After the craze for the sarcastic, back-talking chat-app, SimSimi, hit the nation, it seems like app developers have already rushed out a new version, designed to offer straight-talking advice for people in power. Unfortunately for them, a glitch in the new MimMeme-app meant we were able to access...
Panic swept through the business community in Thailand the other day when rumors circulated that Bangokians might actually be suffering from mall-opening fatigue. The SET dropped five points when one new mall opened without a small riot taking place and a stark absence of Instagram photos of the...
Happy Chinese New Year. We hope you got a big bonus, or at least a little ang pao from your parents, your rich auntie or the government. (Note: victims of Southern unrest, the war on drugs or torn eardrums are not eligible for governmental ang pao. Nor is being unable to shop at CentralWorld for...
Hey Peeps,
It’s Pancake, your favorite dek inter. OMG, do you know that we have to study on Saturdays until like the end of the Mayan calendar to make up for flood days? WTF? Seriously. It didn’t flood in my street. I never even saw any water except the stuff in our jacuzzi. Geez. Like...
Oh crap. We’re back at the office, without a public holiday in sight for the foreseeable future. What are we going to do? Work? No way. We haven’t done any real work since the floods, which were conveniently followed by Christmas, New Year’s, Yingluck’s holiday extension and...
You know, it’s really hard to pinpoint what the exact moments are that really define a year. Our cover story comes close, but why is it lacking the tear-jerking, inspirational quality of those fancy Google zeitgeist videos? Maybe it’s the fact that magazines can’t play really bad...
Senator Rosana Tositrakul’s debut film, Dude, Where’s My Cash, offers hilarious moments even as it suffers from a pretty bizarre premise. In a nutshell, a gang of knucklehead thieves are offered 120 million baht if they rob a prominent politician’s house—but not before they...
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): "Dear Mr. Brezsny: My name is Sonny McGee and I own a website that caters to people who are addicted to playing poker. I'm a big fan of your horoscopes, and I'm wondering if you would like to advertise your work to our audience. Gamblers love astrology! Get in...
Wow, that censure debate was really great, wasn’t it? Now we really know what caused the floods. In no particular order: Karun Hosakul’s backhoe (not as dirty as it sounds), Section 226 of the constitution (“thou shalt not distribute canned fish to people underwater”) and...
BREAKING NEWS: ABHISIT AND YINGLUCK IN THERAPY
A source close to the couple says Yingisit—as the celebrity couple is affectionately known by their fans—is on the verge of breaking up. The source, who is close to a neighbor of someone who knows the couple’s maid, revealed that the...
