Epinions Recent Reviews for sawasdee

Book to movie adaptation - gone horribly wrong!

Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:59:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - I usually approach every adapted from a book movie with a little trepidation. As a book lover I am often disappointed when Hollywood glamorizes a story, thinking that they are improving on an author’s original work. Sometimes I am surprised. In...

Uno Dos Tres, it's UNO time!!

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:31:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Picture this: summer camp of 1992. Kids are supposed to be outdoors, swimming, playing, and getting into mischief. However, there's not a sound to be heard - other than that of the unexpected torrential downpour that completly ruined all plans for the...

Seattle, I'm Listening...

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:35:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Most of us know Frasier Crane as the pompus yet funny radio psychologist who graces Seattle's airwaves with his well known line, "I'm Listening", encouraging them to pour out their hearts to him while he tries to mend their lives. Some...

Charity Organizations: Volunteerism WriteOff: College Students Making a Difference

Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:12:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - This review has been written as part of the Volunteerism write-off, organized by argonut. The purpose of this write-off is to give thanks and appreciation for the organizations dedicated to helping each one of us help other people. Please take a moment...

Good for kids, GREAT for babysitters!

Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:17:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Not having any kids of my own, I rarely venture into this section of Epinions. However, after reading someone elses review of the Playtex Spillproof Cups, I realized that I do have some experience with it. My manyyears of babysitting all through college...

Netflip.com: The complete guide to flipping the net in your favor.

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 03:16:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - With the glut of Get Paid To (insert verb here) sites online, it is getting harder and harder to choose which programs are worth the time spent on them. Some don’t ever pay while some require entirely too much time to earn anything worthwhile...

Dallas: Best Thai food this side of the Atlantic!

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:10:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee -
Review Topic: Restaurants

First a little background to this story. I'm an indian who was born and lived in Thailand until I started college, which is when I moved to the US. One of the things I miss the most about living in...

MyCoupons.com: Do you live on a budget?

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:01:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Couponers and refunders, frugal and poor, cheap and stingy.. listen up! There's a website that you simply can not afford to not visit.

I first came across MyCoupons.com through someone's epinion on MyPoints.com, where they mentioned it...

TheMail.com: Where did all my email go???

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:08:38 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - OK, so the whole concept of being paid to do various things on the net is old news now. The real news is which ones actually DO pay you? IF you're hoping to make a few bucks, skip over TheMail.com - all it will do is waste your time.

The...

Pinecone Research: Want to Earn $20/hr?

Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:54:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Yes.. you read that right, $20/hr. That's approximately what PineCone Research (formerly known as Acorn Research) pays its members.

I registered with this site when it was still relatively new, and I was a college student desperately looking...

Greenfield Online: They never showed me the money

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 04:11:32 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Quite some time back, I signed up for GreenfieldOnline.com, in the hopes of making a few dollars while voicing my opinions on products and services. This was back in the ‘good ole days’ when this was still a very new concept. Quite happily, I forked over...

My copy is tattered and torn..

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:00:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - I picked up this book to read for all the wrong reasons. The 2 popular girls in my 6th grade class were reading it, and could talk of nothing else. So not wanting to be left out, I went over to the public library and dug out their old dust covered...

Sonic: An old fashioned good time!

Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:11:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Walking past the engineering building at the University of South Carolina, on day, me and my friends noticed that they were finally erecting something in the huge lot across from it. Being hte inquisitive types that we are, we had to go explore. Turns...

Big Warm Fuzzies

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 21:59:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - I came across this movie on cable recently when a friend was channel surfing, and stopped on a scene of a big hairy creature and a bunch of frenzied people. He insisted that we HAD to watch this movie, and so it was, we watched Harry and the Hendersons...

Ice Ice Baby!

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:50:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - I woke this morning to discover that I was in misery. Duringthe course of the night, I'd somehow manage to twist myself or sleep in a way that I shouldn't and now my right shoulder and upper back were lettig me know how unhappy they were. At first I...

A PUR pain in the rear.

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 02:41:10 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - When I moved into my latest home, I noticed that my roommate had already installed a PUR filter onto the kitchen faucet. Well this was great! Since I don't drink anything but filtered water I was a little relieved that I would no longer need to be...

Ah.. water... gotta have it!

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 01:50:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Having grown up in a family where we drank water with every meal, and where Pepsi was a special treat, I'm using to drinking water. And I mean a LOT of water. More specifically, I'm used to drinking filtered water. I don't know what brand the filter that...

Medina C C: A Little Love

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:41:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Isabel can't forget her failures in life - that she is a Cubana divorced from a gringo. Nevermind the fact that she is a successful engineer, a fantastic mother, and a much cared for daughter. Instead of moving on with her life, Isa is still guarding her...

A Chance, A Wish, and A Dream

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:25:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Imagine two people, both lonely, randomly crossing paths one day. The man looks into the woman's eyes and sees tears. The moment she realizes that she has been seen, she flees and disappears from his sight. Mystified and intrigued, the man goes home and...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Half.com - A Successful Seller's Point of View

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:47:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Do you have a stack of text books from college that the bookstore wouldn't buy back from you, but you never threw away because they're 'books'.. and nobody thows books away! Or maybe you'rea book-a-holic like me, and are running out of space on your...

The building of an empire

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:25:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - I started reading Alexandra Ripley's books after reading her most well known one, Scarlett, the sequel to Gone With the Wind. Though I was bitterly disappointed in Scarlett, there was something about her writing that made me want to find more by her to...

Once, always, and forever...

Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:00:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Close your eyes for a moment and imagine yourself a sheltered girl of 18, whose parents have just passed away. You have nowhere to live, and are being sent back to England, a country far away from your native America, to live with distant relatives of...

Looks good enough to eat!

Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:14:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - It was 10 am on the morning after my 24th birthday and the doorbell was ringing. Having gone out the night before to celebrate, I wasn’t particularly keen on crawling out of bed to answer the door. Until, of course I looked out of the window and saw the...

Once Upon a Time, Far Far Away..

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:11:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Once upon a time, far far away in a land called Russia, there was a beautiful ballerina. Every day the ballerina worked hard and practiced her dancing till she was the best ballerina of them all! Then something very bad happened, and the ballerina was so...

Pie in the sky of a novel

Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:57:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sawasdee - Honestly, what made me pick this book up first was the colourful cover it had. Reading the blurb inside the jacket, I had images of small town living dancing in my head - something I know only from books and movies. So it's easy to see why the idea of a...