THAI airways makes a joke

Is this only possible in Thailand?

I was complete stunned today when I took my afternoon flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. The airplane was brand new with good seats, personal screens, even an USB port. As I was enjoying my luxurious new seat I was studying the Thai Airways magazine and the inflight entertainment magazine. Next I examined the safety pamphlet in the seat in front of me. As usual it states that phones and electronic devices have to be turned off. On the pamphlet 3 phones are shown: a Iphone, a Blackberry and a Motorola.
As many of my friends have these phones I looked at them a bit closer. I could see that the brand name has been changed, which is quite normal, but the names given are very unusual.

The Iphone doesn't have a clearly definable name.
But the Motorola is called Wienorola and the Blackberry is called Crackberry.

Now maybe this is my Freud mind playing tricks on me but "wiener" and "crack" would be informal names given to respectively the male and female intimate parts.

I am sure the designer had a lot of fun, but I can not understand nobody noticed this before printing these pamphlets for the new THAI airways aircrafts. But once again maybe I am just seeing this that are not there ...

Anyway I had a good chuckle in the plane seeing this. Did anybody else noticed this sign before?

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Seychelles' Love trees

According to local legends on a night lit by a full moon in the archipelago of the Seychelles a thick mist is covering the jungle. In this thick sweet mist lovers are mating, interlocked in a mystic dance. These lovers are no humans but the old endemic palm trees on the Seychelles. At the climax of the mating dance palm leaves are intertwined and sweet flowers bloom in the air. This ritual will bring ensure the coming generations of the forest.

The palm tree mentioned in this legend is de "Coco de mer" or "Lodoicea Maldivica". The later name is a Latinised for of Louis, referring to King Louis XV. This palm tree is an endemic sort of the Seychelles and the coco de mer palm tree has separated male and female trees. Seeing the shape of the enormous  female coconut and the male catkin, which can grow up to 1 meter in length, it is not difficult to imagine numerous love myths being created about this tree.
The erotic curves of the fruit and flowers of the Coco de mer was enough to let general Charles George Gordon proclaim the Seychelles as the real Garden of Eden in the 19th century.

Nowadays most of the Seychelles are declared a UNESCO World Heritage and are well protected.

 

 

Female businesscards

Chinese hotels are always a big adventure. Is my booking made?, Will I get the room I booked?, Will there be a person speaking some English?, ...

Upper-class hotels (4 or 5 stars) will not have a lot of problems as the management is competent and the staff is well-trained. But staying in a 3-star Chinese hotel might give you some surprises. For example you are woken at night by the telephone and when you pick up some sweet voice asks you if you would like a massage. This is common procedure in those hotels as the staff tries to make some extra money and sells the information to which rooms single man are spending the night. Quite annoying if you came to a hotel to actually get some sleep.

In those hotels you will also find a lot of female business cards shoved under your door, for the same purpose as well. I took some pictures of them and I really wonder what does "Massge temnder care lighting your booy"?

Chinese actresses

Chinese cinema is a billion-yuan booming industry. Some great Chinese movies make it outside the Middle Kingdom as well. Some beautiful and talented actresses are emerging from China and make it in the West. Here is my personal top 5:


1. Zhang Ziyi (章子怡, 9 February 1979, Beijing)



Movies: The road Home - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, Rush Hour 2, TMNT, Memoirs of a Geisha, Horsemen, ...


2. Ling Bai (白灵, 10 October 1966, Chengdu)

Movies: The Crow, Nixon, Wild wild west, Anna and the King, Shaolin soccer, Taxi3, Crank: High Voltage, Magic Man, ...

http://ling-bai.blogspot.com/


3. Zhou Xun (周迅, 18 October 1976, Quzhou)



Movies: Suzhou River, Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress, Perhaps Love, The Banquet, The equation of love and death, The message, Confucius, ...


4. Wei Zhao (赵薇, 12 March 1976, Wuhu)



Movies: Shaolin Soccer, Chinese Odyssey 2002, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Red Cliff 1, Red Cliff 2, Mulan, ...


5. Fan Bingbing (范冰冰, 16 September 1981, Qingdao)



Movies: A battle of wits, Shinjuku incident, Sophie's revenge, Bodyguards and Assassins, Shaolin, ...

P.s. Hong Kong and American born actresses are not counted in. No Lucy Liu, Maggie Cheung or Michelle Yeoh.

Penthouse party

At the end of June Nok and I were invited to a special party in Bangkok.

One of Nok's close friends is working for the Thai edition of the famous magazine PENTHOUSE.

So we arrived at the party a bit after 19.00 (as in Thailand discotheques have to close at 01.00).

The party was held at Inch discotheque on Ratchadaphiset.

We arrived in the pouring and dried ourselves at the free bar while enjoying some drinks.

The attending crowd was mainly male. And coinsidence or not they all were armed with a big camera, I suppose most of them were professional photographers.

But of course we should speak about the ladies. 12 Thai beauties were parading the whole night in different acts and in different outfits. Some games were organized on stage. Putting condoms over bananas is a classic one, which I brilliantly won!

The crowd got some penthouse stickers and as the ladies walked by, every person could choose to put a sticker on. At the end of the night the lady with the most stickers won.

Better include some pictures!

New Olympic Sport?

Pole Dancing schools are the newest fashion in China.

As I reviewed in an earlier post, young women love to show off their new moves when going out. But joining a pole dancing school is also a way of daily training and some even do it to excell and to be able to work in night clubs for a good salary.

The pictures here are taken in Hefei, Anhui province in a dance school which opened 2 months ago.