Ice bucket challenge kicks off at Central World



BANGKOK: -- A new trend of the " “Ice Bucket Challenge” has now spread to Thailand with hundreds of people and entertainment celebrities gathered at Central World pouring buckets full of ice water to spread awareness on Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

They bathed their bodies with bucket of ice and asked others to do the challenge. If the chosen person refuses, then he/she will make a donation to the ALS charity.

The ice bucket challenge activity is hosted jointly by the Prasat Neurological Institute, and the Thai Red Cross Society to raise fund to cure ALS patients.

Celebrities seen joining the ice bucket challenge include well-known TV anchor “Woody” or Wuthithorn Milintachinda, Tanya Tanyares Engtrakul, Mike Piratch, and Nok Air chief executive officer Patee Sarasin.

They willingly bathed themselves with frozen ice and issued the challenge to others.

In total today’s ice bucket challenge raised more than two million baht donation to the ALS fund.

The ice bucket challenge phenomenon has hit the social media circuit with videos of people getting drenched with buckets of ice water. The video is then posted to social media, asking another person to do the same challenge. If the chosen person refuses to do the challenge, he/she will make a donation to the ALS charity.

This viral sensation, which uses the hashtag #IceBucketChallenge, has drawn thousands of followers, including celebrities who willingly bathed themselves with frozen ice and issued the challenge to others.

ALS, often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body.

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Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ice-bucket-challenge-kicks-central-world/


-- Thai PBS 2014-08-22

Abhisit to get wet and wild for bucket challenge this afternoon
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- Democrat Party head and former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Krungsri Consumer Co. Ltd., which vowed to donate THB500,000 to the Thai Red Cross Society if the former prime minister pours iced water over his head.

Abhisit will get soaked today at Thai Red Cross Society at 2pm, the venue is easily accessed by MRT Sam Yan Station. We have attached a map for your convenience.

Source: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/08/22/abhisit-get-wet-and-wild-bucket-challenge-afternoon


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-08-22

Using white t-shirts. This one is done right.

Is that a landing strip on that girl in the forefront?

Donation to "Thai Red Cross" - surely it should be a donation to the ALS charity?

Abhisit to get wet and wild for bucket challenge this afternoon
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- Democrat Party head and former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Krungsri Consumer Co. Ltd., which vowed to donate THB500,000 to the Thai Red Cross Society if the former prime minister pours iced water over his head.

Abhisit will get soaked today at Thai Red Cross Society at 2pm, the venue is easily accessed by MRT Sam Yan Station. We have attached a map for your convenience.

Source: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/08/22/abhisit-get-wet-and-wild-bucket-challenge-afternoon


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-08-22

If the chosen person refuses, then he/she will make a donation to the ALS charity.

So it's "legalised" extortion, then.

Abhisit to get wet and wild for bucket challenge this afternoon

By Coconuts Bangkok

BANGKOK: -- Democrat Party head and former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Krungsri Consumer Co. Ltd., which vowed to donate THB500,000 to the Thai Red Cross Society if the former prime minister pours iced water over his head.

Abhisit will get soaked today at Thai Red Cross Society at 2pm, the venue is easily accessed by MRT Sam Yan Station. We have attached a map for your convenience.

Source: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/08/22/abhisit-get-wet-and-wild-bucket-challenge-afternoon

-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-08-22

What's the point of a big drip getting wet?

What's the point of a big drip getting wet?

Feeling of doing something good and generally having fun together with others?

What's the point of a big drip getting wet?

Feeling of doing something good and generally having fun together with others?

Oh, he must've had an epiphany, then.

(I'm not a fan. Did you guess?)

Another cheap excuse for the Thai "celebrities" to get in the spotlight.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

How many out there would like to nominate Yingluck ??

How many out there would like to nominate Yingluck ??

Hmm... wet Yingluck...

I wonder if any of these people have any idea what ALS is?

How many out there would like to nominate Yingluck ??

I would, but who's gonna explain ALS to her?

I always knew of ALS as a kid growing up in Brooklyn ,NY as Lou Gherig's Disease ,He was one of the Greatest Yankee Baseball players of All-Time that died very young from the disease. Here is that famous speech on July 4th ,1939

http://youtu.be/626Dt9JdjQs

Another cheap excuse for the Thai "celebrities" to get in the spotlight.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

In the wake of all the American "celebrities" getting in the spotlight.

Or maybe it's just a bunch of people having fun. They're all smiling so we know they don't read Thai Visa posters pissing on everything in sight. Amazing how every topic, no matter how positive or meaningless, brings out the whiners.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

How much did you donate?

Another cheap excuse for the Thai "celebrities" to get in the spotlight.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

In the wake of all the American "celebrities" getting in the spotlight.

Or maybe it's just a bunch of people having fun. They're all smiling so we know they don't read Thai Visa posters pissing on everything in sight.

Did you read that with the American celebrities getting in the spotlight, the amount of the donations increased tenfold. So far I haven't read of any effective donation in Thailand.

Just Sonkran in the summer. (But dunking yourself not passersby)

Another cheap excuse for the Thai "celebrities" to get in the spotlight.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

In the wake of all the American "celebrities" getting in the spotlight.

Or maybe it's just a bunch of people having fun. They're all smiling so we know they don't read Thai Visa posters pissing on everything in sight. Amazing how every topic, no matter how positive or meaningless, brings out the whiners.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

How much did you donate?

I'm not a celebrity who was invited to take the challenge or take any advantage of it to get in the spotlights, so to be honest I didn't donate anything.

Since you want to expose me with that question, I assume that you have donated generously. NOT.

Another cheap excuse for the Thai "celebrities" to get in the spotlight.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

In the wake of all the American "celebrities" getting in the spotlight.

Or maybe it's just a bunch of people having fun. They're all smiling so we know they don't read Thai Visa posters pissing on everything in sight.

Did you read that with the American celebrities getting in the spotlight, the amount of the donations increased tenfold. So far I haven't read of any effective donation in Thailand.

'......Abhisit Vejjajiva has accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Krungsri Consumer Co. Ltd., which vowed to donate THB500,000 ...'

Another cheap excuse for the Thai "celebrities" to get in the spotlight.

If there also will be made donations to the correct charity is another question of course

In the wake of all the American "celebrities" getting in the spotlight.

Or maybe it's just a bunch of people having fun. They're all smiling so we know they don't read Thai Visa posters pissing on everything in sight.

Did you read that with the American celebrities getting in the spotlight, the amount of the donations increased tenfold. So far I haven't read of any effective donation in Thailand.

'......Abhisit Vejjajiva has accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Krungsri Consumer Co. Ltd., which vowed to donate THB500,000 ...'

vow

vou/

verb

past tense: vowed; past participle: vowed

1.

solemnly promise to do a specified thing.

"he vowed that his government would not tolerate a repeat of the disorder"

synonyms: swear, pledge, promise, avow, undertake, engage, make a commitment, give one's word, guarantee;

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"I vowed to do better"

Songkhran in CM is a 3 day ice bucket challenge.