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We have lost our ray of sunshine
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/10/2016
» My life has been split evenly between two well-known and long-reigning monarchs; the first half under Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the second under King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
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Wearing grief on your sleeve
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/10/2016
» I received the royal pendant almost 10 years ago; a small, metallic pin shaped in the insignia of His Majesty the King. It was presented upon completion of my services for the 60th Anniversary Celebrations of His Majesty King Bhumibol's Accession to the Throne, an event I wrote about in this column last week. The brooch is small and elegant in its triangular form with an emerald green background.
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Bent out of shape
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/11/2016
» This week I did something as perennial as tulips blooming in the Dutch spring. I decided to head back to the gym. I need to get all buff for my flight home to Australia in late December. That’s pathetic, I know, but allow me to have my dreams.
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The road is all the rage these days
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/11/2016
» What is more valuable in the Land of Smiles -- a brand new luxury car or the dignity of the lower classes?
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Never say never
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/11/2016
» Being a company owner I am seldom wrong. Ask my staff -- when am I ever wrong? "Never," they will answer, with a stress on the "v" consonant, since I assume the role of a broken record for anyone who dares to drop a "naire-wer" in my vicinity. My staff will then give you an all-knowing glance when I am looking in the other direction, revealing crossed fingers from behind their backs.
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Another tree falls in our rootless society
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/12/2016
» It was a majestic tree, sitting on the bank of a small canal. Waves of progress rose and fell around it. A convenience store was built right next to the tree; a brothel across the canal. Those two enterprises grew and prospered just like the tree but as we know, Buddhism teaches us that everything is transient; the convenience store withered, as did the brothel, and they eventually closed down. Our tree continued to grow.
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How I lost my past but found nirvana
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/12/2016
» Dateline Brisbane, Australia: A reunion of cadet reporters is under way at the iconic Breakfast Creek Hotel. It is a feel-good gathering; each of my three friends produces old photographs and paraphernalia harking back to the alleged good old days of 35 years ago when we had our whole lives ahead of us. We gasp and scream and realise that despite what we thought, we really have changed physically over 35 years.
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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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Entertained to death
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/04/2017
» As I write this column, a pickup truck travelling home to Hat Yai for Songkran has just crashed, killing two and seriously injuring another five of the same family. The pickup in question lost control and slammed into trees on the side of the road in the province of Prachuap Khiri Khan, just past Hua Hin. The driver was killed instantly.
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Dinosaurs must confront reality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/05/2017
» The whole country, from the prime minister down, has been talking education, bandying about two words in particular: "innovation" and "technology". This culminated in an education fair entitled EdTex, held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, where the consensus was that for Thailand to survive, it needs an education system that is both innovative and technological.
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