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Last week’s GURU in the weekend Bangkok Post featured an article from Yanisa of LOVE RULES about GIRLS YOU SHOULD NOT DATE.

For the most part her choices were right on the money.
Your friend’s ex, your best friend’s sister, your ex-girlfriend’s sister or best friend, a work associate, your ex-girlfriend, a high-maintenence hi-so princess, a career-committed […]

THE GODFATHER 3 was a horrible movie; Andy Garcia, Sofia Coppola, and Al Pacino’s wretched line, “No sooner than I think I’m out, then they pulling me back in.”

Unfortunately those words hold personal resonance, for like Michael Corleone’s failure to leave the Mafia, I was unable to end my affair with my mia noi, Mint. […]

Luis Bunuel the surrealist Spanish film director said, “First you get married and then you find somone with whom you can be unfaithful.”
My wife and I have been together over five years. You can divine the health of a relationship by how close you sleep together. The distance between our bodies is about a meter. We […]

That 1960s Hollies hit gets a lot of play in Pattaya, only bargirls have changed to words to suit their need for subtefuge.

“He not boyfriend. He my brother.”
The tenacles of an extended Thai family are more tangled than a cluster of fornicating rattlesnakes. The second cousin of a third aunt from your sister’s second marriage is family […]

Whenever Thais hear that I rent a house, they ask, “Why not buy house?”

“Farangs can’t own a house in Thailand.” I explain since they would never believe that a farang doesn’t have the cash to purchase a house.
“You can have wife buy house.” They suggest with feinted innocence.
“Good idea.” I leave it at that rather […]

In 1972 Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck attempted to reform his country’s feudal economy on a Buddhist spiritual level rather than a capitalistic model. To best judge his efforts the king created a Gross Domestic Happiness Index based on life satisfaction, life expectancy at birth, and ecological footprint per capita. The Wall Street Journal ignores […]

My dog has gone missing from my house.

Champoo.
In all likelihood she has been stolen, so I’m posting a 2000 baht reward for anyone who helps get her back to those that love her.
She’s a Tshi-Tzhu (sp) and has one ear.
Email us any and all information or bring her to the Buffalo Bar.
She has an open tab […]

Thou shalt not covet your next door neighbor’s wife.
Ann and David have been living next door for three years. He’s a UK fireman retired on disability and Ann’s a 20 year-old vixen from Isaan. not exactly a match made by the most skillful manipulations of fate, yet the relationship weather the typical storm of a […]

Richard has been dating Lee two years. He is an ageing UK punk rocker and she works for the Bangkok Police. Distirict 8. His friends called her ‘Angie Dickinson’. Her friends named him ‘Sid’.
She’s a good girl and hasn’t asked him for a dime. Richard bought a CRV pick-up and trusts her to take care of the car […]