Can’t go without disclaimers nowadays… Caveat Emptor! No, this is not the ‘empty cave’ spell from Harry Potter, but an old Latin saying that stands for ‘buyer beware!’. It means that once you bought something, the seller couldn’t care less if you later turn out to be unhappy with the stuff. What you see...
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Wandering in Bangkok, I chanced upon this beautiful building above. The pagoda-like porch is looking novel and somehow goes well with a modern skyscraper. Another attractive feature is the clock, where in the time is indicated in Thai script. This gives a unique type of beauty to the clock. Thai script with its elliptic...
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Old Patong was about the sweetest place a couple of lucky honeymooners could be in 1979. We arrived early June, the monsoon working strong, we’d sit in a little open air restaurant, watching the sky turn black, the winds pick up from the southeast, over the southern cape of Patong Bay. The shopkeeper would...
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20-year old Bangkok college student Panupol Sujjayakorn is playing in the 2005 National Scrabble Championship finals today (24th August)against 31-year old Dave Wiegand from Portland, Oregon. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, ESPN will be taping the finals for telecast in the fall. As of 12:45 PDT, the finalists had finished...
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