Thailand - twice in Bangkok
I was in Bangkok last year late October and this year early April. The 2nd time, I finally got to see a bit of Bangkok and partied a bit. I went to the Grand Palace which was MASSIVE. I don't have much clue about Buddhism (though I am reading about Zen buddism and practicing sitting meditation) and who spread it to Thailand, etc. The palace was very luxury yet peaceful to be. I can see how Thai people are influenced by Buddhism with the way they approach their life. Even how they protest against their prime minister! ;-) It wasn't violent but quite hilarious.
Clubs! I can imagine Bangkok has the best clubs when I was chairing the conference last year in Oct. Those kids were all 'dancing queens' doing 'dirty dancing'. I went to this fancy club for Christina (a Taiwanese girl working as VPER 0506 in Thailand)'s birthday. There were 3 boys and 1 girls singing a lot of clubbing songs like a mini concert. A huge cloud of celebrities were at our back. I came out of the club exhausted and half drunk, seeing a huge elephant in the middle of the street. Hehe...Is this a modern picture of Bangkok?
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Glad to see you might prove me wrong! :)
Let me know if you want some info about Buddhism's influence on daily life in Thailand, one of my subjects last year focussed on it!
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