For your drooling pleasure, Sorayuth's new pad

The TV news host has more than 100 rai of spectacular scenery that’s said to have cost him excessively in excess of Bt100 million. Construction of the house started around the middle of last year and he’s just about ready for the decorator to arrive – with furniture that Sorayuth designed himself. (He told the landscaper where to put everything too.) 

Sorayuth says this is only his weekend getaway but he does plan to retire there someday when he runs out of news. For now his mother will be living there year-round. Sanook.com has lots of photos of Sorrayuth posing inside and outside, though his true fans have seen them all before on his Instagram account. 

We’ve managed to slacken our envy a bit by recalling that he’s an immensely popular and hardworking media personality who’s been in the business for more than two decades (right here at The Nation in his salad days). So a luxury second home ought to be within reach of his wallet. Other observers aren’t so generous. “Is that another case of forest encroachment? Just saying,” one Mangmoon Naka commented online. “If that’s the case the house has to be demolished,” replied Waan Waan. 

Discussion ensued about Sorrayuth’s spending power. “It doesn’t surprise me because he’s worked for decades and has his own show – he can definitely afford it,” said Oak Thanapat. To which Anrk Kriengsiri posed the query, since Sorrayuth basically works around the clock seven days a week, “When he is going to have time to stay there?” 

Just a preview, folks: Wait until the place is finished and fully decorated. Reporters and camera people will be lined up at the front gate. Just watch politely and try to keep calm.

 

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Lunch with the champ

Nation TV reporter Noppatjak Attanon is going to have to keep toiling away for quite a while longer to have Bt100 million like Sorrayuth, but you do get the occasional perk along the way. Noppatjak recently had the exciting honour of meeting superstar boxer Manny Pacquiao in person.

It boiled down to just a six-minute interview on his show “Nation Midnight”, but Noppajak actually spent three hours with the man who until very recently was widely regarded as the planet’s best pound-for-pound fighter. Pacquiao was once again greeting the press to talk about a fight, but this time it was a different sort of fight: He now serves as an ambassador for the Prudent Foundation’s “Safe Steps” campaign. 

“All my life I’ve fought to survive,” the champ said, explaining the relevance of his new endeavour. He told Noppatjak, during a little “quality time” over lunch, that he’d experienced disaster first-hand as a young boy – an earthquake. “I think Safe Steps will help a lot of children and adults to be prepared for when disasters occur.” “Pacq-Man” appears in a campaign video of instructions for just such an eventuality. 

Noppatjak was quite impressed by the boxer and, as you could see on his show, Pacquiao is very down to earth and humble. Their lunch kept getting interrupted by fans asking to get their pictures taken with him. Noppatjak asked him what rules he adheres to in life and Pacquiao said that was it – stay humble, and that the Lord would take care of the rest.