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The last few pieces before the work really begins

Above: A handyman uses a scrap piece of marble (from a bathroom shelf that was improperly installed) to make a beautiful entry to the condo.Yesterday, a friend who works with our designer told Tawn to brace himself: if…
Bicycle rides and weddings

Sometime Tuesday evening, my left trapezius muscle got a kink in it. Now, I'm unable to lean my head towards my left shoulder at all. Movement towards the right shoulder is still good, however. Don't know why it happe…
Morning in the Big Mango: a queue of motorcycle taxis wait for customers outside the Sukhumvit subway station and Asoke Skytrain station, next to the small Asoke market. Amidst the yellow-vested taxi drivers, can you sp…
Taking Fu to the Floating Market

You know it is a small, digital and virtual world when you start receiving guests who are friends of friends, when all the parties have met through the internet and, in the case of the friend and the friend of the friend…
Chris hit by credit card fraud

It took two years to happen, but almost as if to welcome me into my third year in Bangkok, I was bitten by my first case of credit card fraud. When I woke up this morning, I had a voicemail on Skype from my credit card…
Funny. We didn't have much to do this weekend so we were going to go out of town. Then one item came up, stopping by our designer's to discuss furniture, so our plans were canceled. Saturday turned into a full day of…
Not to Korat

This was going to be the get-away weekend: the last weekend before the preparations for the move to the new condo got serious. So Tawn and I were going to drive up to Korat and Khao Yai, about two hours northeast of Khr…
The Big 0-2

As hard as it may be to believe, yesterday marked my second anniversary here in Khrungthep. Sure enough, on the evening of October 31st, 2005 I arrived on the THAI Airways nonstop from New York to begin the next stage o…
This entry would have been written earlier today, or yesterday, or even the day before. But I wanted to post some video that I shot and am having difficulties. You see, the nifty new camera I bought - a Panasonic Lumix…
Above: An interesting mixture of cultures as seen on a small soi off Sathorn road: a vintage car drives past a business displaying the Thai flag and symbols of the Chakri dynasty, next to images from Hong Kong juxtaposi…