Without question, football or as it is known in the US, ‘soccer,’ is / has been the most popular and widespread sport in Thailand. I remember my first impressions of professional sports in Thailand a decade ago. Then, the semi-professional soccer leagues were dominated by private sector teams representing banks, universities and companies. This ‘capital [...]
Living in an age of over populating rapid urbanization that has seen many o’ wide open spaces replaced with the likes of slums and suburbia, the cities of the world continue to expand across horizons, expanding through the upper stretches of the biosphere. With longer horizontal and vertical distances to cover, we’ve come to be [...]
Remember the good old days sitting in your lonely room with soothing Sam Cooke ballads, wishing you were out on a date with that special someone to share all that love you had stored inside, if not help you spend that hard earned dough? Well, what was so good about them boring and destitute Saturday [...]
Capitalism & Marketing Mix: The true story Imagine an alien student studying human-kind getting hold of a Marketing text book. Sooner or later, they’d get to the chapter about the four P’s: What were they again—oh yea, Product. Place, Price, and Promotion. Reading further, they’d go on to learn that a few additional Ps were [...]
All over the Thai media in recent times has been the colored shirt political rivalries infesting the Siamese political and public arenas. Initially headlined by the pro (current) government yellow shirts, known formerly as PAD (Peoples Alliance for Democracy), and their bitter opposition, pro ex-Thaksin-government red shirted rivals, or PAAD (Peoples Alliance Against Dictatorship). As [...]
For thousands of people, 2009 kicked off with a horrific tragedy as one of the Thai capital’s popular night club’s Santika (sometimes spelt Zantika) went into flames shortly after the New Year’s count down. At least 60 people either were trampled, suffocated and/or burnt to death within the once classy compounds, and several hundred more [...]
If you’ve ever been out and about when the sun goes down in Thailand–from lively zones in the heart of the congested capital to run down, shady narrow sois (sub-street) out in the middle of nowhere–you might recall passing by one of those simple yet glamorous joints adjourned with colorful lights, and perhaps some provocatively [...]
If you got a weak stomach, take a few deep breaths before continuing… The witnesses, descriptions, images, and critique regarding death that follow might shake/stir your innards a bit, but none-the-less, should be held as a prime reinforcement factor for insight, focus, and ultimately a true determination and dedication for harmonious survival and persistence [...]
The past week has provide a handful of front-page-newspaper-worthy incidents involving unlucky, unfortunate, and/or misguided post-secondary students and one professor–all separate cases.
Over the last month, villagers in Kanchanaburi province of Western Thailand, particularly those with women and young girls in their family have been freaking out about rumors going around regarding a pervert, apparently skilled in black magic and the art of mysteriously disapearing after committing naughty deeds on women and young girls in the middle [...]
