LEisurely.
VOL.01
EDITORS' MESSAGES That's not a knot - Thanawut Sreejak Pain to death. Shade and side. Narrow space with knives from God. Not today, but a force to the lot. Parrot, shortly – “That’s not a knot.” Don’t knot the thoughts. Torch the porch though sought the boss. Hellions fought but lost. Seek mercy. Freak phoney. Sneakily look in his dirty diary. Dirt to the purse. First glance at the nerd. Favor – your pussy hurt. Fever – cronies of the earth. Pusillanimity – take me to the church. Conciliatory for not perpetuating the beginning of retorting his curse. To all broken from the flood of failure in life, you are always gorgeous, and it’s fine to fail to prolong the pleasure in the lot – it’s just the beginning, period. Keep dreaming, hoping, and sometimes fucking the world.
Grown Beginning - Napatsorn Treesap Seeds of sorrow— Soils of suffering, Watering with loathing and rejecting, Seasoning with a hot, burning blaze sin Against the mad wind in the dark Growing in me, climbing with all of the needs Longing patiently for all the lights to meet A fresh air started to let me breathe heavily Against the painful memory, Seeds of thought Timing passed me by, soaking turned to dry A strange noise of a butterfly A bright light of a firefly A new light of the morning A new hope in the midst of a daydream The branches in the evergreen field Screaming all over the green hills Growing sparkly, your beginning As some of us are the seeds of not being unwanted or not being understood, I am pretty sure that we used to seek for the place that accept the way we are. Any genders, any nationalities, any differences between us, humans like us are accetepted here. Let's begin our lives together, a home for a seekers of light, LEisurely.
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“To love oneself is the
beginning of a lifelong romance!”
Oscar Wilde 1894-1900
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Table of Contents
I. Obsession Adisorn Karun
II. Poenthusiasm Sai Napatsorn Treesap Teerisara Boonchouy
III. Arts Keng Hannarong Srikaew
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Obsession FLORIST LEisurely Magazine: Please, introduce yourself to our readers. ADISORN: Hello, my name is Adisorn Karun. My nickname is Liu. I am a florist at Florista.
LEisurely Magazine: So, you are only a florist now? ADISORN: Yes, I have been a full-time florist since the beginning. LEisurely Magazine: Where did you graduate from? ADISORN: I graduated from Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts in Painting?
ADISON KAROON
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LEisurely Magazine: How about your online flower shop? ADISORN: Ah, that is my dream and life goal because it is one of the things that I can show my best potential and capability to people.
LEisurely Magazine: Why do you choose to be a florist? ADISORN: After I had been trying many jobs, it ended up with this one — the florist. I would say that it is my thing, bringing my skills that can spark many eyes of the people. I feel like people appreciate the value of what I have doing. So, that’s why I decided to walk in this path.
LEisurely Magazine: What kinds of flowers can represent yourself? ADISORN: What kinds of flowers? Actually, I don’t focus on the exact meaning of each flower that much rather than its functions. I think I am gypsophila — a small white secondary flower — used to decorate and highlight other flowers in the same bouquet to be more complete, spectacular and vivid.
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LEisurely Magazine: So, it can be perceived as the supporter of others, couldn’t it? ADISORN: Yeah, it can be.
LEISURELY MAGAZINE: Now let’s compare flowers with each kind of relationship whether it’s lover, family, and friend. ADISORN: Gerbera tends to have lots of color shades, so it would represent my friends. For comparing family with flowers, I would pick lotus.
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LEisurely Magazine: What does lotus represent for you? ADISORN: How can I say this? I just feel like lotus makes more sense and fits with the family context more because it was born from the soil, the mud which likely has lots of levels.
LEisurely Magazine: What about love? ADISORN: Love? I haven't had it for a long, long time. So I am quite unsure about that, indeed.
LEisurely Magazine: Imagine that a flower that shows your romantic relationship situation at the moment. ADISORN: That can be hydrangea which may befit my romantic feelings just now as its colors have changed to different shades because of the acid base of the soil.
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Sunset Sunset Sunset Sunset Poenthusiasm
The sun painted sky Like fire but it calmed my heart, Solitary heart.
Title: Sunset Written and Photo by Teerisara Boonchouy
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Poenthusiasm Eggs and Daisy, Homey Champagne Napatsorn Treesap
Tons of madness From millions of mountains, Hundreds of sadness From trillion of fountains, Leave eggs in the nest A champagne at kitchen Tiding with the waves 3 A.M, It’s belling Whistle of the wind, Whispering with moonlight Cornflowers as a hint Manifesting with new light 6 o’clock passed me by A new sign is rolling Smiling with the face of you and me Bounding with no boundary Closer not just a daydream Sophisticated, soulful dream New face in a midst, New feeling against the new crime, New arrow space do exist, Manifesting among the clouds Forming all the memories Beginning in the daytime Dandelion on the wind Turning to your rhymes Reborn as daisy Growing your realms
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artsartsarts
Title: Swan, Gliding Swan & Heaven Swan This work was inspired by the movements of the different swans — the Himmapan wild creatures – and then created in the owner's ideal style. Techniques for creating this work are using fountain pens, poster paints, Chinese ink, and pencil colors. 10
CM H A U N L I A
Title: Chulamani According to the name of this artwork, it is based upon the myth that Phra Indra brought the ordained hair of the Buddha to be packed at Chulamani Pagoda on the Heaven Levels. This work was inspired by the art of Sim architecture in the style of Vietnamese craftsmen who immigrated from Vietnam, coming into the land of Northeastern Lan Xang. The technique is molding liquid-based cement, pressing the brass sheet, powder coating, and attaching the tile. Footnote: Laos or the Lan Xang Kingdom had Luang Phabang as the capital in the mid 14th century, in which it was known that from the 16th century onwards, Lan Xang vastly developed. Particularly, during 1548-71 or under the reign of King Xetthathirat, the kingdom changed the capital from Luang Phabang to Vientiane, and expanded its domain southeast (Masuhara, 2017).
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get to know
Name: Adisorn Karun Nickname: Liu A florist IG: adisorn203
Name: Teerisara Boonchouy Nickname: Bo IG: boniversse
Name: Napatsorn Treesap Nickname: Sai Content Operations Manager at Rightsify IG: swiftiesai
Name: Hannarong Srikaew Nickname: Keng An undergraduate student of Faculty of Fine-Applied Arts and Cultural Science, MSU. IG: hannarongsrikaew.06
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Editors “My existence is a scandal” - Oscar Wilde (n.d.) Bas Thanawut Sreejak (he/him) A passionate postgrad, Khon-Kaenbased part-time bittersweet English tutor, unsophisticated Thaiwriting poet, and flamboyant queer. bassree007@gmail.com IG: homesickboy_________________
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.” Dead Poets Society (1989) Sai Napatsorn Treesap (she/her) A Bangkok-based poet currently working as a Content Operations Manager at Rightsify and an owner of Sai Napatsorn Podcast. Napatsorn.Treesap999@gmail.com IG: swiftiesai
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