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Enough love to plague a saint
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 09/02/2015
» Love makes the world go round. That's what they say.
Take Thainess with a grain of salt
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/01/2015
» The main intersections of downtown Bangkok were once again closed to traffic and packed with crowds last week, but it had nothing to do with political protests. We were just being encouraged by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to "discover" our "Thainess" with an elaborate procession of decorated floats replete with dancers and literary tableaux.
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.
A rose among the thorns
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 30/06/2014
» Within the same morning last week, I was zapped by three stories offering two sides of the same coin. It was just too irresistible not to share in this column.
For entertainment or service?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 03/03/2014
» I was paying my phone bill in Tesco Lotus last week, and on the way back to the car I passed a skin clinic, one of the hundreds of skin clinic franchises that stand on every street corner and shopping centres in Bangkok.
I'll keep dancing on my own
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 21/10/2013
» All right, they've just thrown another spanner in the works, and created another brouhaha that has more people grinding their teeth and bombarding the social media than when the single person law was proposed a week or so ago.
Let's hear it for the women of Asia
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/08/2013
» My highlight for last week was attending the Asian premiere of Women Of Asia, a play by Asa Gim Palomera, a former artist-in-residence at Chulalongkorn University's Drama Department.
The demons in the drink
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 24/12/2012
» Doomsday has come and gone, and this column is still here, so I would imagine the shy planet Nibiru missed Earth by a few hundred light years.
Jingling all the way to the apocalypse
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 17/12/2012
» In spite of Jingle Bells sung off-key by kindergarten children being the most frequently played Christmas tune in Bangkok department stores, I still love everything the celebration stands for _ the birth of Christ in the stable, the star and the Magi. The spiritual context is so humbling; Joseph and Mary must have been in awe of their responsibility of bringing into this world a baby who was a child of God, who was destined for such a great mission, who would experience such pain and torture, and who would save mankind.
Intimations of immortality
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 09/04/2012
» Today is a special day of mixed feelings. On the one hand the royal cremation of HRH Princess Bejraratana Rajasuda, the only child of King Vajiravudh, Rama VI, signifies the passing of a high-ranking member of the Chakri dynasty, a reminder of an era in Thai history that is now gone.