A lame script, some dodgy acting and a flimsy plot won’t stop Transformers being one of the films of the year. From the cartoon to the highly successful toy line, Transformers have played a starring role in many children’s lives.

I used to live in Southampton he said. Oh yeah? Doing what? I replied. I was training for MI6 he responded.
My ears pricked up at this point.
MI6? came my query. Yes he confirmed. So you’re a secret agent? was my probing response.
He actually said he was a secret agent. I frowned for a moment and [...]

A new job, a new city, a new home, a new group of neighbours.
My landlady, in her late-twenties, is youthful, elegant and married. Her husband lives in Bangkok. Her “sister”, who is actually her sister-in-law, is a tall, peculiarly elongated woman who married my landlady’s brother. He, a chubby, bespectacled Thai man, is an agreeable [...]

Another day in Thailand, another hit and run, another life lost, another coward that won’t be brought to justice. It’s tragic that you read so many news reports like this, taken from The Phuket Gazette’s website:
Lamphun Kotpanna, 27, from Sakhon Nakhon, died last night after her motorbike was hit by a pickup truck on the [...]

Tonight’s the night that Bangkok’s bloggers will be out in force to put questions to the man who blocked YouTube, Thailand’s Minister for Information and Communication Technology Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom. It might feel like a Bangkok bloggers’ convention in the FCCT tonight, so get down early if you have something on your mind you want to [...]

Save the chickens! Paris Hilton will deliver them from evil! Those crazy folks from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have written to Paris Hilton asking her to become the new face for chickens’ rights. Apparently Paris’ time behind bars is comparable to that of chickens spending their time in coops. I guess [...]

You think you’re invisible, that nobody notices you, that you just blend in with everyone else. But you’re not; you never are. Being a foreigner in Thailand, people see you, they observe they watch they ponder. You’re in their country; why wouldn’t they notice you? You stand out like a cat among dogs.
The way Thais [...]

This really is a grim piece of news that instills little optimism. From today’s Bangkok Post:
A new video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston shows him wearing an explosives vest and warning he will be blown up if Hamas continues to surround the area where he is being held, the US-based Intel Center said Sunday [...]

You can’t pick up a copy of The Nation without reading a column about Thaksin. It’s like an unwritten rule that if there is nothing else to write about then columnists should revert back to taking a pop at Thailand’s ousted premier. On Saturday Veenarat Laohapakakul opened with this:
So the deposed prime minister of Thailand [...]

I recently had my eyes opened up to Google Reader. It’s one of the most useful online resources I’ve come across since I started reading blogs. There are heaps of Thailand blogs and sometimes it’s difficult to keep up to date with all them. If you use Firefox and have RSS feeds bookmarked for ease [...]

I received a distressing SMS message last night. It read as follows:
Max: Tonight when you look at the starry sky you’ll know… someone think of you through the starlight…

Max? Who on earth is this Max? The message came from an unknown number, but whoever sent it doesn’t know me well enough to actually know what [...]

Thai pop music is fantastic. I don’t mean the soppy ballads and the melodramatic love songs. The sort of Thai music that I’m into is the sort that makes me laugh at how completely nuts it is. My current favourite band are Four Mod. Four Mod are two Thai girls (I assume they are Thai; [...]

Has anyone else noticed that German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks identical to British Conservative Party MP Ann Widdecombe? I had my TV on silent a couple of days ago and saw what I thought was a story about Ann Widdecome, but it actually turned out to be about Angela Merkel. Ann Widdecombe and Angela Merkel [...]