Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
Yesterday was Halloween.
Pattaya celebrated the old Celtic festival of Samhain with a singularly Thai flavor. Bar girls dressed in skimpy dresses and go-go girls painted fake blood on their faces. Farangs drank more than normal nights. It’s a pagan holiday and nothing says pagan better than sex go-go girls beer and a devilish hang-over the […]
Train workers walked off the job this morning to protest the threatened privatization of the State Railways of Thailand (SRT). Service halts on the long lines to Chiang Mai, the South and Northeast forced travelers off the trains onto station platforms. The labor union said the work stoppage will continue until the Prime Minister withdraws the legislation to sell […]
The cold season has arrived in Thailand right before Loi Krathong. Thais are bundling up in the North and even Pattaya locals are complaining about the change in the weather. They grabbed their arms with a shiver. “Nao.”
“Cold? I’ll tell you about cold. When I was a kid, you had to put anti-freeze in your […]
The Golden Triangle has been a source of opium since the 1800s. Tribesmen in the mountains grew it for a cash crop as well as a source of comfort after a long day in the rice fields. The French controlled the overseas trade until the Commies took over in China. Mao had the opium dealers […]
The Thai word for humid is choom or cheun.
In French it’s lourde or heavy.
Either way the days in Pattaya have exorcised a sweaty demon from my flesh. This loss of water weight has my neighbors and mia noi remarking that I look a little thinner.
Down to 85 kilos and a BMI of 25.7
The very bottom […]
