Cycling's great if you keep it up
This bizarre new trend where normally sane people get on bicycles and pretend they can ride around Bangkok is nothing new to singer-TV host Suthipong "Heart" Tadpitakul, who's been pretending he can ride around Bangkok for almost 10 years
He “rides” from his home in the Ratchayothin area to work at various places downtown.
Heart served as moderator at a recent discussion marking the 15th anniversary of Viagra hitting the market, and the focus was on erectile dysfunction. The main speaker, a New York sexologist, was asked whether spending a lot of time in the bicycle saddle doesn’t, you know, dis-function one’s erection.
The doctor said cycling is guy-friendly as long as you ride less than 160 kilometres a week, and Heart added that he’s never had a problem (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). But then he doesn’t ride up and down the country every weekend like some people do. “I ride to earn my money, so it’s only on weekdays.”
Presumably he has something else to do on weekends (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
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‘Smaller’ roles
Parama Imanothai, who found fame with the boy band Nice to Meet You and a string of awards as the car mechanic who falls for an old transvestite in the film “Mai Dai Khor Hai Ma Rak” (“It Gets Better”), has received no movie offers since. None. Zip.
“You might think I’d get more offers, but I haven’t,” he says, managing a laugh. He certainly doesn’t need to cry, because he’ll be acting on TV instead. Next month we’ll see Parama in a remake of “Autumn in My Heart”, in the role that made Korean actor Won Bin a star, and also as the bad guy Sorpinya in “Phoo Chana Sib Tid”, based on the classic novel about Burmese King Bayinnaung.
