Archive for January, 2010

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Top Awards 2009 winners

Ken got two awards Best Actor in Film and Lakorn, it was a big year for him. His wifey must be proud.

WINNERS
Top Lakorn-”Jaew Jai Rai Gub Khun Chai Taewada”
TOP ACTOR (Lakorn)-Ken Theeradeth for “Soot Sanaeha (A recipe for Love)”
TOP ACTRESS (Lakorn)-Anne Thongprasom for “Soot Sanaeha (A recipe for Love)”
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE ACTRESS (Lakorn)- “Cheer” Tikumporn Ritthapinan for “Checkmate”
BEST SUPPORTING MALE ACTOR (Lakorn)-Pongpat Wachirabunjong for “Prajun See Roong (Rainbow Moon)”
BEST RISING STAR ACTOR (lakorn)-Pachara “Fluke” Thammon for “Tomorrow, I’ll still love you”
BEST RISING STAR ACTRESS (Lakorn)- Tarn Kanya for “Mia Luang”
BEST DIRECTOR (LAKORN)-Teerapon Jiewcharoen for “Jaew Jai Rai Gub Khun Chai Taewada”
BEST NEWS REPORTER-Narakorn Tiyayon
BEST TV HOST-Panya Nirankul
BEST VARIETY/TALK SHOW-Talat Sot Sanam Pao
BEST GAME SHOW-Ching Roi Ching Lan
TOP SINGERS (GROUP)-Golf & Mike – GMM
TOP SINGER (SOLO)-Bie Sukrit
BEST RISING STAR ACTOR (FILM)-’Kao’ Jirayu La-ongmanee for Prang 5 (5 Phobias)
BEST RISING STAR ACTRESS (FILM)-”Pat” Angsumalin Siripattarasak for Bangkok Traffice Love Story
TOP DIRECTOR-Adisorn Trisirikasem for Bangkok Traffic Love Story
TOP FILM-Bangkok Traffic Love Story
TOP ACTOR (FILM)-Ken Theeradeth-for Bangkok Traffice Love Story
TOP ACTRESS (FILM)-Marsha Wattanapanich for Prang 5 (5 Phobias)

Compare the results from last year here,

Pictures from the event from various sources.

Pinky Savika; Jui and boyfriend New

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Mr. Nine or Mr. Knapsack?

“Pae” Arak Amornsuppasiri (Mr. Knapsack) takes the cover of Hamburger magazine for their January 2010 issue and ‘Kao’ Jirayu La-ongmanee (Mr.Nine) has an interview feature for the issue. So who looks ‘cooler’, the 14 year old Mr. Nine with his prepubescent peach fuzz or the 25 year old Mr. Knapsack with his hair greased back and dressed in 1950s Greaser black attire?

Personally, Kao gets my vote. Pae seems like he is trying to hard.

More pictures here. If you hate Pae, I wouldn’t recommend clicking the link.

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Pictures from the 7th annual Kom Chad Luek awards

Pictures from the 7th annual Kom Chad Luek newspaper awards, you can see the complete winners list here or at Dirtii. The above picture from Bie Sukrit’s fanclub is of the winner circle: Bie was voted most popular actor, Pae Arak is up there because his lakorn with Aum “Jaew, Jai Rai Gub Khun Chai Taewada” was voted most popular lakorn, “Aum” Patcharapa Chaichuea was voted most popular actress. I don’t know how this happened, “Tui” Kiatkamol Latha was voted the Nation’s Popular Actor again for the 3rd year straight. If you can see him, “Ruj” Suparuj Taychathanon is standing behind Kob Suvanant, he was voted the most popular singer.

Chai and his girlfriend Vicky.

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How much does Pancake make per year?

More than all of us.

My guess is 13.5-14 million baht ($409,672-$425,022 USD), considering she has to pay up 5 million baht in income tax. The income tax for individuals who make more than 4 million baht ($121,304 USD) and up in Thailand is 37%. Not too shabby when the average national income for Thais with an undergraduate degree is 84,000-108,000 baht ($2,548-$3,276 USD) per year according to wikianswer OR $7,000-8,000 USD according to other sources.

With her taxes paid, she would get to keep 8.5-9 million baht ($257,771-$272,934 USD).

Of course this guess is from simple math and even estimation, it is most likely off by a few thousand dollars.

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Mam confirms pregnancy

[the most recent of Mam]

Oh how sweet, Mam confirms she is almost 3 months pregnant with her 2nd child. She told her 4 year old son Mac he was going to have a younger sibling and asked him if wanted a brother or sister. He said he wanted a younger brother to play with and he is not going to let anyone hold his younger sibling, not even his mother. Only he can hold his younger sibling, no one else.

Mac is too cute and very shy according to observations by reporters. Mam agrees but he’s 4 years old, kids around this age are shy, she said. When there is a lot of people who come up to her to say ‘hi’, little Mac likes to hide behind her back.

Mam’s 2nd child is due sometime in June and she plans to have more. She wants 3-4 kids because she doesn’t come from a big family, so she wants a big family. Her husband feels the same way.

The reporters mentioned that Willy playfully complained that Mam is in the lead  by 2-0. Mam said she doesn’t know what to do to help him out. She wants him to have kids too–Willy and his wife Yelly are struggling to conceive. Mam, did jokingly offered to be a surrogate for Willy once but he declined and said, “you don’t have to do that, I can do it on my own.” When he turns 45 and still can’t conceive, he might reconsider her offer. But by then, Mam would be 42, it might be difficult, Mam noted.

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“Thorn Rose” given the light of day

I thought it would never air considering that Ch3 kept delaying its air date and possibly wanting to scrap the whole project all together. Originally, it was intended to air around the same time as Aff and Aum’s lakorn “Burnt Sugar (Namtan Mai)” but Ch3 elders pushed it back until now. Finally, “Dan” Worawech Danuwong’s lakorn “Kulap Son Nam (Thorn Rose or A Rose’s Hidden Thorn)” is given the light of day this coming Friday, January 22, 2010, if kapook.com got the date right.

The plot of ‘Kulap Son Nam” reminds me a lot of Kob and Chakrit’s lakorn “Game of Vengeance”, an elder sister going crazy after her younger sister commits suicide because of a broken heart. After her sister’s death, she seeks revenge on the people who cause her sister to die. It’s similar to “Game of Vengeance” with a misunderstanding twist.

Dan, in this series, is Paron. He’s in love with Panapha (Bow Chotima), a young volunteer school teacher, his father Pakon (”Num” Santisuk Promsiri) disapproves, so he runs away with her to live in Mae Hong Son, a province in Northern Thailand. Somehow his father along with his older brother Phurinot (Oil Thana) convinces Paron to come back to Bangkok to get engage to Rujira (Paeng Panchanida). If he does so, they promise to stop interfering with his relationship with Panapha. Paron agrees.

When Paron is giving Rujira her engagement ring, Panapha sees them and is shock. Panapha runs away after making eye contact with Paron and he chases after her in order to give her an explanation that he is doing this for their relationship. He never caught up with her because in his hurry, he was not cautious, and was hit by a car. From the accident, he becomes paralyze and experiences memory lost.

Believing that she has been tricked and made a fool by Paron, Panapha decides to kill herself and also the baby inside of her. When her older sister Palilai (“Ae” Issariya Saisanan) learns of her suicide via the news, she is devastated to the point of going crazy. Panapha’s father Prart (Thon Jakkrit) suffers a mental break down when he learns of her death.

From Panapha’s suicide letter, Palilai learns that Panapha committed suicide because of a broken heart. She felt deceived by Paron–why did he start a relationship with her when he already had someone else? The letter makes Palilai hate Paron and it makes her want to take revenge on him. So she does.

She learns from Nuna (Oh Petlada), her best friend, that Paron was in an accident and is about to be release from the hospital to be taken care of at home. Nuna has been hired as his permanent nurse. Palilai takes the opportunity of knowing Nuna to her advantage for revenge. She pretends to be Nuna and goes to Paron’s home to be his permanent nurse. Her plan is to make him fall in love with her to teach him the disappointment of love and trust and to make him remember Panapha.  As she is building a relationship with Paron, Phurinot (Paron’s older brother) falls for her too, secretively.

Fast-forward through the summary because I’m lazy to translate it completely, Palilai learns the truth that  Pakon and Phurinot were the ones that caused her sister to die, not Paron, she starts to feel guilty for what she is doing. As Palilai is uncovering the truth, Paron regained his memory and remembers everything from his past with Panapha. He is devastated about what happen and is completely angry with his brother and father for causing a rift between him and Panapha. The one thing he doesn’t know yet is that Palilai, the person he loves now, is Panapha’s older sister. His brother Phurinot learns of Palilai’s identity first and decides to kidnap her to his family’s vacation house as punishment for trying to deceive his younger brother Paron. You know what is going to happen next–> r-scene. I’ll leave the story at that. Don’t want to spoil myself and you.

TEASER:

Longer Teaser:

Boom Panadda plays a house maid who is having an affair with Pakon, Paron’s father.

Oil and Ae are the pra’nangs.

Some might find this interesting, there is an incest twist to the plot but it turned out to be false. The lead characters are not related but they thought they were. You wanna know which one? Should I tell you guys?

More pictures here.