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Taking time to smell the roses
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 29/06/2015
» If travelling helps you grow as a person, then my growth must have been stunted over the past five years when I laid low and concentrated on my house reconstruction and other distractions.
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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.
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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.
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The born again tourist
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 01/06/2015
» I am beginning to see the merits of the travel agency. Not any particular travel agency, but the travel agency as a generic species.
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The promise of sunrise
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 01/12/2014
» There is something magical and mystical about sunrises and sunsets. Perhaps it's the transition from night to day, day to night, the passing of time, the impermanence of life, or of being reborn.
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Killing two birds with zero-baht notes
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 16/12/2013
» One of Kamnan Suthep Thaugsuban's proposals to the government is the eradication of corruption in Thailand.
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Fare play
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 17/06/2013
» Water, water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. This could have been the Ancient Mariner stuck on the "becalmed" roads of Bangkok during rush hour in a thunderstorm.
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Maintaining charm in the face of progress
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 22/04/2013
» I recently spent a couple of days during the Songkran break in Hua Hin. I'll take any excuse to go to Hua Hin since it feels like a second home to me.
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Time to walk the walk, guv
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 28/01/2013
» The gubernatorial election has kicked off with a bang, with quite a large number of candidates, many of whom are probably there with the vague hope that Bangkok's population of 7 million just might decide not to go with any of the obvious choices.
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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.
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