Humor

I love to go to the beach. I love going to Jomtien Beach on the Gulf of Thailand and sitting in the sun, and drinking beers, and swimming, and watching the farang (foreign) men with their ladies, and striking up a conversation with some Indian guy with a British accent that makes him sound like John Lennon. I love this kind of stuff. I HATE the beach vendors ... Read more.

While I was feeding the mutts this evening a young Thai woman surprised me by approaching me and speaking to me in fairly understandable and decent English. Most young Thai women in Surin would never do this when alone and unescorted with a stranger, especially a farang stranger, even one as handsome and dashing as myself. So to say the least I was a bit shocked when she approached me and started a conversation with me ... Read more.

She was beautiful and all men adored her. But was she a goddess or a graven image?

My wife DarLek loves her bicycle. It cost 1000 Baht from the Big C superstore, and we have two, one for her and one for me.

Once in a while the breeze will change direction and I'll get a whiff of that odd odor from the tree behind my seat. After the third or fourth whiff I revise my estimate of its odiferousness more toward something dead and rotting rather than durian fruit and decide to move to another seat opposite the strange stinky tree. I figured maybe the smell was causing the headache ... Read more.

I asked Sis to fill me in on the story of the 'baby pii/ghosts' as she calls them. Here below is the info and stories I got out of her and others about these 'Goo Mahng Tong' or baby pii (ghosts). I place these before you for your perusal, amusement and light edification; nothing more ... Read more.

It never ceases to amaze me. Thailand that is; it’s people, its culture, the religion, the superstitions, and the depths to which some Thais, the Isaan country folk in particular, believe some of these superstitions ... Read more.

Thaiexpert here again offering tips and advice about your visit to Thailand or LOS (Land Of Scams) as we like to call it. During your stay in Thailand you will have many opportunities to explore the vibrant cultural life. This may include a trip to a Thai Temple, or "What?" as we Thai experts like to call them.

Most people think the most reckless thing you can do in Thailand is to attempt smuggling drugs. This is not the case. The craziest thing you can do in Thailand is to attempt to walk down the street.

"Cock-A-doodle-doo my frigging ass," I mutter to myself, upon being awakened by the mellifluous tones of the next door neighbor's scrawny excuse for Foghorn Leghorn. I am going to poison that damned bird one of these days. ... Read more.

There's something in the air here. I don't know how to describe it really. It's a scent, a vibe, a shimmer of heat wavering off the tarmac. Cicadas chirrup and screech in the trees. Dust rises in small tornadoes and whips down the soi, filled with small leaves, the husks of long dead insects, and the dried petals of numerous fragrant flowers, which grow everywhere there is dirt and water enough for them to survive and set down roots to flower and seed. They are everywhere, and it's part of the beauty of this land. There's a smell to this land. A heady fragrance that fills the sun-burned over heated atmosphere of the land Isaan. Its wonderful perfume is something I wish I could bottle and sell. The French should try to figure out the composition of this scent. It'd be a goddamned goldmine ... Read more.

The pop music in Thailand is bad. Trust me, it's even worse than in America, if you can believe that. BAD. Bad with a capital B, and a capital A, and a capital D. You might rightfully suggest that I'm not really qualified to make sweeping generalizations on Thai Pop music, as I have only lived here three months. But you would just be a spoilsport, and who cares what you think anyway?

A true tale, with my humorous slant on things. Residents of our picturesque little village in "No-Where-Fcuk-A-Buri" have recently been shocked and outraged to find themselves the victims of a series of horrific vandalism.

. . . one full sized stuffed spook . . .

How one can really shit on your Thai wife and still get an apology.