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Back in time
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/11/2019
» It's been so long since I've been on a carousel.
How I became a one-man reality show
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/11/2017
» If Hollywood sitcom writers ever feel hard up for new ideas, they may like to pop over to my house for inspiration. I am sharing my leafy mansion with my 20-year-old Thai niece. Let's call her Gift, since she would be mortified if I used her real name, though that would require her reading this column, something the average 20-year-old Thai apparently doesn't care to do on a Sunday.
TV soaps and a load of old flannel
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/08/2017
» Life gets a little weird here in the Land of Smiles at times, and that's not a reference to the queues that currently stretch from Don Mueang to Suvarnabhumi airports. I'm talking about the comments made by the deputy governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration -- that giant, dusty machine that runs the city despite having its head lopped off last year with a Section 44 order citing corruption and ineffective administration.
Man of the cloth
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/03/2015
» What a coincidence. In the very same week the temple known as Wat Phra Dhammakaya was under scrutiny over its abbot’s behaviour, your columnist was himself experiencing his first full day of being frocked.
I salute you, scout's honour
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/06/2014
» Back when I was a little boy growing up in Sunnybank, my parents, having exhausted all other attempts at roping in my behaviour, decided that scouts might be a good idea.
The model of a charmless monk
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/04/2014
» It was like revisiting an old friend. The reappearance of a monk known as Phra Yantra in Thai newspapers last Wednesday sent me hurtling back in time.
To be or not to be
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 12/01/2014
» There has been a 33-year gap between the last two conversations I've had with Mike.
One too many nights in Bangkok
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/09/2012
» It's Thailand Open week and that can only mean one thing for you and me.