Monthly Archives: January 2008

$100 / Barrel of Oil / Pattaya

January 2, 2008 – 11:23 pm

A good number of Pattaya’s foreign residents are off-shore workers. They spend a month on the platforms and then resume the lfife of leisure once back home. The money has never been so good with the price of oil rocketing through the $100/barrel celiing. Boom time since the price increase is a result of mostly market speculation. […]

By Peter | Posted in Driving, economy, Thailand | Comments (0)

1-1-2007 – PATTAYA

January 1, 2008 – 10:12 pm

Having gone to sleep slightly after the stroke of 12 on New Year’s Eve, I woke with the dawn the next morning. Champoo, my little dog, was dying for a walk and I tiptoed through the sprawled bodies of my wife’s guests. They had had too much food and drink unlike me. I was nearly stone-sober. My […]

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