Category Archives: Drinking

Thailand goes for the bronze in lao.

December 26, 2006 – 5:28 am

In the Bangkok Post Dec. 21 2006 edition Singha Corporation sponsored a full page ad extolling the achievement of Thai spirit drinkers being 5th in the world, while bemoaning that beer drinking per capita resides at 85th in beer comparison. Germany understandably leads the pack 7 liters per person with Denmark and Luxembourg battling for […]

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Traffic Rules in Bangkok

July 25, 2006 – 2:52 am

Bangkok is a city well-known for its traffic. Main avenues are jammed at lights for hours and then released by city police whose brains have been addled from breathing too much CO2. Drivers stomp on the accelerators for a brief burst of freedom from the gridlock, even though another red light will trapped them within minutes. […]

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Health Advice For Beer Worshippers

March 18, 0202 – 1:40 am

Over the last ten years the Bangkok-Pattaya Hospital on Sukhumvit has expanded east, west, north, and south as well as up into the sky to handle the expanding community of western and Thai retirees making up a greater segment of the resort’s population. One extension had been named the Gra-dai teung sawan or Stairway to […]

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