Tag Archives: farangs

Swearing in Thai

May 16, 2008 – 1:58 pm

Like most farangs I had a hard time learning Thai. It has taken years and only those Thais who know me well can decipher what I’m trying to say with a Bostonian accent. Conversely most of what is said to me is too fast for my ears to catch the meaning, but one day I […]

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Dives of Pattaya – Entry Date – Aug 3, 2007

August 3, 2007 – 2:37 am

Aug 3, 2007 Wikpedia defines a ‘dive’ as a rundown drinking establishment offering the cheap drinks of a high alcohol content to a questionable clientele frequenting the bar for the sole purpose of drinking and not petty drinking either. New York City had been loaded with such dubious haunts on the Bowery ot the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. 50 cents […]

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Costa del Crime Pattaya 2007

March 7, 2007 – 11:42 pm

Several years ago I decided to move out of New York, not wanting to become a septuagenarian in grimy clothing subsisting on cat food. My destination options were Paris, Palm Beach or Pattaya.  I had already lived in Paris during the 80s. At 50 I was still too young to enter into gigoloship at the Breakers in Palm […]

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