A Land of Advertisements

We are not in any stadium and this is not a spotlight nor the midnight sun. May I introduce you "Thailand's roadside advertising LCD monitor".

No matter how annoying it is, no matter how dangerous it can be, you need to keep in mind that Thailand is not just the land of smiles but also the land of advertisements. This brightness can blind every road user. All the administrative agency thinks about is profit, not the public safety as you can see obviously.

Yes, it really is this extraordinaire bright and ready for beaming into your fellow drivers' eyes anytime.

One big yellow sheet

One of Thailand's stupidest things I've found is this yellow A4 sheet. Do you know what it is?

Answer: It's a (temporary) Thai citizen card. My friend lost hers around mid of July 2010 and she went to district office and found out that her new citizen card is now 10 times bigger than what it used to be. Why? It is because Thailand runs out of smart card for making our necessary, ordinary citizen card since April 2010 (from what I've googled) up until now (December 2010 or 8 months later) there's still no sign of availability from government nor related administrative offices. Perhaps they still can't put up on final agreements between suppliers? It's the big money, so, who knows.

Meanwhile, every Thai who apply for the new citizen card during this period needs to keep this temporary card at all time, no one knows until when.

Happy carrying this big yellow sheet, mate!

Thailand's traffic police

Regarding Thailand's traffic law, no motorbike allowed in the rightmost lane, you'll get fined immediately when traffic police saw as such.

But there's someone who can ride a bike at 40km/hr in this bike-prohibited fast lane, guess what, it's the traffic police itself.

Dough Maker's sandwiches

What some nice ham cheese sandwiches? Well, it's margarine actually. It's also got less-than-1-cm-wide-ham (~30% of the bread's width) which you won't know until you open the package and it looks totally defferent from what you'll see from above. No need to speak of the printed product picture on the label by the way.

Get started

Well, I finally decided to get this blog up. Here's where I put what somehow bugs me more or less and such fun-or-no-fun-thinggy that I've found in my daily life as a Thai living in Bangkok. We'll see various act of own indulgence up to consumer deceptions.

My intention is not to ruin the beautiful images of Thai people but what you will find here are the truths that every Thai has to admit that such things really exist and perhaps this could helps reminding us all on what really are dos and don'ts. And who knows, those things might be changed and better organized in the future, at least I hope so.