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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.
Thumbing your nose at traffic signs
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 17/08/2015
» The other day a friend of mine asked a taxi driver to drop her off near an intersection. She planned to cross the road to get to the other side, but the taxi driver, being the dear sweet gentleman that he was, insisted on dropping her off on the side she wanted to go, though it meant going a long way further to make a U-turn. To her surprise, he made a quick U-turn right at the intersection.
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.
A close shave with progress
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 14/01/2013
» Hair-trodden children of the public school world unite! There is movement from the Ministry of Jurassic Education, showing signs of life and change. So there is a thought process going on within its ancient walls of perpetual hibernation, after all. And the latest is that someone has questioned the antiquated rule of regulation haircuts for young schoolchildren and whether it's absolutely necessary for the intellectual development of a child. There are complaints that it is against our constitutional rights.
When the end is just the beginning
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 30/07/2012
» It's graduation season, and the top educational institutions are holding their commencement ceremonies one after the other.
Revealing the national in dress
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/07/2012
» Since being release from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi has been on the road big time, making up for all the years she was confined to a few hundred square metres. The world is her oyster. She's accepted her Nobel Prize, her Oxford degree, and been presented with the key to Paris.
A uniform way of thinking
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 05/03/2012
» Once in a while the subject of uniforms pops up again in the news as an issue of debate among people of different generations. Last time it was how young university girls would practically starve themselves to fit into the SSS size which looked as if it would only fit a Barbie doll.