Uh oh, things are getting serious over here -- the protesters have brought it to the MALLS!!!

I guess it finally sunk in that most people in Bangkok (and the country, the world, the Universe) haven't really taken much notice of the almost daily "mobs" congregating at key political points around the city agitating for regime change ... since most people have nothing to do with key political points around the city. So on Sunday they took it to the shopping district, woo hoo! One high end shopping mall, the Emporium, EVEN HAD TO CLOSE FOR AN HOUR!! Tomorrow they're doing it again. Meanwhile, my former boss and friends have asked the King to weigh in on the matter and declare Thaksin unfit. And an undetonated bomb was found outside the opposition party's headquarters. Well at least it wasn't a poop bomb. Yech.

Interestingly enough, iTV, one of the television companies owned by Thaksin, was broadcasting a mini-mob congregating around Thaksin while he ate lunch at a cafeteria somewhere --- I have no idea where. It looked like a university perhaps. They showed it in real time with no commentary. It was bizarre. People were shrieking "Thaksin Get Out!" -- the slogan that has stuck -- while he ate ten feet from them and ignored them. A month and a half ago not a single television station was broadcasting any of this, or only in fits and starts during news hours.

Although come to think of it, I suppose if iTV was under shin Corp that means Singapore owns it now. Not sure about that ...