Rough beast slouching toward Bangkok

Sparkling sunday in Bangkok, happy middle-class Thai flock to the malls with the temperatures in the high twenties (mid eighties F) blue sky, and a fresh NNW dry breeze coming down from Burma at 20 kph.  Pleasant walking the skyways downtown to Paragon, with the humidity dipping to a rare 24 percent. Hard to imagine the rough beast of civil strife slouching toward the capital, arrival tomorrow, Just as Cambodia seemed to me a garden of Eden when I visited there in 1966.