Thursday, December 14, 2006

Bah, humbug

Don't the Bangkok Thai's get peed-off at the creeping Christmas time invasion of Christianity into their lives?

As I walked along the skywalk between Siam and Chidlom yesterday I was almost deafened by Christmas songs being blared out of speakers every 25m along the way. Is this purely commercial marketing or a not too subtle attempt by the god-squad to infiltrate a Buddhist country on the sly?

Foodland, a 24-hr grocery chain, should also be sent to the court of the Thai Ministry of Culture (if they have one) - guilty of playing Christmas songs sung by a bunch of 5 year olds. I may have to stop buying groceries for the next few weeks just to avoid Class 3b's rendition of Frosty the Snowman.

And even worse, the rare Christmas puddings that were on the shelves a week ago can now only be bought as part of a Christmas hamper... Any Thai's reading who don't know what to do with that little red plastic tub hiding under the bottle of Jonnie Walker black can get in touch…

1 comment:

Ema said...

this is hillarious, yes Christmas is getting a bit on my nerves also! I nearly died by the extremely annoyingly slow Christmas tunes on Miami airport. When I was getting on the plane I was talking to one of the other passengers and he was going crazy because of them also and we were both happy to be boarding the plane and escaping this slow horror. well guess what inside we were greeted by even slower Christmas music, all we could do is laugh. Anyway we are in the UK, flying from Vancouver yesterday the flight was delayed 2 hours, then the luggage van got jammed into the plane and then just before take off a guy had a hearth attackso we had to drop him off. That is called fun on the road. lol