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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.
Against all odds
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/02/2019
» Kru June is perpetually late for school. She is the first to admit it, and the last to arrive. On this particular morning, the teachers and students of Baan Kui school have already begun morning assembly as she arrives, hurrying across the arid sports field where the morning ritual takes place.
If it looks like a duck ...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/10/2018
» The triangular yellow flags first began fluttering in my neighbourhood two weeks ago.
Where true heroes are made
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/07/2018
» The dust is settling on Tham Luang, the Chiang Rai cave that stopped the world for two weeks.
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".
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.
Running onempty
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/07/2017
» It was when I awoke at 5am that the terrible realisation came to the fore. The previous night, just prior to retiring, I'd performed my usual nightly ablutions. I did a quick clean-up of my bedroom, placing dirty clothes in the clothes basket, as well as tossing a mountain of squeezed lemon wedges and empty yellow tonic cans into the trash.
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.
Songkran set to dry
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/04/2016
» If you're one of the expected half a million foreign tourists arriving in Thailand this week, then here is a column especially for you.
Fading to black
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/12/2015
» This Father’s Day weekend brings to an end my role as a father after experimenting with the concept for nearly a year. I loved the experience; I just hated the ending, something I will explain in a few moments.