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Doing time made easier by FaceTime
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/02/2012
» One of the funniest stories in the past week has got to be the protest by prisoners in Trang province who burned their beds and belongings, as well as that of their wardens because they wanted, among other things, to get rid of the chief warden because he was too strict.
Occupied v preoccupied: how kids spend their time
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 10/12/2012
» Top of the list of arguments between me and my kids these days is time management. My daughter, in particular, seems to have no sense of time and is constantly complaining that she doesn't have enough time to do everything she needs to do. I scold her for spending too much time on her phone, downloading music or uploading pictures to her Instagram.
Conscription blues
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 11/02/2013
» No one has ever done more to romanticise national service than Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues and Tom Cruise in Top Gun. People of a certain mature generation will surely remember Elvis singing Wooden Heart, Pocketful Of Rainbows and Blue Suede Shoes. A khaki uniform never looked so good.
I'm ready, bring on the blackout
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/02/2013
» Good morning! Have you removed your jackets and ties yet? Have you got around to turning your air-conditioning down to a moderate 25C? Have you opened your bedroom windows yet? Have you ever opened your bedroom windows?
Hitting the roof, rolling on the floor laughing
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 15/04/2013
» I love Thailand. It's truly the Land of Smiles. This was especially true of the front-page news last week describing the bungled casino raid by detectives and policemen from Tao Pun Police Station on the infamous Tao Pun casino.
When ageing takes over
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 07/10/2013
» My 96-year-old mother has the kind of health any 60-year-old would kill for. Her blood pressure is normal, her sugar and cholesterol levels are better than mine. She enjoys as much food as her remaining teeth allow and all her bodily systems are functioning normally, more or less.
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.
Upping stakes, shoeboxes and that sundered feeling
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 04/11/2013
» Last week I went through a major trauma. I moved house. For a lot of people, relocating is just another one of those things you do every few years. For me, it's about uprooting my entire life.
An apocalyptic state of mind
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/11/2013
» I'm in one of those deep, dark places at the moment.
What's wrong with using textbooks?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 10/02/2014
» The end of the school year is fast approaching, and not long after that the next cycle will begin again.