The first post went up on this site on the 6th of September. Twenty-eight days and 31 posts later, we have just passed 10,000 hits on the site.
And we haven’t really begun yet.
The heart and soul of RAWBangkok is Penfold who is still enjoying the crisp Autumn air of the old country while I try to hold down the fort here in Bangkok. But in the spirit that Penfold would, I’m sure, endorse, we are having a quiet celebration here to mark this milestone, which we hope will be the first of many.
So, charge your glasses and be upstanding… here’s to ten thousan tits… er… ten thousand hits!
The headline across the top of today’s Bangkok Post — along with a couple of photos — was compelling.
“Chuwit’s Fists of Fury” was the banner headline, along with a picture of one of the candidates for the position of Mayor of Bangkok, Chuwit Kamolvisit.
It seems that K. Chuwit was interviewed on TV yesterday, and when the interview was finished, he was so angry at the interviewer that he beat him up.
In the 76 years since constitutional monarchy was adopted in 1932, Thailand has had altogether 18 constitutions and interim charters. The best constitution ever framed, the so-called People’s Constitution which came into force in 1997, lasted only nine years before it was torn up by the military in a bloodless coup on Sept 19, 2006.
The government is now attempting to set the wheels in motion to draft yet another new constitution for Thailand, a process that will take quite some time. The aim is, in part, to de-polarize the situation here, but of course it’s possible that it may have the opposite effect.
