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A lush ride
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 01/06/2017
» When I was new to mountain biking, Phu Khae Botanical Garden in Saraburi was one of my favourite places to ride at weekends.
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Life on Memory Lane
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 11/02/2021
» Have you ever stumbled upon a long-lost object that suddenly brought back forgotten moments, maybe a childhood toy or a postcard from someone special? What if you find yourself in a place full of such items? I don't know about you but the other day when I made my very first visit to the House of Museums I was bombarded by constant flashbacks.
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Snake invasion targets our homes
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 05/10/2020
» It's not something that makes headlines but it happens so often in this country and there is no law to protect you. Almost every day, people find trespassers in their homes in the form of serpents.
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Southeast Asia's birding bubble
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/10/2020
» Normally at this time of year, Puwish Lenvaree would station himself in the forests of West Papua, an Indonesian province on New Guinea Island. Over the past three years, he routinely spent much of the latter half of each year on New Guinea and nearby islands such as Waigeo and Halmahera mainly because it's the mating season for birds-of-paradise, which occurs only in that part of the world.
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Ayutthaya takes us back in time
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 06/08/2020
» With the pandemic seemingly under control, travel-related events are starting to come back. Ayutthaya province, for example, is inviting visitors to dress in traditional Thai costumes on Aug 15 for its "Symphony Sri Ayutthaya" evening.
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Easy-peasy Chinese on TikTok
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 19/05/2020
» TikTok, one of the most downloaded social media apps in recent years, is rapidly attracting more users during the lockdown period with fun and creative short videos. But the contents the popular platform offers cover not just lip-syncing, singing, dancing, stunts, pranks and crazy challenges.
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Touch of Zen
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 20/12/2019
» Aikido practitioners and members of the public with an interest in the Japanese martial art should mark Jan 17-19 on the calendar.
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Get on your bike for Hero Thailand 2020
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 09/10/2019
» The Hero World Series, an international epic mountain biking competition, is coming to Thailand next year. Hero Thailand is set to take place from Oct 8-11 2020, with hundreds of mountain bikers from around the world expected to take part.
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What Thai youths do not know
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/04/2019
» It's no secret that a large number of new-generation Thais have poor attitudes toward their homeland. Scornful posts and non-constructive comments are rampant on the internet. The causes of their resentment are numerous: politics, traffic, laws, the economy, culture, social values, cost of living -- you name it.
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Know thy visitors
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 27/08/2018
» Almost three decades ago when I was a university student, I occasionally had to travel to Don Mueang airport for a part-time job. Back then, it was Bangkok's only airport, and, with the tollway not yet in existence, was considered very far from the city centre. There, my task was to ask departing tourists to fill in questionnaires for the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), which wanted to know what they liked or disliked, as well as their spending behaviour, during their visits.
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