Lonely Dragon was our special guest this week. He won the Fan Pan Thae game in 2003 for GOU LENG Chinese novels. So Gan and Ood invited a few others to join the discussion. This was in order to balance the Jin Yong tape, a few episodes back.

Still in the favourite topics, this time it was the movie soundtracks. Naturally, by our age, most were from the 80s, such as Top Gun and Footloose. However, there were some Thai soundtracks mentioned, such Wai-Ra-Reueng and Nguen-Nguen-Nguen, and, towards the end, we also mentioned some Chinese TV series.

This is one of the least talked-about topic in print media, individual favourites. Each came up with their favourites and compared notes. It was a light discussion with passion. Some even quoted very old and no-longer-available such as Quiet Storm.

Apparently, the gang became famous, they had fans now; Ben (AKA Ben'Tale) came on board to share her favourite books. So Ben, Gan and Ood shared their opinions about each favourite book. It's worth mentioning that Rid-Meed-Sun was a favourite among a few in the gang.

Ood and Gan invited Indies' Girl, again, to discuss about 5 Thai books that they enjoyed. They also got Bay's to share his favourite books as well. This is a more relaxing session that the previous one.

Time to come back home and talk about our own art heritage. This time, Gan and Ood pulled Boy (again) and Passakorn (the producer) to discuss about an old list, compiled by a government-sponsored team to come up with 100 recommended books for Thai. This list is provided on this link, http://www.cupress.chula.ac.th/bestbook.htm. We felt very incompetent since we all combined to having read about 20 books in total, a few were totally unheard of. But it's a constructive discussion that we all thoroughly enjoyed.

Gan, Ood and Nok (Indies' Kitchen) discussed what they thought about the overall Korea TV series. This was a very funny discussion covering a few well-known series such as Lovers in Paris, Autmmn in My Heart, etc. Gan also talked about how she started her translation for these series.

Gan temporarily went solo this time to show her passion for the Korea TV series. She briefly gave a story about when and what series were introduced into Thai national television, compared the series to Thai's and finished the episode with a discussion with a Thai TV series producer, and tried to explain why the Thai series had not been as successful.

Gan and Ood managed to get Boy finish the story. This time, they spent a fair amount of time on the family dynasty of Ming, Yuan, etc. As usual, Ood tended to steer the topic away from the assigned topic.

Gan, Ood and Boy performed a respectable job of sorting Chinese martial arts novels in chronological order. More often than not, Ood would steer the conversation away into some other topics, and it was up to Gan to pull him back onto the topic. Once again, Boy was the most knowledgeable one who did a lot of hard work. It's an entertaining episode with a few laughs. And, as usual, they ran out of time so we had to continue it to the week after.