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Be a pen pusher
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 22/12/2014
» It's been a difficult December so far, with all the misery that has been in the news — and more that hasn't. It seemed I was going to spend the last few weeks of the year in a deep, dark place, and that wouldn't have boded well for the festive season. I was certainly going to need a lot of good cheer.
No ticket to ride
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 17/11/2014
» There was a rumour last week that Bangkok's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system was going to be closed down due to operational losses.
Cityscape re-imagined: Bangkok without billboards
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 29/09/2014
» My office is only about a kilometre from my house and, on a good day, I could probably cover the distance on foot in half an hour.
The impermanence of choux creme
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 06/10/2014
» I don't wish to start the week on a sour note, but last week was rather a gloomy one for me.
Real lives and dream girls
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/10/2014
» Last week's Bangkok Post Forum, titled "Economic Reform: How Will It Be Achieved", provided me with a rare opportunity to get together with some old friends over dinner. And although the gathering was made up mostly of business people who are interested in what direction Thailand is heading in the next year or so, and how our tax reforms and drought solutions and public transport expansions are going to be implemented, my attention was directed at a certain member of academia who for me encompasses all that is admirable about womanhood.
Midterm vs midlife crisis
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 20/10/2014
» My daughter is going through her "midterm crisis" at the moment, cramming for exams and being generally cranky. She was particularly upset when prior commitments meant she couldn't join friends for a weekend study session.
Modern parents are sophisticated, love is timeless
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 27/10/2014
» There seems to be a baby boom on Facebook at the moment. The younger generation of adults are cooing goo-goo ga-ga over their little bundles of pink and wrinkled Mini Mes.
Let's start walking the walk
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 03/11/2014
» No one since Maj Gen Chamlong Srimuang, about 20 years ago, has been able to do it. Perhaps no one has deemed it important enough to consider. Or maybe, just maybe, no one has dared to do anything about it.
Puck works in mysterious ways
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 10/11/2014
» There is something going on with the stars.
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.