Archive for the 'Love' Category

Thaksins Say Good-bye

Bad times got worse for the Thaksins who announced this week that their 32 years of marriage will terminate in divorce. Friends were shocked when the former PM said at a Hong Kong dinner, “We divorced in order to make everybody feel comfortable.”
His wife was not invited to this dinner.
She was not the last to […]

Woman Seeking Man

My brother-in-law sent this message about a New Retail Store. My wife loves shopping. For women shopping is a sport on the same level as football only they don’t sit on a sofa watching TV. They are on the field and play to win.
It’s my beer money that loses.
Wah.
Interesting new store format called the “Husband […]

RUN RUN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

ANOTHER SAD LETTER this one thanks to www.teakdoor.com
OK, I met a seemingly nice half-Chinese half-Thai girl about a year and a half ago. We were friends for a month or so and then we started dating. All was good for the first 6-8 months but then she got lazy and stopped studying and started sleeping […]

When an older man thinks he’s debonair.

Nothing sells newspapers like sex or murder or even better a combo of the two and the Guardian went for the Daily Double with an article by Richard S Ehrlich.
Love at first sight, even through an air-conditioned prism of cheap beer, purple lights and men leering and cheering, is easy to find in Bangkok’s bars.
Welcome […]

IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it wasn’t in the winter of 1979. The temperature boiled the asphalt. Punk had been replaced by New Wave and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be […]