The adorable Nadech Yaya, thanking their fans for 100K likes on facebook.

If you don’t want to write a novel in a month, there is another writing challenge: write a blog post every day for the month of November. It’s called NaBloPoMo haha, WordPress comes up with the most interesting of acronyms. If you opt to participate in this challenge, please feel free to post your blog link on the comment section below. And if you’re blogging specifically about lakorns for this entire month, then that’s doubly awesome. Go you! Yay us!

What do you remember this year?

A reader posted an awesome question in the previous open thread about ‘wow’ lakorns. This got my wheels turning. Lakorn watching is clearly subjective, because what I find interesting can be a meh to you. However, I think a wow lakorn is pretty universal, it’s wow in all aspect of the writing, directing, acting- and the all important cast chemistry. For example, it would be difficult to admit that Sood Saneha wasn’t a wow lakorn and didn’t deserve it’s accolades.

What seems to be embedded in my memory this year are the Khunchais, is it a coincidence? Do the elders of Channel 3 get together one fine day, mayhaps towards the end of 2012 and say, ‘well, I reckon we’ll make 2013 a Khunchai year?’ From the palace of Juthathep, to the mystery of Rangsiya and finally to the finely sculpted pecks of Khunchai Jantarapanu, it’s hardly surprising that we are on this Khunchai train. Nevertheless, I welcome the period train and the modern take, because at the end of the day, these lakorns reiterate that we need more gentlemen in our lives. Most importantly, we don’t need a spotless pedigree to preserve our values and fight for what we believe in.