What’s Happening?
Now – 9th February BOUND FOR GLORY: AMERICAN IN COLOUR @ 2nd floor, Northern Village, Central Plaza Chiang Mai Airport 053 999 199 ext. 1300-8 Featuring black & white and colour photos hosted by the US Consul General to mark the post recession years of the US and its economic renewal and innovation from 1935-44. Now – 17th February ASTRONOMY PHOTO EXHIBITION @ Chiang Mai City Art Center (behin … Continued
City Buzz
A new pearl has been added to Chiang Mai’s party scene. Club 54 is a hip, multi-facetted, cooler than school night club situated near Airport Plaza. It welcomes party_goers of all ages above 18, races and sexual preferences (gay friendly but not exclusive). Club 54 does not have one musical style but plays hip hop, pop, house, etc. from both international and Thai artists. A live band also rocks t … Continued
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. The Farangutans took a break over the New Year and didn’t play many matches. Their only game came against Lanna International School and was a tight affair all the way. Lanna went ahead within a few minutes with a beautiful shot by … Continued
Community Service
• 01 Informal Northern Thai Group Tuesday, February 9: ‘Stop Global Warming – New Strategies’ – A talk by Michael Tuckson. For more information please call 053 117 319. • 02 Care for Dogs – Dog of the Month – Zoe Zoe was living at Chiang Mai University when we picked her up. She was pregnant and has subsequently had 3 beautiful healthy pups. She is a lovely, calm girl in need of a loving home fore … Continued
A Retring Attitude
For those of you thinking of setting up a modern communications system, here are some of the options you have for staying in touch with the goings on back home and for keeping connected. Cell phones Go to any shopping mall and you will find dozens of cell phone shops. Simply buy a phone and then buy a card with minutes. Satellite TV If you occasionally need a TV fix then you have the option of sat … 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. What is the chief occupation of the Thais? Hugh: I am told, agriculture 38.9%,For those of you with … Continued
Book Review
Though Chiang Rai city really is nothing to write home about, Chiang Rai Province is an unsung region with a bountiful number of attractions for visitors: historical temples, rich ethnic diversity, lush national parks, quirky artists, five star hotels, and its fascinating proximity to neighbouring Burma, Laos and China. Chiang Rai’s very first coffee-table book has recently been published, featuri … Continued
Chiang Mai on The WWW
One of Chiang Mai’s best kept secrets is out. Shoe lovers (and who isn’t one?) can go crazy with Ballet, a long-established business, first in Bangkok and then Chiang Mai, since 1959, which hand makes exquisitely designed and even better yet, butter-soft comfortable shoes for women. Check out their website for their latest designs, though the site is still new and the owners have yet to upl … Continued
City Vibes
Artist: 50 Cent Album: Before I Self Destruct Rating: Before 50 Cent self destructs, he has bestowed upon us this unpretentious, sublime and spiritual collection of beautifully arranged and sumptuously lyrical odes to the tribulations of existence. One’s ear is simply delighted to engage with the delicate harps and flutes of ‘Bitch I’m Sorry’, whilst the poignant metaphors and moving epithets of ‘ … Continued
Your Say
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. • Solutions, solutions After reading the Chiang Mai tourism article a number of things come t … Continued
Valentine Special & Promotions
Le Coq d’Or Restaurant Valentine’s Dinner Menu Seafood au gratin, terrine of duck liver with caramelised pecan nuts, grape chutney and organic micro salad, double boiled beef consommé with truffle raviolis, strawberry sherbet, steamed yellow tail, boiled potatoes and light saffron sauce or roasted pigeon served with black truffle sauce or U.S. tenderloin stuffing porcini mushroom sauce served with … Continued
Keys to Marital Blies
Love, sex and marriage; individually, each word is fine but when combined, the three often seem to be mutually exclusive. I can think about love and the wonderful feelings it generates and one can be in love without having sex or being married. I can think about sex and in fact do so quite often. In fact I did just then. And then. I don’t have to be in love or married to have sex but it is possibl … Continued
Love in the Time of Kitty
Once Love Is The meaning of love has never been an easy nut to crack. Plato waxes philosophical on the matter and tells us there is something absolute, something brilliant, inspiring and pure that two people can mutually feel. Needless to say his treatise on love has been misinterpreted by most modern folk; we tend to think Platonic love means, simply, not having sex. The origins of platonic love … Continued
Until Death Do Us Part
“Women . . . you can’t live with ’em,” he pauses for a moment, looks down at his shoes pensively, then back at the camera and adds, “can yer.” A comic moment from the mouth of Paul Calf, one of British comedian Steve Coogan’s many characters. The scene might work just as well if one of Coogan’s female characters, Pauline Calf, had said the same about men. Statistics point out that in many countrie … Continued
Love in the City
Hundreds of venues for all price points and palettes to take your girlfriend/gik/lover/huband/date on Valentine’s Day, so Citylife has picked just a handful of as yet unreviewed places to give you an idea of what is out there. For more ideas check out our Valentine’s special Charcoa Mood: Adorably quaint little guesthouse, reminiscent of rustic European villas, in the old city with a petite … Continued
Editorial
Love, Sex, Marriage. I would like to think that I am pretty well versed in all three topics of this month’s issue, but since any form of expertise in the first seems pretentiously guruish, excessive knowledge in the second will simply paint me scarlet (blush blush) and as I have just entered my seventh year of marriage, I would rather not jinx it with any smug-marriedness, so let’s look at all thr … Continued
Tom and Dot Delaney: 56 years and counting
This portly pair can often be spotted ambling along Nimmanhaemin Road, hands clasped firmly together, heads bent towards each other in conversation. He, gentleman that he is, walks on the road-side of the pavement, instinctively protecting his wife from any possible harm. She, impeccably accessorised at all times, is always dressed in loose brightly-coloured dresses of her own design. To the outsi … Continued
Swallowed by the Green Giant
You don’t need to drive far from Chiang Mai city to be pulled out from underneath your urban blanket of civilised security and propelled into the un- or at least little-explored northern jungles. During the high season, when our city’s inhabitants hit the streets in their best winter woolies carrying balloons, snacks-on-sticks, and wide smiles, I decided it was time to be reunited with the inner a … Continued
My Life as a Gik
When I first came to Thailand some months ago, I made a big effort to learn some rudimentary Thai. I tried to memorise the more important words for food, drinks, how much…you know, the usual. I kept coming across one word time and again, both at work and at play, and for the life of me couldn’t quite pin down an exact translation: the word was ‘gik’. I have since been told that this is a fairly ne … Continued