I recently mentioned that despite reports of huge crowds demonstrating against the Thai government I hadn’t seen much. Well that changed yesterday when I went to my Thai class yesterday. Sukhumvit (probably the busiest street in Bangkok) was crawling with red shirt supporters of fugitive former PM Thaksin. I stepped off the BTS at the …
I mentioned not too long ago that things were starting to heat up around Bangkok. Fugitive former PM Thaksin was about to find out from the Thai supreme court whether or not the government was just in seizing $2.2 billion from him after the coup that threw him from power. Well, the verdict came down …
Hey look Ma, I canz writes my own name I learned to write my name recently. Well, I knew how to write it in English (thanks, Misses kindergarden teacher I don’t remember) but I hadn’t really learned it in Thai. I had looked up how to write Bill on some website and it gave me …
Today is both Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day. Here in Thailand Valentine’s Day is celebrated but it’s not really a Thai holiday. Much like other consumer oriented holidays advertisers have sold the concept here but it has no real roots in Thai culture or tradition. Christmas is much the same. All the malls are …
I guess yesterday started off like any other normal day. I was plugging away on some work and then I got a text message from a friend of mine who lives out on some farm in Isaan (North East Thailand). She used to live here in Bangkok but decided to move back home to stay …