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High on Rice

by The Farang July 3, 2008 Thai Politics

I’m not sure if Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Mingkwan Sangsuwan has been mainlining rice extract but I have to ask after reading this: Mingkwan said the continuing trend would help turn Southeast Asia into a prosperous region, comparable even with the Middle East. First let’s overlook the fact that Mingkwan has not sung [...]

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A Special Thai Smile

by The Farang June 26, 2008 People

One night I was sitting in a bar on Soi Tiger in Patong with one of my mates. It was late afternoon when the sun is hanging just perfectly in the sky telling the world that the night is about to fall upon you. My mate and I were having a few cold ones after [...]

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Welcome to Hell

by The Farang June 14, 2008 Hazards

Several trips ago I picked up the paperback book Welcome to Hell by Colin Martin and read it on the flight back to Farangland.  I gave it to a friend when I was finished and he recently he returned it to me.  I remember it being an entertaining (and frightening) read at the time but [...]

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Farang ฝรั่ง

by The Farang June 12, 2008 Thai Language

Farang (ฝรั่ง), or as it is often pronounced by Thais – falang, is a word that seems to confuse many people.  The confusion mainly stems from either the origin of the word or its meaning. Meaning of Farang Farang is most commonly used to describe white Westerners although black people from the US or UK [...]

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Enslaved Bar Girls in Pattaya??

by The Farang June 11, 2008 Bangkok Nightlife

This was originally a series of posts but they have been collapsed into one post here. Hat tip to the Pattaya Rag for this one. In a piece titled “PBS´ Carrier: Why Didn´t They Film the Rape-Stops?” on the American Spectator Suki Falconberg makes the following statement. I notice that during this 2005 six-month deployment [...]

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Conflict Resolution in Thailand

by The Farang June 7, 2008 Expat Life

On my last trip to Bangkok I had gone and run some early morning errands and was on my way back to my hotel on Soi 11.  It was, as usual, hot as hell out and by the time I had made it up around Hillary II Bar I didn’t need much of an excuse [...]

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A Reluctant Traveller

by The Farang June 1, 2008 Tourist Life

Early in 2003 the scuba diving shop I used to dive with was planning a trip to Phuket.  The dive master/instructor leading the trip was one of my best mates at the time and he pressured me relentlessly to sign up for the trip.  The only problem was that I had zero desire to travel [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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