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Curtain
We were really busy running around to our schools and searching for the perfect set of tiles in a dusty warehouse all day, so the rain was most welcome when…
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Nam Nuong
Nam Nuong are the little grilled sausages on sticks shown below, but it’s also the name of this dish. It’s Vietnamese in origin, but I don’t know what it’s called…
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How I found out I’m not shaking my shoes out hard enough every morning
A heart-shaped frog procrastinated loudly when I jammed my foot in. Then, when I tried to pry him loose from the cavernous regions of the toe compartment, he secreted something…
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D&D
Meet thine foe: The Giant Centipede These things just look evil, and Nam insisted I dispatch it when we found it in her university’s parking lot. “Dangerous for students walking…
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Book Recommendation for Thailand
I just finished reading Narrative of a Residence in Siam, a book written by a chap named Fred Arthur Neale in the 1850s. It was, in a word, excellent. The…
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Cheating Problems with Thai Students
This week is the final week for both my regular and weekend classes; the last final for my last class is tomorrow and I just threw a pretty good one…
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Ant Infestation
They appear with no warning When they sense the rain coming (and they are never wrong about it), ants can move an entire colony inside the house overnight, as happened…
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A Hyperlinky Ode to a Damn Fine Fish – Soft Tilapia Pr0n
Oh, Tilapia, how versatile thy be! You are on my plate nearly every week, and my favorite New Years repast. In fact, you are farmed in such numbers, so misused…
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Tokay lizard caught off-guard
I swear these are the ugliest, trippiest looking things you’ll ever see… Here’s my previous post on them, with facts aplenty.
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Funniest Misspelling
From one of my student’s speeches this year: “I much prefer the wide open rice fields and simple homes of my country village to the confusion and chaos of Bangkok,…
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Some of the coldest words I’ve ever said…
…and I can’t take them back, so I might as well make them public: “If you make my wife cry again, I’ll make you cry.” * ** So this is…
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“Sweet Christmas!”
I saw a two-ton water buffalo almost get hit by a speeding two-ton pickup this afternoon. I couldn’t help but wonder who would have walked away from an accident like…
