Necessity Is The Mother Of Those Fake 1,000 Baht Notes – UPDATE
// +++ Update: In a comment below a reader clarified that both banknotes shown below are correct. The fakes seem to be based though on the “old” design. Watch out for this: “The fake notes are printed on paper, not material. The color runs when the bank note is placed in water. The metalic strip
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Lost In Hotels? Use A Phenomenal Bargain Search Engine
Ever wondered how to find the best hotel deal in Bangkok? What’s the best way to find accommodation in Thailand? When it comes to Thailand, one of the most visited places on earth, you may be confused about who to use to find the best hotel deals. There are zillions of local travel agents, many
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Looking @ Bangkok Through A Noir Lens
For non-Thai farang attempting to follow the political goings on in Thailand without going completely insane, the limits of rationale thought and analysis are quickly discovered. Our Thai friends often counter our inability to understand with the advice that only Thai people can understand Thailand, that non-Thai farang, by virtue of their ethnicity and place
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iPhone 3G Bangkok Update: Winner’s The Winner
Just a short iPhone 3G update concerning Bangkok & Thailand. All right, I hear you. By now, you say, everybody has an iPhone and there’s the promising Blackberry Storm to arrive and the Nokia N97. But then again, no other phone offers the possibilities, functionalities and the platform as does the iPhone. Period. And as
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Petite Seafood Tête-À-Tête
Thailand is one of those glorious places you can eat anything, anytime, anywhere. Recently we randomly ventured along a beach road off the beaten track – with the aim of discovering a most lonely, most isolated, most unknown stretch of coast. And place to eat. Seafood. And we found one – one among many. A
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Abhisit Obama
Change is coming! Or so the hip slogan goes: We congratulate pretty boy and Democrats’ leader Abhisit Vejjajiva for having been (s)elected as Thailand’s 27th prime minister. Some red shirts tried to prevent the unavoidable and attempted to copycat the yellow shirts’ chaos tactics in front of parliament. But their anger was a farce in
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We Got A Mister, But No Miss World
// Bar any last minute surprise – such as a house dissolution or a re-reformed Newin Chidchob – Thailand can proud herself of having the world’s most beautiful prime minister. For how long, nobody knows, but such crowns are usually not made to last. After a long series of headlines sporting civil war, straitjacket democracy,
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The Matchbox Chronicler
A Thai boy’s fascination with collecting the tiny art on matchboxes grew into a 70-year passion now open to the public – at Bangkok’s “Matchbox Museum”: The boxes and labels in Chuan Sunthranan’s exhibits are full of colorful illustrations of history and culture. In the late 1930s, inspired by his father’s friends trading old coins
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Policing The Police
Today’s trip down to Hua Hin was smooth as always. The newly extended three lanes highway makes it a pleasure-ride – except for the six minor hiccups we encountered along the way. Six (!) police checkpoints. As if they’d nothing else to do. They mostly took out trucks. And at one point, after Petchaburi, they
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Tried The Depression Dance
Thought that was a nice coincidence to celebrate the Thai Constitution Day holiday remembering the day that gave the monarchy a significant increase in authority after the overthrow of the absolute monarchy – to celebrate that holiday with the grand opening party of Bangkok’s latest nightclub N@ir. No, N@ir is not the latest gallery of
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