• OPINION

  #Change

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 22/04/2016

  » If you are a regular Guru reader, you will (hopefully) have noticed a few aesthetic changes in this issue. If you are not a regular Guru reader, well, you've missed out on so much. I'm telling you. So. Much.

• OPINION

  #Lies

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 01/04/2016

  » Today is April Fools' Day, another useless celebration human beings have come up with, perhaps out of sheer boredom.

• OPINION

  #Tescology

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 18/03/2016

  » Here's my theory -- the best way to learn about Thai people's behaviours is to go to Tesco Lotus.

• OPINION

  #Summer

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 25/03/2016

  » Earlier this month, our intern interviewed artist Nakrob Moonmanas. One of his quotes particularly resonated with me. "Look at us, we celebrate everything -- Songkran, Valentine's Day, New Year's, Christmas and Chinese New Year."

• OPINION

  #PlasticBeauty

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 11/03/2016

  » I was recently at a hospital visiting a friend. This particular hospital is famous for cosmetic surgery, so much so that I admit I was at first a little surprised my friend said she gave birth to her baby there.

• OPINION

  #Universe

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 26/02/2016

  » Two weeks ago, when my news feed was flushed with reports on the discovery of gravitational waves, I also discovered something.

• OPINION

  #LifeWellTravelled

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 04/03/2016

  » Would you look at the calendar -- it's almost Songkran! Oh, long holiday, how I have missed you.

• OPINION

  #Confidence

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 19/02/2016

  » If you went to a Thai school, you know that confidence is something highly discouraged. Confidence can lead to rebellion — or so Thai adults think — and must be suppressed from a young age.

• OPINION

  #CreativeTradition

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 05/02/2016

  » I was in an elevator with two university girls. One, I assume, was a Chinese-Thai, and the other was probably not. That's not the point. The point was, naturally, I eavesdropped.

• OPINION

  #TillDebtDoUsApart

  Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 12/02/2016

  » Unless you've been living under a rock -- or in a place with horrible 3G -- you'll have heard about the dentist who refused to repay a 30 million baht scholarship and is now living a supposedly hi-so life in the US. Her guarantors were forced to pay her debt. After the news became widespread, she made a promise to pay them back.

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