Yee Peng Loy Krathong Festival Chiang Mai 2009

By Thai-Eyes | November 7, 2009

The headline Yee Peng Loy Krathong Festival Chiang Mai 2009
should better be called: Chiang Mai under fire,
because what was going on in Chiang Mai
was more like a warzone than a festival.

Loy Krathong, in North Thailand also called Yee Peng,
was a beautiful, colourful and spiritual event.
It is been held every year at the time of november fullmoon.
At the evening Thai people go to the rivers and lakes to float (loy)
their krathongs (flower arrangements).
Within the flower arrangement there are 3 incense sticks and a candle.

While the incense sticks and the candle are inflamed,
people are holding the krathong and hope all the bad luck,
the problems and anger from the last year will float away with the krathong
and they will have a better year.
Than they kneel and float the krathong.
Loy, loy krathong….

In North Thailand there is a special variety, the so called Yee Peng.
In addition to the krathong, northern Thai people also release
floating lanterns to the sky. While the festivities the sky of Chiang Mai
is full with thousands of the floating lanterns
and it gives an outstanding and romantic view.

Overshadowed or better characterized was the 2009 Loy Krathong festival
in Chiang Mai by ruthless and irresponsible festival hooligans.
Moving motorbikes has been bombarded by firecrackers
all over the city. This idiots been shooting on people,
which has been on their knees to float their krathongs,
with all kind of explosives.
Our photographer and also other people on the streets
has been attacked by firecrackers, fireworks
and explosives which You probably could call small bombs.
Over the festival days Chiang Mai was a real warzone
the sound of explosions was just drowned out
by the sirens of the ambulance cars,
which has been running around town the whole time.
How many people has been injured, we don´t know
but we mention a lot.

Picture: A Loy Krathong Hooligan
What You can´t see on the picture,
is that just 2 meters below,
people, also very young children been floating their krathongs,
the fire rain dropped on them.

Also we got injured by burns
and after all that bad experience,
we decided not to participate in Chiang Mai Loy Krathong Festival 2010.
The whole festival is out of order and very dangerous for life and health.

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Cute and Handsome Thai Boys and Tribe Boys

By Thai-Eyes | October 26, 2009

Over the last years we met a lot of young, cute and handsome
Thai Boys and Hill Tribe boys from North Thailand.
Some of them has been working with our Thai-Eyes Crew,
others just came to visit and our Thai photographers took the chance
to make a few shots.
All 5 of the boys are born in Thailand,
but just the first and the last boy
are real Thai boys.
The other 3 boys are Akha Hill Tribe boys
from different Akha villages from the far North of Thailand.

Picture: cute Thaiboy from Chiang Mai
© Thai-Eyes
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

Picture: cute Akha Hilltribe Boy
© Thai-Eyes
Photographer: Posantor “Chocolate” Salie

Picture: young, cute Akha Hilltribe Boy
© Thai-Eyes
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

Picture: cute Akha Hilltribe Boy
© Thai-Eyes
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

Picture: cute Thaiboy from Chiang Mai
© Thai-Eyes
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

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Magic Hack Wordpress Blog hacked

By Thai-Eyes | October 24, 2009

As we figured out yesterday our Thai-Eyes Worldpress Blog
has been hacked by a hack,
which we call Magic Hack.
While we´ve been writing a new article
and wanted to save,
a login box, released by website “Magic” showed up.
We couldn´t login with our data.
We phoned a friend, who is quite good with coding work
and after a long research we´ve figured out,
that or blog has been hacked.
About 4-5 weeks ago our visitor numbers dropped by about 80%,
no google search queries at all, that´s possibly what the hack caused.

All in all, we can´t understand why insane people spreading viruses and
worms around the internet and why they hack websites.
In our opinion, this people should go to see a doctor at a mental hospital,
they seem to be very sick !

For us it was a 18 hour run to clear the problem
and for sure much, much fun.
To help other people which have the same problem,
we publish a short tutorial, how to get rid of the “Magic Hack”

The Magic Hack sems to use a backdoor in elder Wordpress versions,
Thai-Eyes used a 2.3 version.
*First have a look at the editor of Your plugins.
If You´ll find a weird code, mostly in the bottom, with a lot of numbers and letters,
Your blog is infected.
What to do ???
* Go via FTP to Your server
and delete the malicious code in the vars.php (wp-includes).
* Check all Your plugins and delete the malicious code.
*Now You should be able to save Your work,
but don´t leave it like that !!!
The burglar could come back through the backdoor,
You need to close it.
*Change Your WP Login Password !
*Deactivate all plugins
*Update to the newest version of wordpress
*Update all Your plugins and check them before activation.

Now Your wordpress blog should be safe for a while.
Update to the newest version regularly !

If You have to update Your wordpress manually,
because there is no automated update available,
be sure Your MSQL is set to php5,
because a lot of updated plugins don´t work with php4,
which causes even more problems.

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