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The reason for the season
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/12/2019
» It used to worry me that Christmas trees would sprout up in Bangkok around early to mid-November.
Marriage at any price
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/07/2018
» My heart goes out to the jilted bride who made the news this week, left standing in her wedding dress in front of a crowd of well-wishers, having to explain that her future significant other had chosen insignificance.
Steppingoutof line
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/06/2018
» It's not often that your correspondent crosses a road on foot.
When chickens smash eggs
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/03/2018
» You may have noticed it's been difficult to get your Thai friends to go out on a Wednesday or Thursday night.
Sex appeal on tap
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/11/2017
» Greetings from Brisbane, Australia! Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland, the only Australian state with more farmers than city folk. This results in some curious salutations even more bizarre than the usual "g'day-mate-how-ya-goin".
A pain in the anal cavity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/10/2017
» For the first time ever, in the nine years I have written this weekly column, I write to you with a temperature of 38.7 degrees. Apparently that's pretty high. I'm not an expert on body temperature, but it was high enough for me to end up in a special waiting room at my hospital, separated from the Samut Prakan masses, and not because I was a VIP.
Has anyone seen Jeck?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/09/2017
» There is movement at the end of my soi. It started a week ago and now the changes are swift. A sign goes down, a sign goes up. Old wooden planks, serving as roofs and walls, get prised apart. Tables and chairs and cookers are being gathered up and moved across the road.
A fascination that is so hard to stomach
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/07/2017
» My chicken parmesan was an unexpected hit. Everybody at the table commented on how delicious it was. Four hours later I am in the bathroom with a terrible case of the runs.
Rappers drown out social justice warriors
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/10/2016
» The biggest worldwide viral sensation of late is a 51-second clip of a Japanese man rapping about a pen, an apple and a pineapple. Or rather, as he pronounces them, a "pear, a apple, a pie-apple" as he minces in his yellow polyester Elvis suit, leering like a sex tourist walking into Nana Plaza for the first time.
The animal instinct of insults
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/09/2016
» Last week saw the rounding up and hauling away of unsavoury animals from the middle of Bangkok and no, that doesn't mean a coup nor a police raid on Nana Plaza. Lizards, dear reader … lizards.