What’s Up in Bangkok?

St Regis Hotel is up and coming sitting next to The Four Seasons just a few steps to Rachadamri BTS station. Last week in Bangkok was tired. Caught a mild flu and with limited ability to taste and smell, the local Thai food are still outstanding and all out for it. Had a good conversational time with good friend Steven WB, changing notes on the on-going bad market impact on the resort industry. Tea was superb at The Four Seasons.

Captured with Kerkythea. Impressive, fast and free.

Old brother P Nui surprisingly finished a good and very tamed design for the office at Chiangmai. Worked pretty well with SketchUp and rendered to realistic output through Pov-ray. If you ever heard of Kerkythea, you will get an impressive night scene rendering  as realistic as those seen in Soi Cowboy! Fast and easy with Kerkythea.

Tana Champ, long time friend, came to meet me like his usual self. Clean cut as ever and heard him breezing into the hotel lobby with his Merc and always late at night. Had our favourite ‘Phak Kra Phao Moo’. Never get tired eating this spicy dish. With limited taste (taste buds partly destroyed from radiation therapy), I managed to enjoy this piece of fantastic meal out of past memory. ‘Aroy mak mak”.  Working on one hotel bronze logo with Tana and discussing the prices of copper that had being going up and down like roller coaster.

At Nakorn Chaisi, the remarkable lady whom that I met 10 years ago is going strong as ever. Always busy and flow of visitors never seems to end. She owns the biggest garden and art retail outlet. She travels the world for art pieces. Ask Mrs Keaw if you want to know more about garden art and accessories trading through this region. Japan, China, Turkey, Russia, Europe, India, Indonesia? Here at Nakorn Chaisi, a small restaurant serves fantastic roast duck soup but if you are more adventurous, try the riverside restaurant. Giant gouramy, giant freshwater prawn, tom yam, thod mun and lots more of heavely made food you do not wish to miss!

In between meeting times of sunrise and sunset and alone, I managed to browse a few good books like ‘The Reader’ for me and ‘Twlight’ for my daughter. Unfortunately, wasted 120 minutes and Bht180 stucked in a chilly theatre watching ‘Underworld 3′. A tasteless, colourless mono graphic movie with entirely no imagination. Go for ‘The Reader’ and be adult enough.

Welcome to Bangkok alone. Heard of Soi Nana? Don’t!

Announcement: ARCH2009 in Bangkok from 29th Apr to 3rdMay. An event for architects, developers, students….anyone. I’ll be in Bangkok the same time to present my work at the Symposium entitled: “Expressing with Water, the Bali Experience.” So..anyone hopping along?