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...even have to leave Bangkok for some choice courses. You can stay downtown, and play downtown, if you're invited by a member of the Bangkok Sports Club?a 3-iron from the Rajadamri skytrain station between Siam Square shopping centers and Silom office towers. Some golfers never leave the airport area. Hole one of the Kantarat, the Thai air-force course, stretches between runways. It used to be open to anyone, but since the November 2002 attempted rocket attack on a plane in Kenya, the runway links have been closed to nonmembers to keep terrorists from pulling a surface...
...officials in charge of the destruction of the opium paraphernalia kept the most beautiful pipes they confiscated in 1959," explains Charles Mehl, a former Peace Corps volunteer and longtime resident of Thailand. (Mehl is head of research at the new museum, which was designed by Thai interior design firm Siam Studio.) These pipes are part of the museum's collection, including one fashioned from the gnarled wood of the Thai phrik khi nu chili bush, which was said to impart a spicy flavor to the opium smoke. Also on exhibition are dozens of pipe bowls, the bulbous feature that sets...
TREASURES OF SIAM. Get a taste of culture at the Harvard-MIT Thai Cultural show. Traditional dances, music ensembles and skits of ceremonies will be performed. For those motivated more by testosterone or dining-hall angst, keep in mind the martial arts exhibition and the after-show reception with Pad Thai and Thai Iced Tea. Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $12, $8 students, available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between Asian hotspots, touching down in Tokyo to reboot on new DAT technology and reload on yen and then blasting off again for the white label Gulf of Siam islands or Arabian Sea coast...
...Kaeo Sutharam show a Westerner (an early Jesuit missionary most likely) attending an ancient Buddhist ceremony. That may be the only Western face you see in Phetchaburi these days. Which is strange, considering that in its heyday, the hilltop palace complex was the hip place to swing in old Siam. Now, only the monkeys...