Monthly Archives: September 2006

Osama Bin Ladin RIP?

Five years after 9/11 no one can say if OBL is alive or dead, however this weekend a provincial French newspaper L’Est Republicain published a report from leaked French defense ministry documents that the al Quada leader might have died of typhoid in Pakistan. I’ve drank water on the Karokarom Highway and can attest to the lethality of water in […]

Coup d’Etat in Bangkok

On Wednesday morning I woke at 6am for a visa run to the Cambodian border. My wife and daughter slept blissfully, while I trundled into the living room. Sitting on the sofa, I turned on the TV. BBC News. 6am. Lead story. COUP IN THAILAND. Same for Fox News and CNN. Thai TV was showing […]

World’s first penis transplant success/failure

Thailand is well-known for transvestite operations and the doctors’ skill at removing the offending member of a ka-toey or ladyboy has benefited victims of unwilling penile amputations. Every month the Thai newspapers recount the tale of a husband returning home after a night in the karaoke parlor and waking after his jealous wife dat ham […]

Visa panic in Pattaya

Thousands of farangs throughout Thailand have been traveling to the Laos, Burma, Malay, and Cambodian borders to re-up permission to stay in the Land of Smiles with a VOA or Visa on Arrival. Every morning hundreds of vans travel to Poipet, Prum, Koh Kong, Vientienne, Mai Sot, Mai Sai, Kota Bharu, and other obscure frontier crossings, […]

Tom Yum Goong – movie

Tom Yum Goong (2005) created Thai movie history this weekend by storming the US box office charts to #5. The lame plot, the cliché dialogue, and choppy editing would normally relegate this film to the garbage heap, however Tony Yaa catapults the action to a new level. A 4 minute fight sequence is the centerpiece […]