Monday 20 October 2008

20th October, 2008

Today's weather;

It's blue and sunny right now with beautiful massive white clouds at the horizon. Current temp at 7 am is 26.3C.

Yesterday started nice but early in the morning there was rain and strong winds, the afternoon had warm and sunny weather but during the evening and night there was rain again. It seems the amount of rain is slowly increasing and the rainy season is knocking on the Samui door. Max temp reached 31C.

Tomorrow is the big day, politically. The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Holders is scheduled to deliver its verdict on the Ratchadaphisek land case against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Khunying Pojaman and more political confrontation after Ratchadaphisek case is likely: academics. The situation is explained very well in the article mentioned.

On a day to day base, there was a peaceful public confrontation between embattled Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat yesterday who had an awkward moment with General Anupong Paochinda, the powerful army chief, who publicly called for the premier's resignation last Thursday.

For the first time in a long while, the Democrats seem to be heading the popularity polls; Gan in support for Democrats. In my opinion, this could be a move that could end the stalemate, the Democrats in power.

Camille

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Camille,
Just interested in your opinion about length of stay and things to do in Thailand. I was planning to fly in and stay in Ko Samui for two nights from this Tuesday and fly out Friday morning to Phuket as the planes don't fly weekends. But should I stay through till Monday? As I only have 10 days in total in Thailand what would you suggest?
Cheers,
David

Camille Lemmens said...

Hi David,

Don't know why you think that planes between Samui and Phuket don't fly during the weekend, maybe time to check out Bangkok Airways' website.

It totally depends what you're looking before you decide where to go, in general two days is short anywhere you go in the world.