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Sustaining happiness in the Land of Smiles
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 30/09/2013
» Are you feeling happy today? That was one of the questions asked for the World Happiness Report which was launched earlier this month by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute, Columbia University. It's interesting in that the world is suddenly realising something the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has known all along, that "Happy people live longer, are more productive, earn more, and are also better citizens".
Pump it up
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 23/09/2013
» Sometimes, when you think you've been there, done that, and nothing can surprise you any more, you are exposed to a totally new experience that gets you wide-eyed all over again.
Easy way out
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 16/09/2013
» When the Expressway Authority of Thailand introduced the Easy Pass system towards the end of 2009, I was one of the first to drop in to the office near the Port expressway to pick up my little grey sensor box and top-up smart card. I was happy to pay the 1,000 baht deposit in order to snub my nose at the long queues lining up at the toll booths every rush hour.
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.
Face value
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/09/2013
» Sometimes it pains me to see how much value Thais put into face. And here, I'm talking literally about one's features, and that also extends to the body.
On that bombshell, I'm stuck in Top Gear
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 26/08/2013
» I'm a junkie. A car programme junkie. I'm not sure what that says about my taste, or about the standard of television programmes on cable TV in Thailand. But I'm hooked on Top Gear, and I'm not even into cars!
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.
The mother of all concern
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 12/08/2013
» It's National Mother's Day, and what better time to reflect on mothers? Mothering seems to have changed from generation to generation, no matter what Dr Spock says.
Standing the time of tests
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 05/08/2013
» My daughter woke up one day last week in a panic. "Oh my God! I fell asleep and forgot to register for the CU-TEP exam last night! What am I going to do? My life is ruined!"
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.