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Where the streets have strange names
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/04/2013
» 'Has your partner had sex with anybody other than you recently?"
Bridal tidal wave strikes the south
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/02/2013
» This week I am blessed to be writing this column from the town of Hat Yai, Songkhla, in the far South.
Suvarnabhumi a photographer's delight? I shutter to think
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/01/2013
» We in the media world like to "beat up" stories or, as they say much better in Thai, "add an egg".
Just as nice, At ten times the price
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/08/2012
» In Australia when I was growing up, we were taught we were all the same. Equals. As a kid I kinda liked that idea, though it didn't stop me shouting out ''Cattle Ticks'' to the kids at the Catholic school across the creek, or ''dirty wogs'' to the new Australians from Athens or Rome. Children can be cruel, dear reader.
An olympic sized effort that fell on deaf ears
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/07/2012
» The government has announced it will pay one million baht to any Thai who brings home gold. Well, then, this week my column is not a column per se. It is an invoice. Bear with me and I will explain.
Hey, you, farang! Why so sensitive?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/03/2012
» We are halfway through our examination of the word ''farang'', thanks to my running into an old friend, Jimmy, at Emporium last week.
Blowing the whistle on overzealous security guards
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/01/2012
» Each time I get in my car to drive home from the fitness centre I sporadically visit, there is a pleasant middle-aged gentleman who sits in the car park.
Hey you, Farang! Accuse me
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/09/2010
» 'Hey you. You." The voice comes from behind, and I turn around to see a young man leaning lackadaisically against his taxi. "Where you go? I take you!" he adds, and he now breaks into a grin, revealing an even shade of yellow on his nicotine-stained teeth.
Edible kitty litter, Viagra & Odourless cat's urine
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/05/2010
» One of the first things I become expert at whenever I visit the United States is its television. I have no choice in the matter. Over here in the States I'm awake when I'm asleep in Bangkok, and jetlag thus hits me like a Northeastern truck driver on methamphetamines.
Oh my God!
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/05/2010
» In the Obituaries column of the stalwart Tribune newspaper this week, we learn of an elderly gentleman who finally shook off his mortal made-in-California coil. The very first paragraph reads thus: "Maynard Oscar Kirkland, 90, entered heavens gates in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 27, 2010."