Follow up to yesterday

• Today one of our English Language newspapers, The Daily Xpress, has reported that in Bangkok alone, 63 babies have September 9 2009 on their birth certificates and two mothers underwent Caesarean sections to be sure that their babies were born on the dot of 9.09am.
• In Chiang Rai, as the paper went to press, thirteen babies had been born and eight more women were hoping their babies would be born the right side of midnight. One of the thirteen babies was born at exactly 9.09am. His mother said ‘I think he must have accumulated huge merit in a past life.’
• Thousands of couples who chose to register their marriages yesterday. In Bangkok’s district of Bang Rak (District of Love!) three hundred couples sought marriage certificates.