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Out for the count
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/01/2017
» I met Owen on my recent trip to Nakhon Phanom, a border province way, way up in the far Northeast. Owen is eight years old. He's in Grade 4 at the local primary school. Owen sat with his mother and when the novelty of having a farang in the house started to wear off and conversation waned, I turned to Nong Owen and asked in Thai:
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An Elle of a thing
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/08/2014
» It's been a week full of fashion and style for your columnist, two words not normally associated with him, as he sashays his way through the Elle Fashion Film Festival.And yes, dear reader, you may wipe that surprised look off your face. My life is not always languishing in the quagmire of Samut Prakan Big C specials on polyester work shirts that come with free clip-on neckties.
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Is the customer always a 'customer'?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/10/2019
» There is nothing wrong with the salesgirl. In fact she is cheery and accommodating.
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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.
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Language of love
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/02/2019
» How was your Valentine's Day? Mine was really, really special.
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Suffocated by the synthetic
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/10/2018
» I am sitting in a diner in the southern town of Surat Thani, staring down at three toothpicks.
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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.
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A short meeting with Buddha
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/01/2017
» I had a special New Year's celebration. I did something I never thought I would ever do. It all began with a drunken question from an equally drunken friend back in early December at an Ekamai establishment. "So what are you planning for this New Year's Eve?"
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I just can't Pokémon Go on like this
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/08/2016
» It has been a week of addiction and idiocy, as your columnist comes to grips with one of the grossest wastes of time he has experienced since standing in line for Krispy Kreme doughnuts when they first opened here in 2010.
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Full circle after 24 years
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/08/2016
» Greetings from Nakhon Pathom. This week your favourite columnist finds himself in a hotel room for five days in this little town just west of Bangkok. "Little town" is hardly a good description, though it was certainly that way when I first visited here a quarter of a century ago. Bangkok has since extended her tentacles, swallowing up the likes of Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Minburi.
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