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I grew up near the Atlantic Ocean, and even today the smell of salt air and rotting fish brings visions of my childhood.
The children of Bangkok may feel faint when, as adults, they smell an aroma that reminds them [...]

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Monday night I took three Thai girls out to Tawandang on Rama III to celebrate a birthday. I had been to Tawandang at Intra Rama about 19 months ago, and the two venues are similar.
Seating capacity is around 1,600 people and the reports I get from my Thai friends who go there frequently is [...]

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There is some interesting terminology here in Thailand that reflects some cultural realities that, while they are not unique to Thailand, certainly seem alien to my American and Australian egalitarian background.
In Thailand, the term Hi-So is a shortened version of high society. It describes someone who is rich (or at least well-to-do), attractive, fashionable and [...]

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A friend of mine in Australia recently commented that he thought the song One Night in Bangkok was banned in Thailand. If it is, the ban isn’t enforced, as I hear it played frequently. It is popular with most Thai people I know, who probably enjoy the catchy pop tune without having much [...]

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Photo is my friend Oi on our trip to Samui in 2005
One of the most frequent comments on my blog site is that people would like to know how bar girls and other single young Thai girls live.
This comment from from a reader was enlightening:
I’ve also been curious to see how the TGs/bar girls live. I’ve been [...]

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Je suis de retour à Phuket. 
Nous sommes le 11 novembre. Ce matin le ciel est voilé, la température ne dépasse pas un très raisonnable 25°C et il y a une petite brise qui fait bruisser les palmes des cocotiers juste à côté.
La saison touristique commence tout juste et l’ambiance est bien plus détendue qu’en Mars. [...]

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“Eh ! Toi ! Le Farang [charabia incompréhensible] boum boum crac-crac [charabia incompréhensible]…” hurle une voix éraillée quelque part sur ma gauche. Je ne réalise pas immédiatement que ces cris me sont adressés mais je tourne néanmoins la tête de façon automatique dans la direction d’où ils proviennent. Dans mon champ de vision au premier plan je [...]

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Sometimes when I am out at a farang party, which includes lots of Thai women but no Thai men, I feel undesirable, invisible, and at times just like one of the guys.  Most farang men will not attempt to strike up a conversation or even glance my way because they already have a Thai woman [...]

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BARGIRLS’ MOBILE PHONES: Have you ever met a bargirl whose phone does not have Bluetooth, email, digital camera, WAP, GSM, HSCSD, GPRS, SyncML, J2ME, MMS and a whole lot more unintelligible acronyms? Neither have I. It always puzzles me why anyone financing an extended family in Isaan, various unwell buffaloes and a Thai boyfriend would [...]

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I was blessed with my dad’s sense of humour - “you’d laugh if your bum was on fire” - my mum would snarl at him, in times of anger and frustration.
Perhaps because of this I have found travelling in Asia a wonderful source of hilarity. However at times, it has been a double edged sword. [...]

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