KARAOKE KORNER : Positively
in love
I have to admit that the first time I saw Daniel Kublbock's "You
Drive Me Crazy" music video, I had to do a double take.
I wasn't sure if the singer was male or female. Long wispy hair and
full red lips made it impossible to tell from a distance. A closer
look revealed that Germany's latest star, Daniel K, was in fact male
� especially the scene where he is running around naked!
Amazing APEC
It's hard not to notice that Thailand will be hosting the APEC summit
in October. Information about the event is on the TV, in the newspapers,
on billboards and even on the Skytrain.
Easy exercise : Fighting
for a chance to learn
Joh, 14, had a very simple dream: He wanted to go to school like other
children. But like countless other children of immigrant workers without
official papers, the boy knew his dream was not likely to come true.
Conversation : It's
a dog's life.....
Last week, city officials rounded up hundreds of dogs from city streets
in the Rattanakosin island area just before the APEC summit next month.
Jack and Jill talk about the sudden disappearance of stray dogs around
the area.
Education news : Enroling
for exams
The Cabinet recently approved the Education Ministry's formula for
a single entrance test, to be known as the national test, which will
be used for students applying to 24 state universities in 2006.
University Entrance Examination Tips : Ghosts,
grammar and weird words
The following news item was printed in the Bangkok Post on
August 8, 2003. The subject of the story would make a good afternoon
soap opera. It is a fascinating story containing lots of interesting
events. But the way that news stories are written is not like telling
a bedtime story � the order is different. The event that the writer
considers the most important is usually presented first. That event
can often be the result of all that happened previously.
