Archive for August 23rd, 2005

Helicopter Tour of Bala-hala Forest

August 23, 2005
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Helicopter Tour of Bala-hala Forest

22 August 2005, what a fine day! I was really excited when being invited to join the visiting team to the border patrol police field camp in Bala-hala Forest, which was royally registered as a southern rainforest district 2 on Sankalakiree Mountain between Thailand and Malaysia. A Few years ago when I went to...
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Bangkok Skyscape.

August 23, 2005
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Bangkok Skyscape.

Over the years the Bangkok skyline is changing for the better. This has been mainly due to imaginative architecture and use of colourful reflective material like glass, acrylic sheet and PVC. Many of the buildings have blue and green reflective/refractive materials, which reflect the sky. This prevents the buildings from being eyesores. In fact,...
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Believe it or not! Some Thai Beliefs

August 23, 2005
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Believe it or not! Some Thai Beliefs

After feeling rather stressed out of late running around like a beheaded chicken helping me fiancee to sort out precarious wedding arrangements, I thought that I’d brighten me heart up a bit and go back to write about perhaps my fave subject and that is ‘the people of the provinces’. Well, our webmaster friend...
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What made him truly Thai?

August 23, 2005
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A lot of popular Thai celebrities are half Thai, including actresses, models, singers, musicians, and athletes. The first year that I lived in Thailand, two international celebrities, who were both half Thai, visited the country. The Thai media made a very big deal out of these visits and the country was obviously proud of...
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