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As one year’s chapter closes and the next begins, Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok celebrates the festive season as we set out to fill your heart with joy and positive energy to get you ready for 2023.

With billions of people tuned in to Queen Elizabeths funeral, the spotlight briefly shined on a small piece of paper that fell from a bishops hand.

Masterminded by Khun Phisit Jongnarangsin and Khun Saxit Pisalasupongs (duo designers of the renowned Tube Gallery) this year’s Christmas tree at Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok sports ‘The Butterfly Effect’ destined to be a festive conversation piece.

Forty-six years ago in a previous comedy I was in Saigon, recently having been evacuated from Phnom Penh in an Air America—CIA—Caribou carrying, in addition to me, several ARVN junior officers and perhaps a dozen BUFEs (Big Ugly Fucking Elephants, the ceramic pachyderms much beloved of GIs). America had already embarked on its currently standard policy of forcing small countries into wars and then leaving them in the lurch. In Cambodia this led to the reign of Pol Pot, the ghastly torture op...