Category Archives: Bangkok

Hardest Working Man in Bangkok

A recent survey conducted in Thailand has compiled some interesting insights into the length of farangs’ stay in the Land Of Smiles. Two years to be the average sojourn for those westerners who say they want to live her forever. Reasons for leaving are topped by financial set-backs ie the bar went broke, the internet […]

Swimming the klongs

Leena Jungjanja (‘Leena Jung’), a Bangkok governor election candidate, fell into the polluted Saen Saeb Canal during a campaign junket to the Pratunam pier. Amazingly she was still all smiles after the tumble into those troubled waters. See how she feels about it tomorrow.

Tshanna Hits USA

It’s hurricane season. Storms roll across the Atlantic. The force of their wind lashes the ocean. Their power destroys nearly all in their path. For decades the US Meteorological Service gave these storms names of women. Once out of good Christian names, they switched to men’s names. Once more good Christian names, but the accelerated […]

Let no good deed go unpunished

This poor taxi driver made the classic mistake of helping a woman in distress. He witnessed a motorcycle snatch-and-grab and chased the two culprits in his taxi, driving them off the road. A witness handed the female victim her chain and when the police arrived on the scene, the officers could find no one to […]

Mad Dogs and Thais

A black Alsatian terrorised my suburban neighbor. DJ savaged two poodles. I had a newspaper route. DJ met me every morning and tore at my newspapers. His owner said he was harmless. The police did nothing and I hit DJ with a lead pipe wrapped in a newspaper. He was a good dog after that, […]