...

colourful area you live in


what are those black things in post 117, at the back of the shed?

Originally Posted by sunsetter

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

with speed freaks and heroin addict in larger numbers because of this. In fact, a large fraction of the very rich houses of this village are unhabitated, the owners are dead or in jail...

colourful area you live in


what are those black things in post 117, at the back of the shed?

This is niger cake, what is left after we press the oil out of this seed, niger, guizotia abyssinica, sold as a bird seed also in farang pet shops. We introduced this yellow flower 4 years ago in Northern Thailand, because my wife was disturbed by the apparition of high blood pressure and cardio-vascular problems in lots of members of her family. Before they migrated from Burma, these were unknown. She thought that the only major change in their diet was the oil. They were now buying cheap palm oil for their cooking. Before, they were growing a yellow flower just after rice and there were presses in every village to press oil out of it. So she got 3 bags in, we grew it, got 30, next year, we grew it around, then we imported one expeller from India, and for the past two years, the mountains around here are yellow.
Families bring in 2-3 bags of seeds ang go back with 25% of the weight of the seeds in a very healthy and delicious cooking oil. We keep the cake to feed pigs.

Great thread, OM. My father is French Quebecois from Montreal and my mother is Italian. I don't like to say I'm Canadian either.

One thing I'm wondering is if there are rule in Japanese about which directin a house should face, what to have in the rooms and what not to have, as in Chinese feng shui. Would you also have the land and the house blessed to bring protection or good fortune?

Merci beaucoup.

Originally Posted by natalie8

Great thread, OM. My father is French Quebecois from Montreal and my mother is Italian. I don't like to say I'm Canadian either.

One thing I'm wondering is if there are rule in Japanese about which directin a house should face, what to have in the rooms and what not to have, as in Chinese feng shui. Would you also have the land and the house blessed to bring protection or good fortune?

Merci beaucoup.

Merci à toi, j'apprécie.
I think that the rules are the same, but I'm not sure, I haven't found references that were not chinese up to now. I always did orient houses facing South in farang land, for obvious reasons, energy (sun) and wind (often West). Here it so happen that the view is due North, that we don't want the sun to tranform the house into an oven, specially now. Lucky, I'm glad. The openings will be mostly North.
Japanese do not have much furniture, in the bedrooms, they roll the beddings and put it in cubbards, in the kitchen, I've seen a hole under the table, so that you could put charcoal there and heat your legs, very clever. Orientals can sit on their heels forever, I wish I could. They are Zen. I will go with the style, japanese, but I will not become one, too late.
Nathalie, how do you get used to this heat?

old monkey now the question is where do i get the seeds, if they are not readily available in thailand.

regards scotty

Originally Posted by highlander

old monkey now the question is where do i get the seeds, if they are not readily available in thailand.

regards scotty

Where are you? Do you want to grow it? What quantities are you thinking of?

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Or was that another example of the famous British sense of humor?

well spotted

they did teach history at my school, as well as Geography

I know there is a seperatist movement in Quebec, but until that happens, you are part of Canada

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Or was that another example of the famous British sense of humor?

well spotted

they did teach history at my school, as well as Geography

I know there is a seperatist movement in Quebec, but until that happens, you are part of Canada

So sweet of you to remind me!