Beach volleyball comes to town .. with no beach ..

Visit a small town of Sisaket, Thailand, and you might find yourself entertained by bikini volleyball on sand. Give a feel of beach volleyball for a place hundreds of kilometers away from the beach. Do check out the behind scene:

Paradon scored woman and a 50 mil house on the cheap?

So the tennis fad star Paradon Srichaphan and his trophy woman, the former Miss Universe Natalie Glebova, are buying a 50 million Baht (1.5 mil USD) house. That’s news? The Thai gossip mill is saying the couple got the house for free and that they’re doing the press conference about them buying this house to promote the property developer. Apparently Paradon denied all this and saying he bought with his own money. But when asked, the property manager/ owner said the couple received a very special discount.

And I’m telling you this so I can show this picture of the fiancee who’s looking real hot. Congratz Paradon, you’re boning this hot chic, I’m jealous. And I’m even more jealous because you, Paradon, do this at quite a discount. According to the press conf, Paradon put down just 1% for the house using his credit card. (500,000 baht or about 15,000 USD) . Lesson learned, there’s more than just money to score a hot former miss universe. Maybe millionaires in pursuit of a miss whatever should consider buying a new equipment down low than a new fancy car or house?

By the way, the couple is planning to get married in a few months. .. Or so they said.

Thai election campaign Kamen Riders girls

The Thai government is campaigning for ummmm clean and fair election. Have some old people doing Kamen Riders thing in public. I guess the cross means the vote cross. But check out the cutie on the left. How she get in there? If you like, there’s more.

Phuket Thailand plane crash comments and videos

After checking out some international news sources, words are such that this is an accident due to bad weather. Is the weather really that bad that people can’t do anything about it? Say NOT landing or take other options? Back in the Tsunami days, if you really have to blame someone, you could name the incompetent warning system for not being well prepared for atypical situations. This is a little different. The so called wind shear doesn’t seem to be such unique circumstance, does it?

Some victims’ families are saying they still don’t get paid from the airline insurance for the damages. One Two Go (the airline) said they’re working with the insurance to up the payment to about 120,000 USD (about 5 million bahts) from whatever money I don’t know. Anyway, searched Youtube and found some videos. Take a look:

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Plane crash in Phuket Thailand 89 died

First, I’d like to express my sympathy for those who have lost the loved ones in the plane crash in Phuket. From how I understand it, fingers are pointing back and forth between the Airline (One-To-Go Airline) camp and the airport authority camp over the misguided/misjudge landing.

According to a transcript of the conversation between the control tower and the plane, ground officials informed the Indonesian pilot, Arief Mulyadi, about wind shear at the airport but he decided to land anyway, the Air Transport Department’s director-general, Chaisak Ungsuwan, said on The Nation TV channel.

Since the majority of the passengers are foreigners (non Thai), this again likely will be a major hurt to Thai toursim. I’m all for the good good good for this country I call home but if shit like this keeps happening, visiting Thailand will not be a top choice for people (unless the rest of the world is screwed worse) .

WordPress.com banned in Thailand.. not totally.. not all the time

Yes it is banned in Thailand and the reason I didn’t post anything new for almost a year is not because of the WordPress ban. This blog has been live in Thailand just fine. I’m just lazy.

Politically motivated or not, some blogs on WordPress.com are banned and I don’t know why because I’ve never read them, though I came across links to them which are now redirected to a web page of my ISP in Thailand.

Recently (maybe since about 10 days ago) I noticed the entire WordPress.com, with the exception of the front page, were redirected to my ISP page. But it happened only during daytime working hours up until around 10 pm in Thailand. Other than that, I can read most WordPress blogs.

This is not related to this post but can we have the tags search capability back on WordPress.com front page?