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Tata Young, the singer?

And below are some names that I know from the thai-blogs.com from 2005. I have also added link to the entire blog... The introductory text is from the blog itself... not mine!!

Prince Mahidol Adulyadej - does that last name sound familiar? Although he never became king, he gave not one, but two kings to the Thai nation. Prince Mahidol is also regarded as the father of modern medicine and public health in Thailand. You'll see why, if you read his fascinating life story.

The history of the native cats of Siam, including the Siamese and the Korat, is recorded in the "Cat-Book Poems", which contains several illustrations, and describes seventeen cats that are considered lucky – and also some unlucky ones. The original work was rescued from the Siamese city of Ayutthaya when it was destroyed by Burmese invaders in 1767. His Majesty King Rama V commissioned a high-ranking monk, who copied some of the cat paintings on to a special papyrus called khoi paper and this smud khoi book can still be seen today in Bangkok's National Museum. One illustration, a white-haired variety with black tail, feet and ears, resembles the modern Siamese. Another one is a blue cat, quite possibly the ancestor of the Korat.


Sunthorn Phu was born in the fifth year of the reign of King Rama I. His father was a native of Muang Klaeng, a township in the province of Rayong, but his married life was spent in Bangkok. Soon after young Phu was born, his parents divorced. His mother married again and later became the wet-nurse of a princess in the royal palace. Like the youth of his time, the future poet received standard education in a monastry now known as Wat Sri Sudaram, situated at Klong Bangkok Noi. Leaving school, he obtained the post of a clerk in the government service. But the only work that was congenial to him was the writing of verse. In this he was adept even as a mere boy. Before he came of age, he wrote a long poem based on the story of Khobutra which, however, was left unfinished. Nevertheless, the work showed promise of a genius that was later to attain full development

Thai Lady boys.

Thailand here has many-a glorious site to feast ones eyes on, besides just a million temples, two million taxis and three million noodle soup stalls we have the one and only 'Thai ladyboy'. I had decided to stay away from such sordid topic til our cute little regular-commenteer friend from Indonesia here put in the query of 'Can Richard or Steve write a blog on lady boys? - i just wanna know all the ins-and-outs about such a fine species'. Well, since our Webmasting friend Mr Richard is busy blogging to the likes of every Thai custom and superstition under the sun, Koh Changs's gruesome garbage piles and how to be a respected teacher in Thailand, its me instead who has had to put pen to paper and give yous all a behind the scenes adventure into the goings-on of that.... lusty Thai ladyboy.