Having coffee at Starbucks can dramatically change your life… November 30, 2010
Posted by conedo in Contemplations, Uncategorized.Tags: airport, Bangkok, change, Chaweng, coffee, dramatically, Europe, Gulf of Thailand, insane, Koh Samui, life, magic, Nim, Starbucks, Stockholm, Suvarnabhumi, Sweden, Thailand, vacation
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When I landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, an early Sunday morning September 26th, I had not yet decided where I would spend my next coming 5 weeks of Southeast Asia vacation. I went to the ticket office and found myself holding a one-way ticket with a flight to Koh Samui.
One week there, maximum two was my intention – then I would take off for some other destination.
A couple of days later, I went to a Starbucks coffee shop at Chaweng Beach… and everything changed. And I mean EVERYTHING!
If someone had told me a month ago, that I would stay on Koh Samui the entire 5 weeks of my vacation, and that I immediately after my return to Europe, Sweden and Stockholm would book a new flight to Thailand within less than two months after my return… I would have said: “Yeah… sure…” and I would have considered that person totally insane.
However, that was exactly what happened. I return once again to Koh Samui, in the Gulf of Thailand, to pick up from where my life paused…
I return to the place that dramatically changed, not only mine, but also a very special person’s life, and the ones that we call our family and friends. I return to Starbucks coffee, at Chaweng Beach on Koh Samui in Thailand and I return to the person who served me that magic coffee in the end of September – the Starbucks coffee that so dramatically changed my life
Thank you Nim!
A magic place… November 18, 2010
Posted by conedo in Contemplations, Uncategorized.Tags: Angthong, BakuBung, Buddha, Chumpon, coincidence, entrance, God, guardian, Heaven, Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, Koh Tao, luck, magic, Paradise, peace, relax, rest, soul, Thailand
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Sometimes in life, it happens that we by pure coincidence, luck, the will of God, (Buddha or whatever we call our “higher power” and guardian), find ourselves being in a place, that gives us an indescribable or unexplainable, magic feeling of peace and rest for our body, mind and soul.
I have now myself finally found such a place!
It is called BakuBung, and It’s a peaceful garden with a small café and a beach, on the northern shore of the island of Koh Samui in Thailand. Baku Bung is overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, with the islands Koh Phangan and Angthong National Marine Park visible at the horizon.
During my latest visit to the wonderful country of Thailand, I was taken to this place by a very special friend. I felt the magic of the place, the moment I entered the garden and I lost my breath looking at the view. The modest entrance to this “resort for the soul”, does not give a fair picture of what awaits you when stepping in…
But when passing this entrance, a piece of Paradise lies there, right in front of your feet.
Needless to say, the first visit lead to more, and I am soon passing through that entrance again.
And I know, that something very rare and magic will happen there, just like before, the moment I pass this entrance. The entrance to that beautiful, heavenly like garden, on a beach of the Gulf of Thailand… An entrance to a part of Paradise…
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