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And the award goes to … not these films
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/03/2018
» It's Oscar time again and as usual Hollywood is ignoring exciting Thai productions. Here are a few that caught the eye:
When paradise is just 10 minutes away
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/08/2017
» Roughly once a week, I have the pleasure of asking a taxi driver to transport me to paradise, or to get the pronunciation right, "paradye". And within 10 minutes we have arrived.
Strawberry fields forever in Thailand
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/07/2017
» Most important news of the week is that 28,000kg of strawberries and gallons of thick cream have been consumed during the Wimbledon tennis fortnight. It is an annual reminder of how much the strawberry is embedded in English culture. But the appreciation of the fruit is spreading.
A job guaranteed to create a stink
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 25/06/2017
» You may recall a recent PostScript column concerning unusual occupations which featured "odour sniffers'' who have the delightful job of sniffing human armpits to check whether a deodorant is doing its job. I did not realise that professional sniffers are in such demand. Last week it was announced that Thailand's Pollution Control Department had recruited 167 "smell assessors'' to sniff out factories responsible for some of the more malodourous emissions that upset citizens.
All it took was a raised eyebrow or two
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/06/2017
» I was saddened to hear the news concerning the recent passing of British actor Roger Moore at 89. He was a classic English gentleman with an appealing self-deprecating sense of humour.
Are you sure you're in the right job?
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/05/2017
» Following last week's column on the perils of picking mushrooms, I received an email from a professional mushroomologist. I thought he might embark on heroic tales from the forests and how to avoid poisonous varieties of fungi. However, his advice was quite blunt. He admitted the mushrooms he consumes "have to come wrapped in cling film in an environmentally unfriendly polystyrene carton and from an air-conditioned establishment with a name like Sainsbury's, Tesco's, Waitrose etc".
When you're no longer at the end of the line
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/04/2017
» The extension of the skytrain line from Bearing to Samrong has a number of implications for commuters, none of them good unless you happen to live in Samrong. Commuters at Bearing will be discovering that life is not so much fun when you are no longer the end of the increasingly overcrowded line. And it will get a whole lot worse by the end of the year when the line stretches to a further eight stations.
There's a time and a place to take a leak
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/02/2017
» A reader relates that he was in a branch of a home improvements store in Thailand recently inspecting toilets for a new bathroom extension. There were several rows of toilets and while he was strolling around, two young boys, aged about six or seven, came running down one of the aisles. No parents were in sight. The boys stopped, giggled, lifted up the lid of one of the toilet bowls and proceeded to pee in it, right in the middle of the store. Still giggling, they ran off.
From train whistles to monkey chatter
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/01/2017
» In the final hours of New Year's Eve, I was sitting with my wife on the porch of our abode in the middle of Nakhon Nowhere.
Fond memories of Brazil's coffee culture
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/08/2016
» With the Rio Olympics finally under way, I can't get out of my head the old Frank Sinatra song that starts: "Way down among Brazilians/Coffee beans grow by the billions …" It was entitled The Coffee Song and a big hit when I was a kid back in the Stone Age. In fact, that song just about summed up my knowledge of Brazil in those days.