Shiny Bangkok
April 1st 2007 One of the things I love about Thailand is that all their important buildings are shiny. The gold ornaments, mirror mosaics, and glazed glasses add color & shine to the buildings, rendering a structure that in the west would be pompous and heavy with its own importance, rather happy, childlike, and cheery. Indeed it is as if the creators' every whimsy was indulged. "Let's put broken plates in the
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