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Visakha Bucha Day 2013 falls on Friday, May 24th. it is one of the most important buddhist holidays and therefore celebrated extensively. Find some more general information below:

VISAKHA BUCHA (Vesak) means the worship of Buddha on the full moon day of the sixth lunar month. This usually happens during May. In the case of a year with an extra eighth lunar month – Adhikamasa (there are 13 full moons in that year) – the Visakha Bucha Day falls on the full moon day of the seventh lunar month.

BIRTH – ENLIGHTENMENT – PASSING AWAY
Visakha Bucha Day is one of the most important days in Buddhism because of three important incidents in the life of Buddha, i.e. birth, enlightenment and passing away. All of these miraculously fall on the same month and date, the Vesak full moon day...

The other day I received an email from one of my friends from Germany. It contained a pretty awesome message: He’s getting married. Congrats, dude! You’re becoming a real grown up

In the same mail he then asked me for advice regarding honeymoon destinations over here in Thailand. After giving it some thought and talking with many of my (Thai) colleagues I came up with this list. I am very aware of the fact that there are hundreds of great places here in Thailand where one could spend his honeymoon but that’s MY opinion after doing some research and having a lot of talks regarding this topic.

Here now my top 6 Honeymoon destinations in Thailand:

1.) Koh Phi Phi (Phi Phi Island)

 View of Koh Phi Phi Don, Krabi Province, Thailand...

The world’s ‘best airline’ (skytrax) with 5 star service, Qatar Airways, just screwed me.

I booked a return flight to Bangkok at the beginning of April via qatarairways.com and paid via paypal. Immediately I received a confirmation from Qatar Airways as well as from Paypal. Like expected.

4 weeks later I tried to board mentioned flight and the ground staff in Bangkok told me ‘no ticket has been issued. You are not in the system’. I then showed them all confirmation mails and reference numbers and they said they can see the booking, but there was no ticket issued. That doesn’t help me of course. We discussed for an hour or so and when the plane was almost taking off they suggested I should buy a new ticket and then simply get the refund later. Said and done.

Before I escalated the whole thi...

The following ad for whitening drink (!) Verena L-Gluta Berry Plus raised the public’s voice last week due to it’s incredibly racist style.

You can see a brown bear consulting a doctor in a hospital. The doctor (attractive, white skinned lady) tells the bear he could be a white bear within 10.4 million weeks. However humans can have it much better by only drinking Verena L-Gluta Berry Plus. It’s way faster. – So far, so stupid.

The racist highlight in the end: The doctor’s father enters the room to ask if everything’s fine. He speaks Thai with a farang (foreign) accent and is apparently black. Then we see a family portrait in wich the doctor herself is also portrait black which implies that the drink made her that white.

Offensive as fuck (quote from one twitter user) is the common mean...

The name of the video says it all. Never go to Thailand! – Unless you want to experience this…

Never Go To Thailand from Brian camusat on Vimeo.

Once again I went on the quest to find decent Pizza. This time I went for delivery from a famous Pizza chain here in Thailand. Scoozi Pizza is quite big and owns several restaurants around Bangkok. Let’s see how their Pizza tasted and how the delivery worked out.

1.) Ordering:
The website itself is a little outdated and a few flaws. For example when you try to sign up and you pick a city other than Bangkok from the list the ‘District’ drop down menu remains empty – while still being mandatory. This means you actually can’t sign up when you live outside of Bangkok (while scoozi pizza has restaurants outside of Bangkok).

On the main page it says you can pay cash or via credit card. When you go to ‘checkout’ however you can only choose between transfer and credit card payment...

I’ve been waiting so long for a chance to write an article and use a picture of breasts. Great! Finally. Thank you Amazing Thailand!

There’s actually not much more to say than amazing Thailand. Just watch the video beyond. It’s about a ‘job’ that involves slapping faces and breasts. Sounds like a dream job, doesn’t it?

Oh and slapping people for fun (and money) kind of reminded me of the following classic from the tv show How I Met Your Mother.

Slap bet!

Since I’ve been asked many times what to say during the Thai New Year’s Festival (Songkran / Water Festival) I thought I’d publish this short post to explain it briefly.

Sawadee (similar to sawadee krub/ka for ‘hello’).
Pee = Year
Mai = New

+ polite ka (women) or krub (men)

So I’d say:

Sawadee pee mai krub!

If you want to learn the cultural Songkran song, check out Mod’s post.

It is again the time of the year when Thailand goes crazy! The Thai New Year Festival (Songkran) is almost there and it’s time to get the final preparations done. Since I already talked a lot about Songkran over the past two years let me just give some short links to existing articles here:

• Brief introduction of Songkran. What is Songkran and when does it take place?
• Background of Songkran (Water) Festival
• Experiencing Songkran in Sukhothai
• Songkran 2011 Recap
• Songkran 2012 Recap

For the newbies a very brief (check out the links above for more information) explanation of Songkran:

• Songkran Festival is the Thai New Years Festival. It’s also known as Water Festival and is being celebrated in other countries in (South East) Asia as well with Thailand taking it the most serious though. 

First time ever I needed some technical support here in Thailand and oh lord I hope it was also the last time! While I usually fix as many technical problems as possible by myself but this time it was a hardware issue that needed professional help.

Since I tend to use my technical gadgets and not just leave them wrapped and save at home it sometimes happens that they get scratches, bumps, etc. Happens to my MacBook, to my phone…whatever. That’s what the stuff is made for. To be used. Now when my HTC One X smartphone got some scratches on the camera cover I was a little sad since it meant I had to change the cover, but on the other hand I took some cool pictures on the way to scratch it – so that’s fair game.

However I wasn’t prepared that changing the case of a smartphone is that much of a...