City Sport
This is the Chiang Mai community sports page. Please feel free to send your sports news, results and any announcements you wish to make to james@chiangmaicitylife.com. There has been only one game of late for the Farangutans and they played each other. It seems there is a distinct lack of teams wanting to play the foreigners, if anyone reads this report and they know of a team who might play the F … Continued
What’s Happening?
• ART & EXHIBITIONS Now – 19th January CHIANG SAEN POWER OF FAITH @ Taiyuan Art Gallery Chiang Rai 053 712 137, 089 631 9438 Contemporary art exhibition themed ‘Chiang Saen Power of Faith’ by Chanon Panchasri. Open daily 10 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. closed on Mondays. 9th-31st December SOMPONG 2010, DADDY’S HOME @ 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio, Chiang Rai 053 719 110, 083 152 6021 artgallery9@yahoo. … Continued
Dok Kaew Gardens: Chiang Mai’s first retirement home for expats and Thais
Dok Kaew Gardens, located in the vast 350 rai of McKean hospital’s grounds, opened its doors just two months ago. What is unique about Dok Kaew is that it is a retirement home aimed at both expats and Thais. While many Thais are fortunate to be taken care of by their relatives in their twilight years, this age-old tradition is waning, and many elderly Thais are finding themselves alone and at a lo … Continued
Community Service
01 Informal Northern Thai Group Tuesday, January 12th: ‘Dharma as Man’: A Myth of Jesus in Buddhist Lands – A book talk and presentation by Professor Lindsay Falvey. For more information please call 053 117 319. 02 Chiang Mai Friends Group The next meeting will be a celebration of the group’s second anniversary on January 22. A ‘Pot Luck’ evening is planned, though suggestions and ideas for this v … Continued
A Fishy Feast
No, this is not a guide to Chiang Mai’s greatest seafood restaurants; in fact, in a karmaesque manner the fish are the ones doing the feasting…on us. We have seen some fads here in Chiang Mai, from milk bars to spas. Well the latest fad is – let’s say it together, we all know what it is – fish spas! In October, Fish Actually opened shop at @Tawan Trendy Mall immediately becoming a recession-defyin … Continued
Out of The World: a trip to Solaris – and what happened on the way there
Once a week I get on my Honda and bomb down the Airport Road to Palm Springs Lodge. It’s a ten-minute drive and better than twenty kilometres from where I live at the foot of Doi Suthep. And on the way out, I’m telling you, once beyond the lights at the Airport Plaza crossing, it’s not so much ‘chocks away’ as ‘we have lift-off, Houston’. You just wind the accelerator back, watch out for slower mo … Continued
And How Would You Like Your Elephant Sir?
Happy New Year! I hope that you all have your resolutions in place ready to make you a better person during the course of the coming months? I am sure that the Daring household is just the same as many others with the usual resolutions being made and discussed. No more drinking during the week. Get up early each morning and do half an hour of exercise. No more fatty foods. No smokes. Get plenty of … Continued
City Buzz
Rustica offers a short but sweet menu with a selection of pizzas, wine and beers. They serve some unique toppings such as ‘The Rustica’ which is a combination of premium pepperoni, artichoke hearts and crushed garlic, and the local sausage (sai-ua) and mashed potato pizza as well as more traditional toppings such as the veggie pizza featuring olives, sun-dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts. … Continued
A Retiring Attitude
This is a paraphrase of a line from an email I recently received from a friend who has been retired here for about 2 years, “My emails back home end up being a one-way only communication. I seldom get more than a few quick lines back.” Well, welcome to the club. Anyone who has lived abroad, even for a short period, has lots of stories to tell. You will soon become familiar with a certain syndrome. … Continued
Creating a Better Chiang Mai
The special initiative from The Thai Health Promotion Foundation in Bangkok ‘Our Better Chiang Mai’, commencing January 1st, aims to improve Chiang Mai and make it an ideal province and an inspirational icon to other provinces. Through the participation of the community, the objective is to reduce garbage in the city by 30% and change residents’ habit of releasing waste into the canal, the moat an … Continued
City Vibes
Artist: Various Album: Five Years of Hyperdub Rating: What is it about Dubstep that makes it one of the most exciting and dynamic sub-genres to emerge out of the British dance underground? The dystopian grooves and mismatched beats are truly a product of tense urban dissatisfaction and fevered experimentalism that have been the hallmarks of the most successful dance organisms to emerge in the 21st … Continued
Your Say
[right]Your say is an open forum for you the reader to express your opinions. Write to: editor@chiangmaicitylife.com, subject: Your say. Letters can be on any subject and priority will be given to letters under 200 words. Letters may be edited for clarity or conciseness. Name and contact details must be supplied.[/right] [right][/right] • Street Fighting What I don’t understand is why the people o … Continued
This is Thailand
For those of you with any questions regarding Thailand, Thai culture, history, tourism, laws, rules, food, nightlife, sub-cultures, dating; generally anything as long as it is relevant, we have a panel of three experts who will respond to your enquiries. Email: james@chiangmaicitylife.com. 1. I have been here a while but I’m still not really sure about the things I can bargain for. I don’t want to … Continued
Editorial
This time a decade ago I was busily saving our magazine’s two computers’ data onto a pile of floppy disks, in fear of the impending Y2K which was predicted to send airplanes plummeting from the skies and bank account details lost and scrambled in cyber space (though, frankly, for me, this was less a concern than a fantasy, since I had nothing in my account at the time, I had visions of my bank acc … Continued
Chiang Mai’s Tourism Odyssey
It’s a New Year, and a new decade, so it is perhaps a good time to take a look both backwards and forwards at one of Chiang Mai’s biggest industries, tourism, which has received a battering in the last couple of years caused by a number of compounding factors. According to experts on the matter, we are going to have to seriously re-evaluate our approach, practice and marketing if we plan to become … Continued
Talking Stroll Down the Promenada: Chiang Mai to get classy mall in 2011
There’s no doubt that Thailand loves its malls, just look where all the traffic is heading on the weekends. In Pied Piper-esque fashion, cars line up one by one following the trail of the music issuing from our malls . . . who could blame us, it’s damn hot outside. Mallers (that’s a neologism) will be pleased to know Chiang Mai will soon be home to very different kind of mall, a “totally different … Continued
Inside the Creative Kingdom bringing Hollywood to Chiang Mai
Creative Kingdom, an international company whose diverse portfolio consists of architectural and master planning design, 2D/3D cartoon animation, CGI 3D architectural video animation, music production and more, has plans to change not just the geographical landscape, but the economic, of Chiang Mai. Their office in Chiang Mai, the biggest of seven – Dubai, L.A., Beijing, Manila, Johannesburg and B … Continued