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Potty mouths and name calling
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 22/09/2015
» When I was born, my first name was just Phat (pronounced Pat). It's still shown on my hospital birth certificate. Not long after I began toddling, however, my mother rushed to the district registration office and asked the officer to add "Duang" to the front of the existing name. So, it became Duangphat -- just like that. Weird name, even for Thai people.
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Band of Sisters
Muse, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 26/09/2015
» Not everyone knows the band Yellow Fang, an indie trio that features all female members lithely playing rock instruments along with their drifting vocals. The group has however been gaining steam in Thailand for a while and is also on the horizon of the indie music spheres of Southeast Asia and Japan.
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A touching experience
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 29/09/2015
» 'Do not touch!" is one of the most common signs at any museum. But for people who have no sight, the kind of sign they want a museum to have the most may be one that simply says the opposite: "Please touch!"
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Bathroom reading
Muse, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 03/10/2015
» A bathroom is the most awesome room in the house, don’t you agree? Anything, I mean, anything can happen in this humid room, from studying the ingredients of your toothpaste to studying for exams. With a smartphone in your palm or a laptop on your lap, it’s the place where you can sit on the toilet for hours like it’s the most comfortable sitting place on Earth.
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Quirky gems from Japan
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 08/10/2015
» When it comes to products made by Japanese artisans, consumers can always expect the perfect combination of creativity and function.
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An honourable hotelier
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 08/10/2015
» Joining China's Jack Ma of Alibaba, who last year donated a whopping US$2.9 billion to education and social welfare causes, is Anchalika Kijkanakorn from Thailand, founder and managing director of Akaryn Hotel Group, who has been listed among the Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy in 2015.
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The doc will click you now
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 13/10/2015
» At day, Dr Adunchai Sangsert changes women's lives by giving them higher noses, larger eyes and bigger breasts. But at night, after getting home and tucking his sons into bed, he switches on his computer and begins to provide answers, for free, to online questions sent to him. Queries range from a distressed mother seeking the correct way to breastfeed her newborn, to a disoriented elder who has just found out he has cancer.
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In the name of religion
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 15/10/2015
» Today, a movie called Arbat, the Thai word for offences carried out by monks, with varying degrees of offensiveness and punishment, was set to be released. Although it deals with a subject matter that most of us in Thailand can relate to, it has been banned by the film censorship committee since it explicitly revolves around monks who break chastity vows and take drugs.
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Reborn, but still rocking
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 08/09/2015
» In the 1980s, when Thai music was about predictable pop and copycat rockers, what Taneth Warakulnukroh, then a 27-year-old radio DJ turned singer, brought to the industry was verging on avant-garde.
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Ritual abuse or harmless fun?
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 09/09/2015
» To haze or not to haze, the question persists. Late last month, scandals concerning university hazing rituals made headlines -- as they have done every year without fail as a new terms starts. First Lalita Hanwong, a history teacher at Mahasarakham University, was verbally threatened with violence and even sexual harassment when she expressed disagreement with the hazing rituals of her university's College of Music.
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