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To Santa, from Bangkok
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 25/12/2015
» T'was the night before Christmas, and all through Bangkok, the desperate were up, making final appeals to the Claus. Then a slight internet glitch occurred, which for some reason rerouted a handful of North Pole-bound emails to the Bangkok Post. We didn't mean to snoop, but in order to forward the electronic letters to their rightful destinations, we had to open them. In the process, we found some of the city's most peculiar Christmas wishes.
10 movies you missed this year
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 25/12/2015
» Disappointed with the films you saw in 2015? Maybe you missed a few of these.
Tacos, kind of
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 11/12/2015
» The latest grab-and-go taco joint to grace the scene is the Ta’cone truck, run by childhood best friends Poom and Nuch. As can be expected from a food truck, the menu is kept simple. But I really I wasn’t expecting tacos to be downsized to only soft-shell.
96 Cicadas
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 13/11/2015
» Five contemporary performance artists will take on Franz Kafka's most influential works in an exciting crossroads of style and storytelling, during the Unfolding Kafka Festival. Guru speaks with one of the artists, Berlin-based Yoko Seyama, whose piece based on Kafka's Der Bau (The Burrow) is currently showing.
Seeking change
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 06/11/2015
» When Becky Horace, founder of online publication Seek Magazine, arrived in Bangkok in the beginning of 2013, she noticed her 18-month-old son was severely struggling to adjust, and their decision to seek early medical consultation with the Reed Institute, an autism and learning disabilities school in Bangkok, turned out to be the right one. The experience has tremendously helped him improve — and inspired Becky to found a project to alleviate the struggles of families in similar situations.
Suriya’s emporium of wonders
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 30/10/2015
» Frankly, there isn’t much to see in Pattaya. Once lusted-for beaches are now reputed for their tragic shape. Towns seem frozen in renovation or plain deserted, and the major attractions, now decades old, have long lost their lustre and intrigue. That’s why Suriya Music Art, a six-month-old music and antiques appreciation centre in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district, is a sign of hope for Pattaya tourism’s rebirth.
The art of monstrosity
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 30/10/2015
» Mary Shelley would be rolling in her grave if she knew about a real school that teaches students how to make monsters. OK, perhaps students at the Make Up Arts and Technique School at Wang Thonglang (near Rajamangala Stadium) aren't going grave-digging at night to find the body parts they need, but they do spend weeks, sometimes nearly a month, making purposely messed-up facial parts from scratch.
Halloween culture shocks
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 23/10/2015
» Why do we get so excited about Halloween every year, when everyone dresses up as one of basically four options: a witch, a vampire, a zombie or something needlessly slutty?
A very literal guy
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 16/10/2015
» When he’s not working as an international sales executive, Kerati “Boss” Keratichewanun is recording YouTube covers of superstars such as Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 and Justin Bieber. For a guy who, to put it nicely, painfully can’t sing, he sure can make people cry — from laughing. He sings these international radio hits in Thai, and like the upstanding bro that he is, makes sure no word is left untranslated. The result is a brutally literal parody of the original, coupled with equally droll visuals, keeping viewers begging for more.
Colder than ice
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 16/10/2015
» The name Eighteen Below, as you can probably guess, alludes to the exact subzero temperature at which the store's ice creams are kept. This temperature is, in fact, colder than the average -4C because the Hua Hin-originated shop does without a few components of typical commercial ice cream: artificial colours, flavour essences and emulsifiers.