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Real lives and dream girls
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/10/2014
» Last week's Bangkok Post Forum, titled "Economic Reform: How Will It Be Achieved", provided me with a rare opportunity to get together with some old friends over dinner. And although the gathering was made up mostly of business people who are interested in what direction Thailand is heading in the next year or so, and how our tax reforms and drought solutions and public transport expansions are going to be implemented, my attention was directed at a certain member of academia who for me encompasses all that is admirable about womanhood.
The Songkran Scrooge
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 21/04/2014
» I am Scrooge. Ms Songkran Scrooge, or so to speak.
Broken records
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 09/09/2013
» Thailand has an obsession with superlatives. We want to be featured in the Guinness Book of Records as having achieved something beyond what anyone else in the world has ever done, whether it is the record for the world's longest kiss, mass hula-hooping, mass massage, mass water pistol fight, photo mosaic.
Let's hear it for the women of Asia
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/08/2013
» My highlight for last week was attending the Asian premiere of Women Of Asia, a play by Asa Gim Palomera, a former artist-in-residence at Chulalongkorn University's Drama Department.
AEC spells another English conundrum
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 29/07/2013
» In two years, the Asean Economic Community will be up and running, and we will be looking towards borders than are not only limited to our immediate neighbours - Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia, but further out as far as the Philippines to the east and Indonesia to the south.
A game of clones
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/05/2013
» Is it just Thailand, or is the whole world obsessed with beauty pageants? There was a time when Thailand's only annual beauty contest was the Miss Thailand pageant which took place during the annual Vajiravudh Fair at Saranrom Royal Park. To be precise, this pageant dates back to 1934, two years after the revolution that introduced the constitutional monarchy, and was held as part of the Constitution Day celebrations.
Conscription blues
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 11/02/2013
» No one has ever done more to romanticise national service than Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues and Tom Cruise in Top Gun. People of a certain mature generation will surely remember Elvis singing Wooden Heart, Pocketful Of Rainbows and Blue Suede Shoes. A khaki uniform never looked so good.
Language of frustration
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 27/02/2012
» It's been slightly over a month since former British prime minister Tony Blair flew in and gave the "2012 Speaking English Year" programme a boost by giving some local schoolchildren a short tutorial in pronunciation.