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Broken but not shattered
News, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 14/03/2020
» 'Don't be naughty, otherwise the police will come and get you!"
Sweeping dust under the carpet
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 26/10/2015
» There's been a lot of effort on the part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to "regulate" streetside vendors. Silom Road was a prime target area, followed by Saphan Lek and various other locations in the city. In some areas, not only were vendors using up pavement space to sell their wares, they had also erected semi-permanent structures with steel reinforcements.
The power of the 'written' word
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/10/2015
» Do you believe in signs? I'm sure I do. Each week I look for signs to indicate what the topic of my next column will be. Sometimes they are fragmentary and vapourish, and require further interpretations before they can be distilled into a subject matter that I can tackle.
Children and the itsy bitsy spiders
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 28/09/2015
» Fear is such a funny thing that has different manifestations in each of us.
The born again tourist
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 01/06/2015
» I am beginning to see the merits of the travel agency. Not any particular travel agency, but the travel agency as a generic species.
Brought to book
News, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 28/03/2015
» The pupils of Ban Khao Song Klong School in Ban Na district of Nakhon Nayok, are still buzzing with excitement. Not only do they have a brand new learning centre with a vast array of books to read and computers to use as supplementary educational equipment, but they also had the opportunity to welcome HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn who visited the school on Monday to open the new learning centre.
A killer named Happy
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/03/2015
» I consider myself fortunate to have met so many interesting people during my lifetime. And they keep coming, sometimes when I least expect it.
Bonsai trees and sake — a revelation
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 24/11/2014
» It's nearly the end of the year, and I constantly bemoan the passing of time. There is so much to do, and so little time to do it in.
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.