So many things have happened in the last couple of days, the culprits behind the Boston bombing have been identified. The elder brother was shot dead by police. The younger was also shot, but they managed to arrest him alive. Just as Bostonians are celebrating the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a devastating earthquake struck Sichuan, […]
NAKON RATCHASIMA: — About 1,000 members of the Khon Thai Rak Chart (Thai Patriots) group gathered at Lam Takhong reservoir in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Sikhiu district yesterday to express their objection to the ongoing World Court hearing of the Thai-Cambodian dispute over the Hindu temple of Preah Vihear. Chaiwat stressed that the group’s focus was to […]
It’s the same story of forbidden love. Why are people disgusted when they read it from the news but are moved to tears when they read in from novels or watch it from movies? Is it because we see the person in the news clearly as someone else and the protagonist in the story as […]
Mr Brown was swearing that he would never fly Lion Air. I tried to reassure him. Lion Air flies you direct to Kuta Beach. No need to transfer at the airport at Denpasar. Which other airline does that? On a more serious note, we should be relieved that nobody got killed in that crash. The […]
This video (uploaded today) brings back many old memories of Chiangmai. I can’t believe that the youngsters these days are still drawing water from the moat with buckets in exactly the same way we did a generation ago. Time flies, but some things don’t change. Do you know how to draw water using a bucket […]
Regardless of whether you have been to Thailand, you must have seen or heard of the Songkran Festival from documentaries, photos and perhaps even Youtube videos. The origins, the history, the cultural and religious significance of the festival aside, Songkran, especially to the youngsters, is all about splashing water at people on the streets just […]
We’ve got a very talented film editor who worked some digital wizardry, mixing an old song with scenes from a relatively new period drama. When an old song is used in a recent drama, you know that either the new songwriters have run out of ideas or the old song is a timeless masterpiece. 就值得了愛 […]