Category Archives: Random musings

Just my thoughts on anything that do not fit other boxes

Hey Canada, we are over here …Thailand not Taiwan

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Mike

http://reader.metronews.ca/digital_launch.aspx?id=3744758e-2ee5-4c13-a052-56711bdbdc91 An extract from a Vancouver publication, whose editor needs to learn some geography. (page 14, so it’s obviously not important news LOL) Canada ? Where is that ?

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A new neighbour ?

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Mike

It looks like I’ve got a new neighbour here in Bangkok. She’s a white female. (not that there is anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld would say) It seems she is going to be a single mother, I have … Continue reading →

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Learning the lingo

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Mike

Over the many years that I have been visiting Thailand I have met many farang who have been living here for some time, but could not speak more than a few phrases of the most basic of Thai, often picked … Continue reading →

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How low can a “journalist” go ?

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Mike

Andrew McGregor Marshall is a some-time journalist, some-time pen for hire often used as an expert on Thai politics by BBC, CNN, Reuters, even though his main job is writing PR for Thaksin Shinawatra’s lobbyist Robert Amsterdam so he is … Continue reading →

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Shutdown Bangkok, Restart Thailand

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Mike

The ongoing anti-government protests that I have written about before were stepped up a couple of weeks ago when the “Peoples Democratic Reform Committee” moved out of their previous base at Democracy Monument and spread across the city, taking over … Continue reading →

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Belated congratulations

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Mike

Just a quick post to congratulate Richard and Sophie from Morgan Safari on their arrival in London. I met these two when we were camped next to each other on a beach in Western Australia, when they were nearing the … Continue reading →

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