Change your name boys, change your name

[Bangkokian]

My friend went to one of those 'one stop shops' for Thais situated on a skytrain concourse.
He went to renew his I.D. card -- a painless 10 minute operation and free. As I recall, he only needed his family papers and the old card.
He told me that another service at the kiosk is to change name.

[Bangkokian]

By coincidence, looking through the Bangkok Post Sunday edition over a a full English breakfast as one does, I read this article by Roger Crutchley regarding Thai nicknames.
It's very funny and here is an excerpt about a cook in the slum area of Klong Toey
"Nicknamed Poo, an abbreviation of chompoo (rose apple), she runs a Thai cooking school in the slum supported by the Urban Neighbours of Hope charity.
In her occasional meetings with Westerners, she noticed that her nickname always seemed to create a few titters.
So when she brought out a cookery book, it was entitled Cooking with Poo.
The title turned out to be a master-stroke. It won an international award in 2012 issued by the English literary magazine Bookseller for the book with the oddest title."
The full article can be seen on the BP website in the 'opinion' section. I tried to include a link but BP seems to be preventing me.

[Gaybutton]

The full article can be seen on the BP website in the 'opinion' section. I tried to include a link but BP seems to be preventing me.

Is this it?

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin ... d-mrs-frog

[Bangkokian]

Yes that's the one.