Tag Archives: bangkok

Do Not Pass Go

July 11, 2009 – 1:06 am

Andrew Drummond reports online that over 160 tourists have been scammed by King Power over the past few months. Sales staff have called police after tourist have wandered out of their sales area in the kilometer-long gauntlet of duty-free shop in Cobra Swamp Airport. Despite King Power’s refuting the charges against two British citizens with […]

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Poor Grasshopper

June 6, 2009 – 12:49 pm

Most Americans’ introduction to eastern thought was via the TV show KUNG FU starring David Carradine. The lanky actor played a Eurasian Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine wandering the Old West. Wisdom was dispensed through flashbacks to the young man’s studies with his tutor, Master Po. Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear? […]

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Lightning Strikes in Bangkok

April 17, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Songkran signals the approach of the rainy season. it’s still hot and the weather can produce epic lightning storms. My girlfriends always insisted on shutting off every electrical device in the house other than the fans. They would shiver in fear of a lightning strike. Everyone had someone who had died out in the rice […]

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Anti American Noise

June 23, 2008 – 11:18 am

Today an irate Yank responded to a letter in the Bangkolk Post’s Postbag complaining about the treatment at the US Embassy in Bangkok. I have always been hadnled with professionalism at the counter, then again I’m a US citizen and only want a few extra pages in my passport. Try getting a visa for your […]

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17 Hours Bangkok-JFK Express

May 27, 2008 – 8:34 am

I’ve traveled from Bangkok-New York over 40 times in the last 15 years. East via Europe. West via Tokyo or Korea or Taipei. The stopovers at these transit terminals were rehearsals for purgatory and if so then drinks are cheap in that spiritual way station. In fact nothing is cheap in transit lounges, unless your […]

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