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When the spirit fools you
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/06/2018
» My office was abuzz with the news of the medium who went on TV last week and summoned the spirit of an ancient Brahman god.
Signs of the times
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/06/2018
» A brand new community mall opened at the end of my soi in leafy Samut Prakan.
Hell for leather
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/04/2018
» It was a dark and stormy night.
A very touchy subject
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/04/2018
» This week our prime minister came face to face with the hottest musical group in Thailand.
Gee, what comes after G?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/05/2018
» Little Potae came to stay with me over the school holidays. His parents went to the South to work on a construction site. Could he stay at my place while they were down there?
The colour of money
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/04/2018
» One morning this week, in the seaside town of Ban Chang, Rayong, two major life events occurred simultaneously at the local temple school. One was raucous, the other full of trepidation.
The art of being 'greng jai'
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/04/2018
» Happy Songkran, dear reader! This is the traditional time I close the windows, draw the blinds and remain ensconced in either my bedroom or, when I'm feeling adventurous, the living room for three whole days.
When chickens smash eggs
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/03/2018
» You may have noticed it's been difficult to get your Thai friends to go out on a Wednesday or Thursday night.
Set the wheelchairs of change in motion
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/03/2018
» Anybody doing business in Thailand has horror stories about red tape. Not a day goes by where I am not responsible for felling at least one tree from somewhere deep within a national park. Page after page, I sign the bottom of these utterly useless photocopied pages, in triplicate, one after the other, all the time either contemplating life or how to end it all and put myself out of this bureaucratic misery.
Virtual ritual reality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/03/2018
» 'Boss, I need to take four days off in the middle of March," my driver said to me a month ago, breaking a silence I'd been enjoying in the car.