Non-Flattering Gold

Have you been glued-to-the-tube?
 
The Olympics in Beijing started with an incredible opening ceremony and sadly have been accented with a murder of a U.S. citizen.
 
Thailand grabbed gold in the women’s weight lifting. Unfortunately, it’s a sporting event and not a beauty contest. If you have never been to Thailand or have never seen pictures [...]

Preserving the Thai Language

Are you familiar with the phrase, “sawasdee?”
 
It essentially means hello, or a way of greeting someone in Thai. To give you a loose phonetic translation, you would say; SEW-A DEE-CUP if you were a woman and SEW-A-DEE-KHRUP if you were a man.
 
Thailand’s National Culture Commission wants to preserve the Thai language and is asking that [...]

No Surprise

This morning, as a follow-up to the story on NGV, a bus was filling its tank at a service station in Thailand and KABOOM!
 
Police say that the tank did not meet standards for holding NGV. No one was killed, but one worker was injured and a few vehicles sustained damage.
 
This is a serious issue that [...]

Getting a Bang Out of NGV

Warnings in the newspapers in Thailand about the hazards of NGV tanks have a lot of people thinking twice about converting their vehicles.
 
The fact is, there are hundreds of qualified mechanics who can convert a gas powered vehicle to a Natural Gas Vehicle in Thaialnd, but there are a couple of caveats to this. One [...]

Superheroes Dominate

When I was growing up, it was AMT kits. You know 3-n-1 kits of model cars that you could build stock, street, or custom.
 
I was a collector of the models and sold them all before I moved to Bangkok on eBay. I hated to see some of them go, the real treats were the [...]

Video Game Crackdown

We live in a world where taking responsibility is ignored.
 
I’m sorry, but when I read in a Bangkok newspaper that a top government official thinks that video game makers should be held responsible for some kid who imitates the brutal acts of a video game in real life, I have to shake my head. [...]

Online Rise in Bangkok

It seems that every week or so there’s a new online gaming location, opening up for business here in the capital city of Bangkok.
 
There was an article just today in the Bangkok Post about True Internet talking about the dial-up internet market. Dial-up customers are expected to reach 750 thousand by the end of the [...]

Insectville, Thailand

Even thought it’s a Third World country, in many ways, Thailand is similar to First World comforts, especially Bangkok.
 
Many of the indigenous creatures are now considered pests in the increasingly sophisticated lifestyle of the city of Bangkok.
 
There’s going to be a Pest Summit toward the middle of this month where health standards and the latest [...]

What’s there to See in Thailand?

Plenty. Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in many of the Northeast provinces of Thailand.
 
In addition, parts of some ancient creatures and even footprints have been unearthed.
 
Thailand has 5 world heritage sites;
 
1)      Ayutthaya historic city.
 
2)      Sukhothai historic town.
 
3)      Thungyai-huai Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuaries.
 
4)      Ban Chiang archaeological site.
 
5)      Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai forest.  
 
Believe it or not, there’s [...]

Incense Warning in the Kingdom

They’re referred to as joss sticks, but you would call them sticks of incense. Three of them are lit and used in prayer and other ceremonies on a daily basis in Thailand and always burning in the country’s many temples.
 
Held close to the face during prayer, it’s now being said that just 3 joss sticks [...]