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Chiang Mai Digital Nomads (Digital Gonads and Why I hate on them)

I have a close friendship with about 20 people in Chiang Mai. We’re either programmers, hackers, marketers, local businessmen, bloggers, and designers. All from different countries, languages and backgrounds nearly everyone has been here for years and what I think […]

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Why I Liked Udon Thani So Much

The past two years I’ve either been living down the depths of Bangkok Nana area, the middle of Ho Chi Minh City, or in the Center of Chiang Mai Tae Phae Gate. What do all of these locations have in […]

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Farang Net Idols Speaking Thai

These days it’s more common to hear a westerner speaking Thai than you might think. Thai isn’t as difficult as Thai people make it out to be, a year of study a year of practicce and you could speak good […]

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The Problem with Digital Nomads in Thailand

More and more digital nomads are moving to Thailand, it’s now almost at the point where if you want to become a digital nomad, living in Thailand is almost like a right of passage.  I’m all for people coming to Thailand […]

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Thailand is Still a Great Place To Live

There has always been talk about leaving Thailand, the forums are full of threads suggesting “escape plans” and history is ridden with well known folk who have just packed up and left. But Thailand is and still remains the jewel […]

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Who The Hell Is Stickboy Bangkok?

For several months now I’ve had people ask me “who is Stickboy?”, and how the hell should I know? I don’t. But there are some things that I do know. First the Stickboy name is a copy of popular Thailand […]

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Waiting Your Turn

You ever been to a beer bar and it’s obvious that NONE of the girls are interested in you taking them out? Girls are all smiles and dragging you into a bar and as soon as you sit down they […]

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Riding a Bicycle in Bangkok

I haven’t ridden a bike honestly since High School and the idea of biking around Bangkok, while it would beat walking, finding a place to dump it when I get to my destination just sounds like a nightmare. Spend only […]

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Do Good Thai Girls Really Exist?

I’m forever hearing the debate about Good girls vs Bad girls so let me give you the newsflash, Guys, There’s no such thing as a good Thai girl! Sigmund Freud identified the “Madonna/whore” psychological complex, in which men see women […]

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Playing 8 Ball in Thailand

I’m a terrible pool player but for the past 6 months I’ve played more games than I have in my entire life! It’s already a hard game to play but what’s fascinating to me is the rules and I was […]

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Taxi Drivers in Bangkok

I lived in Chiang Mai for years and I never called a cab, not once! Mostly because if you called them it would be 200 baht minimum! It’s a lot cheaper now and I actually think they have meter taxis […]

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English Teachers Are Really Babysitters in Thailand

You know I’m doing something random if I’ve been speaking to English teachers, better known as the bottom of the barrel when it comes to expats in Thailand. For whatever reason it seems that most ESL teachers in Thailand have […]

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To The Freakshow I Met Last Night

Sitting at a regae bar last night with some mates I had an experience that happens quite a lot to me in Thailand and that’s meeting backpackers. This guy comes to the bar and orders a drink and says hello […]

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Tim Sharky, Stickman, and the Tourist Police. Huh?

I was at a party the other day when a guy was telling me about how Tim Ward in Pattaya who claims that money and gold were stolen from his apartment. Now I have no real comment on the guy […]

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Rape in Thailand

The year 2014 I’ll remember forever as the year the most horrific rape and murders in Thailand that I’ve heard about, but rape is nothing new to Thailand I’ve documented a number of cases that were just horrible here on the […]

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Why I like Thai University Girls

I’ve dated university girls from several countries now and I’d have to say that USA girls are the most fun and adventurous but the Thai University girls are on top of the list because of one reason, the Uniform. Thai’s […]

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