I ran across Asian Sweetheat’s post about an epidemic of farangs marrying Isaan girls. In her post she gives us her take on a Thai documentary about this phenomena. According to Asian Sweeheart: The host told of how common it is now for very young school girls in Isaan, when asked what they want to …
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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 …
“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 …
“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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Near Past of Bar Scene In Thailand In the early nineties Thailand started to get a bad name. According to the media, everyone had AIDS and child sex was rife. All this seemed totally bizarre stuff to residents of Thailand who read all the newspapers open-mouthed. The happy country began to acquire the completely undeserved …
I cheat on my wife. Yeah, it doesn’t sound real nice but that’s what it is. Its not that overall I’m a bad guy; I don’t steal, scam, screw kids or preach religion and I do make sure I’m an excellent father. I do love my wife very much and do my best to be …