Monthly Archives: November 2007

Retirement Visa Jomtien

November 18, 2007 – 11:45 pm

My age is closer to 80 than 20. In other words over 50 and I don’t care how much people say today’s 50 is yesteryear’s 40. The face in the mirror has little resemblance to that of my youth. Girls at the bar sometimes call me ‘Papa’. 50 is 50. At least I’m not bald [...]

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Isaan Beer – Cheap and Local for NE Thailand

November 13, 2007 – 11:57 pm

After my drinking partner, Nick, returned to the Land of the Teabags aka the UK, my bar visits shrunk from a daily occurence to once a week. Not much fun drinking on your own, since AA deems solitary drinking as a sure indication of having crossed the line from drunk to alcoholic. I might qualify for several other [...]

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GHB Chinese Toys

November 13, 2007 – 7:17 am

Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell wrote CHINESE ROCKS in 1976 to outdo Lou Reed’s elegiac HEROIN. The song soon became Johnny Thunder’s and the Heartbreakers’ showstopper. While Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers have sold millions of LPs and CDs, neither the Ramones’ nor Johnny Thunders’ versions of CHINESE ROCKS got any AM airplay. Its omission from the Top Ten can [...]

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More Thai Visa Panic

November 13, 2007 – 1:53 am

Thai immigration offices and especially the Jomtien Branch have been trying to curb the number of long-stay farangs residents without any real raison d’etre for being in Thailand other than having a good time or sanuk. Gone is the endless merry-go-round of 30-Day tourist visas. 3 and no more. Nearby Thai embassies or consulates are giving tourist 60-day visas with [...]

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Pattaya Beach Rating – Ban Amphur

November 12, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Pattaya and Jomtien are not the only beaches on the Eastern Seaboard, although I’d bet that more than half the bar farangs coming to Pattaya have never touched the sand on the beach, unless it was to get a sexual favor from a ka-toey working the Beach Road. The number is probably greater than half. [...]

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