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Just how effective is multi-tasking?
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/11/2012
» Have you ever felt that you could master the art of juggling?
Here comes the Green Dragon
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/11/2012
» Allow me to make it clear at the start: the Green Dragon in this column is not a nickname for any endangered wildlife species. It is neither the sobriquet for a newly opened budget airline, nor the Bar B Q Plaza restaurant chain in Thailand, that uses a green dragon, named Bar B Gon, as its mascot.
Let leaders sit in the democracy of the traffic jam
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/12/2012
» I remembered feeling startled after hearing my Chinese friend mention motorcades _ with their resulting traffic diversions or blockages to allow official vehicles to pass _ exist in China.
A card-carrying communist in my room
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 09/11/2012
» Beijing looks too neat. Gardens are manicured, cleaners have scrubbed stickers from the footpaths. The capital looks eerily like the safest place on Earth. Policemen stand guarding subway stations, randomly checking identity cards.
Apocalypse later
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/12/2012
» If you're reading this article, it means the world has not ended yet (although there's still time if you're in American Samoa). Nibiru _ hypothetically a hidden rogue planet in the solar system _ has not rammed into Earth as various online prophecies have enthusiastically predicted.
E-bikes may be the thing to end our scooter chaos
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/11/2012
» Oh yes, I was constantly asked, challenged and reprimanded. "Are you cycling in Beijing?" And: "Why don't you ride a bicycle in Beijing?" And then, a line which came out like an insult: "It is good that you don't. You will get hit by a car anyway." Ouch.
You can judge a book by its cover
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 29/10/2012
» Nobody knows who coined the maxim "you can't judge a book by its cover". But it would come as no surprise if the creator of that cliche turned out to be a moralist who simply laced pearls of wisdom and used a book cover as a metaphor.
Censorship can be a total bore
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/10/2012
» At last, I watched a movie in China.
Sushi and the city
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/09/2012
» Everyone has his or her own survival menu _ a kind of affordable and easy food that we can comfortably eat when we do not know what to eat or have to save money. It could be instant noodles, sticky rice with spicy dip, bread or even snacks like Lays crisps.
The art of getting drunk in the Middle Kingdom
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 28/09/2012
» I often wonder why Chinese banquets are hysterically cheerful, rather noisy, with guests constantly moving from one table to another, holding cups brimful with rice liquor known as bai jiu.