Bicycle

Posted 12.13.2007 in Ying Thai

These days, everyone who owns a car complains about the high petrol price. If recent events are any indication, the average Joe can soon expect to spend 2,000 baht each time he visits the gas station. But the idea that oil is running out is not new, is it? We have all thought about it [...]

Facebook

Posted 12.04.2007 in Ying Thai

Facebook was the HOTTEST phenomenon of 2007. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo all want a piece of this college student’s invention, which is now worth 15 billion dollar. It’s fun and useful, and you look so pre-subprime-mortgage-crisis if you are not on it. Not only do people in my social circle use it to invite friends [...]

Don’t Follow Your Star

Posted 10.03.2007 in Ying Thai

Many Thais are obsessed with fortune telling and horoscopes. We read the horoscopes and simply get absorbed in them. Remember what awaits us on Monday, or that we will get on well with a Taurus or a Monkey year, or our partner may cheat on us this week, or we are prone to accidents. This [...]

Money Can Buy Me No Love

Posted 09.25.2007 in Ying Thai

It is important to realize that while Thailand is much modernized in some aspects (i.e. it leads the world in producing the best Thai microwave foods and the largest amount of mp3 Thai songs in the world), most families still keep to the tradition of dowry in marriage. 
Many Westerners have a look of distaste [...]

Cupid at Work

Posted 09.14.2007 in Ying Thai

MeetNLunch recently conducted a poll and found that as many as 50% of working Thais between the ages of 25 and 40 have been involved with a co-worker, and half of that 50% wound up getting married. But for many who have experienced it, office romance can be risky business – both emotionally and professionally.  [...]