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Freezing the odds
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/08/2014
» If you haven't heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge by now, you are either a hermit living in a cave in Tibet or Sleeping Beauty, just waking up from a century of slumber in the highest room of the tallest tower of a magical castle.
Do the rice thing
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 11/08/2014
» Tomorrow is Mother's Day, so this is a wonderful opportunity to write about rice.
Just kids at heart
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 20/07/2014
» When Praephan “Prae” Thammawattana travelled overseas, she would notice how Thai tourists loved buying souvenirs from Disneyland. That is what gave her the idea to open a toy shop in Bangkok.
When less is more
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 07/07/2014
» I’m afraid I’m going to bore you once again with my tales of moving house. I don’t do this very often — move house, I mean.
Back to the drawing board
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 23/06/2014
» I don’t envy the NCPO for their task of reforming the country’s mess. We weren’t always so bad. Thailand was always a very nice place to live, and the number of expats opting to settle down in Thailand in their young or not-so-young age is a testament to that.
Achievement caught on tape
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 22/06/2014
» Her Royal Highness Princess Soamsawali recently presided over the Voices of Asean Children and Youth gala award presentation dinner at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel's Royal Orchid Ballroom.
The dreaded Auntie Man
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 16/06/2014
» While the overseas media are pointing their fingers at the void of democracy in Thailand at the moment, they are seemingly unaware of a particular species of Thai people to whom democracy has never been part of their vocabulary.
Princess boosts charity premiere
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 04/05/2014
» The lobby of M Theatre on New Petchburi Road was abuzz with excitement from early evening onwards when the city’s high profile personalities from all circles of life came together for the premiere of Cixi Taihou the Musical, a stage adaptation of the historical novel written by MR Kukrit Pramoj.
The Songkran Scrooge
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 21/04/2014
» I am Scrooge. Ms Songkran Scrooge, or so to speak.
Love in a time of flux
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 07/04/2014
» Local publishers Nanmeebooks has just brought out a translation by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of a Chinese-language novel which reflects on the conflict of values and morals between traditional and contemporary Beijing society in a narrative which spans several decades, starting with the revolution that brought the communists to power.