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Survival of the cruelest
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 10/03/2014
» Protest stages have been merged, accusations have been flung backwards and forwards, deportation processes launched, funerals attended and tears have been shed. Life in Bangkok goes on.
Setting the scene for summer
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 17/03/2014
» When the golden shower trees and the yellow and pink trumpet trees start to flower profusely, you know summer is coming in Thailand. They can be considered the Thai version of Japan’s cherry blossoms, the only difference being that there is nowhere in Bangkok where they grow together in a floral landscape worthy of selfie indulgence.
Appreciating the beauty of an imperfect life
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 27/01/2014
» What would you do if you could go back in time and change things?
Thirty-nine fun things about the King
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 09/12/2013
» We've just been through weeks of chaos that was concluded just in time to celebrate the 86th birthday anniversary of His Majesty the King on Dec 5.
Killing two birds with zero-baht notes
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 16/12/2013
» One of Kamnan Suthep Thaugsuban's proposals to the government is the eradication of corruption in Thailand.
Can we go back to basics in the smartphone era?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 06/01/2014
» Happy New Year! This is still considered a valid greeting since this is the first Breezy Monday of 2014. Hope you all enjoyed the long break, and feel refreshed and raring to get back to your first full work week.
Raising a glass to a vintage year
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/01/2014
» One of the perks of my job is that I get to meet so many interesting people and do so many interesting things. Last week, almost as a prologue to my new work year, I was invited to a wine lunch to meet a pretty, young, second-generation winemaker of the Jean-Luc Colombo wine estate in the northern Rhone Valley, France.
Shutdown blazes a trail for cyclists
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 20/01/2014
» Politics aside, the most amazing thing that happened when Bangkok shut down last Monday was the lovely lack of traffic.
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.
An apocalyptic state of mind
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/11/2013
» I'm in one of those deep, dark places at the moment.