Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
Oil prices dropped on the commodity market over $10. A sure sign of profit taking by speculators fearful of the bubble bursting. I invested $20 yesterday in the market. The gas at the pump was .05% more expensive this morning. My wife called from Chai-nat to complain about the pump prices.
“Over 40 baht a liter.”
I […]
From http://www.pattayaghost.com/2008/06/17/snapshots-pattaya-through-the-years/
Versus this scene in 1972
No jet skies, no beach chair mafia, no plastic bags.
And I was 20 years old, so no grey hair or midriff spread either.
There is a prophetic moment in the movie THE GRADUATE, when Dustin Hoffman is told by his parents’ friend, “The future is plastic.”
Back in 1967 plastic was used to make toys, radios, and TVs. Food was wrapped in paper. Supermarkets packed your food in paper bags. At the beach most of the flotsam was maritime […]
Pattaya a town renown for its go-gos and lady boys will celebrate the opening of the Pattaya Festival Mall next year as part of its expansion to induce Thais and farangs to spend more money of shit they don’t really need from Tops, Robinson’s and a myriad of semi-luxury clothing chains. The three-year development will […]
This week the world’s climate experts are meeting in Bangkok to formalize a plan to deal with climate change, despite FOX NEWS and drivers of SUVs claims that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the liberal media. The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, is calling on the representatives to save […]
The water is running from my tap and the reservoir seems in good shape, so I have no complaints, however the outer limits of Pattaya was suffering shortages as the hot season finally hits the Eastern Seaboard.
Funky old water trucks are sucking the Jomtien lagoons dry.
City officials are telling the populace not to worry.
There’ll be […]
I visited Koh Tao off the coast of Southern Thailand in 1992. It was a quiet koh famous for its three beach island. The water was crystal clear, although the coral around the island was dead from fishing with poison and dynamite. I haven’t been back to Koh Tao since and I imagine that the tourist strain […]
The flight time between Bangkok and the Chinese capitol is about 6 hours. My friend Jocko Weyland lives in Beijing. I phoned him five minutes ago. He was skating on a frozen lake with a Frenchwoman. It almost sounded romatic.
The only ice in Pattaya are the cubes in my Chang beer. The early evening temperature […]
This afternoon I set off from my house and thought, “Damn what a beautiful sky.”
No smoke in the air.
A miracle, until returning to my house I spotted thick grey plume billowing from the northern end of the street. It was not a cloud. It was fire. A brushfire. Call the Fire Dept. Quick.
Mistake or kwam-pit. […]
