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  Losing weight & Being lost for words

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/06/2010

  » Los Angeles International Airport. That's where your weekly correspondent is seated at present, at Gate 46A, waiting amid the myriad Americans for my flight to Washington DC. And I am thinking about weight loss.

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  Dog days on a Greyhound

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/06/2010

  » I am not a bus person. I do trains, planes, and people movers with ease and enthusiasm, but buses arouse the dark silhouette of despair that sleeps fitfully in my stomach, waking to attention the moment my backside hits the bus seat. I don't go around advertising this fact; the last time I casually mentioned it was in Sydney trying to find a way to get from Bondi to the casino.

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  Playing the odds in VEGAS

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/06/2010

  » There's barely a week to go before returning to Thailand, and I'm pulling out all stops to cram in as much as I can into my time left here in the United States. One of those activities includes a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas.

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  A Gem of a story

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/04/2010

  » The recent decision to close down Sanam Luang for renovations has sent me on a trip down memory lane, reminding me of a day when I went there deliberately to get ripped off. Sanam Luang is the last remaining large tract of land in central Bangkok that hasn't been cemented over to make way for shophouses selling car parts or cheap cloth which, upon coming into contact with an errant cigarette, quickly introduces you to the perils of self-immolation.

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  A gem of a story: Part II

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/04/2010

  » This is part two of an exciting story which started last week on this very page. Normally I have no time for readers who miss a week of this column, but if for some unfathomable reason you did, here is a brief synopsis:

• LEARNING

  Unplugged in Gadget Mad LA

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/04/2010

  » America has gone iPad crazy. I know. I'm here witnessing it first-hand. No clever observances about Thai life this week. It's hard to write a breezy column about the nuances and idiosyncrasies of Thai life when the country is descending into anarchy and mob rule.

• LEARNING

  Hooray for... Hancock park

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/04/2010

  » You know, back when I was living in Bangkok I was a pretty modest kind of guy. I know that sounds like I've been living here in Los Angeles for an eternity, as opposed to 14 nights, but I can tell you I've changed.

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  The clothes horse is in clover

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/06/2010

  » Just arrived back from a clothes shopping trip in Los Angeles. Hardly justification for a column, I know, but bear with me. Things get a little more deep and meaningful as we progress.

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  Oh my God!

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/05/2010

  » In the Obituaries column of the stalwart Tribune newspaper this week, we learn of an elderly gentleman who finally shook off his mortal made-in-California coil. The very first paragraph reads thus: "Maynard Oscar Kirkland, 90, entered heavens gates in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 27, 2010."

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  Who knows what the future brings?

  Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/05/2010

  » I was interested to read the news of well known fortune teller Mor Krit's sentencing to six months in prison for making a very, very wrong prediction. It's a story far bigger in the Thai press than in the English one.

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