My dearest fantasy novelist, Mr Somtow Sucharitkul has once again done it, hes written a response to Amsterdam’s White Letter. Dont get me wrong i think Amsterdam makes a career out of representing scum but I’d just like to point something out. In his long winded posts he comments that Amsterdam has taken history and [...]
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Lets be as brief and concise as possible this is the truth of Thai history. Factual. Not based on all those lies told by the Indians, the Malays, the Khmers, Europeans, even falsified Thai architecture and archeological sites put there by Thaksin. This is the truth. Back a long time ago, even before the days [...]
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Our friends on the far right have recently come out to say a few interesting and controversial things. Among them are these thoughts: Sondhi also opines that he does not believe in the majoritarian system because Parliament is a place of evil. He will fight against the one-man-one-vote system because he wants a ‘Dharma-ocracy’ instead. [...]
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Tagged: Angkor, Khmer Rouge, PAD, Sonthi, Sukhothai, Suvarnabhumi, Thailand, Thanong
Recently some people have claimed that Thailand needs to revert to our classical way of living, that it was a classical utopia of sorts. A “Sukhothai” (Insert Shangri La, Nirvana, Timbuktoo, El Dorado) utopia that was in balance and a center of self sufficiency. That is simply not true. While there are undoubted aspects of [...]
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Normally hate free verse, apologies. Castle on a Cloud. There is a castle on a cloud I like to go there in my sleep There in the castle on the cloud Where all men reside in their sleep There is a castle here on earth It lays yonder on the hill The castle is small [...]
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Photo Credits go to Myself and Florian Witulski (@vaitor)
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This was found among the wreckage of the Dusit Thani, Michael Yom’s diary of what happened before that fateful night where people began following him 3:30 pm Early dinner at a noodle shop. The owner was very nice. 3:44pm Bathroom time, loud sporadic noises, then silence 4:00 pm Silence 4:10 pm The BTS is closed, [...]
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In response to http://www.somtow.org/2010/05/open-letter-to-red-shirts.html Dear Mr Somtow, I have had the chance to read your letter and its benevolent and kind terms to the people whose lives a few days prior you had argued were forfeit. How noble and kind you are to afford them such mellifluous and didactic words ascertaining their guaranteed eventual emancipation. [...]
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You guys are pretty lazy journalists anyway. Swanning around in your flak jackets and helmets all day, enjoying the weather, the ambience and the fireside chats. The REAL reporters are sweating it out trying to come up with something worth printing out of Panitan’s incoherent ramblings! Start doing your homework. Start finding out the things that make people uncomfortable talking about… and don’t fucking talk about them! Start interviewing the Silent Majority (if you can get them to say anything.)
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Tagged: CNN, Dan Rivers, Open Letter, Sattire, Thaksin