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17 Oct 07 visit Thailand Bar Girls Claim Another Victim. Be Careful Now this happened in Pattaya but could happen any where in Thailand. Bangkok, Ubon Ratchathani or some small village in the middle of nowhere.This is a Swedish man who obviously has nothing left. He was kicked out of his room in Pattaya after being unable...
21 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Foreigner Dies from Scorpion Bite. I was just reading a story about an elderly foreign man who meets a Thai lady and fell in love moved to Thailand and married her and then things went wrong.This is a common occurrence that many foreigners aren’t ready for, the change that real Th...
20 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Claims another Farang Victim. Thailand can be a fantastic place and also demoralizing for people. If you have ever watched the fantastic movie Leaving Las Vegas starring Nicholas Cage and he travels to Las Vegas to drink him self to death. He meets a hooker and then continues on his...
20 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Could Thai TV be Changing. This is the best news I have read in a Thai newspaper in a long, long time. The government seems to be serious in ridding early TV timeslots of the absolute crap that is on Thai TV now.Apparently it will not mean the end of these monotonous dramas but if...
19 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Birthday Party and Food on The River. Tonight we were off to celebrate Noot’s birthday. As usual Noot’s sister was a little late and Noot’s friends even later around 45 minutes so we were waiting for them as we were all going in the one truck.After they arrived we headed off to some...
19 Jul 07 visit Thailand. My Amazing Girl's Birthday Tonight. Well It's Miss Noot's birthday tonight and we are heading out for an evening on the river with some of her univesity friends and also family.So that means that her mum is coming and I am going to try my hardest and not say anything nasty to her about...
18 Jul 07 visit Australia. The Justice System is a Joke. Please read this story and tell me there isn’t something seriously wrong with the Australians justice system and its idiotic judges. Fears for release of Siagon Tiger. A real scumbag.Brunty.
18 Jul 07 visit Thailand. IT Fantastic Fair in Isaan Country. The other day I ventured to an IT show. It was being held at the Rajhabat University and I wanted to see about buying an external hard drive for some extra storage and also some look at handy drives.Anytime there are any types of shows on Thai people go...
17 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Student Goes Crazy in Class. Just Another Day Teaching English in Thailand. I little while back I blogged about a student in year 6 who went nuts one day and jumped out a 3rd story window during one of my classes Student goes crazy. And ended up on a ledge and wouldn’t come back in the window.Here is a little background on th...
16 Jul 07 visit Thailand. English Camp, Fun Games and Farang Food. As most of my readers probably know I am teaching English here in far north east of Thailand in Ubon Ratchathani. I don’t usually blog a lot on this as I don’t want to bore my readers with just everyday happenings of school life but will post about th...
15 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Illegal DVD's, Somtam and Shopping. Well today I got up and went to the local market at Big C as I wanted to see my friend and find out what was happening. Noot was eager to come as well because you can do lots of shopping there and her Birthday is on Thursday and she needs new clothes to...
14 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Police Cannot Even Be Corrupt Honestly. It never ceases to amaze me with the police of Thailand. We know that so many of them are corrupt and they cannot even be corrupt honestly. You just cannot trust them at all. They are lower than politicians and they are really low on the trust chain.We...
13 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Drunken Fools Try and hit a Lady with a Beer Bottle. This is two of Thailand’s finest. These two wonderful men come from my part of the country Ubon Ratchathani province. They had gone to the big city in search of god knows what but like many young Thai men from villagers are totally waste of space and t...
13 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Police Round Up illegal Workers Again. I have been reading about more illegal workers from Thailand’s neighbouring countries of Burma and Cambodia being caught working without passports or correct documents. This is very common and is reported about often. Every few weeks you see the poli...
13 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Drunk Police Officer Chases Garbage Men with a Knife. You have to love Thailand. I always get a good laugh especially when I get to read funny stories like this.A Thai deputy police inspector has been charged with assaulting garbage collectors while drunk. He is facing charges of assaulting, insulting and...
12 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Foreign Son in Laws are Growing in The Land of Smiles. Okay this was a funny report in the Bangkok Post. It’s about Thailand becoming “The Land Full of Foreign Son in Laws”, apparently the cross-cultural marriages at around 10% each year. It also said they won’t always live happily, well that’s s...
11 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Waterfall Soi Sawan Isaan Country. Part 1. Last weekend I had the pleasure of being a bachelor for 2 days and one night. My lovely other half and some of her girlfriends from university went Noot’s friend Annie’s village. It isn’t too far from Noot’s village where she lived as a small baby...
11 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Waterfall Soi Sawan. Isaan Country Part 2. A nice waterfall.Noot and her crazy friend and she is very funny Gai.Cascading water.More steep cascading falls.Laughing really hard as Noon has just fallen over.More water cascading down.Some beautiful steep cliffs and there are plenty of them about.Some...
11 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Waterfall Soi Sawan Isaan Country. Part 3. It's steep going in places and also very slippery I am sure there must be some serious accidents here at timesThere are many little cascading waterfalls everywhere, but being down stream from a bunch of intoxicated young males the water could contain...
10 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Are we being Taken for a Ride by Most Monks. Okay I am going to rant about something we are always told not to talk about, religion.I am not religious at all. I am not Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and so forth. Do I believe there is a god any sort of god? Maybe but I haven’t every spoken to him li...
10 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Is My Thai Bargirl Sincere or Cheating. Okay my loyal readers. I know that there are many of you are there who can help me with this. A reader wrote to me and asked a question after reading a story I wrote called Thai Fever. Are you Immune to the Poison? This is what he has asked...
09 Jul 07 visit Thailand, A Night Off Posting. First time in a Long Time. Sorry to all my regular readers. I am not posting tonight as I have been busy finishing tests/exams for school. I have got plenty to post about but am too tired to concentrate even though I have 4 or 5 posts completely mapped out.So to all a good night...
08 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Isaan Family. Can One Farang Change Things Forever. I know I have opened a very big kettle of fish trying to change a Thai system that seems to be unchangeable. We all know that, especially if you have been here in Thailand for a few years how Thai family works. I am stepping into very dangerous territory...
07 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Dallas Episode 5. J.R. V's Mother in Law. The days of Dallas are returning to the Far North East of Thailand. You see my mother in law has returned from her attempt of finding work in Bangkok again. She didn’t even last 2 weeks as I thought would be the case.She did this exact thing about...
07 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Update on Crazy Mercedes Driver. Update on the man who used his Mercedes Benz to run over bus passengers in a road rage incident in Bangkok.The idiot’s father has been on television threatening to file charges against enraged bystanders who turned on him and bashed the shit out if h...
06 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Rainy Day, Flooded Streets, Fish and a Wet Dog. Okay I am sorry for my 2 earlier posts but I needed to get them off my chest.Today it was a wet day. We have had steady rain since mid afternoon and there have been a few heavy patches. It stopped thankfully at the end of work time and I got home without...
06 Jul 07 visit Australia. Agencies Protecting Children are a Joke. This is a story on the pathetic protection being offered to children in Australia who are victim of having unfit parents. The departments that are set up in Australia are a disgrace and are failing at their jobs miserably, and even though they always...
06 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Angry Mercedes Driver Kills Bystanders. This story is from Bangkok and involves a spoilt psychopathic brat from a well off Thai family. A son of a former Miss Thailand winner has been charged with murder and attempted murder after he ran over several bus passengers with his car, killing one and...
05 Jul 07 visit Thailand. A Police Officer not a Dream Job anywhere in The World. It’s not the best job anywhere in the world to be a policeman, well that’s my view anyway. Most police especially here in Thailand and back in Australia are underpaid and cop plenty of flak. I admit I give plenty of this to the local men in brown but ...
05 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Baby Rabbits and Good Thai Food. Well it’s been another tuff day at the office. Around eight and a half hours at school making a meager wage that isn’t so meager here in Thailand. When you compare the money to your home country you think what I am doing here working but then you com...
04 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Rotten Fish and Papaya Salad. The last few days every time I arrive home from school there is a smell like something has died and has been lying in the sun for many days. It’s a very pungent smell that makes your stomach turn and screw your face up at the smell.The offending smell ...
03 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Lifes Hard at the Top. Isaan Country Food. Well after a hard days work here in Isaan I came home and went to my local park to run with some of my friends. I go there everyday weather permitting and stay there for around one and a half hours.A few reasons I enjoy this are: 1 I put on weight easy...
03 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Pedophile Gets what he Deserves. Well this is a blog that many will probably not like but I have to have my say.I am happy to report that this case has come to a happy ending, well for me anyway.I read in the paper the other day about this man being arrested for raping an eleven (11)...
02 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Thai Family. Just like the days of Dallas. Okay this blog could get me into a lot of trouble. The reason being it’s about Noot’s older sister Joom. So I am going to post about some things about her.The reason for this is Noot asked me if we would think of all moving into together in a very lar...
01 Jul 07 visit Thailand. A Hard Day in Paradise. It was another tuff day in paradise and I had the morning off and slept in until 8:30 am which is very later for me but I needed it as I have been going to bed between 12am-1am almost every night lately.So after a sleep in, we went to the local market for...
01 Jul 07 visit Thailand. Car V's Motorbike and 13 year old Girl Rider. I wrote about this the other day and how dangerous it can be on the roads of Thailand with so many young and inexperienced drivers and riders on the road.You have to be 15 years old to hold a motorbike license and 20 to hold a car license but this isn’t...
30 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Sticky Rice and a Hard Stressful Day. Well it was another tuff day in Isaan. I worked for 5 hours teaching private students at home. I really enjoy these weekend classes as the kids come to my house as they want to learn. They sit and listen and we talk do some work and have fun. I enjoy my...
30 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Babies Being Left to Die a Sad and Lonely Death. I have been reading the papers and lately there have been a lot more reports of infants being abandoned all over Thailand. I know that this is a problem as I have read about it before but is hardly ever written about in the newspapers. The last report...
29 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Nothing Better than a Home Cooked Meal Well all is well at home. After eating from the roadside food stalls for the last few nights I was missing some home cooked food. No matter where you are in the world, there is nothing like eating food that is cooked at home in your own kitchen.Noot is a...
29 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Beautiful students and Girls Behaving Badly and update on J. This is the latest update on the student who really lost it the other day at the start of my class. That post here Boy loses it at school and jumps out window . Well yesterday I spoke to some Thai teachers as I wanted to find out if he was okay and what...
28 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Dallas Episode 3. Young Sister Downloads Spyware. Well Dallas episode 3 has happened. It doesn’t involve Noot’s mum Ma. It involves Noot’s younger sister Ben. Since Ma has moved to Bangkok looking for work or love or whatever Ben was living on her own in the village, well not really by herself as ...
27 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Are Thai Kids Wrapped in Cotton Wool. Are they Taught Right from Wrong. Today I am going to write about something that happened today at school and I believe it all comes down to the way Thai society treat their children.In 2 years that I have been teaching English here in Thailand I have never had a student lose it like he...
26 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Dead Poets Day. Sunthorn Phu Day. A Thai Legend. Well today in Thailand at my school we celebrated the ‘Sunthorn Phu Day’ or as we call Dead Poet’s Day. Sunthorn is one of or is the best poet to come from Thailand and is very popular amongst the Thai people.From what I have researched Sunthorn ...
25 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Student in a Motorbike Vs Bike Crash. Today in Ubon Ratchthani I was a workingman as I do every Monday-Friday. I teach at Assumption College and have been there for around 2 years now. Today when I went to one of my classes that I really like one reason as it is small and only has 14 students...
24 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Sexy Thai Coyote Girls Shake Their Thing. Well I have finally finished uploading the Coyote girls dancing. I have been a little bust lately and it didn’t take up too much time. Sadly I would have liked the footage to be a lot better but it’s still okay and a few of the girls are hot and shak...
23 Jun 07 visit Thailand. House fixed. Will not Burn Down Now. Hopefully. As I reported before my house was trying to burn down and the fuse box thing was sparking every time the fridge or air conditioner motors cut in. The other night the fuse box was very hot and smelt really bad as the small sparks were melting the plastic a...
22 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Police Getting Tough on Counterfeiters. For some reason the Thai police are really cracking down on pirated DVD’s, CD’s, VCD’s. MP3’s and stuff. Ever since the big USA put Thailand on the Watch list the boys in brown have taken this a little more seriously.The last 2 weeks here...
22 Jun 07 visit Thailand. Trying to Burn Down the House in Isaan. Well this is the offending fuse board thing that is threatening to burn the house down at anytime. It sparks a bit especially when the fridge motor cuts in. I am waiting for an electrician to come tonight. It’s now 7pm here but I have spoken to him and ...
22 Jun 07 visit Thailand. House Tries to Burn Down. I might have found the problem to my internet connection problems and also why the lights fail to work in my house sometimes. Last night my internet connection was going on and off and I tried to turn a light on in one of my rooms and it would come on. I...

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