Our New Wii July 21, 2008
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We had an expensive weekend. Instead of traveling during the Friday - Sunday holiday, we decided to go shopping.
I’m not a fan of watching TV but Tik’s been compaining that she doesn’t get a chance to follow Thai news anymore. She’s been keen to get a TV for a while and I wanted a Nintendo Wii for myself which needs the TV to play on.
After doing some comparison shopping and online research last Friday we settled on what we wanted and got ourselves a 40" Sony Bravia TV with DVD player and home theater sound (a little bit of overkill in our 100m2 apartment) and a US Wii with 10 games to get us started.
We haven’t got UBC TV installed, and we aren’t really sure if we want it. Tik can now watch the free Thai TV stations - although reception isn’t great.
We’re both really enjoying the Nintendo Wii though. It’s tiring and although my favorite games is probably Mario Kart, Tik’s spent most of her time with Wii Sports Golf and ‘Brain Train’. We had a friend over yesterday who really enjoyed playing it.
The Nintendo Wii’s quite a niche product in Thailand as the only versions available are imported Japanese or US versions. They also require you to have a large area to move around in if you’re going to make the most of it. We’re hosting another party next month and are looking forward to having our friends play a tournament with it.
We Will Rock You July 21, 2008
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Tik and I went to see ‘We Will Rock You’ last Thursday at the Muang Thai Rachadalai Theatre in Bangkok.
This was a live musical with the international traveling cast. The theater is, from what I understand, Thailand newest (and possibly only) proper theater and opened less than 12 months ago. It was clean, modern and very impressive, by both Thai and Western Standards.
There have been a number of big-name shows in Bangkok over the last 18 months including ‘West Side Story’ (regrettably missed that one), ‘Cats’ (glad not to have seen that) and now this.
‘We Will Rock You’ takes you through a well-staged display of famous Queen songs through a badly-written script by Ben Elton. Script aside, if you like Queen songs the show delivered over 2 hours of talented singing, ok dancing and some great staging and special effects.
Quite thoughtfully this live musical actually came with Thai subtitles that were displayed on 4 TV screens at the sides of the stage in realtime.
It ws sad that the theater was perhaps only one-third full. At over 1,000 for the cheapest seats this type of entertainment is just not practical for most Thai couples. If the theater realized that a live musical is a greater experience for the cast and audience if the seats are full then perhaps they could make efforts to reduce ticket prices and make shows accessible to the masses.
A write-up of ‘We Will Rock You’ can be found here.
My Business Blog July 17, 2008
Posted by Martin in : Business , add a commentI’m keeping my business affairs seperate from my personal blog for many reasons.
If you are following my progress and don’t see updates too often on this blog, its usually because work’s keeping me busy.
I’m finding that our True Potential Group Inc. Blog gets more more updates at the moment as I crack on with my empire building.
That said, it’s not all work, work work. I have a lot of updates to make on this site too but just need a bit of time to get to it.
Bang Krachao Park - “The Lungs of Bangkok” July 5, 2008
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When we have no plans for a weekend Tik and I enjoy getting out of the condo to get some fresh air.
We’ve visited the main parks in Bangkok but as we were both lamenting about how we’d like to find somewhere different we discovered a newspaper article about a park that’s only about 20 minutes drive from us. We decided to go there with our Friend David and his 2-year old daughter Jessica.
The park is close to the best floating market I’ve ever been to. We arrived there at about lunchtime yet it was not uncomfortably busy. The fresh food was great value, the area was clean and there was a lot of local crafts that we’d not seen anywhere else.
This was a big day for Jessica as she’d never left Anna for so long and she was very well behaved.
Whilst David and Jessica enjoyed the pedalo, Tik and I hired a bike and cycled round. We were delighted to find a 4-storey viewing platform where we could see our condo from.
Here is a link to The MyLife Article
New Blog Theme June 20, 2008
Posted by Martin in : Current Blog , add a commentWe have a new designer working with us right now.
He’s been working hard to help us redesign headers and graphics for us. Seeing as the old version of this site didn’t have a search feature and the theme was about 6 years old I decided to give it a bit of a spring-clean. I also felt a few photos of Tik wouldn’t go amiss seeing as we spend all our time together.
We’ve made a few changes to the design as we’ve gone along and I still have work to do with the link on the right but so far I think it’s a credible upgrade.