Bangkok seems to be famed for its gogo bars and sex shows, but I’ve always struggled to see what all the fuss is about. The only times I’ve ever really been to places like Nana and Patpong have been when friends from the UK have been visiting. I’m not sure why I do this but [...]

DJ Nakadia’s story is one told many times. She met a photographer on the internet by chance in 2001 and went to France to pursue a career in modeling. During her time in Europe she became interested in clubbing and the music she was hearing on the dance-floors of Germany. In 2002 she began DJing [...]

“Some people look at my pictures for a long time. I don’t know how to feel about this. They tell me that my pictures are too blurred and seem unfinished and lonely in appearance,” says Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, speaking about his photos. “For some people, my pictures are right, and for some of them, my pictures [...]

One group of people for whom The Lost Boy has come to feel some sort of hypocritical resentment towards is backpackers. The Lost Boy was a backpacker for all of around ten days, but it was not a comfortable experience. From this feeling of uncomfortableness comes The Lost Boy’s own mixed feelings of pity and [...]

Close to six months ago an article was published in Guru about models. The article was heavily edited in some parts. This is the original article, slightly edited to bring it up to speed with a few additional words.
Bangkok is, by conventional standards, one of the ugliest cities in the world, with vast numbers of [...]

A walk around Bangkok presents many images and curiosities. Whilst most of these images evoke mere intrigue about the city, the images of children and adults begging for money are somewhat more striking and provoking.

The people of Thailand appear to have dealt with Tuesday night’s military coup as if it were just another day at the office. Indeed, the last coup of this sort was just 15 years ago. Walking through the streets of Bangkok the initial air of panic has evaporated and been replaced with a peculiar, almost [...]

DJ QBert recently played a gig at QBar in Bangkok. Around the year 2000 I conducted an interview with QBert, a DJ who is widely regarded as the most technically adept in the world with a pair of turntables. He is one of my heroes and was once part of the now disbanded Invisibl Skratch [...]

It has been an eventful, mad rush of a few days. At the time of writing, the much talked about military coup is but 24 hours old. This has truly been the most exciting and interesting time of The Lost Boy’s stay in the Land of Smiles. With hindsight, most people have been saying that [...]

This is the first Lost Boy column that appeared in Guru Magazine in April 2006.
The Lost Boy has an aim, and that aim is to fearlessly delve into the crevice of confusion between the world of the Farang and the world of the Thai. From the point of view of a confused, bemused and occasionally [...]