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Bringing home a star
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 15/12/2015
» In Bangkok, the closest you get to eating at a Michelin-starred restaurant is to visit L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, eponymously-named after the Michelin-starred French chef.
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Illustrating the ideal
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/02/2015
» As a child, Tatchamapan Chanchamrassang, aka Pomme Chan, was a nerd, she says. She used to read manga comics and then she starting making up her own stories and drawing her own manga. She loved Ai Yazawa's Nana.
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The force is strong with this one
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 04/05/2015
» In 1997, Atis Ruchirawat translated the script of the original Star Wars trilogy for subbing and dubbing in Thai. He didn't need the script, he said. He could recite the dialogue more or less by heart. He even knows the words Greedo and Jabba the Hutt say in their fictional language, though he does not care to speculate whether Greedo or Han Solo shot first. His scope of interest is boxed in by the film itself — he isn't concerned about the numerous spin-offs of the movies or unsolvable hypotheses.
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Finland's world-beating education systemoffers lessons for Thailand
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 28/10/2014
» Besides Marimekko, Nokia, Moomin, saunas and summers without darkness, Finland is also known for its excellence in education. In 1968, the northern European country went through a major educational reform. In the following decades, Finnish students consistently achieved the highest, or near highest, average results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa).
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Raising the yellow flag
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 30/09/2014
» The sky above Chinatown is blocked by a dense layer of yellow flags and lanterns and banners; the air heavy with grease from industrial-sized frying pans. Navigating Yaowarat with any form of transportation, on foot or on a bus, during the past week has been more chaotic than ever. The annual Vegetarian Festival, which ends on Thursday, is celebrated not by just believers, young and old, in white and in every other colour, but also by the media and sponsors ranging from banks to amusement parks.
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Role play
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/10/2014
» The stories of good girls gone wild mirror one another. Britney Spears. Christina Aguilera. Miley Cyrus. Sara Malakul Lane.
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Weird world of Westwood
Muse, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 20/09/2014
» "I was punk before it got its name," Vivienne Westwood once said in an interview.
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In the steps of the house
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 06/04/2015
» Eames Demetrios did not know that his grandparents, Charles and Bernice "Ray" Alexandra Eames, were special people to the rest of the world, until he learned about their house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, in an art history class in college.
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Strictly come dancing
Muse, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/01/2015
» Navinda “Lordfai” Pachimsawat Vadtanakovint was beginning an improvisation class at Bangkok Dance Academy in Siam Paragon when one of her students complained that she was tired, hungry and not feeling it. Navinda took the entire class to the supermarket. They bought potato chips, jellies and Pocky biscuits, and went back up to the studio. The class then revolved around snacks, drawing from the structure of where the snacks were located and movements happening around them.
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Now, Still Showing
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 27/02/2015
» In 1978, Sutin Wangpaibul lived next to a temple in Thon Buri. He was in Prathom 5, and each Friday he would rush home to complete his homework so he could go to the open-air movies at the temple grounds in the evening.
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