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The Lick
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Working for the money
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Hin Suay Nam Sai Resort, Rayong
I’m in Rayong with 110 students and 10 teachers on a business English education project. It’s hot and sunny here, but these are some of my favorite beaches in Thailand. For me, Rayong is the perfect mix of convenience, desolation, and value for money. You can eat fresh seafood under the tall shade trees running almost all 12 kilometres up the coast, then run down to the water and pretty much be alone for hours, if you’ve chosen a good spot. The one hour separation from the fleshpots of Pattaya keeps most farang away, and Rayong is primarily a resort town for Thais – this fact in itself makes Rayong…
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Stuck like a boss
Yes, I got stuck. I arrived a bit late to the first wedding of two only to get trapped in the parking lot due to idiots who had parked every which way Undeterred, I squeezed through a couple of pickups to a promising dirt field that appeared to be damp, but solid. A couple feet into it, the car bogged down a bit, but not wanting to get stuck, I pushed forward… and got stuck further into the field. Anyway, lemons into lemonade I say. This is what my car would look like slammed, with brown tires: Eventually, a truck came and pulled our trusty Cefiro out of…
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shazai
You have no idea how close I am to showing this with a straight face to my ultra-serious Japanese class for university teachers tomorrow.
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The Education of Mina Yoshida
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New Pillow
I was happy to receive a new body pillow at the new years gift exchange we had at work this past week. However, Max and Mina were quick to show me that nothing really belongs to daddy anymore…
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OTOP Marketplace Update – Economic Recovery Edition
The OTOP (One Tambon One Product) marketplace I wrote about a couple years ago is now booming. For the first few years of its existence, it struggled along as a ragtag gathering of unsuccessful vegetable vendors and farmers selling homemade charcoal and surplus rice from the curbs. I visited twice a week to buy organic vegetables and freshly slaughtered/butchered meat (that are, as yet, completely unappreciated in this neck of the woods) for years, and nothing ever changed. The entire market seemed to be run by people too old and frail to work any other jobs, and I was in a small group of regular customers who were barely keeping…
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Tasty Links for the New Year
In no particular order: Smoke Screening Charles Mann is shown by Bruce Schneier just what a joke our airport security has become and makes a case that “the continuing expenditure on security may actually have made the United States less safe.” The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time Summary: Way more supply than demand, doctors. List of animals with fraudulent diplomas Surprisingly, this is not an alternate title for the previous link. Best wedding photos ever A full viewing of Shaun of the Dead would have made it the best wedding reception ever. The Magna Carta Essay Before the internet taught us that there’s no such…
