Saphan Hin is an area of parks and public facilities where Phuket Town meets the sea. It’s a charming little area where Thai families go and have picnics. It used to be full of thick woodland where Thai couples would go to sin, and it was associated with gangs, violence and robberies until it was cleaned up. By day it’s …

Sometimes blog posts can come back and bite you with a vengeance. Those harmless ramblings you write can cause all sorts of problems. It happened to me once, when a woman labeled me a sexist and took great pleasure in telling me she was going to blacken my name in the English media because she didn’t agree with an article …

It took them long enough, but access to the popular video-sharing website Youtube has been restored in Thailand after three months of "will they, won't they?" I may be premature with my celebrations as Youtube has been known to come back on in Thailand for short periods before disappearing again, but this is the first time I have been able …

Hardcore porn mag or acceptable entertainment publication? I think Thailand’s got its issues confused. At the risk of becoming an X-rated blog, I’m going to put this post below a “more” tag. There will be some brief nudity so don't click if you will be offended.

Once I left Bangkok, the need to use MySpace to organise my life diminished. I find myself only logging on to check messages. I noticed that every now and then I get an email saying, “I’ve added you as a friend on Facebook”. A lot of my friends seem to be getting on it, so when I had a few …

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