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The passive solution
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/09/2019
» Sales are down, so a brainstorming meeting was called in my office to discuss new strategies.
Not in our best interest
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/06/2019
» It was only meant to be a courtesy call. Last Monday I packed my bags and headed off to Australia for a quick visit. As usual I contacted my bank to inform them of my travel plans so that when they started to see overseas entries they would not suspect anything untoward. You see? I really am thoughtful and even sensible at times.
A portal into trouble
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/03/2019
» This story begins 12 months ago. I needed a new door for my bathroom, so I walked down to the end of my soi where there is a giant wood factory.
Within a whisker of success
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/05/2018
» The news about the burgeoning fake cosmetics industry -- and the celebrities risking arrest for being presenters -- reminds me of an incident last year in my own office.
Resigning is for quitters
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/02/2018
» The truth and the military make strange bedfellows. This is not, necessarily, a savage indictment on Thailand's current military regime. It's true of any military. When ranked from most important to least, qualities such as courage, fortitude, strategy, strength and unity are considered characteristics way, way more important to the military than trifling, annoying tenets such as truth and honesty and, let's be frank, democracy.
Another tree falls in our rootless society
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/12/2016
» It was a majestic tree, sitting on the bank of a small canal. Waves of progress rose and fell around it. A convenience store was built right next to the tree; a brothel across the canal. Those two enterprises grew and prospered just like the tree but as we know, Buddhism teaches us that everything is transient; the convenience store withered, as did the brothel, and they eventually closed down. Our tree continued to grow.
The road is all the rage these days
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/11/2016
» What is more valuable in the Land of Smiles -- a brand new luxury car or the dignity of the lower classes?
Bent out of shape
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/11/2016
» This week I did something as perennial as tulips blooming in the Dutch spring. I decided to head back to the gym. I need to get all buff for my flight home to Australia in late December. That’s pathetic, I know, but allow me to have my dreams.
Foxing clever
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/05/2016
» It's a shame Phra Prommangkalachan is a monk.
SOS ... here comes EXO
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/03/2016
» How was your International Women’s Day? Mine was a shambles, thanks to 10,000 women.