tokyo joes...great blues tonight...blue on blue...all thai blues band...next friday kl blues band over for the evening, bar needs support of people who enjoy good music great atmosphere and good drinking.......soi 24 suk...friday night from 9
(article in latest issue if Far Eastern Economic Review)
A Tug of War for Thailand’s Soul September 2006 By Colum Murphy Inside the entrance to the Thai Rak Thai’s party headquarters in Bangkok hangs a giant photograph of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra bowing to King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Dressed in the white uniform sometimes worn by government officials, the prime minister is prostrate before the much-revered king in a gesture of devoted servitude. Yet few in Thailand believe that relations
My good friend and his wife are due to have their 1st child in the next few weeks. I have been asked to be godfather and whilst very honoured to be chosen I really have no idea what is expected from a godparent.any ideas? advice?
Most young mums still schoolgirls
BANGKOK: -- Almost 78 per cent of young mothers in Bangkok became pregnant while they were school students, research has found.
Passanant Assawarak, of King Mongkut's University of Technology Thon Buri, carried out an in-depth study subsidised by the National Culture Commission of mothers in several emergency homes for girls in the capital.
It found 43 per cent were aged between 14 and 20 and got pregnant after sex with high-school boyfriends. A further 34
Letter From Thailand
Saving Thai Democracy: Will the Cure Kill the Patient?
Associated Press
Bombs over ballots? Police bomb experts defused a car bomb last week near the residence of the Thai prime minister.
By SETH MYDANS
Published: August 30, 2006
BANGKOK, Aug. 29 — Sounding desperate, Thailand’s harried leader, Thaksin Shinawatra, wrote to President Bush last spring with what sounded like an S O S Thai democracy, he said, is under threat.
Narong Sangnak/European Pressphoto Agency
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At last!! A decent chain letter as opposed to normal chain
letters/pyramid schemes, this one costs nothing, and you can only win.
Simply send this e-mail to 9 of your Friends.
INSTRUCTIONS.
Anaesthetize your wife, put her in a large carton, (don't forget some
ventilation holes), and send it to the person who is at the top of your
list. Soon, your name will be at the top of the list, and you will
receive
823,542 women through the post.
Statistically, among those women, will be a
ok...b4 tonighth ad no idea what shuffle board is...i am the worlds best pool player..give or take 3 billion,...but...3rd floor roadhouse surawong rama iv...owned by dubliner chaps...great pool table..and a shuffle board...feck me adictive stuff...come on...friday night 6 pm + 3rd floor...happy hour til 7, new bar...and a goddamn cockroach muthafuckin' shuffleboard....(please be reminded i had no idea what shuffleboard is b4 2nite,,...americans pls elaborate...all fun...
NOT so long ago, it was considered strictly taboo. But now a major US study has revealed women find porn just as arousing as men.
University researchers discovered that women shown pictures of couples in racy positions exhibited more brainwave activity than when they saw non-sexy photos.
A survey for Esquire magazine last year found that 51 per cent of UK women liked looking at pornography.
A third of the subscribers to adult channel Television X are said to be female and Scarlet, a saucy mid
1. Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella, unless at
rugby, and your biltong is getting wet, then, for the eating period
only, it is permissible.
2. It is ok for a man to cry under the following circumstances:
a. When a heroic dog dies to save its master.
b. The moment Angelina Jolie starts unbuttoning her blouse.
c. After wrecking your boss' car.
d. One hour, 12 minutes, 37 seconds into "The Crying Game"
e. When she is using her teet
In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and sombre."I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed the worried faces. "The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, very risky but it is the only hope. Insurance will cover the procedure, but you will have to pay for the brain yourselves."
The family members sat silen
The Mystique of Monarchy
Thailand's King Bhumibol offers powerful proof that royalty is still relevant
BY PICO IYER
ROYAL HOUSEHOLD / EPA
LIGHTING THE WAY: Thais trust their King and Queen to lead them
Monday, Jun. 12, 2006
"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings," Shakespeare's poetic (and doomed) Richard II prophetically says in the play named after him. "Some have been depos'd," he goes on, some "haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ... all murder'd.
i am in official mourning after arsenals loss to barcelona...i would appreciate it if nobody brought me flowers....cards...cadavers or intestines...just donate 50 baht to ur local waitress....cockroachgoddamnmuthafuckaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i may need a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment in asoke area near mrt and bts from july onwards. around 25-30,000 a month...anyone know of anything? pool, gym etc required
off to vietnam again tomorrow.....damn i will miss this town...anyway...bar will be open sometime june/july...
so get ur wallets over there and drink!!!!!!!!!
i am going back to UK for parents 40th wedding anniversary in July..... need good travel agent who can find me cheap ticket? how much does flight to uk cost...been yrs since i was there.... bht30,000? 40,000?