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Making better connections
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 21/05/2018
» When the new term starts this August, Chulalongkorn University students will be witnessing more tangible, digital developments taking shape as the "pillar of the nation" edges towards its ambitions of producing more worldly students and digitised resources. Now two years into his administration as president of the university, Professor Bundhit Eua-Aporn is continuing onward with his "CU Transformation" and the fruits of his plans are starting to take shape.
An illustrative fairy tale
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 28/07/2017
» The Starbucks at Wang Burapha is bland and uninteresting, but it was not a lost cause to stop for a chit-chat there, as it was the very place that Phannapast "Yoon" Taychamaythakool had sat down to draw her fanciful and otherworldly animals for Gucci. Phannapast's vibrant illustrations of animals wearing Gucci's cruise collection, which she uploaded on Instagram, caught the attention of Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele, and that led to her becoming one of the brand's featured artists last year.
Mumraisin.com and the new parent
Muse, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 01/07/2017
» How Pimpisa "Pear" Chirathivat compartmentalises her life is astonishing. Although she is better known as a Central heiress and part of the A-list set regularly seen at the biggest events and parties about town, the freshly appointed business development executive at Post International Media is also the force behind the newly launched website Mumraisin.com, a one-stop destination that's out to catch all the cool mums of Thailand. Filled with pastel-hued photos and cute illustrations exclusively drawn for the site, Mumraisin packages content about parenting, children, pregnancy and lifestyle into an attractive, easy-to-read manner for the hip parents of now.
The art of craft
Muse, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 31/12/2016
» Of the five days Pimm Chongcharoen spends at a fair selling her paper-based goods such as gift-wrapping and cards, only five people actually know and understand what it is that she's doing. "You've used coaster paper! Good stuff!," she recalls them exclaiming. "Just hearing that makes my heart soar. It's a very, very small group of people, but they do exist."
Kafka on our shore
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/11/2015
» Franz Kafka in Thailand -- does that sound irrelevant, or is it very timely?
7-Eleven takes literature to the next level
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 06/07/2015
» Feel like SEA Write is a little too out of your league? Thanks to the countless other badges of honour that acknowledge good writing available in our country, the prestigious SEA Write Award is not the only ticket to literary stardom. 7 Book Awards, an initiative that started between CP All Public Company Limited and the Ministry of Education, has been honouring outstanding literature since 2004. This year's awards ceremony will be taking place later this month.
Pinch of literary spice
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 01/06/2015
» For the first time in India, local language authors such as Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi have become marquee names in terms of sales, eclipsing even mainstream Western writers on the market. Books using local, vernacular language are edgy and have a huge following among young readers.
Tied to a Sino past
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/05/2015
» The unavoidable and never-failing icebreaker -- do you have any Chinese blood? -- will always have its place in Thai society. Yet it's also something of an empty question, believes Singaporean author Jeffery Sng: "By the time Phibunsongkhram changed the country's name to Thailand, the Thais were already so mixed that it was hard to find anyone 100% Thai."
Filling in the pages of history
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 30/04/2015
» I roll my eyes so hard I can practically see the back of my brain. My 16-year-old tutee, Jag, hasn't the faintest idea of the difference between World War I and World War II. I don't think I'm going to let him off the hook — by this age he should at least have some rough idea about two of the most crucial turning points in modern history.
Toast has never been this tasty
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 30/01/2015
» Thank God this eatery from Singapore arrived long after I graduated from the gates of Chamchuri. Located in an attractive, garden-themed, open-air mall called I'm Park, it's just a few steps away from Chulalongkorn University's Sports Center.