Monthly Archives: July 2018

TST CLOCKS

July 11, 2018 – 5:27 am

Most 7/11s in Thailand have a coin-operated scale outside the store. My weight differs at each one and my friend Jamie Parker has theorized that the fluctuations are due to slight difference in the intensity of the gravitational pull along the surface of the earth. No clock seems to be running on the same time […]

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Thai School Uniforms

July 11, 2018 – 2:38 am

Memory is in details and I can remember exactly what I was wearing the day JFK was murdered in Dallas. A white shirt, sky-blue tie, navy-blue trousers, a black belt, and black shoes. Every boy in my class wore the same outfit. In fact the uniform was mandatory for each male attending Our Lady of […]

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Thai Navy Seals

July 10, 2018 – 10:44 am

Few people traveling along Route 331 from Satthahip to the Isaan Plateau realize this highway was built by the US Military in the 1960s. The Friendship Highway connected the Thai Navy base with several large airfields operated by the US Air Force throughout the Viet-Nam War. Those airfields are now quiet, however Satthahip remains one […]

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The Answer Is Us

July 9, 2018 – 8:10 pm

Last week Donald Trump’s environmental minister resigned from office. Scott Pruitt came from Oklahoma. Baptists believe in God. Not in Nature. Trump has no idea about the onslaught of plastic, buyt neither do most Americans and people around the world.

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Plastic Paradise

July 9, 2018 – 8:20 am

Pattaya now versus this scene in 1972 No jet skies, no beach chair mafia, no plastic bags. And I was 20 years old, so no grey hair or midriff spread either. Thirty years ago the Old Roue visited Jomtien for seaside romance with a bargirl from Walking Street. “It was sunrise. The sea was gin-clear […]

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