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Putting 'fat' on the scales
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/09/2018
» I have the best neighbours on all four sides of my home in leafy Samut Prakan.
The feel-good aura dims
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/07/2018
» The good times are over.
Nun the wiser
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/05/2018
» How wonderful to be back in the Land of Smiles after my week-long sojourn to Italy, as documented in this column last week.
The art of being 'greng jai'
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/04/2018
» Happy Songkran, dear reader! This is the traditional time I close the windows, draw the blinds and remain ensconced in either my bedroom or, when I'm feeling adventurous, the living room for three whole days.
The colour of money
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/04/2018
» One morning this week, in the seaside town of Ban Chang, Rayong, two major life events occurred simultaneously at the local temple school. One was raucous, the other full of trepidation.
Virtual ritual reality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/03/2018
» 'Boss, I need to take four days off in the middle of March," my driver said to me a month ago, breaking a silence I'd been enjoying in the car.
A Korean dream turns sour
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/12/2017
» Chai grew up on a small plot of farmland 30 kilometres outside the town of Kalasin. His childhood was that of waking up, planting rice and vegetables, going to school, coming home, planting rice and vegetables again. Rinse and repeat.
'Deaf' Western beggars deserve a right earful
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/12/2017
» There has been a commotion this past week in the media over the appearance of two attractive young Westerners begging for money at an intersection in Klong Toey in Bangkok. Just four days ago, the Bangkok Post published a photograph of one of them, a woman, clutching a bunch of Thai flags and trying to flog them off car window to car window. There was a man as well.
Driven to distraction
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/12/2017
» Late Thursday afternoon the silhouette of my driver appeared in the doorway to my office. "Do you need to be driven anywhere special tomorrow?" he asked. What kind of question is that? I'm perfectly capable of driving myself anywhere special I care to go.
A bad case of Farrah Syndrome
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/10/2017
» Talk about bad timing. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's visit to the United States couldn't have come at a worse time. Watching the seven-minute hurried press conference wasn't just cringeworthy; in a weird way, I even felt sorry for our PM.