Here is a list of links to interesting posts I found around the blogosphere this week about Thailand
- Katherine Wentworth over at WomenLearnThai.com has an interesting post on learning Thai for the shy.
Here’s a suggestion: Walk around your world for a week, jotting down notes of your experiences. When the week is over, pare down the results to the phrases used most often. If you are a basic beginner at Thai, simplify the phrases to suit what you can handle.
They also have a Facebook page.
- Paul Garrigan is a recovering alcoholic and chronicles his sober adventures after years of living in Thailand in a daze. He has discovered that there are many sober things to do in Thailand.
One of the things to shock me when I became sober was that my Thai was nowhere near as good as I thought. It seems that I was in denial about more than just alcohol.
- Now this is a great one. Archive.org has a digitalized version of a book published in 1908 called Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam. It is a fascinating look at turn of the century thought and has some fascinating pictures and interesting turns of phrase, to say the least. You can read it right there in your browser or you can also download a PDF version for free.
- Richard Barrow introduces an iPhone app that let’s you quickly compare prices on Thailand domestic flights. He has a couple of promotional codes to give the app away, and all you have to do is leave a comment by Sunday. Thai flight search engine iPhone app.
- I found this one on Newley.com, the blog of Bangkok based journalist Newley Purnell. An interview with Claudio Sopranzetti: The Politics of Motorcycle taxis.
Before 2005, every win, i.e. every group of motorcycle taxis, was organized independently, by a local mafia — what they call pu mi ithipol, local influential people. They tend to be very often policemen or army or thesakhet. These influential people would say: in this area that I control, we will have a group here, a group here, a group here and here… And everybody in the motorcycle taxis group had to pay a daily fee for the vest which produced and distributed by these influential people as well as for being on the “territory”. It was the cost of the vest or the cost of queuing. The big problem was that these fees were collected regardless if the driver was working or not.
- Another post by Richard Barrow, this time from his blog on Thai-blogs.com, on The Candle Festival in Thailand , which was last week.
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