Reasons To Love Thailand

 

• Bangkok.
• The Bangkok Post.
• The Bangkok Skytrain.
• Buddhism.
• Buses that are so slow it would almost be quicker to walk
• Bus journeys in remote areas where you become the star of the show.
• Chiang Mai.
• Cheap, delicious, food available anywhere, anytime.
• Cheap, efficient public transport.
• Electrical wiring that would be subject to court orders anywhere else.
• Everything works, but only as much as it needs to.
• Hondas for everything.
• Inappropriate use of decorative lighting.
• Lipovitan M150.
• Traditional Thai Massage.
• Pickups for when the Hondas don’t cut it.
• People who smile, all of the time.
• Sanuk. The concept of having fun in everything you do, practiced as a national way of life.
• ‘Soon come’ is a legitimate measure of time.
• Thai telephone directories list people by their first name
• The country runs on a diet of sticky rice, chillis, whisky and cigarettes.
• The national inability to grasp the concept of room lighting.
• The Thai word for cat is “Miaow”
• The word ‘graceful” was invented purely to describe Thai women.
• Three people on a Honda.
• Uniforms. Everybody wants to have a uniform. The flashier the better.