I seen some almost valid points to cnotinue. The fact that I am not in Thailand I feel is very much hurting what I can offer. But the fact that my children as well as myself are learning Thai may help some. More that could be helpful is my wife. Knowing that many Thai...
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At last I was able to spend my first weekend at my house. The electricity was finally upgraded to 30 amps on Thursday enabling for us to turn on the air in more than one room at the same time. The only thing still left to do is connecting the telephone line. Two weeks...
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I would like to offer some ‘I’m sorry’s’ to those who have following my blogging. I knew when I began what exactly I was going to do with this blog. It seems to have taken a turn and after putting some thiought into it, I have decided not to continue with it. There are...
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I found the letter kevin wrote to his teacher, don’t tell him I posted it or even read it. But for us it was very touching, and made us proud. As mentioned previously he is an honor student and has never missed a day of school in his life and he is nearly 15...
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It has already been one week in my new house. Many of the main pieces of furniture have already been bought and delivered. The living room is very comfortable with the sofa and 29 inch t.v. The kitchen is doing OK with the electric stove, fridge, rice cooker, microwave and water filter. The office...
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The title of this blog is very typical of Thailand. Thais believe in serving with the personal touch unlike in the west where machines seem to have replaced much of the work force. There seems to be a worker for every part of the working process. Here are a few of the examples I...
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I haven’t posted in a few days, been busy with life I did want to post a list of famous (sarcastic) quotes that I found on a Pattaya news website a while back. I thought they were really cute…. Thirteen famous predictions by Barrie Kenyon 1. Computers in the future may weigh more than...
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A Complete Beginner I am a novice when it comes to learning to read and write Thai. Even though I have been visiting Thailand for 7 years on the trot, I never seem to be able to find enough time to learn to read Thai script, I have always relied on the romanised words....
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What you see is what you get? The other day I was watching Channel 3 (Thai TV), the local news. A schoolteacher became so enraged by a Primary student’s haircode violation, that he cut her hair – along with her earlobe. A few days thereafter, another astonishing cruelty made headlines in the newspaper: a...
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Sunday was the big day. Much of the furniture (beds/wardrobes and dressing tables for two bedrooms, the book cases for the office, the t.v. cabinet and most importantly the sofa!) was scheduled to arrive throughout the day. In addition, we arranged for some friends who had a pick-up truck to help with moving not...
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You know, for all the things the thais are well known for no one ever seems to mention this – it seems to be that thais can carry almost anything on a motorbike. This is of course also very dangerous but going out on the roads you will always see somethnig that makes you...
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Well again my entire weekend has been consumed or maybe it was me who consumed….? They called me on Friday and said, ‘it’s a holiday weekend you ready to play?’. Ready to play? Well, most everyone reading this is aware of Takgraw or Gathaw. For those not familiar, it is an asian game, not...
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I thought because Monday’s National holiday, I would have to wait until Tuesday to continue watching for the post man, eagerly awaiting my packages from Thailand. To my surprise he knocked on my door today. I was like a child with a present that is gift wrapped, tearing, no shredding my packages open. Finally...
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I have never done so much shopping in my life. With the end in sight at the townhouse, I decided I should start buying furniture. I had already done quite a bit of research these last few weeks so I had a fair idea of what I wanted to buy and how much it...
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Swimmin’ with the fishies It’s 2AM; I am sitting in the living room with my notebook in my lap, writing. It is raining – as it did all day yesterday, and the previous day, and the day before – you get the picture. Welcome to the Rainy Season. Thai people celebrate the beginning of...
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I had a worrying phone call this afternoon. One of my neighbours rang to say that they spotted smoke coming out of either my house or the one next door. Naturally I was a little panicked. I haven’t even moved into my new house and I was now having visions of it burning to...
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One thing that I am fairly sure of is that I will be able to drive anywhere in the world and deal with any road situation after living in Thailand. The funny thing is that the system still works though( not sure about Bangkok)…a kind of organised chaos. The general rule on the road...
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As I mentioned the other day, there are several letters that I have always had serious problems remembering. ภถฎฤฏกฦ and these are just as bad for me พฟผฬฝ So I went ahead and set my font size in Word to 48dpi, then named them each in their own boxes, printed and taped them to...
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