Image story: Boys rescuer

Two Thai boys trying to help a pup out of the cannel.  No big deal but it’s not a familiar sight if you’re from a city.

Sexy dancing, freedom and some hypocrisy

This guy from a Thai press complains about sexy dancing at the recent Thailand Motor Expo. OK. But when Thai government interfered with the press (the media), a lot of people asked where the freedom of speech at. Must there be a line between freedom and decency? Where is that line? Is freedom..

the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression

Or do we need to keep modifying its definition until it fits whatever we feel “right?”

Ready to die: Thai singer Yod Ruk has 6 months to live

In his 52nd birthday party (February 6), Thai Loog Toong (a genre of Thai music known for folksy lyrics) legend, Yod Ruk suggested he might not have his 53rd B-day. Yod Ruk said he has been recently diagnosed for liver cancer and that he might not live longer than 6 months from now.

He said the medical bills are killing him worse than the cancer and jokingly said he’d rather drop dead if he would have to pay for one of the more expensive programs in hospital. He also said he doesn’t want chemotherapy because losing hair as a common side effect would make him look “less handsome” once he died.

Yod Ruk is now selling some of his properties to pay off his debt (due to business ventures) and medical bills. His big bother just announced that a 10-acre land inherited from his mother is now available for sale to help raise more money for Yod Ruk.

I know a lot of people who could sing at least a few Yod Ruk songs, and some probably don’t even know the songs are his. Yod Ruk has been around forever. He seemed to be on a comparable level of James Brown for Thai people, except that, with this news, Yod Ruk would probably drop much earlier.

He’s releasing new songs written for him by a lot of people. You can listen to them on his website. A lot of his old hits are there for listening.

Happy Chinese New Year. Make sure your chicken is Bird Flu free

Happy Hot Rat Year 2008 from Thailand. Officials from Phichit province assure the people their chickens and ducks served during the celebration of new lunar year are safe from Bird Flu. The chickens in the above photo op are so brown they must have been deep fried. Yet the birds served in most family of Chinese descent here in Thailand look more like the picture below. Super hot dip on the side helps you forget all about the Bird Flu.

Thai girl : Hot or Not?

What do you think? More here.

You! Buy cheap pirated DVDs from Thailand.. Online!

Disclosure: I don’t condone piracy nor am I a customer or affiliated with the website I’m about to mention. My intention is almost entirely for amusement.

If you read Thai here‘s another one of those pirated VCDs, DVDs shops you can order your:

• Desperate Housewives season 1 – 6
• Lost
• PrisonBreak
• 24 Hours

Or if you ride the Korean waves:

• Love Holic
• GoongS
• Princess Hour

Of course there’s plenty of Thai drama series, Chinese and Japanese too. How about Tohoshinki Live Tour 2007 Five in The Black DVD.

All those at a whopping 30 baht (1 US dollar) a DVD.

How could you have a full fledge pirated DVD shop without some hard core japanese/anime porn? That comes at a juicy 60 baht (2 dullaz) a month subscription!

Order your pirated DVDs here at your own risk (and it’s very very little). That, if you can read and write Thai, of course.

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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