Archive for July 14th, 2005

Five Things I Like About Bangkok

July 14, 2005
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Five Things I Like About Bangkok

A disabled lottery ticket seller in Bangkok First impressions are sometimes misleading. For example, landing at Don Muang International Airport, it feels almost like you have arrived at a third-world country. What more, when the 30km drive into the city reveals further bizarre traffic jams, dusty roads and almost a gluttony of drab and...
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Posted in Bangkok, Guest Writers | 7 Comments »

Listen to Thai Classical Music

July 14, 2005
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Listen to Thai Classical Music

At school today we celebrated our Golden Jubilee. As usual I got a bit click happy and took about 700 pictures which you can view in our online photo album. There are quite a few pictures I want to share with you over the coming days which nicely illustrate Thai culture. However, today I...
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Posted in School Life | 5 Comments »

White elephant and Moose

July 14, 2005
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Thai folks just love to import stuff! Imports are hi-so, they are cool. You can eat import food, you can dress to the latest import fashion using imported clothes. You can watch the 10m-Bt imported Chinese pandas chewing bamboo in Chiang Mai Zoo. Then you can drive away in your imported American gas-guzzler, or...
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Posted in Everyday Life | 21 Comments »

The Bliss of Bangkok

July 14, 2005
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The Bliss of Bangkok

An Oxygen Bar inBangkok where you can get a daily dose of clean air After a quick series of shorty blogs posted this week, I thought I’d do the righteous thing and gives yous all, another one of those darned lengthy postings of mine. Looking through me notebook, it was pretty tricky having to...
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Posted in Bangkok, Bangkok Blogs | 12 Comments »

Flood Flashback

July 14, 2005
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Flood Flashback

Street flooding. Ahh. The one thing I don’t particularly miss about Bangkok. Then again, if the city doesn’t flood, that means the country is not getting enough rain that year. In my past post, I have mentioned my friends’ and my mischievous attempts to get our school flooded. But man, did I hate wading...
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