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No sex please, We're Thai
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/02/2010
» As I write this, a Thai soap opera is going on in the background on my non-flat television. A handsome man in a dirtied shirt is staggering and holding a gun. He is clearly distressed - not through any acting talents, god forbid, but his shirt isn't tucked in and that's a dead giveaway in any Thai soap. His hair remains perfectly combed, and facial features remain as rigid as those of a khunying shuffling out of an Emporium botox clinic.
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There's nothing like a sure bet
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/07/2010
» Can an octopus really predict the outcome of a football match? Krissana says it can. I say it can't. And living in Thailand, I am so clearly in the minority it would have been better to have kept my mouth shut this week about Paul the octopus.
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Call of the riled
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/03/2012
» I did it. I broke through my personal best. It's taken me four months but I did it.
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Honk if you admire the driver's wit
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/05/2012
» Thai culture seems a world away from Australian culture, but the more I am here, the more I realise that deep down we are all the same.
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If you build it, They will come ... Right?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/11/2012
» There is a monolithic apartment complex on a road I pass each day on the outskirts of Bangkok which would never command your attention other than for the fact it went up virtually overnight.
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Politics goes gaga
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/11/2013
» Last Monday was a Perfect Storm of a day in Thailand.
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Wheels start turning on revolution
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/02/2015
» Vive la revolution! Last Monday there was a gathering of 25 kindred spirits at Berk Prai restaurant in Bang Na that went well into the evening. They were celebrating a victory.
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A broken spiritual heart
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/08/2015
» The simple act of bringing our palms together in order to ask for something good, which we call prayer, is an act that is as universal as it is inherent in the human psyche.
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Foxing clever
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/05/2016
» It's a shame Phra Prommangkalachan is a monk.
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Pull up to the bumper
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/04/2017
» On busy Rama IV Road, my driver explodes in a mighty chortle. "Well, would you look at that," he says, pointing to the pickup truck in front of us. In the back seat I look up from my position, documents in my lap, crunching numbers. It's been a stressful morning, especially since the numbers in question are the latest lottery results, and my ticket has come nowhere near the 6 million baht first prize.
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