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Murasaki Inu
A lifetime ago (13 or 14 years ago to be a bit more exact) I sat in a stuffy classroom in Tenri, Japan, and started penning my first essay in…
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random morlam remix
– Just because the scenery in the background looks like the kind of riverside restaurant you often see driving the highways around here. There’s nothing like the funky beat and…
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Adventures in English Teaching
So you might have noticed that I don’t talk about my job here much, and there are several reasons for that. It’s mostly because I’ve read a lot of people…
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90-day report
Pretty much every foreigner in Thailand on a non-immigrant visa is supposed to report into immigration every 90 days. This may be in the form of a letter, except if…
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Solar-barbecued chicken
This sounds interesting. As a sidenote, Thailand is more “green” in some ways than first world countries. For instance, they sell B5 diesel here at major gas station chains –…
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hisashiburi no kabe
So in Japan-speak, a bunch of us ran headfirst into a cultural wall yesterday, and it was a rather bracing slap in the face after having conquered so many other…
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Real life neko bus
craigslist rocks. One of the things I miss most about Japan is Yahoo auctions. Thailand, or for that matter, most of the rest of the world simply has too fiendish…
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Water in the damn line again
If they ever get around to making a hermetically sealed telephone line in Thailand, I might have a decent net connection. My line is down again, or perhaps waterlogged as…
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Let’s Have Our Piece of Third World Cake! (and eat it, too!)
Third World Cake(TM) Checklist: Pseudo-trademarked jelly/frosting entities (Mykkie and Myni) – check! Indestructible sugar frosting – checkcheck! Red jelly blobs in place of actual fake cherries – checkcheckcheck! It was…
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Thai ATM Horror Story
So today turned out to be a big bummer because of the stupid Thai banking system. In short, I tried to withdraw 20,000 Baht from my Japanese bank with an…
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Contender for Best Brand Name of All Time
See? The baby really is lucky! I went to buy a case of water at a farmer’s wholesale mart and stumbled onto the grand mother of unfortunate branding – Golden…
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Scenes from a University Van
From our road trip to Pattaya a couple weeks ago. If you love frogs, you probably shouldn’t read the latter half of this post, but I’m not hiding it in…
