Soap Opera’s, or serials if you like, are a unique American invention of story telling that took the world by storm and no place loves their soaps more than Thailand. Originally serials started on the radio and would be a nightly or weekly productions that lasted anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour.
After the advent of television they really found a home. By the 1950’s every American television station had one or more being broadcast everyday to those lonely housewives who, inci... Read Full Story
Well, I guess I’m finally getting somewhere with this. You know more about my past than I like and I have yet to tell you about my present or future. Once you get through all the various cliché’s, and you do have to get through those cliché’s when you are in a Thai/Falang relationship, you begin to realize that it’s not much different than any other relationship.
Sure, there is the language barrier but most people in similar relationships will tell you what I’m a... Read Full Story
Sorry about the lateness of this post. I had to upgrade the back end of the blog yesterday and once upgraded a slew of problems attacked. All fixed now. So, on with the story. We last saw our young hero and heroine of the tale in Pattaya.
As I said before I came to Pattaya for [...] Read Full Story
A little while ago I got an e-mail from Catherine over at WomenLearningThai.com and she would be the impetus for this series of posts. Catherine wrote:
There are way too many cliché’s going around about expat men and Thai
women. I’m guilty of it, and I don’t like seeing myself that way. But I guess
it is because [...] Read Full Story
In the past several days the swine flue cases have trippled in Thailand to 151 infected individuals. Doesn’t sound very scary does it? Because it’s not! This whole swine flu phenomena has gotten out of control and I blame the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control.
Lets look at some facts shall we? [...] Read Full Story
Soi Bukow Soi Bukaow Soi Bukhao.
The Thai language is a tonal language so it doesn’t lend itself well to phonetic spellings due to the fact that the Thai alphabet is centered moreso around sounds than letters like most western languages. So, it’s always funny to me when I see an arguement pop up on [...] Read Full Story
There have been many rumours flying around the internet about the recent death of David Carradine but in the past few days close family friends and publicists nave alluded to the fact that Carradine’s hand’s were tied when he was found.
In the past day a Thai Tabloid publication called Thai Rath has published a supposed [...] Read Full Story
Seesaw & Ice Cube by Bill Thomas
Cue the Theme song to M*A*S*H
Yesterday actor David Carradine was found dead in his Bangkok hotel room. By all accounts this sounds like it was an auto-erotic asphyxiation death, although there are some reports stating his hands were tied as well which could place someone else in the room. [...] Read Full Story
