MangoZeen

PUBLISHED IN ELK MAGAZINE 2006

My family moved from Falmouth Foresides, Maine in the summer of 1960.
Halfway to Boston my father stopped at the New Hampshire tollbooth for a lunch. After eating my Italian sandwiches, I asked for permission to go to the bathroom. My father ignored my request. He was busy corralling my three younger […]

Bird flu threatens SE Asia. Fires from Sumatra blanket the south. Pollution rise to poisonous levels. Government officials have responded to these challenges by promoting ‘HAPPY TOILETS’ to instill Thailand with the will to keep their toilets clean.
This policy is reminiscent of Singapore’s drive to insure the island’s citizens wash their hands after doing either […]

A record non-turnout is expected in today’s voting for 57 seats open for city councillors.
Officials for the Bangkok Metro Authority are blaming the heightened disinterest on predicted rains and the general apathetic malaise besetting the nation’s electorate. Thailand after all hasn’t had a national government in months and the electorate have figured out that no government is […]

Every year the Darwin Award committee nominated a select few for their achievement in pushing back the evolution of man several centuries.
Recently three teenagers from Sattahip stole Yamaha Mio motorcycle from Pattaya. Not able to start the motorcycle one joyrider decided to push it to Sattahip, a distance of 35 kilometers. Police stopped the youths […]

Coming back to America was a shock after a long absence in Asia.
Everyone was fat and I was thin in comparison to the tubby NYU students waddling down St. Mark’s Place. They all seemed have food in their mouth. My lower jaw hanging slack in shock was bound to attract the wrong attention and I […]