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My First Night in Bangkok
January 2, 2014
A New Year and a New Sea View Room in Pattaya
January 4, 2014
25 Days of Heaven Part 2
January 6, 2014
Thai Bargirl Advice
January 6, 2014
Ladyboys, an Alternative View Part 1
January 8, 2014
Mirror, Mirror
January 8, 2014
I Nearly Got Scammed in Hua Hin
January 9, 2014
Farangs Looking For Love In Thailand Are Losers
January 9, 2014
Ladyboys, an Alternative View Part 2
January 10, 2014
Farewell to Pattaya
January 10, 2014
My Thai Girlfriend; Potential Problems?
January 11, 2014
Dear John – From One Male Model to Another
January 11, 2014
My 9 Trips to Thailand
January 13, 2014
Those That Say Farang Women Are No Good
January 13, 2014
One Born Every Minute?
January 14, 2014
With Regards to Class Tension
January 15, 2014
Bangkok Hellcats
January 15, 2014
25 Days of Heaven Part 3
January 16, 2014
We Have No-one To Blame But Ourselves
January 16, 2014
Ladyboys, an Alternative View Part 3
January 17, 2014
A Few Points, For Clarity
January 17, 2014
Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile
January 18, 2014
Paradise Maybe Already Lost
January 18, 2014
The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
January 20, 2014
My Girlfriend Turns Out To Be A Post-op Ladyboy
January 20, 2014
Thais in Afghanistan and other Very Bad Things
January 21, 2014
The Good Old Days
January 21, 2014
Time To Spawn?
January 22, 2014
My Curious Academic Career in Thailand
January 22, 2014
Dear John
January 23, 2014
Different Stages
January 23, 2014
25 Days of Heaven Part 4
January 24, 2014
Told You So: The Final Act?
January 24, 2014
Life in Sunny Sanya
January 25, 2014
Once Arab, Never Other
January 25, 2014
How Can Something So Bad Feel So Good?
January 28, 2014
A Girl Who Can’t Say No
January 29, 2014
Flipside Frank and Annabelle
January 29, 2014
And I Always Laughed At The Water Buffalo
January 30, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 1 – First Round
January 31, 2014
The Art Of The Gee
January 31, 2014
Surviving Typhoon Hiayan
February 1, 2014
The Hot House Flowers
February 1, 2014
Living on the Fringes
February 3, 2014
About Thailand, Philippines and Frank
February 3, 2014
Why I Think We All Tend To End Up With One Girl, Eventually…
February 4, 2014
A Slice of Pai
February 4, 2014
Gone in a Moment
February 5, 2014
Face: The Most Ridiculous And Unproductive Concept Ever Invented
February 5, 2014
The Bangkok Political Situation
February 6, 2014
Understanding The Concept of Face in Asia
February 7, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 2 – Second Round
February 7, 2014
India Trip Report
February 8, 2014
LOS 1.01 Back To Basics
February 8, 2014
Basic Thai Bargirl Economics
February 12, 2014
The View From Here
February 12, 2014
Tales of Megalithic Sites, War History and Opium Fields: A Trip to Phonsavanh, Laos
February 13, 2014
Sympathy For The Devil
February 14, 2014
The Problem With Thai Women Part 1
February 18, 2014
My Normal Thai Lady
February 19, 2014
Excerpt from Revenge Season (Sequel to Fear and Loathing in Pattaya)
February 21, 2014
You Are All Deluded, Me Too Probably
February 24, 2014
The Story of Nantisa
February 24, 2014
Scarlett O’Hara
February 25, 2014
Sons of Heaven
February 25, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 3 – The Deep Stuff
February 26, 2014
Rants, Raves and Ramblings
February 26, 2014
Travel Advisory
February 27, 2014
The Far Reaching Idea That We Should Marry For Love
February 28, 2014
Thai Crisis As Seen From The North
March 1, 2014
The Problem With Thai Women Part 2
March 1, 2014
Why It’s Different This Time
March 1, 2014
Cigarettes And Whisky And Lukewarm Women
March 3, 2014
Delightful Andalucía – Sevilla, Cadíz, Ana María
March 3, 2014
Yenta Body Massage
March 6, 2014
You Stole Everything But Now I Want To Say ‘Thank You’
March 6, 2014
Thailand Girlfriend Nightmare Situation
March 7, 2014
After a Year or so in Thailand
March 7, 2014
Bad Habits
March 8, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 4 – Reflections
March 8, 2014
I Don’t Get It
March 10, 2014
You Catch More Foreign Fools With Vina Honey Than Vinagar
March 11, 2014
Wonderful
March 12, 2014
Sawasdee Krup!
March 12, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 5 – My 2 Baht
March 13, 2014
So Last Weekend Here In The Middle East Was, Umm, Interesting
March 17, 2014
Does She Love Him?
March 18, 2014
Musing About A Bit Of Everything Thai
March 22, 2014
School Daze
March 24, 2014
Some Feedback on the State of the Bar Industry in Thailand – from an Amateur’s Observation
March 24, 2014
The Women Of Bangkok, A Different Perspective
March 25, 2014
Thailand Girlfriend Nightmare Situation Response
March 25, 2014
The Decline of Bangkok’s Girlie Bars
March 26, 2014
Memo To Bangkok Gogo Bar Owners
March 26, 2014
Bangkok Nightlife, Gogo Bars & Pubs and Foreign Managers Needed
March 27, 2014
An Inconvenient Truth
March 28, 2014
The Only Way Is Down
March 28, 2014
Why Thailand Was Never Colonized
March 29, 2014
Same, Same – But Not Different
March 31, 2014
The Perfect Storm
March 31, 2014
An Oldie but Goodie
April 1, 2014
The Decline Of the Go-Go Bar Experience
April 1, 2014
Every Time I See A Western Woman I Feel I Want To Vomit
April 2, 2014
I Missed A Bullet
April 3, 2014
Variation on Pregnancy / Baby Scam?
April 4, 2014
Every Time I See a Western Man I Feel I Want to Vomit
April 5, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 6 – Back in Bangkok
April 7, 2014
When It All Went Wrong…
April 7, 2014
Buying a Beer – Are You Getting What You Paid For?
April 8, 2014
The Future of Bangkok Gogo Bars
April 8, 2014
Another Long Time Mistake
April 9, 2014
Two New Thailand Scams
April 10, 2014
A Sailor’s Last Dance
April 10, 2014
Naivety Of A Grand Scale
April 15, 2014
Two’s Company; Three’s a Party
April 16, 2014
Why is New Year April 13, 2557?
April 16, 2014
Amsterdam vs Thailand
April 17, 2014
Bangkok – Reality or Fiction?
April 17, 2014
Tales From The Hill Village Part 5
April 18, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 7 – Takeaway?
April 18, 2014
Aussie Moving to Thailand
April 19, 2014
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
April 19, 2014
Members Only – Perceptions from an Indian Australian in Pattaya
April 21, 2014
Cry Freedom
April 21, 2014
A Losing Game
April 22, 2014
Lost In Time
April 22, 2014
Nothing Changes but Nothing Stays The Same
April 23, 2014
What’s Up With Patong and Bangkok?
April 23, 2014
When Love Kills Love
April 24, 2014
Don’t Blame Thai Girls, Blame Yourself!
April 24, 2014
What the Heart Wants
April 26, 2014
I’m Over It
April 26, 2014
Betrayal – Through Belief In A Structure Built On Sand
April 28, 2014
Twenty Years On
April 28, 2014
The Farm
April 29, 2014
Leaving Thailand
April 29, 2014
Salient Elements To Consider Regarding Life In Thailand
April 30, 2014
A Possibly Atypical Bangkok Bargirl – Part 8 – Come Together And Then Some
April 30, 2014
Cold Winds Of Change Hit Hot Emotions
May 1, 2014
20 Years of Thailand Vacations, And Still Loving It!
May 3, 2014
White Girls
May 3, 2014
Death Lurks around Every Corner – Highway Driving in Thailand
May 5, 2014
A Vietnamese Adventure Part 1
May 5, 2014
Ignorance Is Bliss
May 6, 2014
Ladyboys, The Awakening Part 1
May 7, 2014
Attach Photos Please
May 7, 2014
Angeles City Revisited
May 9, 2014
Mirror Mirror On The Wall Who Is The Greatest Of Them All?
May 9, 2014
Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus
May 10, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 1
May 10, 2014
Lessons In Lust
May 12, 2014
Update From The Pretender
May 12, 2014
What Has Changed
May 15, 2014
Notes from Farangland Part 1
May 16, 2014
Having A Thai Family – Can You Afford It?
May 16, 2014
Life in Isaan
May 17, 2014
The Old Man on The Terrace
May 17, 2014
Notes from Farangland – Part 2 – Earning Power and Opportunity Cost
May 20, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 2
May 20, 2014
Wonderful, An Encore!
May 21, 2014
Why Angeles?
May 22, 2014
The Middle Path
May 22, 2014
Thailand’s Bars Today
May 23, 2014
The Ever-changing Face of Religion
May 23, 2014
Notes from Farangland – Part 3 – Infrastructure, Traffic, Pollution
May 23, 2014
Hardship Posting
May 24, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 3
May 24, 2014
The Utopia of Britain
May 24, 2014
Having A Thai Retirement – Who Can Afford It?
May 26, 2014
Tales Of A Pakistani Punter
May 27, 2014
Idiosyncrasies In Thailand – And Elsewhere
May 27, 2014
The Young And The Restless
May 28, 2014
Old Ex-Pat Blues
May 28, 2014
Farangs Not Yet Made The Grade To Expat Status
May 28, 2014
Living in the Thai Countryside
May 29, 2014
Apocalypse Now
May 29, 2014
Stung Like a Jelly Fish
May 30, 2014
Notes from Farangland – Part 4 – Thai Women
May 30, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 4
May 31, 2014
My Thailand Experience
June 2, 2014
Weighing Anchor – Detachment And Memories Of The 70s
June 2, 2014
Bangkok Trip Report
June 3, 2014
Meandering Thoughts About Marginalization, Money, Visas, Ladyboys
June 3, 2014
In Defence Of Bangkok (And The Biergarten Too)
June 4, 2014
Every Day You Wake Up Is A Good Day
June 4, 2014
Two Days In A Life
June 5, 2014
Crazy Bitch
June 5, 2014
And Some More
June 6, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 5
June 7, 2014
Vignettes from Bangkok Volume 2
June 10, 2014
East Is East and West Is West
June 10, 2014
Retirement in Thailand
June 12, 2014
Thai Girlfriend Nightmare Situation Follow Up
June 12, 2014
Happy Never To Return To Asia
June 13, 2014
Leaving Thailand Forever
June 13, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 6
June 14, 2014
Fathers and Sons
June 14, 2014
My Pal Phil
June 16, 2014
Response to CiderheadBrit
June 16, 2014
The Genie In The Bottle
June 17, 2014
Thai Family Moves to the UK
June 17, 2014
Medical Insurance in Thailand
June 18, 2014
Burned by a Woman from Isaan
June 18, 2014
Marrying a Massage Girl
June 19, 2014
Apologies – and Forgiveness
June 19, 2014
Reply to “Burned by a Woman from Isaan”
June 20, 2014
CiderHeadBrit – A Solution
June 20, 2014
Kodachrome
June 21, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 7
June 21, 2014
Two Sides Of The Coin and Pathos
June 23, 2014
Philippine Sex Slave in Japan is my Love Interest
June 23, 2014
One Dimension
June 24, 2014
A Complaint About What The Readers’ Submissions Has Become
June 24, 2014
Choices In Life And Matters Of Truth
June 25, 2014
Jason, Was I A Moron?
June 25, 2014
Let’s Make A Baby!
June 26, 2014
Again…Really?
June 26, 2014
Notes from Farangland – Part 5 – Education
June 27, 2014
Honesty
June 27, 2014
The Quiet Man
June 28, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 8
June 28, 2014
Crap
June 30, 2014
Internet Dating in Thailand
June 30, 2014
God How I Hate This Place
July 1, 2014
A Change For the Better
July 1, 2014
The Nature Of Success
July 2, 2014
A Change for the Worse
July 2, 2014
Living In Isolation
July 3, 2014
Thailand Ping Pong Show
July 3, 2014
More In Defence Of Bangkok
July 4, 2014
Unspoken Feelings
July 4, 2014
What’s All the Hubbub?
July 5, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 9
July 5, 2014
Unforgettable
July 9, 2014
A Suit, Sir?
July 10, 2014
Greener Grass
July 10, 2014
I Know Her By Heart
July 11, 2014
Between Then And Now
July 12, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 10
July 12, 2014
Womanism and Feminism
July 14, 2014
On Searching For a Thai Wife and the Calculus of the Nightlife Industry
July 14, 2014
Tales of Saturdays Nights, Curfews and “Property Development” Girls
July 15, 2014
The Precept
July 15, 2014
The Tangible Shift
July 16, 2014
Infidelity
July 16, 2014
Thai Girl Pregnancy Scam Follow-Up
July 17, 2014
Business As Usual
July 17, 2014
One Smile Can Change A Life
July 18, 2014
The Art Of Courtship
July 18, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 11
July 19, 2014
Love, a Western Myth?
July 19, 2014
Impressions of Phnom Penh
July 21, 2014
Notes from Farangland – Final Part
July 22, 2014
3 Days 2 Nights Screwing Spree
July 23, 2014
Does Thailand Want Retirees?
July 23, 2014
Top 10 Reasons Thai Gogo Bars Are Failing
July 24, 2014
Night Flight to Singapore
July 24, 2014
Why Thailand?
July 25, 2014
Beautiful Young Thai – Do You Have any Collateral?
July 25, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 12
July 26, 2014
Phuket 1998
July 26, 2014
When the Thai Bug Exits the System
July 28, 2014
“Why I Never Married A Thai”, Thoughts From A Thai Woman
July 28, 2014
How Luck Pans Out…
July 29, 2014
If The Illusion Is Real, Let Them Give You A Ride
July 29, 2014
Thai Temple, Raynham
July 30, 2014
Train Modelling in Thailand
July 30, 2014
Why Rent When You Can Buy?
July 31, 2014
Exit Strategy
July 31, 2014
Some First Impressions
August 2, 2014
Revenge Season Chapter 13
August 2, 2014
Peeking Above The Parapet
August 4, 2014
The Grass is Always Greener
August 4, 2014
Is Living in China a Better Proposition? Part 1
August 5, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (1) – Leaving Is Such Sweet Sorrow?
August 5, 2014
Travel Notes: Samet And The Old Man
August 6, 2014
‘Jasmine Fever’: How Do You Explain It?
August 6, 2014
Middle Income Thais Live Better Than Low Income Americans
August 9, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (2) – In The Mothership
August 9, 2014
A Sense of Obligation
August 11, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (3) – Koy? Don’t Carp
August 11, 2014
The Shoestring Millionaire
August 12, 2014
The Independent Westerner
August 12, 2014
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning – 14 Hours In Nakon Nowhere
August 13, 2014
Bangkok Trip
August 13, 2014
Travel Notes: Cosmo Girl
August 14, 2014
Venture Sponsorship – 1
August 14, 2014
The Die Is Cast Part 1
August 15, 2014
Face Saving
August 15, 2014
Venture Sponsorship – 2
August 18, 2014
Heading For Home
August 18, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (4) – For Every Happy Hello There Will Be Goodbye
August 19, 2014
An African Perspective
August 19, 2014
Venture Sponsorship – 3
August 20, 2014
Let Me Tell You About The Future
August 20, 2014
Reflecting on “An African Perspective”
August 21, 2014
The Die Is Cast Part 2
August 21, 2014
Venture Sponsorship – 4
August 23, 2014
Shit White Men And Thai Spouses
August 23, 2014
Rchael, Oh Rachel
August 25, 2014
Once Upon A Time
August 25, 2014
My Trip To Korat
August 26, 2014
Regarding Rachel
August 26, 2014
Angeles Revisited
August 27, 2014
In The Eye of the Beholder
August 27, 2014
Is Living in China a Better Proposition? Part 2
August 28, 2014
Venture Sponsorship – 5
August 28, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (5) – Alone Again Or
August 29, 2014
The Die Is Cast Part 3
August 29, 2014
Venture Sponsorship – 6
August 30, 2014
Why “Wai”? Are you a Thai?
September 2, 2014
Dowry Money – An Average Thai Girl’s View
September 2, 2014
WTF is Chemistry?
September 3, 2014
The Economics of Bar Girl Pricing
September 3, 2014
Hopefully There Is A Way
September 4, 2014
I Came To Pattaya For The Sex – I Left With Anal Warts
September 4, 2014
There Is a Way
September 5, 2014
Travel Notes: The Tree of Life
September 5, 2014
Destination Rehab
September 6, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (6) – You’re The Only One I Can’t Forget
September 6, 2014
There Is A Way II
September 8, 2014
Thai Girlfriend in the West
September 8, 2014
Only Sheep Need A Leader
September 9, 2014
First Time Bangkok Dangerous
September 9, 2014
The Die Is Cast Part 4
September 10, 2014
Valuable Money
September 10, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (7) – Someone Said To Me, “You Know That You Could Be In Love, With Almost Everyone.”
September 13, 2014
From The Archives
September 13, 2014
The Boss’s Daughter
September 16, 2014
The Die Is Cast Part 5
September 16, 2014
Fisking An Ugly American
September 19, 2014
The Lady-boy-ization of the Western Female
September 19, 2014
The Class System in Thailand – An Average Thai Girl’s View
September 20, 2014
Sukhumvit Machete
September 20, 2014
Observations From a Returning G.I. Who Was in Thailand During The War
September 22, 2014
Do We Really Need More ‘Thainess’?
September 23, 2014
Bangkok Farewell: The Death Of A Dream
September 23, 2014
Refreshing Thailand
September 24, 2014
My Response to the Killings on Koh Tao
September 24, 2014
The Twists and Turns of Love Through TLL and Skype
September 25, 2014
Phetchaburi Shadow
September 25, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (8) – “I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside, Beside The Sea…” (All Together Now, “I Do Like…”)
September 27, 2014
A Period Of Innocence – A Period Of Change
September 29, 2014
The Road To Lao Bao
September 29, 2014
Up To You, Up to Me
September 30, 2014
End of Empire
September 30, 2014
The Die Is Cast Part 6
September 30, 2014
Travel Notes: The Curious Case Of The Sunset And The 15 Porches
October 1, 2014
A Girlfriend Experience
October 1, 2014
A Few Days In Yangon
October 2, 2014
What Is Missing?
October 6, 2014
A Lucky Man?
October 6, 2014
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
October 7, 2014
Gonezo
October 7, 2014
My Take on Thai Massage Parlours
October 8, 2014
My Journey Through Thailand
October 8, 2014
Review of A Famous A-Gogo in Ubon
October 9, 2014
Do You Still Monger Once Hitched?
October 9, 2014
My Journey Out Of Mongering
October 10, 2014
Mongering While Hitched? That Is The Question
October 10, 2014
One Of The Has-beens
October 11, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (9) – There’s A Bluebird Sitting On The Branch…
October 11, 2014
A Spiritual Journey
October 13, 2014
Honey, I Got To Share You
October 13, 2014
Pilgrimage
October 14, 2014
Reflecting On A Modern-Day Chronicler
October 14, 2014
Finding A Partner In Buddhism
October 15, 2014
Back In Bangkok For Two Glorious Weeks
October 15, 2014
How I Discovered Your Site
October 16, 2014
The Bangkok SAS
October 16, 2014
Perhaps It Was A Dream – No, It Was Real
October 17, 2014
Going to Thailand to Find a Wife
October 17, 2014
My Retirement Plans
October 18, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (10) – I’m Not The Man I Usd To Be
October 18, 2014
Chances Are
October 20, 2014
Bangkok New-aaaahhhhhrrrrr
October 20, 2014
Vietnamese Adventure Part Deux
October 21, 2014
How To Get My Life Back?
October 21, 2014
The Real Thing
October 22, 2014
Bringing Your Thai Partner West
October 22, 2014
My Last Visit To The Land of Smiles
October 24, 2014
People I Have Known in Asia : Jim (part 1 of 2)
October 24, 2014
Out Of The Formicary (11) – The Long And Winding Road To The Starlight Express
October 25, 2014
Is Living in China a Better Proposition? Part 3
October 25, 2014
Dating and Relationships – An Average Thai Girl’s View
October 27, 2014
It Happened One Night
October 27, 2014
Some Lessons Learned
October 30, 2014
Down And Out In The Big Mango
October 30, 2014
Deviant Thailand And Loving Chiang Mai
October 31, 2014
The Island
October 31, 2014
Jus’ the Way I Likes It
November 3, 2014
Not So Average After All
November 5, 2014
A Soapy Shakedown
November 6, 2014
People I Have Known in Asia : Jim (part 2 of 2)
November 6, 2014
The Real Deal? Or Not?
November 7, 2014
My Cultural Madness
November 7, 2014
Tossed Salad
November 8, 2014
Old Farts, Young Tarts And Insights On The Myth Of “Asian Values”
November 8, 2014
In The Kingdom of Make Believe
November 10, 2014
God’s Waiting Room
November 11, 2014
Thai Women, My Thoughts
November 11, 2014
The Good Sister
November 12, 2014
Doomsday in Pattaya; Redux
November 13, 2014
The Island Part 2 The Rain Season
November 15, 2014
The Stories They Tell
November 17, 2014
Thai / Foreigner Relationships
November 18, 2014
Et tu, Brute?
November 20, 2014
It’s the Sauce That Ties the Whole Thing Together
November 20, 2014
Another Good Thai Wife Story
November 24, 2014
When Asia Spits You Out
November 25, 2014
One Final Report Before Stickman Signs ‘Over & Out’!
November 25, 2014
Ray
November 26, 2014
How To Get My Life Back, An Update
December 3, 2014
Music in Gogo Bars
December 4, 2014
The Art Of War The Art Of Love
December 5, 2014
Why I Keep Coming Back
December 5, 2014
Redundancy Is The Key To Clarity
December 9, 2014
The Best Places To Live
December 12, 2014
Solving The Puzzle
December 13, 2014
The Island Part 3, About Thai Women
December 15, 2014
Land of Sunshine
December 16, 2014
Acceptance
December 16, 2014
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?
December 17, 2014
Survey Results: Western Expats in the Phillippines
December 18, 2014
A Year In Isaan
December 19, 2014
Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead
December 19, 2014
Fish Balls
December 20, 2014
Being a “Privateer”
December 22, 2014
The Ides of the Blind in Thailand
December 22, 2014
Nine Years On
December 23, 2014
The Penny Has Finally Dropped
December 23, 2014
Paradise Lost
December 24, 2014
The Money
December 24, 2014
On Muscled Guys and Indonesian Girls
December 26, 2014
Deck the Halls With Bottles of Maggi
December 26, 2014
Ramblings in Support of Thailand
December 27, 2014
Viva Vallarta, An Alternative Retirement Destination
December 27, 2014
Bangkok For The Holidays
December 29, 2014
Call It What You Will
December 29, 2014
Putting The Pieces Together
December 30, 2014
Anal Wart Removal at Pattaya International Hospital
December 31, 2014