If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Let me echo the words of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, “If you don’t help to make democracy move forward, it will be the country’s downfall.”
These words first uttered in April of 2006 and repeated by the king several times since were [...]

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8 July 2008
Well, we’ve always known what the PAD was against; they’ve always been opposed to the government of the day if it was elected (but it did not oppose the government of Surayud which was appointed by the military).
It has always been difficult, though, to know quite what they stood for. IN 2006, [...]

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On pretty much any morning in Jomtien Beach, you can take an early stroll on the beach and find it carpeted with garbage. On Pattaya Beach, schools of dead fish and jellyfish have been washing up on shore for the past several weeks. Even seas off of Pattaya’s Near Islands are lime green and frothing [...]

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On winter nights at home in England, when the rain outside was horizontal, those of us who had been to Thailand would be cackling in corners at a local pub. Stories we’d each told a thousand times before, of various mis-adventures in The City of Angels, were all enjoyed again as though heard for [...]

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Okay so you’ve taken the Spot a Lady Boy Test and perhaps you didn’t score as highly as you thought you should have. What now? Avoid Thailand?
Fortunately, there are some signs to look for that can help keep you from accidently going home with a man packaged as a woman.
Here are the Top [...]

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This is a post about sex (and possibly romance) with youthful females. Let’s get this out of the way up front – when I talk about young girls I mean girls at or above the age of consent. Girls below that age are children, not sexual objects.
But one of the reasons the reason I [...]

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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 a consistent [...]

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I was reading Werewolf’s post about being tongue-tied and I thought it fit in somewhat nicely with my other post about the deck being stacked against men in the West. Namely it’s the topic of Western women vs. Thai women.
Deep down I think all women are the same. The same concept [...]

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I speak Thai.
Well, sort of.
I have studied Thai language for several months, and because I live in Thailand I have plenty of opportunity to practice. Or so you’d think.
I live in Bangkok, and specifically, in the general vicinity of Sukhumvit, which means that nearly everyone I deal with speaks English to a [...]

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Whenever I hear someone moaning about not being able to find a good woman in Farangland I always think that either the guy is a loser or that he isn’t trying hard enough. Then I quickly remember that I generally share the same opinion. And since I’m not a loser (or so mummy [...]

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