Here’s wishing everyone a merry Christmas and happy 2008. I’ve not updated my blog for a while because I’ve been out of Singapore for a week, doing some mad shopping in Bangkok.

It was interesting to be in Bangkok during their elections time and my observation is that nobody really seemed to care about the election. I would think that after being ruled by the military for a year, the Thai people should be quite enthusiastic about the return of democracy. However, people seemed more interested in their livelihood than democracy. The campaigning wasn’t much too. I only saw 3 candidates on top of a pickup the day before the election. I never saw the other 20+ candidates at all.

Anyway, I would recommend that if you are going to do bargain shopping in Bangkok, you can just stay in the Pratunam area. I used to frequent Chatuchak weekend market and last trip, I went down to Sampeng market in Chinatown. These two places are open air and you can really die of heatstroke. However, there are several air conditioned malls in the Pratunam area that offer cheap shopping in comfort. Check out Platinum Shopping Centre, Indra Square, Pratunam Centre and City Complex. If you can stand an hour of heat, Pratunam market and the area near the Baiyoke Sky Hotel are worth checking out too. Of course, there’s always the reliable MBK Shopping Centre, as well Siam Square to check out too.

I just read Mr Wang’s post on his blog being classified as national treasure archive. I got the same letter as well. I wonder how many other bloggers received the letter. It would be interesting to hazard a guess on NLB’s selection criteria.