• OPINION

  The means justify the end

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/12/2013

  » Allow me to venture a thought we might have overlooked during the weeks-long fight between Suthep-led anti-Thaksin protests and Yingluck Shinawatra's government _ Thais are fighting over something that may become beautiful.

• OPINION

  Lead the way, but leave us our opinions

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/11/2013

  » When it comes to Thai politics, like many others, I feel lost and exhausted. There are people who are willing to forget the fact that they have known you all your life as soon as you have the slightest tendency to step to the other side. And there are those who look on you as if you're a coward when you just can't really say that you're one of them despite sharing certain beliefs.

• OPINION

  Revolutionary or radical?

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/10/2013

  » Labelling the Thai education system "dictatorial" and campaigning for the abolition of the strict rules regarding students' uniforms and hairstyles, 16-year-old Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal has suffered a barrage of curses and insults from social media users. Many have expressed a wish for the boy to go and live in another country. Netiwit also wants the singing of the national anthem and prayers in the morning at school cancelled _ all the more reason for nationalist Facebook warriors to despise him.

• OPINION

  Your cheating hat

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/08/2013

  » Let us not deny that cheating in school does have its own kind of special appeal. There's the thrill of finding out that the knowledge source next to us is holding the exact same exam, the satisfaction from getting plenty of information from just one quick, stealthy glance, the sense of gratitude when the smart ones don't abandon us and care enough to send a few helpful signals our way, and the utter joy when our marks turn out to be among the highest even though all we did the night before the exam was watch porn online.

• OPINION

  Booze sorry now?

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/07/2013

  » Refraining from alcohol is never a bad thing, and it's delightful news that earlier this month the Cabinet set up a national campaign for this three-month Buddhist Lent to be the national alcohol abstaining period.

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