If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There’s absolutely no moral to this story nor much point to it other than to share one of those crazy experiences that only seem to happen to you in Thailand. 
I was holiday in Bangkok without much on the agenda [...]

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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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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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I went to Thailand not knowing what to expect, when I came I saw and could feel the raw nature of such a beautiful place. You can be amazed by such beauty and at the same time your life is so insignificant that if you were to stay here and never go back it wouldn’t [...]

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“Écrire des lettres d’amour est, certes, un travail peu sérieux et sans grande importance économique. Mais si plus personne ne l’exerçait, si personne ne rappelait à cette vie combien elle est pure, elle finirait par se laisser mourir.”
Christian Bobin L’Inespérée

Journal intime, mars 2007
Chère T**,
Je t’écris de l’aéroport de Phuket en attendant l’heure d’embarquement. Nous nous [...]

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“Eh you the Farang [incomprehensible mumbo jumbo] boom tsing [incomprehensible mumbo jumbo] me too…” is screaming a hoarse and loud voice somewhere to my left. I don’t realize instantly that this yell is addressed at me but I nevertheless automatically turn my head up in the direction where it’s coming. In my field of vision [...]

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I’m an American. But that’s not the worst of it. My biggest problem right now, is that I’m actually in America.
Land of the free and the home of the bored.
I’m in Washington state looking outside at another one of those rainstorms that make a person think about slitting their wrists. I suppose I should [...]

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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company” - Lord Byron

Journal entry, March 2007
Dear T**,
I’m in the Phuket airport, writing to you while waiting for the boarding time. We said our goodbyes only one hour ago and I’m already starting to miss you, I’m still full of you, I want to [...]

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Joe was fairly unremarkable man, an ordinary Joe, a decent bloke. He held a middle management position in a middle of the road manufacturing company located in the Midlands of England. He lived fairly comfortably in the centre of a middle class housing estate.
He probably worked too many hours and spent far too much of [...]

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I prefer live music over recorded music, so I try to go to places that have a mixture of both. I am not up with all of the latest songs, so if they throw in a classic now and again, or a few I recognise - I am happy. Some of the songs that come [...]

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