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Let's start walking the walk
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 03/11/2014
» No one since Maj Gen Chamlong Srimuang, about 20 years ago, has been able to do it. Perhaps no one has deemed it important enough to consider. Or maybe, just maybe, no one has dared to do anything about it.
Homework to go (and arithmetic through the ages)
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 08/09/2014
» I was born in the wrong century.
In hot water
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/05/2014
» The people at the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority hate me. I can see them hyperventilating the moment I walk in the door.
Shutdown blazes a trail for cyclists
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 20/01/2014
» Politics aside, the most amazing thing that happened when Bangkok shut down last Monday was the lovely lack of traffic.
Why, that's just plain absurd
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 14/10/2013
» A friend of mine posted on his Facebook page: "I need to take a break from the news. The human mind can only cope with just so much absurdity."
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.
Paper chase
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 08/07/2013
» I'm hurling headlong towards the end of my professional career, and I'm thinking of what I can do with my time after I retire.
For Commerce Ministry minuet, it's a (w)rap!
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 01/07/2013
» I just love Thai politicians for their tendency to be anything but dull. When you wake up to a gloomy, overcast morning and a grumpy kid who's running late for school, what's even better at perking you up than a double espresso? A video clip of a rapping politician and his dancing subordinates!
Green with envy
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 08/04/2013
» I'm sure there are people out there who aren't aware that there is a 500-rai tract of lush green land sitting smack in the middle of the city.
What's the price of goodwill?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 04/06/2012
» It's been a while since I've been to the beach, and so a visit to Hat Nang Rong in Sattahip was a pleasant experience for me. After the high rise condominiums, modern shopping complexes and ladyboys of Pattaya, it was a relief to find a beach that was pristine, with clear blue water, white sand and no mushroom umbrellas and 50 baht beach chairs, or even somtam vendors at that.