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Freshman initiation at a university in Thailand - P1270635

Rupnong is the name given to this. Many 100's of freshmen do this every day for a couple of weeks at the start of their freshman year.

111224 The Boys - SNSD @ KBS 2011 Entertainment Awards

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English Camp Fun with Spelling, Isaan Thailand.

Way back in January, it just seems so long ago now, we had a one day English camp at my new school. It was for primary 5 students, so ten or eleven year olds. When I was approached and asked what I would like to do for an activity, I had many ideas for games that involve using English to a degree. I can remember one of my first ever English camps many years ago, I had no idea what to do and was offered this advice from a Thai teacher, “Don’t worry about the English, just make it fun for the students.” And this seems to take precedence at many English camps I have been to but I my activities involve using English in some degree.

Ole "Iron Fist" Laursen, Vaughn "Blud" Anderson, Nick "Hooligan" Mellor All Win at Martial Combat.

The other day I blogged on the local Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) gym here in Ubon Ratchathani Thailand called Legacy Gym . I had mentioned that there were 4 fighters travelling to Singapore and fighting in the Martial Combat Fighting Championship 7 and 8. There were two fighters fighting on the 18th of August, being Alex Niu, who is a Chinese fighter and trained for about a month at Legacy Gym and Nick “Hooligan” Mellor a Legacy Gym resident.

Sunthorn Phu Day Thailand 2010.

I have written about Sunthorn Phu before , a renowned Thai poet and we celebrated Sunthorn Phu Day back on the 25th of June. You can see posts at the above link and here . It is a chance for girls to dress up in fashions of days gone by.

Amitabh Bachchan IIFA 2010 Sri Lanka, TV Commercial

"A size of a country is measured by the size of the heart and Sri Lanka has a big heart," veteran Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, who is the brand ambassador for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards told reporters. "I have hosted IIFA for the last 10 years and this by far is the best welcome I had so far." Sri Lanka's tourism official said Sri Lanka has been chosen amid rival bids from Durban, Seoul, Bangkok and Singapore which had hosted the event earlier. The first awards were held in London

Thai Sports Day Part 2, Isaan Thailand.

The other week we had our sport day, there was a magnificent and amazing parade and the following are some more pictures of the parade. The marching band led the way. And this is my team; I am with the red colours. This young lady looked very happy, even after walking a few kilometres in those boots.

Novice Monk Ordination for H.M. The King

During the school holidays in Thailand, it is common for Thai students to ordain as novice monks for a short time. In the olden days, before there were government schools, poor boys would ordain in order to get an education. However, these days, their parents want them to ordain for a short time during holidays in order to keep them out of trouble