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Terminal 21 - Under Construction
Walking back to the Skytrain station with my Thai tutor Thursday afternoon, I was commenting (in Thai, of course) about how much the area around the intersection of Sukhumvit Road and Soi 21 has changed in the four years… -
Stringing Power Lines
Tawn and I were eating lunch at S&P Restaurant up on the north end of Thong Lor a few Saturdays ago when we noticed a commotion in the trees across the street. Who should emerge from the branches, crawling along the… -
New Hot Spot: Sathorn and Naratiwat
Similar to the other City of Angels in Southern California, Krungthep is very spread out, lacking a cohesive downtown. Driving through the city, you find high-rise buildings spread liberally throughout the metropolitan … -
Car Free Day 2009
We are a city that tries very hard. This is especially true when it comes to being green. We want badly to be green. We have added bicycle lanes... that parked cars block with impunity and that run down the middle of… -
Thunderstorms in Bangkok Video Project
This is a short video (less than three minutes) I edited using some interesting dusk and nighttime footage taken during rainy season. Set to music by Keane. Hope you enjoy it. -
Around the City
A few weeks ago we had visitors for a half-day, friends connecting through Krungthep on their way to Phuket. They are one of those global couples - an Austrian working for a German company living in Singapore whose part… -
Wading Police
Thai police come in for a lot of ridicule and scorn by locals. They are variously seen as corrupt (random road stops to extract a few hundred baht in ticketless "fines") and lazy (recent campaign at a force-wide weight … -
Real Perspective
Adjacent to the Surasak Skytrain station, there is an abandoned, partially-finished building that is a casualty of the 1997 Asian economic crisis. At a prime location, for whatever reason nobody has stepped in to finish… -
Raising the Sidewalks of Krungthep
As layer upon layer of asphalt gets added to the streets, the distance between the road surface and the footpaths steadily diminishes. Once the torrential showers of rainy season arrive, this means ever more flooding th… -
Recap of 2009 BKK Int'l Film Festival
The Bangkok International Film Festival 2009 closed Wednesday. After seeing thirteen programs in six days, I was generally impressed with the programming and disappointed with the operations. As for the festival's oper…
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