December 2007
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Security in Bangkok tightened on New Year
The Army, Navy and Air Force will assist the Metropolitan Police to beef up security in Bangkok on New Year’s Eve. Pol Col Piyaphan Pingmuang, deputy spokesman of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said the Air Force would deploy its personnel to keep security in northern Bangkok and the Army in central Bangkok while the Navy would help monitor the situation on the Thon Buri side. The...
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WatchFollowing up to this recent post I found a video of another beggar. Now I am not sure if this is the same one as I can’t see his face long enough in the beginning but it might bethe same guy… which would kind of proof my theory that he is sitting there much longer than for 6000 Baht. This guy says he makes 30000 Baht a month sitting there….
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Culture-One International Dance Music Festival
Check out Culture One, Bangkok’s first large scale outdoor dance music festival. This will be in the style of Zoukout in Singapore or Recharge Revelation in Malaysia. Bangkokrecorder has a little piece from the Culture-One press conference. It will be held quite soon on the 19th of January and a lot of acts will appear, both international acts and local. The people behind this festival is...
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Escudo visit 1
Checked out Escudo (see linked post) on the weekend and it was alright, the changes they made were good and itsw more of a club now than a bar. Upstairs is the ouse area now but here the problem was very obvious: Downstairs (where the music was a mix between Hip Hop and Michael Jackson it was packed but upstairs there were around 3 people…seriously, it was not more than that. The music was...
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Democrats still have a chance to form government!
And as there seem a lot of things to happens till with the elections I am posting another news piece that just came up. Apparently the elections are far from over even though the PPP is saying that all over TV. Even Defence Minister Boonrawd, who earlier last week still hold hopes out for a Democrat government, yesterday was quoted in Thai Rath as saying there will be no miracles of a Democrat...
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5-Point demand to the PPP
Before going into a coalition with the winning PPP party in the recent elections, Chart Thai and Puea Pandin executives on Thursday night made public five conditions for joining a PPP-led coalition: [1] the PPP must have reverence for the monarchy, [2] not offend Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda, [3] not take revenge against political opponents, [4] not interfere in the judicial...
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“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in...”
– Bob Dylan
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DJ Octo →
One of Bangkok’s most popular and best DJ’s, Octo spins Hip Hop mostly but also funk and R&B depending on the party. Check out his website which has a lot of podcasts on it with some nice mixes.
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“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
– Bertolt Brecht
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iBerry - Bangkok's best ice-cream →
There are many iberry outlets throughout the city. For example: at Siam Paragon, at Chit Lom, at Major Cineplex Rajayothin and other places. Try also one of their new smoothie line, absolutely amazing tastes.
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Caribbean Coyote Club Bangkok
The Caribbean Coyote Club is one of the newer ones, on Pracha Uthit Road not far from RCA and as you can see they have a huge amount of dancers. I can find more and more videos of Coyote places like Caribbean online now…..but still havent found any of the Pent that I talked about in another post on this blog. Enjoy.
Caribbean Club Bangkok
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“The court and police had already issued arrest warrants on him so once he...”
– Samphan Sarathana, a senior official in the Office of the Attorney General told The Associated Press concerning Thaksin’s announced return to Thailand.
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Thaksin's Return to Thailand not possible yet
Thaksin was quick to announce his return to Thailand after the PPP party, a follow-up to Thaksin’s former Thai Rak Thai party, won the elctions. Sinece today this seems unlikely to happen. Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be arrested if he returns home from a self-imposed exile as planned, even if his victorious allies form a government following last weekend’s general...
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Bangkok Street Dogs
A blog I like is Bangkok Street Dogs. There is still bloggers out there with good ideas :) Bangkok Street Dogs
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“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
– Siegmund Freud
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The Pent Coyote Club
If you wanna get to know what happens when a group of rich Thai men create their “vision” of the perfect nightclub, then go down to “The Pent”, one of the many socalled Coyote Clubs (named after the movie) in Bangkok. This seems to be one of the most popular and best ones but there are also other places with very similar concept (Dancing Girls + Booze) such as Cream, The...
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Great American Ribs Bangkok
Went to try for the first time this restaurant on Christmas Day. It has been there for a while already. Not bad is all I can say. A whole rack is just 480 Baht and it tasted excellent. Will go again. It is down on Sukhumvit Soi 36, a bit hidden soi, very quite, nice relaxed outside dining in a casual ambiance. Recommended. Great American Ribs Bangkok
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Poker is getting younger, cleverer, duller and... →
The past year I have been meeting more professional poker players in Bangkok than in my whole life before. And I have noticed how possible it actually is to safely live from ths very well. Read this interesting article about the new wave of poker players.
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PPP & the Military Junta
On a small sidenot…I am wondering how the military junta feels now after the PPP won the elections and is looking for coalition partner now. I mean, come on, they ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and killed his Thai Rak Thai party…most of the members of Thai Rak Thai went to the newly built PPP party….which in turn now won the elections! So the whole coup resulted...
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“The coup is dead”
– Samak of the People’s Power Party (PPP) exclaimed after the election poll result on Sunday night, suggesting he had won a victory over the military, rather than the rival Democrats, who he regards as sons of the coup.
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Swiss Miss Design Blog →
A cool design blog by a Swiss lady living in NYC. Found this blog by looking at the Tokyo Bay Neptune Watch. Ultra stylish!
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Escudo Bar on Thonglor →
Escudo on Thonglor, Sukhumvit Soi 55, was recently renovated and reopened Monday last week. Check out the info on the bangkokrecorder website.
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“If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does...”
– A quote from Friedrich Nietzsche. Especially the first part is rule number one in Bangkok, the city of ladyboys.
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Bangkok and Facebook
Last night I realized again how much facebook is infiltrating everybodys lifes in Bangkok and the rest of Thailand. Smirnoff was throwing its last party of the “Smirnoff experience” concept. It was at the location of the future “The River” apartent at the Chao Phraya River. The event was by invitation only. A lot of people were messaged on facebook about this. When arriving...
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“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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