Although this isn't much to do with Buddhism, you will find these Chinese Fortune Sticks in most temples. To play the game is quite simple. You put all the sticks into the bamboo container and then shake it as you concentrate on a prayer. If you do it correctly, one stick will then jump out onto the ground in front of you. Each stick has a number on it. You then go and read the fortune with this number printed at the top.

The latest tourist attraction in my province is Chang Erawan, the giant Three Headed Elephant. As you drive along Sukhumwit Road from Bangkok to Samut Prakan you cannot fail to notice this 29 metre high elephant. If you count the building it stands on then it is 43.6 metres high! It only costs 50 baht to wander around the gardens and another 100 baht to enter the museum in the basement and then up to the belly of the elephant. One of its back legs is a lift to a viewpoint of the surrounding area. The stained glass window in this picture is the top of the base where the elephant stands. You can see all of this in the video.

This video is for people out there who are learning Thai. Just for fun, I thought I would ask the students in my class to recite the five times table in Thai! I think it is a cute video as I like it how fast they recite their tables. A word of warning, even if you know your Thai numbers it is not easy to follow! Here is a guide: "haa neung haa" (five one five), "haa song sib" (five two ten), "haa sam sib-haa" (five three fifteen) etc.