Hot Tip: Yes, it's her and no, she's not
Don't you just hate it when you hear a juicy rumour about some unidentified person and then it turns out to be you?
That’s what happened to Supornthip “Tip” Chuangrangsri, who proved to be the high-profile businesswoman all the gossips were saying was pregnant.
No names were mentioned when she heard the yarn from a friend, and then from a few more friends who’d read it in the newspaper and seen it on Twitter, “but that’s when I realised it was about me!” Tip tells Praew magazine.
She’s just opened Tippy, a jewellery showroom in the Mahatun Plaza Building in Ploenchit. So this was a publicity stunt? No way, but Tip admits she found the rumour more funny than infuriating. She points out that all the women in her family, including her mum and sister, have gone through menopause early – implying that she is too, in her mid-40s.
“How could anyone hide it if they were pregnant?” she wonders, genuinely baffled about why the gaze of the gossips landed on her. Still, idle people will be watching her for any sign of a baby bump.
Got work to do
Former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun is one of those people who is so well respected that he can grant wishes, something like a venerable Buddha statue. With Songkran at hand, financial reporters hit him up for a lucky blessing this week as he emerged from a meeting at Siam Commercial Bank, where he’s chairman of the board.
“Can you grant my wish to find a girlfriend?” one of the newsmen asked. Anand grinned and said he has exactly the same wish. “I’ve been married for 56 years but I’ve never had a girlfriend either, so I join you in your wishing.”
Joking aside, Anand bestowed a general blessing on the assembled scribes, though it turned out to be more of an “assignment”. Reporters play a great positive role in society, he said. Corruption plays a horribly negative role. There was Anand’s real wish.
