I had dinner with HE Aphisit Vejjajiva last night

**Bobcock** · 15-01-2009, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by English Noodles

He's a sports correspondent actualy, working out of Rama 4.

Yeah Reuters are based in I think the HSBC Building on Rama 4.

Sports correspondant in Thailand, that's a boring gig if ever I heard of one. Not much top class sport going on here.

**withnallstoke** · 15-01-2009, 10:50 PM

Nice one Bobcock. Any footage from the event? On a human slant; does the bloke seem human? So far his press seems positive.

**buriramboy** · 15-01-2009, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Originally Posted by Bobcock

ps....some of the journos are real cocks

Are they members of TD?

Andrew Drummond rears his ugly head from time to time round here.

**Muadib** · 15-01-2009, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I was going to go to that, but decided against it in the end. It's nice to see Thailand has an 'English' PM, which is more than England has.

Well, HMK is a Merkin after all... Thailand may have a chance after all...

**Rural Surin** · 15-01-2009, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

HE Abashit?

Almost hilarious after being defeated twice in a row and having to resort to a royal posting to assume the job.

At least he's moving up in the world (beyond England).

True point Tex. One could wonder if we could ever have a real democratic election here....when was the last one? Coups. Military dictatorships. Appointments. Caretakers.

**Rural Surin** · 15-01-2009, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Muadib

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I was going to go to that, but decided against it in the end. It's nice to see Thailand has an 'English' PM, which is more than England has.

Well, HMK is a Merkin after all... Thailand may have a chance after all...

Sure. We've seen where that's gotten us for the last 60+ years

**EmperorTud** · 15-01-2009, 11:38 PM

I was in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow some time ago and actor Jon Pertwee of Wurzel Gummidge and Dr. Who fame was sat at the table opposite.

**English Noodles** · 15-01-2009, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Sports correspondant in Thailand, that's a boring gig if ever I heard of one. Not much top class sport going on here.

Yep, though he got to the Olympics last year for the full duration which was not a bad gig, Asian games also, but apart from that not very interesting for sure.

Beats TEFLing though I guess.

**BKKBoet** · 16-01-2009, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

I was in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow some time ago and actor Jon Pertwee of Wurzel Gummidge and Dr. Who fame was sat at the table opposite.

HmmmMMMMMmmm. I had my picture taken with Ad Karabao once (sigh).

**filch** · 16-01-2009, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Yeah Reuters are based in I think the HSBC Building on Rama 4.

U-Chu Liang on Rama 4. Been there many times and met with their lacklustre HR team. That company baffles me.

**Fabian** · 16-01-2009, 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Texpat

HE Abashit?

Almost hilarious after being defeated twice in a row and having to resort to a royal posting to assume the job.

At least he's moving up in the world (beyond England).

True point Tex. One could wonder if we could ever have a real democratic election here....when was the last one? Coups. Military dictatorships. Appointments. Caretakers.

Isn't Abhisit elected by the majority of the house?

**mad_dog** · 16-01-2009, 04:11 AM

He is a fine English public school boy like me and he has Clintonesque charisma.

**kingwilly** · 16-01-2009, 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Asian games also, but apart from that not very interesting for sure.

bladdy hell you guys are hard to please.

he should be religiously following the Thailand Tigers, (they even have a domestic comp.) and the Green Parrots.

throw in the odd rugby 7's plus some golf and you have the perfect mix fo sport!

**English Noodles** · 16-01-2009, 06:03 AM

^Maybe for benders such as your good self mate.

**Bobcock** · 16-01-2009, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by filch

That company baffles me.

Reuters or HSBC?

**Mid** · 16-01-2009, 07:29 PM

STREETWISE

Streetwise: Abhisit's full house means some go hungry
January 16, 2009
By Achara Deboonme

If popularity is determined by the number of people gathering at one place to welcome the biggest VIP of the day to the red carpet, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was the star on Wednesday night.

About 400 guests crowded the ballroom of the InterContinental Hotel Bangkok, including a foreign reporter who flew directly from the US to attend the dinner talk hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.

Aside from those who booked seats in advance, many appeared at the last minute and that required the organiser to set up extra dining tables.

Then, coming with the prime minister was a huge entourage, apart from the security officers there to guard him from some 50 red-shirted protesters gathering in front of the hotel, waiting to pelt him with eggs.

(Unfortunately for them, Abhisit walked from his car through the kitchen. And he also used the route to make his exit.)

Abhisit adroitly charmed the audience throughout his half-hour speech and 40-minute question-and-answer session, judging by the periodic applause. It seems the prime minister was a speaker who perfectly fit the night's theme of "Restoring Confidence and Moving Thailand Forward".

Certainly, all were impressed with his take on geographical affinities. "There will be no regional division. I'm engaged with the Northeast, I'm in love with the North, I'm at home in the South, I just happen to live and work in Bangkok."

Smiles remained on all faces even when Abhisit was quizzed on issues such as the pending cases against the People's Alliance for Democracy for the airport closures as well as the appointments of several PAD members.

Indeed, Abhisit made a brief grimace when asked if the government's Bt116-billion pump-priming package, which is less than the damage caused by PAD as estimated by the Bank of Thailand, is enough to revive the economy.

All the prime minister's men must be impressed with their leader's performance, though at the expense of their stomachs.

Due to the large audience, there were not enough seats to go around for Abhisit's followers. Panithan Wattanayagorn, his secretary, was seen wandering around the ballroom for half an hour before being seated.

There was no seat left even when Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij arrived later. He would have had to stand tall if one man did not sacrifice his seat at the Coca-Cola table for him.

Later, seen in the hand of each follower was a hamburger, while the guests enjoyed their rocket salad and pan-fried sea bass.

Nobody should mind that, for the sake of the nation

nationmultimedia.com

**EmperorTud** · 16-01-2009, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by Mid

There will be no regional division.

Only in your deluded mind Mark.

**Bobcock** · 17-01-2009, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Mid

pan-fried sea bass

It really was rather yummy..........

**MeMock** · 18-01-2009, 06:58 AM

Talking of journos.....

From The Australian yesterday....

KEVIN Meade, a long-time journalist in the Queensland bureau of The Australian, has died in Bangkok, aged 57.

Meade began work at The Australian in 1990, and was to remain for the next 18 years, working out of the Cairns and Brisbane offices, often with his good friend, photographer David Sproule.

The two were the sort of knockabout blokes to whom bush people instinctively related, and they would always return with stories full of the colour of rural life.

Meade's writings painted a picture of Australia. He admired and had widely read the works of Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. The way he sparingly used words to build a picture of rural life was in the best tradition of Australian bush writing.

The last piece he wrote for The Australian was typical of his style. It concerned a decision made in a Mackay court about ownership of a tropical island, but began with Matthew Flinders' description of the island.

Meade came from a working-class background in Brisbane's outer north.

After graduating from Banyo High School in 1968, he briefly attended Queensland University before starting work as a cadet journalist on the Brisbane Telegraph, an afternoon paper where one of his fellow cadets was Chris Mitchell, the editor-in-chief of The Australian.

His career was interrupted by national service in 1972, and he briefly worked on the army newspaper.

After his military sojourn, Meade returned to Brisbane before travelling to England overland via India. He then returned to Asia, where he worked as a subeditor on the Bangkok Post.

His book, Heroes before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September, about Australia's "forgotten war" and "our own September 11" in 1914, was published in 2005.

Meade, who had a history of heart problems, died of a heart attack.

He spent his final years with Lavinia Robson, and is survived by his two children from a previous marriage, May and Jesse.

**DrAndy** · 18-01-2009, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by melvbot

Originally Posted by filch

Wish I could have been there, I would have been interested to hear him talk about his Governments policies.

Pffff ! Fuck that he's a 'tallica fan, Ive got some common ground with a Thai PM, amazing.

yes, and he also went to Eton and Oxford, amazing

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