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A post-Thanksgiving thanks-giving
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/12/2013
» I feel a little embarrassed about my out-of-character, bleak mood last week, and feel I should somehow make up for it.
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.
Living on a whim and advertising gimmicks
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 28/10/2013
» Making my daily round of Facebook posts, I chanced upon a shared link about "Top 10 Things I Don't Understand About Thais and Thailand" written on a Yahoo network by a certain Ms Cassandra James. (Pardon my lifting your quotes without your permission.)
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.
Welcome to the hood!
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 11/11/2013
» The trauma of moving house has been slightly softened by the novelty of a new neighbourhood.
Cremation rituals and comic relief
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 18/11/2013
» Last week I attended the funeral of a former classmate at a non-mainstream temple, by which I mean that it wasn't held at one of the venues Bangkok residents normally choose for such events.
Let's hear it for the women of Asia
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/08/2013
» My highlight for last week was attending the Asian premiere of Women Of Asia, a play by Asa Gim Palomera, a former artist-in-residence at Chulalongkorn University's Drama Department.
On that bombshell, I'm stuck in Top Gear
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 26/08/2013
» I'm a junkie. A car programme junkie. I'm not sure what that says about my taste, or about the standard of television programmes on cable TV in Thailand. But I'm hooked on Top Gear, and I'm not even into cars!
Face value
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/09/2013
» Sometimes it pains me to see how much value Thais put into face. And here, I'm talking literally about one's features, and that also extends to the body.
Broken records
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 09/09/2013
» Thailand has an obsession with superlatives. We want to be featured in the Guinness Book of Records as having achieved something beyond what anyone else in the world has ever done, whether it is the record for the world's longest kiss, mass hula-hooping, mass massage, mass water pistol fight, photo mosaic.