From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Just Another Day in Isaan

by Central Scrutinizer May 30, 2008 Rural Life

It is a good thing that I love hot weather. It doesn’t get much hotter than this. The thermometer caresses one hundred degrees every day. It’s a love affair of blazing proportions. While I do love the heat, I am blessed that I can afford an air conditioner, as well as the electricity to run [...]

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THE FAREWELL GIFTS

by Gates Of Paradox May 30, 2008 Tourist Life

Most of my life I have been on the receiving end. Although I’m not rolling in money, I’m now OK and because I will never be able to clear the debt I have with countless people that are now dead or far away, I try time to time to be on the giving end. But [...]

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One of These Days Boy…

by Central Scrutinizer May 27, 2008 Rural Life

‘Mickey, what you do?’ says Sis coming into my bedroom and flopping onto the corner of my bed.
‘Eh? What’s it look like I am doing? I’m working on my computer,’ I crack to her, my usual reply when asked a foolish question of the obvious.
She laughs her infectious laugh. Even when she is annoying she [...]

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I Spy With My Little Thai

by Different Strokes May 27, 2008 Thai Girls

This is a reasonably accurate account of a wonderful if not bewildering 18-month period spent meeting and living with a Thai girl in my adopted country of South Africa. I have for obvious reasons used fictitious names.
Elusive would be an understatement, as she would float in and glide out. Often seen in the indoor plant [...]

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Online Dating in Thailand

by The Farang May 19, 2008 Relationships

I was reading Stickman’s recent post about online dating sites and I thought I would offer my own commentary as I thought he hit the nail on the head on a few topics.
Talking with foreign guys using the site, their modus operandi is eerily similar.  They get online and bombard the girls online with messages [...]

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Good Girl With Two Faces

by Tong Dee May 11, 2008 Thai Girls

This part is not really my own story, but it’s picturing that also good girls can be turning to bad girls.
About 2 years ago, it happened that one of my friends accidentally met one girl from LOS when he visited me and my family at home in Farangland. This girl was manager from a wedding [...]

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A Bad Girl in Bangkok is Crap

by The Farang May 7, 2008 Bangkok Nightlife

MSB posted a comment in a recent thread and included a link to a site called A Bad Girl in Bangkok.  I thought it would make for a good post to expose it for the sham that it is.
A Bad Girl in Bangkok is supposedly written by a girl calling herself Wan who works in [...]

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Asian Sweetheart, Dean Barrett and Perceptions of Thailand

by The Farang May 5, 2008 Bangkok Nightlife

I really, really love Asian Sweetheart’s site but I feel that she has a very slanted view of farangs.  I don’t think she means any harm by it but the words she chooses often betray her underlying feelings.  She recently chose to use Dean Barrett’s book “The Go-Go Dancer Who Stole My Viagra And Other [...]

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