Archive for the 'Sports & Fun' Category
More Thailand, Much Cheaper
You may have heard it, Thailand’s tourism industry is again suffering thanks to our red brothers promising a bright future and pure democracy. As a “side effect” there’s a flare up of civil unrest with reds hurting their very own people, upcountry migrant workers. Because, however looked at, as a result many tourists and business
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Rocket Yoga. Get There Faster.
Back in my year in India when I was looking for enlightenment one of the toughest part was the goddamn meditation. To sit quiet for a few minutes that’s OK. But for hours! They are saints back there in India, and I’m not. But there are ways to find inner peace, and one of those
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Urinators Anonymous
They’re one of my favorite spots in Thailand, one of the kingdom’s most romantic places, the hot springs of Hin Dat an hour’s drive northwest of Kanchanaburi. To cut a long story short: The public bath with beautiful hot spring water pools are open from 6 am to 10 pm each day. Enjoy a relaxing
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Recently, In The Wild
As one single panda cub keeps on taking the breath away from a whole nation with breaking news such as when she opened her left and when her right eye, the kingdom’s official animal, the elephant, falls into ever deeper oblivion. The panda earns the Chiang Mai zoo millions. Elephants cost millions. The little panda
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Tidbits: Read & Write Thai + Thailand Sports
The probably best Thai language course out there Learn Thai Podcast LTP just added a Reading & Writing Course. Thumbs up to Jay and his team. Another innovative add-on. LTP’s approach based on repetitive memorization works. It’s money most well spent if you finally want to master that beauty of a language after years of
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Golfer Prayad’s From Nowhere To Riches
I’m not a golfer. Got a single club, a no. 7, somewhere. What can you do with a single club. I’m a kiter. But even as a anti-golfer, Thailand has a great PGA event with a promising Thai twist coming up. Hua Hin’s Black Mountain Golf Club from March 26th to 29th hosts the Black Mountain
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What Brought You To Bangkok? + World’s Soccer Freestyle Champ In Town
The tidbit first, work – a poll on “You & Thailand” – further below: John Farnworth is in town, the world’s freestyle soccer champion and current holder of the Guinness World Record for a trick called the “Around the World.” Got a glimpse of John the other day. A completely jolly, unpretentious guy. And he
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Had Enough? You’re Ready For The Hot Springs
Couldn’t have spent the last days more wisely. Relaxing and soaking body and mind at the Hin Dat natural hot springs – some 250 kilometers from Bangkok. Forget about the spins and lies and distorted sense of reality in Bangkok. Get a dose of real Thailand. Formerly known as Kuimang Hot Spring, it is a
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Thaksinology: The Manchester Affair
What’s going on over at Manchester City Football Club. The Daily Mail recently headlined Taxi for Thaksin. The club’s owner Thaksin faces some judicial worries back home. If convicted, he may not pass the “Fit And Proper Persons Test” FAPPT any longer. The FAPPT means anyone convicted of a range of offences would not be
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Modesty Trumps: Thailand’s Olympic Line-Up
You may have spent half of your life in Thailand. But chances are you know none of Thailand’s leading sportswomen and sportsmen. 51 hopeful Thais compete in Beijing. Among some 10,500 athletes. Whereof 100 are really famous. None of them is a Thai. You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to count the Olympic
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