Party girl Ying Yae says marriage too distracting

It seems like only yesterday (in fact it was Valentine’s Day) when we congratulated the couple on marrying after nine years of dating. They tied the knot in an extravagant, fairytale-like wedding.
Ying Yae, 29, who was a “pretty” before she found fame on the Web, tells our sister newspaper Kom Chad Luek that troll chatter on the social media about infidelity spoiling their marriage is simply untrue. They’d simply realised they lead completely opposite lifestyles, she says.
“I guess I am a very different person now than I was nine years ago when I started dating Song.” Ying Yae says while hinting at the 10-year age gap between them.
“I was too young to know what I really wanted and I found myself doing what I was told without questioning because Song was much more mature than I was.
“Now that I’ve grown up and know myself better, I realise I’m the outgoing type and Song is the complete opposite. He hates it when I go out and then come home late. It breaks my heart that I realised this too late – I shouldn’t have agreed to marry him in the first place.”
And Song says in another interview that they tried hard to compromise, but the difference was just too great. “It won’t work,” he says. “We both know it and there’s no need to push. I’d like to take a few days to talk things through with Yae and then we should have a joint announcement to clear things up.”


Joey Boy turns green

How about those pictures on Facebook of rapper Joey Boy meeting officials at Parliament House and looking very serious? No, he wasn’t having his attitude adjusted and he’s not pondering a jump into politics. He was there to get backing for his forest-preservation campaign in Nan.
“I would never have thought in this lifetime I’d be having a meeting at Parliament House,” he text-chuckled later on Facebook before turning serious and asking for everyone’s help with “this crucial task”.
The 41-year-old music maker, having recently become a publisher as well with his own outdoor-lifestyle-travel magazine, Tan, raised Bt600,000 for the tree project last month. He’ll be getting his hands dirty, quite literally, helping plant more trees in the degraded woods up North.
His good deed comes in response to a call for help from Nan Governor Suwat Promsunant, who been slammed on the “Take Back Thailand” Facebook page for not stopping the destruction of trees. Fuming at comments suggesting the salaries paid provincial authorities are “a waste of tax money”, Suwat asked for “actual aid, constructive advice and not just yapping” in efforts to restore a half-million rai of woods.
The challenge was rap music to Joey Boy’s ears. “I’m not from Nan and I’m not an Internet troll,” he says, “but if the governor needs help, I will give him my best and I urge everyone to take part.”