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Don't lose your cool
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 10/04/2016
» When it's this hot and humid, Netflix and chill really does mean watching House of Cards with a cold drink in your hand and an ice pack on your neck. It's too sticky for anything else.
Scales of greatness
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/01/2016
» Jazz musicians are accustomed to winging it, but Peter Martin really wasn’t sure what he was in for when he turned up at the East Room of the White House for a state dinner in 2011. He and a band had been engaged for a feature performance, “but that means different things to different people” and the details were surprisingly vague for such an event.
Eating a path through the golden land
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 26/07/2015
» When Robert Carmack and Morrison Polkinghorne first travelled to Myanmar in 1996, their $5 each got them five kilometres past the bridge at Chiang Rai for five hours. After some persuasion, they agreed to be taken on a tourist van.
Six degrees of Songkran separation
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 12/04/2015
» Songkran officially starts tomorrow, which means it really started on Friday evening or even a little earlier to beat the traffic. There really is nothing like Thailand’s unique new year water festival, so long as you discount coincidentally similar events and traditions in places like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. It’s a chance to let off steam in the hottest month of the year by brushing up against a thousand clammy, clay-covered bodies in Silom Road and stumbling from beer station to beer station in hope of a cold can.
Hating Thailand ... and loving it
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 07/12/2014
» We've all been there. You come to Thailand, get your bag/passport/shirt stolen and you are left wandering the streets shouting at policemen, throwing rocks at cars and sulking at a cute girl who hands you an orange juice and a phone charger. It's essentially a rite of passage all young men have to endure on their first weekend in the country. Right?