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From Goya to El Greco
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 01/07/2018
» Walking through the crowd after arriving at Gran Via metro station in Madrid, my hands turn cold, my lips dry and my heart rate rises to match the rhythm of the drum being beat by a street performer nearby. Here I am again, standing in the same country that I first visited only one year ago.
East Meets West
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 01/10/2017
» Street gangs, sassy finger snapping and Puerto Rican girls in whirling skirts -- these are the things that stand out in one's memory from Leonard Bernstein's famous musical West Side Story. Then you have the iconic kiss on the balcony between lead characters Tony and Maria, not to mention the hit songs themselves -- Tonight, Somewhere, America and I Feel Pretty, to name a few.
Barcelona beyond imagination
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 30/04/2017
» Arnold Toynbee once famously said "See Angkor Wat and die". The statement by the British historian refers to the overwhelming beauty of the ancient Cambodian temple complex -- one which he describes as being a sight so awe-inspiring, it's to die for.
My mother, my hero, my quest
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 18/09/2016
» Ever since he was a boy, Briton Karin "Bam" Stowe was fascinated by the stories his mother told him about growing up in Thailand and her time as a resistance fighter during World War II.
Faceto Alex Face
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 08/05/2016
» Patcharapon "Alex" Tangruen found art school a stressful experience. His head was being filled with art theory he had never contemplated, and he felt he was being dragged away from the simple act of drawing he had shown a gift for since the age of three.
You can play it for me
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 24/01/2016
» Morocco was never on my bucket list. When assigned to travel there for work, I knew its location and that Hollywood made a film called Casablanca, but really did not know what to expect.
Change closes in on hidden Chinatown
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/07/2015
» For more than a century, four generations of Usanee Sae-gang’s family have lived on Soi Charoen Chai, off Charoen Krung Road in Bangkok’s Chinatown. For half that time, the 70-year-old has been living and working in the same rented shophouse, where she moved after getting married 50 years ago.
Rooting out the rosewood robbers
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 11/05/2014
» A botched deal and a routine inspection at a police checkpoint of a white four-wheel drive vehicle led to the country’s biggest bust of an alleged Siamese rosewood smuggling kingpin.
Nature nurtured at Bali's 'Green School'
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 02/06/2013
» Three years ago, Pim Pettibone was attending a private high school in Bangkok and living the typical life of a modern teenager in the big city _ equal parts malls, mobile phones and social media. These days she has traded in the concrete jungle for the real thing, living in Bali and studying at a school immersed in its wild surroundings, where the classrooms have no walls and even the blackboards are made of bamboo.