I love the seeing the english versions of thai words...there is something very satisfying about how certain sounds are produced in the mouth. I had many one on one lessons where sometimes we would spend an hour of just perfecting one sound. It can be hard to explain how your mouth is working, or see how someone elses…

Omg I’ve been pronouncing it incorrectly for 15 years and we lived there, in Chon Buri province! I’m officially mortified. I want my money back... Thai lessons pfffft!

My husband’s office was in Sri Racha, not far from that hell hole aka Pattaya. We pronounce it

Yes...this was no accident!

I’m not so sure , being part of a system to lie to new mothers and steal their babies seems to me something that might involve more than a couple of individuals inside and outside of the hospital, some of whom may have been wrestling with this on their conscience. This has happened in other countries and no matter how…

* shoddy

Imagine what it must be like to be treated like this by police all of the time. Except more rudely.

The money is for Suri. She is housed, clothed, schooled, fed, etc. from that $400,000 per year. There are probably security and legal costs too. Katie Holmes did not get a settlement in the divorce and has been working quite consistently since the divorce. She could support Suri herself at a lot less but Suri's father…

My US high schooler will be going to Australia to do her undergraduate studies. Her SAT and AP results will be converted to give her a ranking alongside her Australian 17 year old peers. Minimum University entrance requirments are the equivalent of the Australian Year 12 english and mathematics. This means Calculus…

We used to dine with a couple , he from the midwest, she from England. I could not understand how she didn't jump across the table and stab him over the way he handled his cutlery. It took me a long time to let go of this gut reaction to a perception of basically no manners ( not just bad manners) because that was…

i'm definitely a 5 too...but I'll take that as being the correct way for me as I am of chinese background. Japanese chopsticks seem so....pointy, stabby but pretty!

the top two ends of a set of chopsticks?

My MIL passed away a few months ago. Our children and I could not go home, the other side of the world, to say our goodbyes. My husband did the viewing. He said that she looked really lovely and A part of me wishes he had taken a photo for our kids to remember her by and to help with the processing the reality. He was…