books / dvds Talk about killing two birds with one stone - take the best episodes of English Breakfast, tidy up the scripts, and a few photos and ... hey presto ... published author. Two books / dvd combos out now - currently working on a new project for taxi drivers - all under wraps at the moment ... but if anybody needs a lift to a jewelry store ... just give worathep a call :) READ MORE
the vault Finally, at last. my own sliver of cyberspace in which to park my prose. Safely locked away in the word vault is a selection of published stuff, unpublished stuff and, frankly, quite unpublishable stuff. CLICK HERE should you have nothing more interesting to do at this particular moment online ...
the sub My day job is as the sub
editor for Thailand's leading (you wanna argue about it?) Easy English
(apart from my column 555), condom carrying, lifestyle (and
occasionally educational ) bi-weekly magazine for da Thai yoot, Nation Junior or NJ as we're swingingly called these days.
Surprisingly, the Editor actually lets a doddery old git like me write
a column - The Sub - which, as the name should suggest, guides our
'studes' through the linguistic sunflower field that is learning
English from the newspapers. Still, I always manage to save a few
column inches for my own ramblings. CLICK HERE if you would like to visit Worathep's own 'Op-Ed' real estate ...
the poems "I didn't realise, I didn't realise, I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry, frankly Mister Shankly." Stephen Morrisey
World-changing events, personal moments, highs, lows, greed, speed, love or lust. I've always rated poetry as a medium of expression, primarily because it enables you to get to the point in much fewer words that most other forms of writing: ideal for a lazy bastard like me. CLICK HERE to peruse the poems ...
the stand up Believe it or not, Worathep's actually a fully
unpaid-up member of the British actor's union Equity. I earned enough
professional contracts to join this particular gentleman's drinking
club by doing stand-up in colleges, universities and comedy
clubs
across the UK. My most memorable
booking was a University of London Business Estate Management
Graduation Party at the
Kensington Roof Garden: a roomfull of pissed-up Tories, a pond full of
pink flamingos
and an anarchic, punk rock, ranting poet, moir! The bastards threw celery at me.
Fortunately that was almost 20 years ago and hopefully most of the evil
graduates have
been swallowed up by the sub-prime effect. Still, I could murder a
roast flamingo, just hold the veggies. CLICK HERE for some of the skits.
EBTV A pessimistic cook, an optimistic news reporter, a homicidal agony
aunt, two 'bad' hip hop homeboys, two 'good' computers nerds and a fish
called Bob - this is kid's TV but not as we know it. English Breakfast
TV breaks the traditional 'edutainment' mold by daring to have fun
while teaching English to Thai kids of all ages. Worathep is the script
writer for EBTV but the words on a page are brought to life by our
extremely talented presenters P'Tae and Ajarn Warin, our grammar guru
P'Nui, our hard working producer/director/translator P'Bee, P'Neung
from Thaipbs, the 'Estee Lauder' twins P'Tum and P'Ad, oh, and of
course ... the fish. CLICK HERE to read the scripts
PRose
An interesting sideline is the work I do for Weber Shandwick -- one of
the world's leading PR organizations. I get the chance to write
original copy and also edit the original ideas of my colleagues here in
the the Bangkok office. It's a fairly Pavlovian existence where the
trill of my mobile phone alerts me to the latest assignment nestling in
my inbox. CLICK HERE to see some press releases.
