More Thai Ways
Denis Segaller

A sequel to the best-selling Thai Ways, the book is a collection of the author's columns in the former Bangkok World newspaper. It covers a host of subjects from ceremonies, customs, to Thai language, legendary animals, shedding light into the fascinating background of the Thai ways of life.

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After Thai Ways here's more insights into Thai culture and tradition. This book is set out the same as the previous one with Chapters and subsections as follows.

1. Royalty and Nobility
Founder of a Dynasty
Chulalongkorn: The beloved and great king.
When a Royal baby "comes of age"
The "Chula" graduation ceremon: a ballet without music
The house at the end of the slope

2. Ceremonies
Dhevo-Rohana- A northern alms-giving ceremony
When Jiap became a monk
Lo Ching Cha - the Giant Swing ceremony

3. Customs
Ratana-tri - The triple Gem
The monkhood in Thailand
Close cropped hair and betel chewing
Songkram in the old days
How dates are reckoned
Magic from the mouth ot the pot
Cloth design and weaving in north east Thailand
Gift-Wrapping

4. Language
Thai-English "Word-pairs"
"Romanising" Thai names
Teaching English
Learning Thai
Bridging the communication gap
Idioms and accents
Poetic and evocative words
How to be a good wife

5. Some Fruits and Flowers
Durian: endurable or unendurable
Rambutans: The "hairy-tale" fruit
G(r)owing bananas

6. Legends
An episode from the Ramakien: Torapa and Torapee
The legend of Phraphum Chaotee
Sang Thong, Prince of the Golden Conch Shell
Axe-identally

7. Thai Drama and Dance
The "Khon"
Relationships between different drama forms

8. Odds and Ends
A tale of "bpeeb"
A story of grit and determination
When "Toang" was a novice
Our eclipse
On being pregnant
A Christmas past
"Kamoy!"
A talented little girl
An Idyllic holiday
Khrue Prateep
From pinewood studios to Phang-nga Bay
Out and about
Teaching Film making at "Chula"
Some Thai ways at home
Wat Pomaen: Thailands biggest Chinese Buddhist temple
A Thai miscellany


I've just re-read the section on pregnancy and here are a few interesting snippets.

When pregnant a women should not harbour any feelings of resentment or hate about someone lest her child be born with the same charateristics of the person who is hated or resented.

A shopkeeper will consider it good luck to serve a pregnant lady as his first customer of the day.

Apparently up country when a baby is born they bury the afterbirth under a tree, the type of tree depending on which year in the 12 year cycle the mother was born. I asked Pupay about this one, she'd heard of it being done but says it is not practiced so much nowadays as most babies are born in hospital .

As before a very interesting and highly recomended
book.